Dear all
I’m pleased to announce a new seminar series exploring everyday practice and resistance in immigration detention. The first seminar, on the theme of ‘Supporting Immigration Detainees’ is scheduled to take place in London, at Resource for London, on the 1st February 2013, 9-4pm, and the speakers include:
- Dr. Lauren Martin (Oulu University, Finland), expert on US detention system,
- Dr. Adeline Trude, Research and Policy Director, Bail for Immigration Detainees,
- Ali McGinley, Director, Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees,
- John Speyer, Director, Music in Detention,
- Dr. JoAnn McGregor (University College London), expert on British immigration removal centres,
- Prof. Heaven Crawley (Swansea University, Centre for Migration and Policy Research), expert on child and family detention.
- Gill Baden, Campaign to Close Campsfield and the Bail Observation Project.
Our capacity for the event is limited, so places will need to be booked (before Friday **18th January** please). We’re reserving a proportion of the places for practitioners, asylum seekers and former detainees. In the case of the latter two, there are some funds to help with attendance. Please contact me ( [log in to unmask] ) to reserve a place or to find out more about these funds.
The seminar series will also involve events in York (‘The Politics of Detention’, lead organiser Alexandra Hall), Birmingham (‘The Relation Between Prison and Detention’, lead organiser Dominique Moran), Oxford (‘The Everyday Experience of Immigration Detention’ lead organiser Mary Bosworth) and Lancaster (‘Activism in and Around Detention’ lead organiser Imogen Tyler). There’s more information available at the seminar series website, including information about the objectives of the series: http://immigrationdetentionseminarseries.wordpress.com/ . The series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Best wishes
Nick
Dr. Nick Gill
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
University of Exeter
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