Centre for the Study of Safety & Well Being
Politics & International Relations
ESRC Conference (Research Councils UK Global Uncertainties Programme)
Whose Security? Migration-(In)security Dilemmas Ten Years After 9/11
7th – 8th March 2013
Conference Programme
THURSDAY 7TH MARCH 2013
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee and registration
09:30 – 09:40
Welcome and opening remarks
09:40 – 10:30
Opening Keynote
Chair: Don Flynn (Migrant Rights Network)
John Solomos (City University, London): “Racism, Migration and Multiculture: a
Crisis of Integration in Contemporary Europe?”
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee
10:45 – 12:15
Panel 1: Gender, ‘Race’, Migration
Chair: Vicki Squire (University of Warwick)
Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University): “Family Migration, Gender and Integration
Discourses”
Leah Bassel (University of Leicester); Akwugo Emejulu (University of Edinburgh):
“Solidarity in Tough Times: Minority Women in Third Sector Spaces in France and the
UK”
Emanuele Toscano (Gugliemo Marconi University, Rome): “Immigration,
Racism and Xenophobia in Italy after 9/11”
12:15 – 13:05
Keynote 2
Chair: Ravi Thiara (University of Warwick)
Liz Fekete (Institute of Race Relations, London): “Migration, Racism and the Security
State”
13:05 – 14:15
Lunch
14:15 – 15:45
Panel 2: 9/11 and the Creation of “Suspect” Communities
Chair: Khursheed Wadia (University of Warwick)
Mary Hickman (St Mary’s University College London & London Met): “‘Suspect
Communities’ at the Centre of Counter-Productive Policy Approach: Comparing Irish
and Muslim Experiences in Britain”
Chris Allen (University of Birmingham): “All Muslims are the same”: from External
Others to Home-grown Bombers”
Kerstin Rosenow-Williams (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Security for whom? Islamic
Organizations and the German State after 9/11”
15:45 – 16:00
Tea
16:00 – 17:30
Panel 3: Migration, Economic Crisis and Changing Identities
Chair: Gabriella Lazaridis (University of Leicester)
Natalka Patsiurko (University of Aberdeen): “Exclusion, Identity and Migration:
Migration Aspirations of Minorities on the new EU borders in a Period of Economic
Crisis”
Anca Loredana Enache (University of Helsinki): “Finland and Roma Migrants in times
of Economic Crisis: Constructing Otherness, Threats and Securitization of Migration”
Mariangela Veikou (University of Peloponnese, Greece): “Migration and Integration
in Crisis-Stricken Greece. Visual Representations of Difference”
FRIDAY 8TH MARCH 2013
09:00 – 10:30
Panel 4: The Policies and Actions of State and Non-State Agents: Deepening Human
Insecurity since 9/11
Chair: Surinder Guru (University of Birmingham)
Mogens Hobolth (London School of Economics): “Wanted and Unwanted Travellers:
Explaining Variation in the Openness of the European Union's External Border
Rino Colucello (Coventry University): “The Architecture of the Human Trade between
Asia and Europe”
Maria Margaronis (London correspondent of The Nation): “Greece: Crisis, Migration
Policy and the Rise of Golden Dawn”
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee
10:45 – 11:35
Keynote 3
Chair: Maria Margaronis (The Nation)
Don Flynn (Migrant Rights Network, London): “The Storms ahead: Plotting a Course
for the Politics of Migrants’ Rights during Turbulent Times”
11:35 – 12:35
Panel 5: Mobility, Borders and Counter-Terrorism Policies
Chair: Chris Allen (University of Birmingham)
Yousef Dar (Former Vice-President National Association of Muslim Police; Chair of
the Community Safety Forum, Manchester): “Schedule 7 and its Impact on
Communities”
Salma Yaqoob (Community Engagement Manager, Birmingham and Solihull Mental
Health Foundation Trust & former Birmingham City Councillor): “The Impact of Post
9/11 Counter-Terrorism Policies on British Muslim Communities”
12:35 – 12:45
Closing remarks
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch
FOR REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact:
Dr Khursheed Wadia
Centre for the Study of Safety and
Well-Being
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
Email:
khursheed.wadia@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)247 652 3970
Mrs Sam Hundal (Centre Secretary)
Centre for the Study of Safety and
Well-Being
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
Email: G.K.Hundal@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)247 652
Dr Gabriella Lazaridis
Dept. of Politics and International
Relations
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester
LE1 7RH
Email: GL36@leicester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2522
Refreshments and a sit-down lunch will be provided as indicated in the programme. Registration is essential as
places are limited.
The conference will take place at:
Radcliffe Conference Centre:
Lecture Room 6, First Floor
University of Warwick
Gibbett Hill Road
Coventry
CV4 7AL
To plan your journey please go to:
 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/conferences/howtofindus/travelling_by_rail_and_air.pdf
 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/conferences/howtofindus/warwickconf-campusmap-nov2012.pdf
 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/conferences/howtofindus/142487_WC-HowToFindUs.pdf (there is a
visitors car park beyond the barriers at Radcliffe conference centre. You will require to collect a parking
token from Radcliffe Reception in order to exit the car park).