Exploring Migration, University of Sussex

[Jennifer Williams]

Exploring Migration: A Graduate Student Conference

Programme

Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex

Day 1
Thursday 21
June
Fulton Building FUL 103
09:00 – 09:30
09:15
Registration & Morning Coffee
Opening Remark
09:30 – 11:15

1st Panel ‘Vulnerable Migrant Communities in Asia’
Chair: Sajida Ally
09:30 – 09:45
Waji Hamid
‘Exclusion and fear amidst the ‘scale-makers’ of Singapore’s Little
India’
09:45 – 10:00
Danesh Jayatilaka
‘Resettlement in post-war Sri Lanka: a mixed method analyzing the
recovery of IDPs’
10:00 – 10:15
Raja Adnan Razzaq
‘Cargo of Miseries: Host-Stranger Conflicts and the State’s response
to refugee influx in the Punjab’
10:15 – 10:30
Uke Kshipra
‘Hindu Nationalism, identity and marginalisation in Indian Diasporic
Literature in the US’
10:30 – 11:15
Q & A
11:15 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 13:00

2nd Panel ‘Subjective Constructions of Migrant Realities’
Chair: Gunjan Sondhi
11:30 – 11:45
Claire Bennett
‘Seeking asylum in the UK: the Perspectives of lesbian asylum seekers’
11:45 – 12:00
Jean Pierre Gauci
‘So Much for My Happy Ending: Persecution of Trafficked Persons’
12:00 – 12:15
Aderajew Teshome
‘The ambivalence of ‘consent’ in conceptualising trafficking in
person’
12:15 – 13:00
Q & A
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:45
3rd Panel ‘Governance on Migration’
Chair: Vanessa Iaria
14:00 – 14:15
Bani Gill
‘In the name of Security: Violations at the Barmer border’
14:15 – 14:30
Satoko Horii
‘EU Border Management and the Role of Frontex: the Case of the Border
Guard Training’
14:30 – 14:45
Cosmas Ukachukwu Ikegwuruka
‘Immigration Control in the United Kingdom and the Liberal democratic
paradox’
14:45 – 15:00
Gioia Caminada
‘How do stakeholders influence migration policy? An analysis of
Poverty Reduction Strategies in the Commonwealth of Independent
States’
15:00 – 15:45
Q & A
15:45
Concluding Remark




Day 2


Friday 22
June
Fulton Building FUL 101
09:00 – 09:15
Morning Coffee
09:15 – 10:45

1st Panel ‘Mixed and Textual Methodologies’
Chair: Satoko Horii
09:15 – 09:30
Fran Meissner
‘Disentangling complexity through networks: Urban super-diversity and
the clustering of homophily’
09:30 – 09:45
Alisa Van Kleef
‘Friend or Foe: The Migrant Laborer in Weimar Germany’
09:45 – 10:00
Tommaso Caiazza
‘Italians in San Francisco: an extra-ordinary experience? ’
10:00 – 10:45
Q & A
10:45 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 12:45

2nd Panel ‘Crossing Borders, Boundaries and Networks’
Chair: Fran Meissner
11:00 – 11:15
Romaine Farquet
‘Homeland Politics and Emotions: Transnational Engagement among
Albanian-speaking Migrants from Yugoslavia to Switzerland’
11:15 – 11:30
Michelle Majeed
‘“It’s All About Who You Know: Guyanese migrant networks and their
role in the health of those in the country of origin”’
11:30 – 11:45
Lorenzo Piccoli
‘Immigration and national minorities: redrawing identity boundaries,
projecting integration policies A comparative study of Québec and
South Tyrol’
11:45 – 12:00
Natasha King
‘Practising a no border perspective in the city: Radical migrant
solidarity and the 300 hunger strike’
12:00 – 12:45
Q & A
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 15:30

3rd Panel ‘Forced Migration and Return’
Chair: Danesh Jayatilaka
13:45 – 14:00
Sonja Fransen
‘Return Migration and Social Cohesion in Burundi: The Mediating Role
of Land Scarcity’
14:00 – 14:15
Vanessa Iaria
‘Iraqi refugees’ return and transnational livelihoods in the Middle
East’
14:15 – 14:30
Ine Lietaert
‘Returnees’ perspectives on their return processes to the South
Caucasian Republics Georgia or Armenia’
14:30 – 14:45
Bogumil Terminski
‘Mining- Induced Displacement and Resettlement. Theoretical Frameworks
and Current Challenges’
14:45 – 15:30
Q & A
15:30
Concluding Remark