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Session I
THEME ONE: Crises, Precarity and Refugeeness
Room 1.1 – Amph. 2
Nassim Majidi, Samuel Hall; Heaven Crawley, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University; Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University; Karen Jacobsen, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
Panel: Endangered rights and precarious lives
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Room 1.2 – Amph. 3
Chair & discussant: Simon Turner, AMIS, University of Copenhagen. Participants: Cecilie Odgaard Jakobsen, AMIS, University of Copenhagen; Katrine Syppli Kohl, University of Copenhagen & VIVE – The Danish Centre of Applied Social Science; Kirsten McConnachie, School of Law, Warwick University
Panel: Moving camps and carceral junctions – Part 1
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Room 1.3 – Amph. 4
Refugees in Europe (1)
Chair: Giorgia Dona, University of East London
Panagiotis Peter Milonas, York University
The Psychologization of Security and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Seyedeh Akhgar Kaboli, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku
Images of the future of young refugees in Finland
Raluca Bejan, University of Toronto
Problematizing EU’s Relocation System of Shared Responsibility
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Room 1.5 – Amph. 6
Regional Perspectives: Refugees in the Middle East
Chair: Olga Demetriou, PRIO
Thomas McGee, University of Exeter
Syria’s Stateless: Vulnerabilities in Displacement
Oroub El-Abed, SOAS- London University
Citizens and refugees: Managing through engendering disparities
Suzanne Menhem, Lebanese University
Forced migration and its impact on the work of Syrian young women in Lebanon
Samia Qumri, Independent Researcher
Survival in times of displacement; rethinking resilience and precarity in the case of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Sena Duygu Topcu, Max Planck for Social Anthropology
Renegotiation of gender and emotions in radical uncertainty: Syrian refugee families in Istanbul
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Room 1.6 – Conference Room
Unaccompanied Children
Chair: Paroula Naskou Perraki, University of Macedonia
Océane Uzureau, Marina Rota, Ilse Derluyn, Ghent University
Analysis of the transit experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors travelling into Europe
Jovana Arsenijevic, Médecins Sans Frontières, Northern Balkans Migration Mission, Belgrade, Serbia
Violence inflicted on minors attending MSF mental health clinics – “caught in limbo” by Europe’s restrictive migration policies
Simon Goodman, Coventry University, Kayleigh Brown, Coventry University; Helen Liebling, Coventry University
A culture of disbelief: Demonstrating how asylum interviews with separated children are interrogations
THEME TWO: Civil society, new humanitarianism and citizens’ mobilization
Room 2.1 – Amph. 7
Rai Barbosa de Oliveira, European Master in Migration & Intercultural Relations (EMMIR); Laura Boucsein, European Master in Migration & Intercultural Relations (EMMIR); Erika Massoud, European Master in Migration & Intercultural Relations (EMMIR)
Panel: Challenging new forms of activism and social accountability: different perspectives from Sudan, Germany, and Canada
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Room 2.2 – Amph. 8
Franziska Werner, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Urban Studies & Social Research, Co-Panel- Organizer: Anna Marie Steigemann. Panel-Participants; Christian Sowa, SOAS, University of London; Anna Marie Steigemann & Philipp Misselwitz, Chair of International Urbanism and Design/ Habitat Unit at TU Berlin
Panel: Cities for whom? Exploring urban issues and forced migration with innovative and participatory methods
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Room 2.3 – Amph. 9
Odessa Gonzalez Benson, University of Michigan, Cesar Suva, Calgary Immigrant Educational Society, Rupaleem Bhuyan, University of Toronto School of Social Work
Roundtable: ‘Informality’ as mode of political response in North America: Examining potentials and limits
THEME THREE: Changing Durable Solutions
Room 3.1 – Amph. 12
Chair: Simon Behrman, Royal Holloway University of London; Thekli Anastasiou, University of Sheffield; Walter Kälin, Platform for Disaster Displacement; Michel Prieur, CRIDEAU/Université de Limoges; Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, IOM; Jolanda van der Vliet, Hague University of Applied Sciences/Leiden University; Camilla Schloss, Georgetown University, World Bank
Roundtable: “Climate Refugees”: Beyond the Legal Impasse?
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Room 3.2 – Amph. 13
Regional Perspectives: South America
Chair: Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica, Independent researcher
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Room 3.3 – Room 2
Regional Perspectives: South/southeast Asia
Chair: Nasreen Chowdhory, University of Delhi
Carrie Perkins, Southern Methodist University
Rethinking Repatriation on the Thai-Burma Border
Hugh Tuckfield, University of Sydney
How States Decide: Durable solutions, international norms and protracted refugee situations
THEME FOUR: Reflective Praxis
Room 4.1 – Room 5
Jaya Dantas, Curtin University, Chair: Professor Jenny Phillimore, University of Birmingham; Sally Baker, Newcastle University and University of New South Wales; Anita Lumbus, Curtin University; Shelley Gower, Curtin University
Panel: Exploring the complexities: the conceptual, methodological and ethical challenges of research with refugee women and refugee students in Australia
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Room 4.2 – Room 8
Natalia Bowdoin, University of South Carolina Aiken; Karen Fisher, University of Washington iSchool; Ashanti White Jackson, California Institute of Integral Studies; Julie Robinson, Kansas City Public Library
Roundtable: Lives in the Balance: Conversations on Reflective Research and Practice in Information Provision and Information Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
THEME FIVE: Politics of representation and changing identities
Room 5.1 – Room 10
Anna-Leena Riitaoja, The Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki; D. Anagnostopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; A. Baka, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, I. Bibou-Nakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; E. Figgou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; M. Rapti & M. Sourvinou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Marianna Vivitsou, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki; Paul Isley, Northern Illinois University (emeritus) and University of Helsinki; Alexandros Triantafyllidis & S.U.C.RE consortium