Dear all,
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
One-Day Workshop on “The Meaning and Practice of Immigration Detention:
Perspectives from Legal, Political, and Social Theory”
St Antony’s College, the Refugee Studies Centre, and COMPAS, the
University of Oxford
Friday, May 21, 2009
This workshop aims to provide an academic forum aimed at the discussion
of immigration detention in liberal, democratic countries. This
practice raises important questions for researchers from different
fields of study: What implications does it have for understanding state
power and the future governance of communities? How is this practice
located in a wider history of immigration control in liberal, democratic
states? Why are immigration detention regimes continuing to expand? And
how is it contributing to the reformulation of citizenship? We invite
all those who are engaged in research and scholarship of this kind to
submit their papers to share ideas, perspectives, and findings. We aim
to approach these questions within an interdisciplinary framework,
drawing on an array of approaches, methodologies, and case histories.
We invite papers from researchers and postgraduate students.
The workshop will be divided into four sessions with each session
featuring one lecturer and one postgraduate student presenting
individual papers examining related topics relevant to our
understandings of immigration detention. Each paper presentation will
last 20 – 25 minutes. Tea and complimentary lunch will be provided.
The goals of the workshop are
• To expand the existing base of knowledge on immigration detention.
• To bring together scholars and postgraduate students who might not
otherwise have opportunities to meet and share ideas.
• To identify gaps or inconsistencies in state policies on immigration
detention, and to analyze their implications.
• To disseminate the information discussed through a wide variety of
fora, including podcasting, working papers series, and pamphlets.
• And, potentially, to propose a monograph based on the papers presented
and the discussion that followed them.
We welcome the submission of draft papers or extended abstracts to
[log in to unmask] The deadline for submissions is Friday,
April 2, 2010. Notification about acceptance will be given within two
weeks.
For more information about the workshop, please contact the workshop
conveners:
Evelyne Massa ([log in to unmask]) and
Stephanie J. Silverman ([log in to unmask]).
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