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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171030
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SUMMARY:World on the Move: Migration\, Societies and Change
DESCRIPTION:30 Oct – Nov 1 2017\, Chancellors Conference Centre\, Manchester \nThe University of Manchester’s Migration Lab invites proposals for papers\, workshops\, exhibitions and performances which respond to the theme of ‘migration in the context of uncertainty and change’. \n  About the conference  \nThe conference will provide an arena for discussion\, debate\, and the development of future research projects. Plenary sessions from world-leading migration researchers\, panels\, and workshops will create spaces for the development of sustainable networks and relationships across the academic\, policy\, not-for-profit and media sectors. The first day will be a half day policy and politics event where distinguished speakers from policy\, activist\, NGO and media backgrounds will debate the question ‘How is Brexit Britain responding to a world on the move?’. \n \nConfirmed keynotes\nProf Aderanti Adepoju (University of Lagos)\, Prof Alice Bloch (The University of Manchester)\, Prof Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne)\, Prof Rob Ford (The University of Manchester)\, Prof Peter Gatrell (The University of Manchester)\, Prof Justin Gest (George Mason University)\, Prof Nina Glick-Schiller (The University of Manchester)\, Dr Laura Hammond (School of Oriental and African Studies)\, Prof Yaron Matras (The University of Manchester)\, Gulwali Passarlay (Author of The Lightless Sky)\, Prof Miriam Ticktin (The New School\, New York). \nConference themes  \nWe invite proposals for papers\, workshops\, exhibitions and performances which respond to and confront the relationship between migration and the various social\, political\, environmental and economic upheavals currently in process worldwide. We hope to include discussions around issues such as forced displacement\, asylum\, labour migration\, trafficking\, diaspora\, integration\, citizenship and their reciprocal relationships with conflict\, economic inequalities\, hardship\, climate change\, political change and social transformation. The following themes are intended as a guide:\n·       Home\, Borders\, Identities\n·       Media\, Culture\, New Populisms\n·       History\, Agency\, Institutions\n·       Languages\, Narratives\, Expressions\n·       Methodologies\, Research and Practice \nKey dates  \nAbstract Deadline: 10 May 2017 \nNotice of Acceptance: 30 May 2017 \nRegistration: 15 July 2017 \nConference: 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2017 \n Conference committee members \nConference Lead: Dr Tanja Müller. Committee members: Prof Alice Bloch\, Prof Bertrand Taithe\, Prof Uma Kothari\, Prof Yaron Matras\, Dr Tamara West\, Dr Cathy Wilcock \nConference fees  \nThe conference fee will be £130 for the full two and a half days (not including optional conference dinners). For PhD researchers\, the fee is discounted to £75. \n  Contact  \nCathy.wilcock@manchester.ac.uk \nWebsite: http://www.migrationlab.manchester.ac.uk
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/world-move-migration-societies-change/
LOCATION:Chancellors Conference Centre\, Chancellors Way\, Moseley Road\, Manchester\, M14 6ZT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170927
DTSTAMP:20170504T165505Z
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SUMMARY:Migrants’ and Diaspora Responses to the Rise of Right-Wing Populism – A One-day Workshop
DESCRIPTION:26 September\, 2017  \nUniversity of Warwick\, London Campus\, London\, UK. \nThis workshop will be held on 26 September 2017 at the University of Warwick’s London site. The workshop is dedicated to research on how migrant and diaspora communities respond to populist\, anti-immigrant and ethno-nationalist movements. \nSend paper abstracts of 300 words max to Dr. Ben Margulies (b.margulies@warwick.ac.uk) and Dr. Maria Koinova (m.koinova@warwick.ac.uk) by 25 May 2017 or to ask for the full call for papers. 
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/migrants-diaspora-responses-rise-right-wing-populism-one-day-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Warwick\, London Campus\, London\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170709
DTSTAMP:20170504T164556Z
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SUMMARY:An Interdisciplinary Conference: Building Bridges in a Complex World
DESCRIPTION:6-8 July\, 2017  \nCrete\, Greece \nA RADICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF CONFERENCE  \nWe are a network of academics and practitioners motivated by our work experiences inside and outside of Europe. With this being the first conference\, we are hoping to turn this into an annual gathering to build bridges on three different levels: between theorists and practitioners\, between people from different disciplines and between people from different parts of the world. \nOur conference is about creating new bonds in an intellectually challenging but convivial environment irrespective of status and titles. It offers a unique format of intimate discussion groups where everyone attending has the opportunity to be part of the conversations.  \nAt the beginning of the 21st century\, the world is facing challenges that are interconnected\, including wars\, terrorism\, (forced) migrations\, global inequalities and asymmetries\, climate change etc. \nThe fundamental constraints to an equitable standard of living for everyone are neither a shortage of resources nor a lack of technological innovations. The main impediments are a lack of political will to reform a global institutional order that produces foreseeable yet avoidable power asymmetries. Whereas on our side\, it is potentially experiences of disempowerment and/or the lack of solidarity\, which influence our abilities to imagine a just world and to dare enough to play the role of change-makers. \nThis is an interdisciplinary\, inquiry-driven gathering with the main focus on bringing people together to share ideas in a convivial environment. We hope to explore what kind of alternative questions\, concepts\, methods and practices are necessary to address these complex challenges of our time. \nIt is in this spirit that we invite contributions from practitioners and researchers to share your insights\, practices and experiences relating to programmes\, policies and studies that address issues of social (in)justice and (in)equality locally and internationally. \nFind out more about the conference: www.buildingbridges.uk.com 
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/interdisciplinary-conference-building-bridges-complex-world/
LOCATION:Samaria Hotel Chania\, 69 Kidonias Street\, 1866 Square\, Chania\, Crete\, 73135\, Greece
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170704
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170705
DTSTAMP:20170504T165105Z
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SUMMARY:‘Europe\, Migration and the New Politics of (In)security’: Governing (In)securities
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 4 July\, 2016 \nUniversity of York\nThe migration crisis has seen multiple apparent failures in the European project – of solidarity\, response and co-operation. In this sense\, the new politics of (in)security applies as much to the troubled internal dynamics of the Union as it does to the management of insecure and vulnerable migrants. \nThere is\, however\, political potential in the deployment of crisis language and the invocation of novel (in)securities. That is\, the dynamic of disintegration and collapse that has accompanied the European response (from the re-assertion of sovereign borders to the rejection of EU initiatives by individual member states) has been productive of new authorities\, interventions and relationships in the field of migration and security. \nKey here is the devolution of bordering practices to non-EU partners (across Africa\, Asia and beyond)\, the inexorable rise of private security authorities and expertise\, and the wholesale turn to technologies to secure borders and manage migration. \nMotivated by a concern to understand what the claim to novelty allows governing bodies to do in the name of security\, this workshop will explore (but is not limited to) the following questions: \n• What (new) forms of expertise and authority have arisen in the wake of the migration crisis? \n• How is the migration/security field spreading away from European borders\, to\nencompass new partners and actors? \n• How are the divisions between internal and external security further dissolved (and reinstated) within the ‘crisis’? \nWe invite paper proposals (abstracts of 200 words) addressing these and related questions in different areas from a theoretical\, empirical\, and/or normative perspective. \nThe workshop is particularly interested in papers that examine the social\, political and ethical dynamics of knowledge production within the crisis. What are the challenges of producing critical knowledge from within situated relationships between researchers\, security and migration authorities? \nThis conference is an initiative by the White Rose Collaboration Fund Network at the University of York\, UK. \nWebsite: www.newinsecurities.org
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/europe-migration-new-politics-insecurity-governing-insecurities/
LOCATION:University of York\, York\, YO10 5DD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170617
DTSTAMP:20170504T164004Z
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SUMMARY:International Conference on Cultural Heritage In Migration
DESCRIPTION:15-16 June 2017\nInstitute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum\, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences\nSofia\, Bulgaria \nAlongside the issues related to migration policies\, immigrants’ sociocultural adaptation and the functioning of immigrant networks in the receiving society\, the intensive migration processes in the past three decades from Eastern Europe to West European countries and the United States pose in new perspective the topic of cultural heritage abroad\, of its construction and maintenance in foreign cultural environments. Carried by the immigrants outside their homelands\, this heritage is reconstructed in a specific way in the conditions of immigration and is a major factor in the formation and consolidation of immigrant communities. Depending on the time and circumstances of migration and on the immigrants generational affiliation\, the introduction and acquisition of ‘native’ culture can begin already in the country of origin (through the family\, school\, media\, etc.)\, but can also take place abroad – in family settings\, in the communication with co-nationals inside the immigrants’ networks\, through the contacts maintained in the home country or in relation to the work of institutions\, such as schools\, churches\, cultural associations abroad\, etc. In the process of acquiring ‘native’ culture and establishing sites and institutions for this acculturation\, immigrant communities pass through different forms and levels of consolidation\, interacting with the cultural heritage brought in the new environment\, as well as influencing upon it depending on the specific needs and sociocultural dynamics of the community. Immigrants not only use cultural heritage in their integration and consolidation (group or personal) strategies\, but they also preserve in a particular way a range of important elements of the national culture – language\, customs\, beliefs\, celebrations\, folklore texts\, etc. The latter play the role of core points in the individual and group identity of immigrants in the foreign environment\, they are shared and pointed out in different contexts and are an object of maintenance and promotion through various community activities\, media and social networks. \nThe current conference aims to outline some of the specific aspects of cultural heritage in migration\, interpreting it from the perspective of its significance for maintaining immigrants’ cultural identity in a foreign setting and its role in the processes of consolidation and institutionalization of immigrant communities. Dwelling mainly on examples related to the experience of Bulgarian communities abroad\, the conference is open also for papers related to the role of cultural heritage among immigrant communities from other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. With this conference\, we would like to invite scholars from different scholarly disciplines interested in themes including (but not limited to): \n\nCultural heritage from the viewpoint of immigrant communities and their consolidation\, and the role of heritage in the consolidation of immigrant communities (as well as integration and identification among other immigrant communities in the host environment);\nForms of ‘importing\,’ construing\, ‘fighting for\,’ valorizing\, preserving\, maintaining and use of cultural heritage among and by immigrant communities;\nInstitutions and informal associations of immigrants for construing\, safeguarding and use of cultural heritage in the receiving society\, as well as in the home country;\nCultural heritage as a social capital from the viewpoint of institutions\, the networks and the individual social strategies (including traditional professions\, business initiatives related to heritage\, etc.);\nTrends in construing new European forms of heritage based on migrations and EU policies\, multiculturalism as an official policy and the ‘undesirable heritage’ as a strategy of distinguishing in a sociocultural perspective;\nThe establishment of institutions (churches\, church communities\, cultural and educational associations\, schools\, museums\, etc.) and the integration of immigrants to already existing institutions (e.g. cultural institutes\, embassies\, churches\, etc.) – in historical and present-day perspectives;\nThe interactions between institution-community-heritage; the role of different institutions of immigrant communities (schools\, churches\, associations\, etc.);\nThe social (real and virtual) networks as a factor for the consolidation of the immigrant communities and in the cultural heritage construction and preservation;\nThe family as the main and natural environment for transmission of cultural heritage in the process of informal education in culture\, customs\, language\, religion\, name system\, family narratives\, everyday objects\, imagery\, calendar\, etc.;\nThe formal and informal consolidation as a nostalgic gesture and cultural need\, as an integration strategy and social activity.\n\n Working language: English \nThere is no fee for participation in the conference\, but the organizers do not have the possibility to cover the participants’ expenses for travel and accommodation. \nThe conference is organized within the project of ‘Cultural Heritage in Migration. Models of Consolidation and Institutionalization of the Bulgarian Communities Abroad’ funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund. \nDownload Call for papers (pdf). \nhttp://www.migrantheritage.com/international-conference-cultural-heritage-in-migration/ \nhttps://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/161459/international-conference-cultural-heritage-migration
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/international-conference-cultural-heritage-migration/
LOCATION:Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum\, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences\, Moskovska Str. 6A\, Sofia\, 1000\, Bulgaria
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170617
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SUMMARY:Kurdish Migration Conference 2017: Globalisation\, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging
DESCRIPTION:June 15-16\, 2017\, Middlesex University\, London\, UK \nCall for Papers is now closed. Registrations are open [click here to register] \n\nConference Aims and Objectives: \nFollowing the success of the first international Kurdish migration conference (KMC) held in 2016 at Middlesex University (London) and the strong interest and participation by the international scholarly community\, the 2nd KMC will be held at Middlesex University on 15 and 16 June 2017. \nDisplacement and forced migration have a distinct meaning and significance in the history of the Middle East. In recent years\, the political and economic instability of the area\, together with the repressive and coercive policies of most regional states and their international allies\, the marginalisation of minority groups and the rise of fundamentalist movements\, continue causing permanent crises\, fuelling displacements and forced migrations. Millions of people have lost their homes and livelihood and were forced to seek a safe haven either in the neighbouring countries or taking a long and dangerous journey to Europe. The images of drowned three-year-old Kurdish boy Alan Kurdi in the Aegean Sea\, mass killing of Yazidis and Syrian nationals\, displacements of religious and ethnic minorities made global headlines without any effect. \nSimilarly to its neighbouring countries\, today the Kurdistan Region in Iraq hosts some 1.8 million refugees from Syria and internally displaced persons. A considerable number of refugees and displaced people are also hosted by the Kurdish Cantons in Rojava (Kurdish region in Syria) and by municipalities in the Kurdish Region of Turkey. \nFar away from the homeland\, the over 2 million Kurds living in Europe\, the USA\, Canada\, Former Soviet republics and other countries are following with great concern the events in the Middle East. Since the 1980s\, the Kurdish diaspora in the Western has played an important role\, recreating new Kurdish diasporic spaces in settlement countries while simultaneously reconnecting to their home country and making the question of Kurdistan a transnational political issue through their political engagement\, media and cultural production and activism. However\, what is the relationship of the Kurdish diaspora with the contemporary challenges and conflicts in and around Kurdistan? What kind of exchanges and interactions are taking place? How do Kurds relate with new refugees and displaced people living in Kurdistan\, the Middle East and Europe? Moreover\, what are the experiences of the Kurdish diaspora in countries where hostility and  discrimination towards immigrants are alarmingly on the rise? \nThe Kurdish Migration Conference 2017 aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines working on Kurdish migration to discuss these and other relevant questions and to exchange their views and findings about all aspects of migration from\, through and into Kurdistan\, as well as about the experiences of diasporic communities and second generations abroad. \n\nKeynote speakers: \n\nProfessor Joshua Castellino (Middlesex University\, London)\nDr Osten Wahlbeck (University of Helsinki\, Finland)\n\nThe full programme will be published here in the coming days. \nHow to register \nRegistration fee:  £ 50\nDiscount fee for students (undergraduate\, postgraduate or doctoral): £ 25 \nTo register for the conference visit Middlesex University online shop – click here. \nN.B. All speakers will be required to register and pay the registration fee ahead of the conference. You will be sent information on how to register upon acceptance of your paper. \nContacts:\nFor more information\, please contact the conference organisers:\n– Dr Janroj Yilmaz Keles: J.Keles@mdx.ac.uk\n– ‎Dr Alessio D’Angelo: A.Dangelo@mdx.a.uk \nThis conference is organised by the Business School and the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University. \nWebsite: https://mdxmigration.wordpress.com/kmc2017/
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/kurdish-migration-conference-2017-globalisation-diaspora-transnational-belonging/
LOCATION:Middlesex University\, London\, NW4 4BT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170510
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SUMMARY:Belonging in a post-Brexit-vote Britain: researching race\, ethnicity and migration in a changing landscape
DESCRIPTION:A BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event\nUniversity of Sheffield\, Sheffield\, UK\n  \nA one-day conference hosted by the Department of Sociological Studies (in collaboration with the British Sociological Association and the University’s Migration Research Network) will be held at The University of Sheffield on the 9 May 2017. \nThis event seeks to bring together early career and established academics\, to share knowledge and experiences in the unique research environment resulting from the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU. According to the UN\, campaigns advocating a leave vote presented a ‘divisive\, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric’ (Stone\, 2016) and in the three weeks following the vote there was a 20% increase in reported race related hate crime in the UK (BBC\, 2016). As Brexit campaigners stated that leaving the EU would make ‘Britain Great Again’\, anti-migrant and xenophobic narratives conflated\, implying that migration threatens Britishness. Sociologically\, in this context\, the boundary between historically distinct fields (migration research and race and ethnicity research) becomes blurred. This event provides a timely opportunity to examine the interface between these fields and consider directions for future research. \nPlenary speakers: \n\nProfessor Sarah Neal\, The University of Sheffield\nDr Jon Fox\, University of Bristol\nProfessor Louise Ryan\, The University of Sheffield\n\nRegistration for the event is now open and can be completed via the following link: https://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10629 \nHow to find us: \nUniversity of Sheffield\nDepartment of Sociological Studies\nElmfield\, Northumberland Road\nSheffield S10 2TU \nFind us on the map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/?q=53.382368\,-1.496075&ll=53.382368\,-1.496075&z=18 \nFor further information visit conference website: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/belonging-in-a-post-brexit-vote-britain-researching-race-ethnicity-and-migration-in-a-changing-landscape
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/belonging-post-brexit-vote-britain-researching-race-ethnicity-migration-changing-landscape/
LOCATION:University of Sheffield\, Department of Sociological Studies\, Elmfield\, Northumberland Road\, Sheffield\, S10 2TU\, United Kingdom
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