The symposium will investigate the interplay between forms and modes of contemporary membership, migration governance (both immigration and emigration), and the politics of belonging. This will be achieved through in-depth examinations of a range of experiences of membership including, but not limited to: ethnic minorities; citizen children of undocumented migrant parents; former unaccompanied asylum seeking children; people with dual citizenship; ‘failed’ asylum seekers; and stateless people. Participants are invited to discuss issues such as the position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration and emigration states; the nexus between human mobility, immigration control, and citizenship; the tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights; and the intersection of ‘race’ and other social cleavages and legal status.
This is the first of two international symposia investigating the relationship between legal status, rights and belonging. The symposia are jointly organised by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford with the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and the Oxford Institute of Social Policy at the University of Oxford.
For more information visit the RSC page: Within and beyond citizenship: Lived Experiences of Contemporary Membership
Podcasts of the conference plenaries are available:
Feeling like a citizen, living as a denizen: deportees’ sense of belonging
Tanya Golash Boza, University of California Merced
Lives in limbo; immigration, schooling, and the and the transition to illegality
Roberto. G. Gonzales, Harvard University
Citizenship Shadow: obscene inclusion, abject belonging, or, the regularities of migrant irregularity
Nicholas de Genova, Goldsmiths College
Campzenship: rethinking the camp as a political space
Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham
3:30pm, 24 May 2018
17 - 18 May 2018
1 February 2018
22 - 23 September 2016
28-29 September 2015
5 March 2014
25 November 2013
10 June 2013
9 April 2013
23 October 2012
16:30 - 18:30, Thursday 1 December 2011
16:00 - 18:00, Wednesday 9 November 2011
17:00 - 18:00, 10 March 2011
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