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Call
for papers
European
Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop
In/equality
for third country nationals: implementation and effects of EU
directives
on migration and asylum
28-30
June 2010
Deadline
for abstracts: 1 March 2010
This
international, interdisciplinary workshop will bring together about 30
academics and policy
makers
from a number of different organisations and institutions located in the
European
employment,
education, health and housing.
There
is a substantial body of EC legislation which regulates access to social goods
by categories,
and
the key concern of this workshop is to consider the extent to which such legislation
has been
successful
in achieving its aims, particularly in regards to equality. The workshop will
address the
situation
of legal migrants as divided into three main streams: asylum seekers and
refugees, longterm
residents
and economic migrants, and family migrants.
We
hope that contributions to the workshop will be made by researchers working in
two broad
areas.
The first includes research focused on the study of law and policy developments
in relation
to
ethnic discrimination and/or migration policy, on a national as well as an EU
level. The aim
here
is to analyse current law and policy, and address any shortcomings with regards
to the
question
of equality in access to key social goods, and furthermore, highlight any
discrepancies,
on
the one hand between different policy areas, and on the other between the EU
and national
level.
An important question relates to the potential tensions between the EC
framework
concerned
to ensure equality for third country nationals and the policy framework that
surrounds
migration on a national level. The second broad area of research is that
focused on
different
forms of discrimination experienced by third country nationals legally residing
in
different
EU countries. The aim is to fully understand both enabling and constraining
effects of
policy,
as well as to highlight the potential discrepancy between laws and policies, on
the one
hand,
and lived realities, on the other.
We
welcome papers addressing any of these issues. Please send your paper abstract
(up
to
one page) to Sonia Morano-Foadi [log in to unmask] and
Maja Cederberg
[log in to unmask]
before 1 March 2010. Our selection of papers will be based
on
their relevance to the workshop theme, but also done to ensure diversity in
terms of
both
countries and academic disciplines and perspectives. Speakers will be asked to
submit
their paper two weeks in advance of the workshop. Travel and accommodation
for all participants
will be covered.
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.