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Dear all, The online registration for IRiS international conference 'Frontiers and Borders of Superdiversity: Theory, Method and Practice' is now open. Please register here: http://shop.bham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=34&catid=101&prodid=1236 The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham on 23-24 June. Keynote and plenary speakers include: * Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (journalist and writer), Post-racial fantasies in the age of superdiversity * Prof Gurminder Bhambra (University of Warwick), Superdiversity and problems of method: On the necessity of borders * Prof Nira Yuval Davis (University of East London), Everyday bordering as a political project of belonging in contemporary Britain * Prof Jonathan Xavier Inda (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), The border as a mobile technology: Migrants, criminalization, and the policing of illegality * Profs Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese (University of Birmingham), Communication in the superdiverse city * Dr Susanne Wessendorf (University of Birmingham), Pioneer migrants in a super-diverse context Further info about the conference: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/social-policy/departments/social-policy-social-work/news-and-events/2016/06/frontiers-and-borders-of-superdiversity.aspx Or email IRiS manager Ann Bolstridge [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Best wishes Nando ... Dr Nando Sigona Senior Lecturer & Birmingham Fellow Deputy Director, Institute for Research into Superdiversity<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/iris> School of Social Policy | University of Birmingham Edgbaston B15 2TT | Birmingham UK Associate Editor, Migration Studies<http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/> (Oxford University Press) Co-lead Becoming Adult<http://www.becomingadult.net/> Co-lead Unravelling the Mediterranean crisis<http://www.medmig.info/> Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> |Blog: http://nandosigona.wordpress.com<http://nandosigona.wordpress.com/> |Twitter: http://twitter.com/nandosigona |Web: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/social-policy/sigona-nando.aspx ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre