Dear all
Apologies for any cross-posting.
Please find attached information about a research workshop on men and migration that I have organised with Katharine Charsley to be held at Middlesex University. There are a limited number of places if anyone would like to attend. There is no fee and lunch will be provided.
Please email me ([log in to unmask]) if you want to attend.
With seasonal greetings and best wishes for the holidays
Helena Wray
The Invisible (Migrant) Man: Workshop on Men and Migration
Wednesday 18th January 2012, 09.30 – 16.45
The Barn
Middlesex University
London NW4 4BT
(http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Location/hendon/index.aspx)
This one-day workshop organised by Helena Wray (Middlesex University) and Katharine Charsley (University of Bristol) will explore areas of migration scholarship, policy and law where the male experience is marginalised or under-researched. Studies of migration and gender often focus on the female experience while the specific needs and perspectives of men are excluded from policy discourse. Where they do appear, men are frequently cast as the oppressor of family members or as abusing legal channels of migration. Their affective ties and needs and their vulnerabilities are rarely foregrounded.
This inter-disciplinary workshop brings together social scientists and legal scholars to examine the issue of male migrants from a number of angles. The day will start with a session focusing primarily on legal and policy contexts, before moving onto a series of papers offering new empirical insights.
Most of the workshop papers, together with a contribution by Professor Betty de Hart (who unfortunately cannot attend the workshop), will be published as a journal special edition or an edited collection.
There are a limited number of places available to attend the workshop. Attendance is free and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please email Helena Wray ([log in to unmask]).
Workshop Schedule
09.30 – 10.00: Coffee and welcome
10.00 – 10.15: Introduction, Katharine Charsley (University of Bristol)
10.15 – 11.30: Session 1:
- 'A Thing Apart': Regulating Male Family Migration in the UK, Helena Wray (Middlesex University)
- ‘I want to wear pink!’: An analysis of the rejection of hetero-normativity in the narratives of gay and bisexual male asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, S. Chelvan (Barrister, No 5 Chambers and King’s College London)
11.30 – 11.45: Coffee
11.45 – 13.00: Session 2:
- Male Migrant Sex Workers, Nick Mai (London Metropolitan University)
- ‘Boys’ and ‘Infants’ or ‘Foreign Criminals’ and ‘Big, Muscley Blokes’? Discursive Tensions for Male Immigration Detainees and Failed Asylum Seekers in Oxfordshire, Melanie Griffiths (University of Oxford)
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.15: Session 3:
- Silencing Muslim Men: Honour, Islamophobia and Pakistani Migrant Husbands, Katharine Charsley (University of Bristol)
Marginal men? Hill men’s journey to Indian cities, Jeevan R.Sharma (University of Edinburgh)
15.15 – 15.45: Tea
15.45 – 16.45 Session 4 and Concluding Remarks:
- Emotional work and transnational lives in global organisations, Ranji Devadason (University of Bristol)
- Concluding Remarks, Helena Wray (Middlesex University)
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