THEME ONE: Crises, Precarity and Refugeeness

Room 1.1 – Amph. 2

Jody McBrien, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Maria Hayward, Aukland University of Technology; Linda Morrice, University of Sussex

Panel: The Challenge of Welcome for Resettled Refugees in New Zealand, Japan, the UK, and the US

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Room 1.2 – Amph. 3

Chair & discussant: Simon Turner, AMIS, University of Copenhagen; Participants: Ditte Krogh Shapiro, University College Absalon; Simon Turner, AMIS, University of Copenhagen; Zachary Whyte, AMIS, University of Copenhagen and Michael Ulfstjerne; University of Aalborg

Panel: Moving camps and carceral junctions – Part 2

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Room 1.5 – Amph. 6

Regional Perspectives: North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK

Chair: Chris Dolan, Refuge Law Project

Ranjith Kulatilake, York University, Toronto, Canada

Re-Queering the Queer and Benevolent Othering – On the Frontline with LGBTQ Asylum Seekers in Toronto

Jessica Darrow, University of Chicago; co-presenter: Jessica Howsam, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

How to weather the storm: Implications from the impact of President Trump’s Executive Orders on the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program

James Simeon, York University

No Refugee Protection for Those Who are Complicit in International Criminality in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand

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Room 1.6 – Conference Room

Refugees, Migrants, and Education

Chair: Patricia Hynes, University of Bedfordshire

Rebecca Murray, University of Sheffield

‘Access as Belonging’, what does access to higher education mean for forced migrants?

Dina Batshoun, University College London – Institute of Education

Experiences of Access to Higher Education for Gazan Refugee Youth in Jordan: Exploring Perceptions, Pathways, and Issues

Maha Shuayb, Lebanese American University

An education ‘for’ exile: a comparative study of education experiences of Syrian refugee in Lebanon and Germany

Tanja Fendel, Institute for Employment Research Germany

Legal Discrimination within Integration Policies? The Paradigm of Activation and Educational and Work Experiences of Female Refugees in Germany

 

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

Room 2.1 – Amph. 7

Regional Perspectives: Australia and Asia

Chair: Styliani Letsiou, University of Macedonia

Susan Banki, University of Sydney

Homeland Activists Without a Home: The Why of Precarious Activism for Burmese and Bhutanese refugees

Louise Olliff, University of Melbourne / Refugee Council of Australia

From resettled refugees to humanitarian actors: Motivations, modalities and implications of diaspora humanitarianism

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Room 2.3 – Amph. 9

Moderator: Michael Ungar, Dalhousie University. Panelists: Nicole Ives, McGill University; Rev. Paula Kline, Montreal City Mission; Adan & Moad Alhjooj, youth presenters

Panel: Civic engagement to improve children and youth refugees’ social integration

 

THEME THREE: Changing Durable Solutions

Room 3.3 – Room 2

Afghanistan/Afghan refugees

Chair: Liza Schuster, City University London

Waseem Ahmad, American University Washington College of Law

The Fate of Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations

Mitra Naseh, Florida International University

Repatriation to Secondary Displacement: Case of Afghan Refugees in Iran

Nithya Rajan, University of Minnesota

The Paradox of Livelihood Initiatives: Afghan Refugee Women’s Experiences as Workers in India

 

THEME FOUR: Reflective Praxis

Room 4.1 – Room 5

Khudejha Asghar, Family Violence Specialist; Kathryn Falb, Research Advisor, International Rescue Committee; Mendy Marsh, The Equality Institute; Beth Rubenstein, Columbia University; M. Catherine Maternowska, Data, Evidence and Learning, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children; D. Fry, University of Edinburgh, Preventing Violence in Childhood Research work at Moray House School of Education, Co-Lead Safe Inclusive Schools Network; Mark Canavera, CPC Learning Network, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Sabine Rakotomalala, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

Panel: Gender, Violence and Psychosocial Well-Being in Humanitarian Settings

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Room 4.2 – Room 8

Paul Dudman, Emerging Scholars and Practitioners On Migration Issues (ESPMI) Network Discussants: Clara Sandelind, Talking Migration, University of Sheffield; Bani Gill, University of Copenhagen; Asha Siad, Documentary filmmaker, Global Affairs Canada; Marie Godin, Oxford Department of International Development

Roundtable: New Dissemination Practices & Public Engagement in Forced Migration Research

 

THEME FIVE: Politics of representation and changing identities

Room 5.1 – Room 10

Lena Karamanidou, Independent Researcher/Glasgow Caledonian University; Alexandra Bousiou, University of Gothenburg and Andrea Spehar, Center for Global Migration and University of Gothenburg

Panel: Representing refugees and legitimating responses to the refugee ‘crisis’: Comparative perspectives on political discourse