Refugee Council 60th anniversary seminar series 'New Challenges in Refugee Integration’
In partnership with The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study, University of London
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Council, this interdisciplinary series of six seminars on new thinking and directions in refugee integration provides a focal point for scholars and practitioners working in this field in the United Kingdom and internationally to reflect on the state of the art, to present and receive feedback on current work, and to develop research and policy agendas for the future.
The theme of refugee integration is of critical importance to societies worldwide, not least at this time of policy change and funding cuts to refugee services in the UK.
| 26 October 2011, 5.30pm | Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall |
| Authority and inclusion: reconsidering the meaning of integration in a fragmented age |
Professor Loren B Landau, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Chair: Donna Covey, Chief Executive, Refugee Council |
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| 30 November 2011, 5.30pm | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Council Chamber |
| Refugee-centred versus State-centred approaches to integration: processes, practices and narratives |
Dr Maja Korac-Sanderson, University of East London
Chair: Dhananjayan Sriskandarjah, Director, Royal Commonwealth Society |
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| 14 December 2011, 5.30pm | Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall |
| Employment: integration, exclusion and human rights |
Professor Alice Bloch, City University London
Chair: Sir John Ashworth, President, Council for assisting refugee academics (CARA) |
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| 26 January 2012, 5.30pm | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lecture Theatre |
| Changing identities, declining protection: the securitisation of asylum and refugee policy in Europe |
| Professor Roger Zetter, University of Oxford |
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| 23 February 2012, 5.30pm | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lecture Theatre |
| Integration: global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something) |
Professor Alastair Kenneth Ager, Columbia University (USA)
Chair: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Journalist and Author |
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| 15 March 2012, 5.00pm | Portcullis House, UK Parliament |
| Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees |
| Chair: Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge |
Booking
Admission is free. Please email RLI@sas.ac.uk to reserve a place. All welcome Each seminar will be followed by a reception.
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