New Times? Economic Crisis, Geo-Political Transformation and the Emergent Migration Order
Organised by Dr Nicholas Van Hear, Dr Franck Duvell and Jennifer Newman.
Conference Overview
The conference took up where the 2008 Annual Conference on theory left off, bringing together a range of leading academics, analysts, policy makers, practitioners and research students to test theory and concepts against the latest evidence in the migration field.
How has the current crisis affected the movement of people worldwide?
Will it accentuate trends already emerging or will it precipitate the formation of a new world order?
The conference began by situating these questions in context, drawing on examples from history, near and far, and the influence these shocks and crises have had on migration patterns. The final day focussed on new and emerging geographies of migration and the corresponding changes in migration governance.
A complete conference report will be available at the end of October 2009.
Conference Papers by Theme
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1. The Current Crisis in Historical Perspective
Keynote Speaker
Dirk Hoerder, Arizona State University
Historical Perspectives on Mass Migrations and Human Lives
Breakout Session Papers
Irial Glynn
Asylum seeking in the 1930s and 2010s compared
Piotr Plewa
Voluntary Return Programs: Can they assuage the effects of economic crises?
2. The Relationship between Shocks and Migration Crises
Keynote Speaker
Manolo Abella, International Labour Organization - Click here to download PowerPoint presentation
Breakout Session Papers
Paolo Boccagni and Francesca Lagomarsino
Enough to get back, or still better overseas? Recession, migration policies and the prospects for return in Ecuador
Michelle Buckley
Liquid city: finance, urbanisation and workers’ experiences in Gulf construction labour markets
Roxana Barbulescu
The Global Economic Crisis and its Effects for Intra-European Movement: Is there Return Migration?
Artjoms Ivlevs, Mario Piacentini and Richard Upward
The effects of the economic downturn on migration from the New EU Member States to the United Kingdom
Torben Krings, Alicja Bobek, Elaine Moriarty, Justyna Salamonska and James Wickham
Defying the Recession? Polish Migrants in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
3. New Geographies of Migration
Keynote Speaker
Irina Ivakhnyuk, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Crises-related redirections of migration flows: The case of the Eurasian migration system
Breakout Session Papers
Ruth Pearson and Kyoko Kusakabe
Nowhere to return to: Gendered strategies of migrant workers on the Thai Burmese Border
Yen-Fen Tseng
Emerging Career Maps in New Times: Migration Patterns of Skilled Taiwanese to China
Wei Li and Lucia Lo
New geographies of highly skilled Indian and Chinese migrations?
Sonali Jain: For Love and Money
Second-generation Indian Americans in the Indian Knowledge Economy
4. Changes in Global Migration Governance
Keynote Speaker
Khalid Koser, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Changes in Global Migration Governance
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Breakout Session Papers
Charles Woolfson
More ‘exit’ after ‘voice’? Anticipating the likelihood and consequences of a ‘second surge’ from the Baltic new EU member states
Ruth Ferrero-Turrion and Ana Lopez-Sala
Economic crisis and migration policies in Spain: the big dilemma
Lucie Cerna and William Hynes
The Deeper Impact of the Economic Crisis: Changes in High-Skilled Immigration Policies
Migration and Recession: Perspectives from the Workplace
Graham Jackson, Ben Binsardi and Mike Green
Integrating Migrant Workers in an Organisation During a Recession
Almut Gadow
Protecting migrant workers in unprecedented times: Why little has changed for Gangmasters Licensing