One-Day Workshop on The Meaning and Practice of Immigration Detention:
Perspectives from Legal, Social, and Political Theory.
21 May 2010
Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford
09.00 – 17.00
The room has a limited capacity and places are being allocated on a
first come, first served basis.
In order to reserve your place, please email the conveners, Evelyne
Massa and Stephanie J. Silverman, at [log in to unmask] .
Registration for the workshop will be on a sliding scale: £10 for
lecturers and professionals; £5 for students and the unwaged; and free
for people who cannot afford the additional cost. We request that you
please bring the fee in cash when you arrive.
There will also be a related public seminar that is open to everyone and
free of charge. Dr. Jacqueline Stevens of the University of California
at Santa Barbara will give the seminar. The title of Dr. Stevens’ paper
is “States without Nations: The Future of Free Movement”. This seminar
will take place on 19 May 2010 in Seminar Room 1 at the Refugee Studies
Centre, Oxford, at 5pm, and is being co-organized with the Refugee
Studies Centre.
The workshop has been generously funded by St Antony’s College, the
Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), and the Refugee
Studies Centre, all at the University of Oxford.
Workshop Schedule:
08.30 - 9.00 Tea and Coffee Reception, and Opening Remarks
09.00 - 10.30 Legal Approaches Panel
Cathryn Costello (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
Human Rights & the Elusive Universal Subject: Detention of Asylum
Seekers and Irregular Entrants under IHRL and EU Law
Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project, Graduate Institute of Geneva)
Immigration Detention and the Aesthetics of Incarceration
Dallal Stevens (Faculty of Law, University of Warwick)
The law’s approach to detention of asylum seekers: help or hindrance?
10.30 - 11.00 TEA BREAK
11.00 - 12.00 Political Theory Panel
Raffaela Puggioni (Political Science, John Cabot University, Rome)
The Politics of the Camp: Borders, National Communities, and the Clandestino
Anaïs Rességuier (Forced Migration / International Development,
University of Oxford)
Detention at the Border: Sovereignty and Juridical Order
12.00 - 13.30 LUNCH in Manor Road Building Common Room
13.30 - 15.00 Conditions in Immigration Detention Panel
Frank Arnold (Medical Justice Network)
Medical Implications of Immigration Detention in the UK
Melanie Griffiths (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Oxford)
“I’m not a criminal but I’ve been here 11 months” - the Criminalisation
of Asylum Seekers in a British Immigration Detention Centre
Axel Klein (Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent) and
Lucy Williams (Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University
of Kent)
How do former immigration detainees integrate into local communities
post-release?
15.00 - 15.30 TEA BREAK
15.30 - 16.30 Citizenship and Government Technologies Panel
Nicholas Gill (Environment Centre, University of Lancaster)
Rules of engagement: Governmentality, ‘technologies of citizenship’ and
everyday protest in asylum detention facilities
Jacqueline Stevens (Law and Society, University of California at Santa
Barbara)
US Government Illegally Deporting US Citizens
16.30 – 17.00 Reflections on the Workshop and Closing Remarks
Moderated by Evelyne Massa (Department of Sociology, University of
Oxford) and Stephanie J. Silverman (Department of Politics and
International Relations, University of Oxford)
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