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Session III
THEME ONE: Crises, Precarity and Refugeeness
Room 1.1 – Amph. 2
Comparative Responses to Refugee Protection: EU/Canada/Australia
Chair: Nikolaos Zaikos, University of Macedonia
Jona Zyfi, University of Toronto; Idil Atak, Ryerson University
Playing with lives under the guise of fair play: The safe country of origin policy in the EU and Canada
Anthea Vogl, University of Technology Sydney
“At what cost? Private Sponsorship of Humanitarian Entrants in Australia
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Room 1.2 – Amph. 3
Nuno Ferreira, University of Sussex; Carmelo Danisi, University of Sussex and University of Bologna; Moira Dustin, University of Sussex
Panel: Queering asylum across Europe: The legal and social experiences of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) asylum seekers
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Room 1.5 – Amph. 6
Regional perspectives on Refugee Issues: Asia/Southeast Asia
Chair: Liza Schuster, City University London
Minati Kalo, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: A Current Analysis
Basundhara Tripathy, Wageningen University and Research
Migration, Immobility and Climate change: gender dimensions of poverty in coastal Bangladesh
Chaphiak Lowang, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Forgotten Refugees: A Study of Lhotshampas of Bhutan
Lucy Fiske, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Crisis and Opportunity: Gender and Social Change in Exile
Mary Rose Geraldine A. Sarausad, Asian Institute of Technology
Creating Categories of Migrants at the Borders of Cambodia and Thailand
Saima Raza, Asia Pacific Refugee Network
Refugee as a human
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Room 1.6 – Conference Room
Larissa Noel, York University
Roundtable: Mediated Greek family: The transformation of refugee families through crisis
THEME TWO: Civil society, new humanitarianism and citizens’ mobilization
Room 2.2 – Amph. 8
Refugees and Turkey
Chair: Fotieni Tsimpiridou, University of Macedonia
Dolunay Ugur, Yale University
Politics of Transnational Humanitarianism: Humanitarian Aid Organizations Assisting Syrian Refugees in Southeastern Turkey
Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern University
Aiding Activism? Humanitarianism’s Impacts on Syrian Activists in Turkey
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Room 2.4 – Amph. 10
Hege Wallevik, University of Agder; Lau Schulpen, Radboud University; Sara KIngsbergen, Radboud University; Hanne Haaland, University of Agder; Hege Wallevik, University of Agder; Dorian Brown Crosby, Spelman College
Panel: Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity
THEME THREE: Changing Durable Solutions
Room 3.2 – Amph. 13
Abigail Blue, UC Hastings College of the Law; Carolyn Stevenson, Purdue University Global
Roundtable: Refugee Economies | Models for Economic Development & Social Integration
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Room 3.3 – Room 2
Jennifer Hyndman, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University; Michaela Hynie, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University; Jenny Phillimore, Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), University of Birmingham
Panel: Probing Private/Community Resettlement for Refugees
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Room 3.4 – Teleconference Room
Resettlement/Integration of refugees in the Middle East
Chair: Susan Martin, Georgetown University
Abdullah Yassen, Erbil Polytechnic University
The Right of Syrian Refugees to Local Integration in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Dimitris Skleparis, University of Glasgow; Georgios Karyotis, University of Glasgow
Training Needs, Aspirations and Opportunities for Young Syrian Refugees: A Comparative Study
Fatima Raza, Global Programs and Partnerships at Rice University’s Center for Civic Leadership
Engaging Displaced Youth in the Middle East as Partners in Change: Perspectives from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Greece
THEME FOUR: Reflective Praxis
Room 4.1 – Room 5
Andrea Kölbel, Institute for Innovation and Technology, Co-organiser: Eveliina Lyytinen, Migration Institute of Finland (MIF); Ayla Bonfiglio, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT; Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL); Nina Weaver, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU); Moise Dushime, SNHU/Kepler; Eugenie Manirafasha, SNHU/Kepler; Kalenga Mbonyinshuti, SNHU/Kepler; Camila Ríos Armas, Universités & Réfugié (UniR); Misty Adoniou, University of Canberra
Discussant: Linda Morrice, University of Sussex
Panel: Between Camp and Campus: Mapping the Field of Higher Education in Refugee Protection
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Room 4.2 – Room 8
Laura Hammond, SOAS, University of London; Kavita Datta & Elaine Chase
Panel: Bridging the ‘evidence’ divide: Reflecting on arts and social sciences interventions in Refugee Studies
THEME FIVE: Politics of representation and changing identities
Room 5.1 – Room 10
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of Lincoln (Chair and panellist); Jolyon Hoff, Independent film-maker; with Muzafar Ali, Independent film-maker
Panel: Auto-ethnography, ethics and exile: the new film-makers
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Room 5.2 – Room 4
Syrian refugees (2)
Chair: Oroub El-Abed, SOAS- London University
Dina Taha, York University
“Shadow of a man is better than a shadow of a wall” – On Syrian refugee women, marriage, politics and economics – Critical reflections on Fieldwork in Egypt
Tulay Yildirim Mat, İstanbul Medeniyet University
Social Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Alizee Zapparoli-Manzoni-Bodson, Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS)
Education and Integration for Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Wa’ed Alshoubaki, Tennessee State University; Michel Harris, Tennessee State University
The impact of Syrian refugees on Jordan: A frame work for analysis
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Room 5.3 – Room 1
Refugees/IDPs in South/Southeast Asia
Chair: Biswajit Mohanty, Deshbandhu College
Farhana Rahman, University of Cambridge
Stories of Survival: Violence, Migration, and Memories of Rohingya Refugee Women
Ashvina Patel, Southern Methodist University
Negotiating Rohingya Identities in Urban Spaces
Bitopi Dutta, Dublin City University
Defining processes of Gender Restructuring: The case of the Displaced Tribal communities of Northeast India
Mrutuyanjaya Sahu, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Dubai Campus,