One-Day Workshop on The Meaning and Practice of Immigration Detention: Perspectives from Legal, Social, and Political Theory
21 May 2010,
Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford
09.00 – 17.00
The workshop was generously funded by St Antony’s College, the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), and the Refugee Studies Centre, all at the University of Oxford.
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The conveners of the workshop have set up an email list-serve that is free to join and open to anyone who is interested in continuing this discussion on immigration detention. If you are interested, please contact either Stephanie Silverman (stephanie.silverman@sant.ox.ac.uk) or Evelyne Massa (evelyne.massa@stx.ox.ac.uk).
Workshop Schedule:
08.30 - 9.00 Tea and Coffee Reception, and Opening Remarks
09.00 - 10.30 Legal Approaches Panel
Cathryn Costello (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
Human Rights & the Elusive Universal Subject: Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Entrants under IHRL and EU Law
Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project, Graduate Institute of Geneva)
Immigration Detention and the Aesthetics of Incarceration
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Dallal Stevens (Faculty of Law, University of Warwick)
The law’s approach to detention of asylum seekers: help or hindrance?
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10.30 - 12.00 Political Theory Panel
Raffaela Puggioni (Political Science, John Cabot University, Rome)
The Politics of the Camp: Borders, National Communities, and the Clandestino
Anaïs Rességuier (Forced Migration / International Development, University of Oxford)
Detention at the Border: Sovereignty and Juridical Order
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12.00 - 13.30 LUNCH in Manor Road Building Common Room
13.30 - 15.00 Campsfield House Case Study Panel
Frank Arnold (Medical Justice Network)
Medical Implications of Immigration Detention in the UK
Melanie Griffiths (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
“I’m not a criminal but I’ve been here 11 months” - the Criminalisation of Asylum Seekers in a British Immigration Detention Centre
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Axel Klein (Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent) and Lucy Williams (Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent)
How do former immigration detainees integrate into local communities post-release?
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15.00 - 15.30 TEA BREAK
15.30 - 16.30 Citizenship and Government Technologies Panel
Nicholas Gill (Environment Centre, University of Lancaster)
Rules of engagement: Governmentality, ‘technologies of citizenship’ and everyday protest in asylum detention facilities
Jacqueline Stevens (Law and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara)
US Government Illegally Deporting US Citizens
16.30 – 17.00 Reflections on the Workshop and Closing Remarks
Moderated by Evelyne Massa (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford) and Stephanie J. Silverman (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford)