Please find below the final conference programme for the forthcoming Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference. The deadline for registration is **23 November 2012. **
The opening plenary will be given by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill and followed with two days of stimulating presentations. Other guests speakers include:
- Dean Eric Schwartz, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
- Filippo Grandi Commissioner-General, UNRWA
- Arafat Jamal, Chief, Inter-Agency Standing Committee
- James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Please visit the RSC website for registration details: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/thirtieth-anniversary-conference or email: [log in to unmask]
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Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference
‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’
6 – 7 December 2012
St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
<Thursday 6 December>
8.00 – 9.00: Conference Registration
9.00 – 9.15: Director’s welcome
9.15 – 10.45: Opening plenary – Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
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10.45 – 11.15: Break
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11.15 - 1.00: Session 1
PANEL 1 - CRITICALLY REASSESSING GLOBAL IDP POLICY
Chair: Kirsten McConnachie
- Simon Addison: Flocks without shepherd? Sovereignty, governmentality and the protection of internally displaced persons
- Emily Barry: Endogenous NGOs vehicles for mobilizing protection strategies generated by IDPs
- Francois Gemenne & Pauline Brucker: How the debate on the protection of IDPs could inform the debate on the protection of environmental migrants
PANEL 2 – MAKING POLICY WITHIN UNHCR
Chair: Roland Bank
- Marion Fresia: The making of international norms on refugee protection: the social construction of consensus within UNHCR's Executive Committee
- Geoff Gilbert: Incoherence by design: how refugee status determination can only ever develop in a piecemeal fashion - the story of exclusion
PANEL 3 - URBAN REFUGEE POLICY
Chair: Naohiko Omata
- Patricia Ward: Refugee cities: reflections on the development and impact of UNHCR urban refugee policy in the Middle East
- Eveliina Lyytinen: Community-based protection in urban areas: conceptual and practical challenges of implementing UNHCR's urban refugee policy in Kampala, Uganda
- Marko Macskovich: Technological innovations in the refugee cycle
- Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi: Monuments to emergency: a history of the relief encampment as architectural and urban formation
PANEL 4 – WHO IS A REFUGEE?
Chair: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- Matthew Gibney: What’s so special about refugees? The normative basis for protection
- Alexander Betts: Survival migration: failed governance and displacement in Africa
- Jean-Francois Durieux: The universal not-so-alien: revisiting the refugee privilege in the light of the 1951 Refugee Convention
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1.00 – 2.00: Lunch
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2.00 – 3.45: Session 2
PANEL 1 – NEW ACTORS IN GLOBAL REFUGEE POLICY
Chair: Will Jones
- Angela Pilath: The politics of environmental displacement: international epistemic organisations and their mechanisms of influence
- Colleen Kaleda: Media perceptions: mainstream and grassroots media coverage of refugees in Kenya and the effects of global refugee policy
- Nancy Farwell, G, Odessa Benson & Tek Bir Chhetri: Sustainable community building in U.S. resettlement policy: Bhutanese refugee nonprofit organization as a case study
- Rebecca Stern: Our refugee policy is generous: a state’s self-image and the influence of international actors on national policies and legislation
PANEL 2 - NORMATIVE APPROACHES
Chair: Matthew Gibney
- Megan Bradley: Jus post bellum and the resolution of displacement: implications for policy and practice
- James Souter: Durable solutions and redress for the harms of displacement: how might they be linked?
- Martin Lemberg-Pedersen: A multidisciplinary critique of the EU’s border-induced displacement
- Olaf Kleist: Refuge, sovereignty and belonging: on the politics of asylum
PANEL 3 – LIVELIHOODS AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Chair: Louise Bloom
- Laura Buffoni: Refugee livelihoods and local integration in West Africa
- Natalia Sago: Access to the labour market for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
- Dale Buscher: The living ain’t easy: UNHCR’s revised urban refugee policy and implications for refugee livelihoods
- Naohiko Omata: Refugee livelihoods, innovation and the private sector: the case of Uganda
PANEL 4 – DIFFUSION, EMULATION AND THE REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF POLICY
Chair: Alexander Betts
- Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen: The internationalisation of non-entrée: multilateral migration control and international refugee law
- Susan Kneebone: The integration of refugee issues within the Bali Process and other regional consultative processes in the Asia-Pacific region
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3.45 – 4.15: Break
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4.15 - 6.00: Session 3
PANEL 1 - EMERGING POWERS IN THE REFUGEE REGIME
Chair: Hein de Haas
- Lili Song: Whom shall we help? Refugee definition in a Chinese context
- Joowon Park: States of exception to global refugee policy: China’s forced repatriation of North Korean defectors
- Julia Moreira: Refugee policy in Brazil: achievements and challenges
PANEL 2 - THE ARAB SPRING AND REFUGEE POLICY
Chair: Dawn Chatty
- Violeta Moreno Lax: Governing ‘boat migration’: lessons from the Mediterranean
- Chiara Marchetti: Framing emergency. Italian response to 2011 (forced) migrations from Tunisia and Libya
PANEL 3 – AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA
Chair: Matthew Gibney
- Claire Higgins: Australian refugee policy during the 1970s and the 1980s
- Nathalie Nguyen: Recognition of war service: Australian policy and Vietnamese veterans
- Maria O’Sullivan: The differing response of states to people smuggling and the ramifications for refugee law
PANEL 4 – GLOBAL AND LOCAL-LEVEL DYNAMICS OF REFUGEE POLICY
Chair: Jean-François Durieux
- Michael Barutciski: Some reflections on the role of Executive Committee
- Jeff Crisp: The development of UNHCR’s urban refugee policy
- James Milner: The local and national politics of naturalization in Tanzania
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7.15: Conference Dinner
Guest Speaker - Dean Eric Schwartz, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
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<Friday 7th December>
9.15 – 10.45: Session 4
PANEL 1 - AT THE MARGINS OF REFUGEE LAW
Chair: Roland Bank
- Jean-François Durieux: The elusive war refugee
- Alice Edwards: Derogation and the 1951 Convention: the legal basis for temporary protection in mass influx situations
- Maria Teresa Gil-Bazo: Vindicating asylum in the 21st century
PANEL 2 - GLOBAL-NATIONAL-LOCAL CONNECTIONS
Chair: Kirsten McConnachie
- Eileen Pittaway: Pragmatic realism versus an adherence to international law and policy: how far do we compromise and why?
- Loren Landau: Whither policy? Perspectives on protecting the displaced beyond the law
- Tamara Wood: Implementing the expanded refugee definition in Africa: case studies of South Africa and Kenya
PANEL 3 - REFUGEE AGENCY IN GLOBAL REFUGEE POLICY
Chair: Nando Sigona
- Eleanor Ott: How to help resettled refugees? A sociological look at refugee-initiated movement and an evidence-based look at formal interventions
- Emma Söderman: Making human rights for unaccompanied refugee children without documents: the no-border musical as a space of inclusion and resistance strategy
- Milena Belloni: Intentional aspects of forced migrations: Eritreans’ aspirations of migrating through Italy
- Christoph Tometten: Undocumented migrants in resistance against detention: comparative observations on Germany and France
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10.45 – 11.15 Break
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11.15 – 1.00: Session 5
PANEL 1 - RETURN AND RESTITUTION
Chair: Oliver Bakewell
- Michael Dumper: Protracted refugee situations, the rights of indigenous peoples and the passing of time: a converging discourse and praxis?
- Sonja Fransen: Applied solutions for landless returnees after conflict: a comparative perspective on the rural integrated villages approach in Burundi
- Ulrike Schultz: "Juba is our place"– politics of return in the new South Sudan
- Mari Katayanagi & Satoru Mikami: Property restitution and return - revisiting the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
PANEL 2 - SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF REFUGEE POLICY
Chair: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- Anna Lundberg: Emergence of and negotiations over undocumented children’s human rights in Sweden: reflections from a bottom-up perspective
- Ceri Butler & John Eversley: Going back to go forward: comparing the UK policy responses to refugee doctors in the 1930s and 2000s
- Aditi Surie von Czechowski: Global refugee policy: problematizing regimes of care
PANEL 3 – THE GLOBAL REACH OF EUROPEAN REFUGEE LAW
Chair: Hélène Lambert
- Dallal Stevens: Between east and west: the case of Israel
- Maryellen Fullerton: Stealth emulation: the United States and European protection norm
- Marina Sharpe: The impact of European refugee law in Africa
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1 00– 2.00 Lunch
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2.00 – 3.45: Session 6
PANEL 1 - EU LAW AND REGIONAL COURTS
Chair: tbc
- Cathryn Costello: The Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights as refugee law courts
- Roland Bank: The potential and limitations for reinforcing international refugee law in the setting of the EU - experiences with the Qualification Directive
- Dalia Malek: Exhausting local remedies in accordance with the African Charter in host countries: the case of detained refugees in Egypt
PANEL 2 – IMMIGRATION DETENTION: GLOBAL EXPANSION, LOCAL HARM
Chair: Matthew Gibney
- Amy Nethery: Bilateral cooperation on asylum policy: Australia and Indonesia
- Michael Flynn: Liberty versus security: how the promotion of fundamental rights can encourage the expansion of immigration detention
- Frank Arnold: Bearing false witness: medical failure to record and report evidence of torture among detained patients.
PANEL 3 – FORCED MIGRATION AND PEACE-BUILDING
Chair: Khalid Koser
- Megan Bradley: Linking displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: implications for peace-building
- James Milner: Refugees and peace-building: explaining variation in the impact of refugees on peace-building in Africa
- Jeff Crisp: Promoting the issue of refugees and returnees within the UN’s peace-building agenda
PANEL 4 - CONFLICT, OTHER SITUATIONS OF VIOLENCE AND THE REFUGEE DEFINITION
Chair: Hélène Lambert
- Vanessa Holzer: The 1951 Refugee Convention and the protection of people forced to flee conflict and violence
- Marina Sharpe: The protection of people fleeing conflict and violence and individual refugee status determination under the 1969 African Refugee Convention
- Alice Edwards: Are conflict victims refugees? UNHCR's roundtable on the protection of persons fleeing conflict and other situations of violence
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3.45 – 4.15 Break
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4.15 – 6.00: Closing Plenary
- Filippo Grandi Commissioner-General, UNRWA
- Arafat Jamal, Chief, Inter-Agency Standing Committee
- James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
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