Call for Papers. "Refugees: Lives Pushed to the Margins?"
The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference organised by
postgraduates and hosted by the Refugee Research Centre at the
University of East London on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of April.
Living a life in the margins or a marginalised life is a recurrent trope
in the field of forced migration studies. Throughout the whole refugee
experience from persecution and flight to settlement and integration,
refugees find themselves pushed to the margins and often excluded. The
marginalisation of various categories of forced migrants brings into
question the effectiveness of protection regimes. Livelihood strategies
of forced migrants are formulated at the very margins of society, some
of whom are compelled to do so 'outside' the law. How do refugees
negotiate identities that help them to combat social exclusion? Adopting
a reflexive gaze, as researchers and aspiring academics we must ask
ourselves how considerable and pertinent are the dialogues of
practitioners and academics? Is academia to be confined to the sidelines
or can it be more engaged with forced migrants? In which ways can the
study of forced migration be related to wider global issues?
The conference invites papers that fit within the broad theme of the
conference and forced migration more generally. We solicit papers that
converge on the following sub-themes of the conference:
1) Conversations and interdisciplinary dialogues (scholarly, policy,
practitioners, NGOs)
2) Sites of liminality and change (state; regional; local,
trans-national; familial; individual)
3) Conversations in issue-areas (development; human rights; migration;
security; post-conflict)
4) Sites of experience (gender; flight; re-settlement; camps; exclusion)
Postgraduate students (Masters/MPhil/PhD) are invited to submit
abstracts for papers (no more than 250 words) and a personal profile (no
more than 100 words). They should be sent, with full contact details, by
4pm on 26th January 2009 to: [log in to unmask]
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