THEME ONE: Crises, Precarity and Refugeeness

(click on the titles of the sessions to view the abstracts)

Room 1.1 – Amph. 2

Karolina Lukasiewicz, New York University; Barbara Franz, Riders University; Jamie Lew, Rutgers University; Mara Sidney, Rutgers University, Tanzilya Oren, Fordham University

Panel: Challenges to the refugee integration process in a global context – Part 1

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Room 1.2 – Amph. 3

Nasreen Chowdhory, University of Delhi; Ranabir Samaddar, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group; Paula Banerjee, Sanskrit University

Panel: Refugeeness and Precarity: A view from the Global South

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Room 1.4 – Amph. 5

Regional Perspectives: Central and South America, Mexico, Haiti

Chair: Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica, Independent Researcher

Jorge Morales Cardiel, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas

The process of accompanying undocumented immigration by transit countries, the case of Mexico

Luann Good Gingrich, School of Social Work & Centre for Refugee Studies, York University and Julie E.E. Young, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, University of Lethbridge

The NAFTA border’s dispossessions:  Social exclusion within, across, and in-between the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands

Yannick Gill, Howard University School of Law

The Problem with “The Haitian Problem”

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Room 1.6 – Conference Room

Chair: Ruvi Ziegler, University of Reading; Co-convenor: Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford ; Christel Querton, School of Law, Newcastle University; Hugh Tuckfield, School of Law, University of Sydney; Nick Maple, University of London

Panel: Temporary & Durable Responses to Displacement Crises: Comparative Perspectives

 

 

THEME TWO: Civil society, new humanitarianism and citizens’ mobilization

Room 2.1 – Amph. 7

Maria Jumbert Gabrielsen, PRIO; Elisa Pascucci, University of Tampere; Dorothea Hilhorst, ISS and LSE; María Hernández Carretero, University of Oslo

Panel: The good citizen in refugee settings: displacement, hospitality and citizenship – Part 1

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Room 2.2 – Amph. 8

Laura Madokoro, McGill University; Glen Peterson, University of British Columbia; Geoffrey Cameron, University of Toronto; Shauna Labman, University of Manitoba; Megan Bradley, McGill University

Panel: New Humanitarianism in Context: Protection and Refuge from the Past to the Present

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Room 2.3 – Amph. 9

Facilitators: Adam Saltsman, Worcester State University and Karen Jacobsen, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University. Participants: Anita Fábos, Clark University; Cathrine Brun, Oxford Brookes University; Charles Simpson, Tufts University; Nassim Majidi, Samuel Hall

Panel: The Politics and Practice of Forced Migration Research Methods, A Conversation

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Room 2.4 – Amph. 10

Policy and Practice (1)
Chair: Despina Anagnostopoulou, University of Macedonia

Lamis Abdelaaty, Syracuse University, Co-author: Liza G. Steele, State University of New York – Purchase College

Explaining Attitudes towards Refugees in Europe

Grant Mitchell, Swinburne University

Civil Society Engagement of Government on Alternatives to Immigration Detention

David FitzGerald, University of California, San Diego

Institutional Constraints on Remote Control of Asylum Seekers

Melissa Anderson, York University

When sanctuary cities aren’t enough: A Canada-Germany Comparison on the Aplication of Human Rights to Non-Status Migrants

 

 

THEME THREE: Changing Durable Solutions

Room 3.1 – Amph. 12

Tina Magazzini, UNESCO (Harare SHS Unit)/ Human Rights Institute, University of Deusto; Marcia Vera Espinoza, Politics Department, University of Sheffield

Panel: Cross-regional Dialogues on Refugee Integration – Part One

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Room 3.2 – Amph. 13

Daniel Kersting, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Naoko Hashimoto, University of Sussex, University of London; Johanna Gördemann, University of Duisburg-Essen; Christoph Tometten, attorney-at-law (Berlin). Chairs: Johanna Gördemann, University of Duisburg-Essen; Mariana Nardone, Universidad Nacional de Lanús / Centre for Global Cooperation Research

Panel:  Normative and empirical insights into resettlement – Part One (Normative)

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Room 3.3 – Room 2

Hotspots, refoulement, assisted voluntary return

Chair: Nicholas Van Hear, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Timokleia Psallidaki, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens

The hotspot approach and the extra-territorialisation of the right to asylum

Eleni Koutsouraki, European Centre of Research and Training on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Panteion University

The impact of the EU-Turkey deal on refugees and on Greece

Stefanos Spaneas, University of Nicosia; Agamemnon Zachariades, University of Nicosia

Cyprus Assisted Voluntary Return Programme: Developing a Sustainable Pre-Departure Policy

Stephen Phillips, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University

Europe’s proposed asylum processing ‘hotspots’ in Africa: in the shadows of Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’

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Room 3.4 – Teleconference Room

Anoma Pieris, University of Melbourne; Anna Marie Steigemann, TU Berlin and Philipp Misselwitz, TU Berlin; Mirjana Ristic, Institute for Sociology, TU Darmstadt (co-chair)

Panel: Design for Asylum: Architecture, Urban Space and Forced Migration – Part One

 

THEME FOUR: Reflective Praxis

Room 4.1 – Room 5

Dacia Douhaibi, York University; Rumana Hashem, University of East London; Erika Frydenlund, Old Dominion University; Shailja Sharma, DePaul University; Amadu Wire Khan, Independent researcher and refugee scholar from Sierra Leone; Jaya Dantas, Curtin University; Christa de Kock, Stellenbosch University

Roundtable: The Challenging and Evolving Nature of Methodological Approaches to Research on Forced Migration

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Room 4.2 – Room 8

María Fernández, University of London; Claudia Viviana Díaz García, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales- EHESS; Felipe Aliaga, Universidad Santo Tomás; Hafsa Afailal, Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon; Stéphanie López Villamil, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia); Marco Romero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) and Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento-CODHES (Bogotá, Colombia); Farah Salka, Anti-Racism Movement (Lebanon); Abderrahman Tlemsani, Migrants’ Human Rights (Morocco); Cristina Churruca, Institute of Human Rights of the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain)

Panel: Cooperation between scholars, practitioners and civil society actors for the coproduction of knowledge in forced migration. Five case studies in Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Morocco and Lebanon

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Room 4.3 – Room 7

Nula Frei, Institute of European Law, University of Fribourg;  Constantin (Tino) Hruschka, Max Planck Institute of Social Law and Social Policy; Bonny Ling, Centre for Human Rights Studies, University of Zurich  

Roundtable Navigating Legal Aid in Asylum Procedures: Comparative Experiences and Practical Challenges in Four European Countries (Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom)

 

THEME FIVE: Politics of representation and changing identities

Room 5.1 – Room 10

Christina Clark-Kazak, University of Ottawa; Ulrike Krause, Ruhr University Bochum; Michaela Hynie,York University

Roundtable:  Ethical considerations of research with people in forced migration