EUROPEAN GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF
DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL
ESTABLISHED 1973
Coordinator: Emma Bell
Secretary: Monish Bhatia
In the recent refugee protests in Israel, individuals marched with signs showing their
seven-digit identification number assigned by the immigration authorities. They used
these numbers to recall Holocaust tattoos, and depict the dehumanising nature of the
immigration system.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. European Group 42nd
Conference
Call for Papers
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
CONFERENCE FEES
ASSISTED PLACES
II. Comment and Analysis
Spanish Penalfare: A Scary Story
Dani Jiménez & Ale Forero
III. European Group News
Resolution
Recent publications by Group
Members
European Group Anthology
British/Irish Section Conference
Call for Papers (Newsletter)
IV. News from Europe and
around the World
Australia
Argentina
Colombia
Israel
Greece
UK
USA
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I. European Group Conference
Resisting the Demonisation of ‘the Other’:
State, Nationalism and Social Control in a Time of Crisis
42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
3rd - 6th September, 2014
Liverpool
United Kingdom
CALL FOR PAPERS
Six years into the financial crisis that began to unfold in 2008, we have witnessed a renewed
politics of ‘the Other’. Processes of exclusion have intensified due to the onslaught of
ruthless welfare reforms, mass unemployment and enforced poverty. The increasing evidence
of hostility towards people considered as ‘the Other’ is further evidenced by the mobilisation
of the far right across Europe. Meanwhile, activists and anti-capitalists are increasingly
targeted for criminalisation and placed under surveillance. Systems of social control –
including both formal mechanisms such as policing and prisons and informal mechanisms,
such as those organised by voluntary organisations – are in a period of perpetual crisis: as
punitive responses intensify, the poor and the unemployed are responsibilised for their own
poverty. Anti-immigration policies, housing repossessions, and forced debt repayment have
revealed new forms of state violence and have intensified processes of othering and
exclusion. At the same time, the crisis has strengthened institutional practices widening class,
gender, age and racialised inequalities whilst the impunity of powerful elites is sustained.
This conference calls for papers exploring the demonisation of ‘the Other’ in our time
of economic, political and social crises. How can we most effectively challenge the growing
reach of social control apparatus and the rise of right wing extremism in Europe and beyond?
What are the factors contributing to growing social and economic inequalities and their
collateral consequences? How can we best promote principles of social justice, tolerance and
social inclusion in times of crisis? How can academics most effectively make connections
with grass roots resistance movements? What alternative values, principles and policies
should be promoted? We particularly welcome papers focussing upon 'race', especially
regarding the intersections between racism, sexism, classism and national identity and papers
exploring the relationship between imperialism, sovereignty and processes of Othering. We
are also keen to invite activist groups and social movements to present and participate in this
conference.
We welcome papers on the themes below which reflect the general values and principles of
the European Group.
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Processes of Othering
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Contact: Vicky Canning
Email: V.Canning@ljmu.ac.uk
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Social control in a time of
crisis
Contact: Vickie Cooper
Email:
V.F.Cooper@ljmu.ac.uk
Sovereignty, imperialism,
nationalism and racism
Contact: Giles Barrett
Email:
G.A.Barrett@ljmu.ac.uk
The harms of neoliberal
capitalism
Contact: David Scott
Email: D.G.Scott@ljmu.ac.uk
Exclusion, marginalisation
and criminalisation
Contact: Helen Monk
Email: H.L.Monk@ljmu.ac.uk
Resistance and radical
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Contact: Jim Hollinshead
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Fortress Europe and the reinforcement of
immigration controls
The persecution and exclusion of minority
groups
The rise of the far right in Europe and beyond
Immigration and the ‘war on terror’
The ‘other’ in divided societies
Welfare and social control
Policing and the crisis
Prisons in the age of austerity
Surveillance technologies and CCTV
Decarceration and abolitionist critiques
Futures of social control
Volunteers and the managerial state
Racism and the State
The return of imperialism
The meaning of sovereignty
Explorations of the neo-colonial / post-colonial
condition
Sectarianism
The different manifestations of nationalism
(from racism to welfare nationalism)
The social and environmental consequences of
capitalism and consumerism
The harms of the powerful
State violence
The responsibilisation of the powerless
The demonisation and punishment of children
and young people
The criminalisation of poverty
Gendered critiques of the application of
criminal law and criminal /social policy
Gendered violence
Violence against women
Identity, diversity and criminalisation
The regulation of ‘sexuality’
Moving beyond criminology towards a social
harm approach to deviance
Radical alternatives and struggles for social
justice
Universities and local activism
The othering of radical activism
Resistance and the view from below
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Further information on the 42nd annual conference may be found at
http://www.europeangroup.org. Please submit all abstracts by 30 April 2014 to the email
contact provided under the stream you wish to present at. For all general enquiries please
contact Anne Hayes at EGC2014@ljmu.ac.uk.
Confirmed speakers: Paul Gilroy, Jo Phoenix, Joe Sim
Costs:
£
€*
Full delegate fee including 4 nights’ accommodation and conference
340 412
dinner
Full delegate fee including 3 nights’ accommodation and conference
290 350
dinner
Full delegate fee including conference dinner
145 175
Full delegate fee
105 127
Unwaged fee
35
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*€ prices are quoted at time of publication. These are subject to change according to
fluctuating exchange rates
A link to the website for booking will be published here soon.
Assisted Places
Please note that there will be at least one assisted place available for the conference.
Depending on the nature of applications, we would be looking to bestow the assisted place on
one person who meets some / all of the below criteria:
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Does not have a tenured position in academia or has no means of providing alternative
means of support through employment schemes.
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An MA / PhD student / part-time member of staff who is ineligible for university
department/school/faculty funding to attend conferences.
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Is confronted with other significant difficulties which would merit special support to
attend the conference.
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Is currently undertaking research or activism in an area that reflects the themes and
values of the European Group
The deadline for applications is 1st April 2014. Those wishing to apply should write a 150300 word statement in support of their application. A copy of the conference paper abstract
should also be included in the submission. Please address applications to both Vicky Cooper
(conference organiser) V.F.Cooper@ljmu.ac.uk and Emma Bell
europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com
The conference place is free and the European Group will help support travel and
accommodation up to €250 for the assisted place.
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II. Comment and analysis
Spanish Penalfare: A Scary Story
Dani Jiménez & Ale Forero. Zaragoza - Barcelona*
*In anticipation of the 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of
Deviance and Social Control
A certain level of criminality, said M. Foucault. A necessary redefinition of the cycle
punishment-crime-punishment, we might say nowadays. Facing the sovereign question in
criminological terms means focusing on real state-corporate crimes. To problematise the
analysis of governmentality, we must focus on how common offences are selected and
punishment is reproduced at a systemic level – far beyond penal institutions. The new
sovereign scenario shows an expanded production of punishment under the paradigm of
expulsion as the new political nomos. From Agamben’s concentration camp to a sort of
internal refugee camp, the debtocratic – ‘made in Greece’ term – self-government and its
new raison d’état refocus repression towards those anomalous spaces in which precarious and
indebted classes – those who are not poor for now – look for a way to resist de-politisation or,
at least, to fight the increasing level of dispossession.
Time goes by quickly when governmental, formal control agencies change their methods and
positions as a consequence of hard changes in the social structures of senile capitalism.
Productive imprisonment v. fiscal restrictions, once said G. Rusche and O. Kirchheimer.
Unproductive accumulation, growing unemployment, de-capitalization and necessary
modulation of the punitive methods, we should add nowadays. Under neoliberalism, the link
production-employment-prison is not being expressed in the same classic terms anymore.
This doesn’t undermine the discourse of the political economy of punishment but rather
confirms its utility in a new context of productive relationships and a different accumulation
pattern. As induced crisis and debtocracy take root as the two pillars of a new regime, an
extended logic of expulsion and abandonment becomes even more prevalent than the
phenomenon of hyper-incarceration. Repressive ‘alternatives’ to prison seem to replace
imprisonment, taking the ‘pole position’ of security policies. This is what the new reforms of
the Spanish criminal law clearly express: the Markets propose and impose; the State provides
and takes up arms against its vassals. The vassals cry their nostalgia for a vague idea of
citizenship.
Spain, 2013. The golden rule of accumulation and its inseparable reverse side – dispossession
– engenders some technocratic monsters that propose rational solutions to the economic
crisis and the social disorder for which they themselves are to be blamed. To this day, the
open question is if any neoliberal Leviathan is able to implement these solutions whilst
continuing to guarantee the above inviolable rule. The unknown is how high can the level of
imbalance be between state-corporate crime and selective criminalisation in a statu quo of
social peace, understood as the unfair but sustainable situation in which the explicit means of
the state of exception are still not required. For decades, the Spanish bond between market,
state and punishment has been presided over by a massive criminal bubble, partially inflated
by a rising tension: on one hand, the massive production of unpunished state-corporate
crimes; on the other hand, a hyper-criminalisation of the underclasses and a selective penal
inflation.
The close relationship between obedience and support once attributed to the world of politics
by H. Arendt has been efficiently shown during three decades of majoritarian democracy in
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the post-fascist Kingdom of Spain. The fight for absolute majority, the unstoppable
ideological assimilation of electoral speeches and a trend towards legislating by decree are
three of its defining elements. A bipartisan regime, reluctant to engage in public policy
deliberation, focused on a dynamics of competition, prone to govern through crime, to make
war on terrorism or on immigration via the penal system, is established on the sovereignty of
a fictional consensus. This challenges social cohesion by obsessively invoking the empty
mantra of ‘stability’ against the rule of law, exchanging citizen security for social security,
imposing penal justice over social justice and applying extreme measures which undermine
human rights.
Local realities and criminal justice trends in the current context of Spanish neoliberalism are
clearly expressed in what we define as punitive schizophrenia. The latest reform of the Penal
Code, which is being discussed at present, seeks to establish the conditions for a reduction of
the prison subsystem whilst reinforcing the entire criminal system. Most of the latest changes
are being applied in an administrative regulatory framework, for instance, expelling migrants
as an alternative to punishment. Some measures of ‘punitive austerity’ such as the extension
of probation actually involve more controls out of prison and more possibilities of re-entry.
That same reform turns a nut towards exceptionalism through measures such as the
‘permanent reviewable penalty’ – not only a clear euphemism for actual imprisonment but
also a mere contradiction in terms. Although its proponents have defended the prison as
‘humane’ under the pretext that inmates ‘have a horizon of freedom’ [sic], this new penalty
comes at a time when the European Court of Human Rights deals a blow to the infamous
Parot Doctrine1: the State is obliged to restore freedom to more than 50 people who had been
imprisoned arbitrarily. However, the Strasbourg Doctrine does not eliminate any other penal
exceptional structures of the Kingdom: it doesn't abolish penalties of up to 40 years; nor does
it abolish the prisoner dispersal policy that scatters them across Spain and far from home; nor
does it challenge the macro-processes, the isolation regime, incommunicado detention,
abuses, torture.... in short, it doesn’t challenge any other structure assembled from criminal
emergency.
The fall of the Parot Doctrine is in reality a calculated loss. The Spanish government(s) have
not only managed to keep dozens of people in prison for years illegally but also to spread the
images of ‘happy and victorious ETA terrorists coming out of prison’, reinforcing punitive
populism and undertaking the reform of the Penal Code with a higher level of legitimacy.
Perhaps for this reason, along with some reforms to criminalise dissent, namely the
prohibition on ‘occupying’ bank offices, the criminalisation of ‘calling for’ demonstrations
that might result in riots, etc., the next stage of the law is being focused on the reform of the
Public Safety Act which ‘complements’ penal repression with administrative and explicitly
economic repression. The right to demonstrate and any other expression of popular discontent
are being restricted. It will be possible to fine a person for protesting in front of the
Parliament building or for participating in an escrache by a politician’s residence. These
expressions, as it is said by the politicians, need to be fought against despite the reticence of
the courts to treat them as punishable. Such policies are similar to those adopted in other
southern European countries such as Italy where governors claim they aim to strengthen
1
Established through Supreme Court Judgement No. 197/2006 on the issue of parole in cases of terrorist
offences, the Parot Doctrine means that prisoners convicted by the old Penal Law can be illegally held in prison
after they should be released because the subsequent penal reforms made this Law much harsher. The Grand
Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (Application no. 42750/09, Del Río Prada v. Spain) found the
Spanish State guilty of violating the articles 5.1 and 7 of the European Convention of Human Rights –see
http://www.icab.es/files/242-410775-DOCUMENTO/177723277-Case-of-Del-Rio-Prada-v-Spain.pdf.
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democracy yet in reality are simply controlling the governed by reducing the power of
judges.
All these measures take another step towards the authoritarian defence of a less and less
legitimated power. While seeking to invent new offenses and increase penalties for the
dispossessed, they look the other way when corruption scandals and other white collar crimes
multiply. The current crisis and its criminal management are one more chapter in the
transition from ‘governing through crime’ to governing from crime.
Author biography
Dani Jiménez is researcher in the LSJ (Sociology of Law Laboratory) and doctoral candidate
in the Sociology of Law from the University of Zaragoza.
Ale Forero is researcher in the OSPDH (Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights)
at the University of Barcelona.
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III. European Group News
Resolution
The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control opposes the latest
amendment to the Israeli government’s ‘Law to Prevent Infiltration’
The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, the largest worldwide
network of scholars and activists working for social justice, state accountability and
decarceration, expresses its profound concern about the latest amendment to the ‘Law to
Prevent Infiltration’ passed by the Israeli Parliament in December 2013. The amendment,
which allows the detention of migrants illegally entering the country without trial for up to
one year, entails the suspension of habeas corpus and, as such, is unconstitutional. The
European Group would like to remind the Israeli government of its responsibilities as a
signatory to the United Nations Refugees Convention of 1951 to provide refuge for
individuals fleeing countries deemed unsafe. We support the peaceful protests by refugees
and University of Tel Aviv students, who are demanding that refugee rights be respected.
We strongly oppose racist violence against refugees in Israel and urge the government
to take action against the perpetrators of such violence and to protect these vulnerable
victims.
Furthermore, we condemn all penal responses to migration and stress that the human
dignity of asylum seekers must be placed before all political considerations.
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Recent publications by European Group members
The Group would like to encourage members to send references for their new publications to
the Group coordinator. These will be published in the newsletter and then will appear on the
website. The aim is to build up a directory of members’ work over the coming years. Please
send in your references in Harvard format by the 25th of each month to
europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com if you wish to see them appear in the following
month’s newsletter.
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin and Longazel, Jamie G. (2013) The Pains of Mass Imprisonment,
Taylor & Francis.
Moore, Linda and Scraton, Phil (2013) The Incarceration of Women: Punishing Bodies,
Breaking Spirits, Palgrave.
European Group Anthology
Some copies of the European Group anthology, Critique and Dissent, are still available to
order.
Please address UK orders in £sterling to John Moore (J.Moore@uwe.ac.uk). Please send a
cheque for £22 (incl. P&P) directly payable to John Moore at 17 Atlantic Road, Westonsuper-Mare, BS23 2DG.
For orders within the Eurozone, please contact Emma Bell
(europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com) who will send you out the Group's bank details so
you can make payment (29€ incl.P&P).
When ordering please make clear what address you want the anthology delivered to.
For all other orders, please order directly from Red Quill.
See http://www.redquillbooks.com/Critique_and_Dissent.html
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Call for papers
We’d like to encourage academics, activists and those targetted by mechanisms of state
control (people in prison, migrants, people who have come into conflict with the police etc.)
to contribute short pieces of approximately 1,500 words to our monthly newsletter ‘comment
and analysis’ section. Contributions from across the globe are welcome. Please contact Emma
Bell at europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com
British/Irish Conference
‘Penal Law, Abolitionism and Anarchism’, a conference hosted by the British/Irish section
of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and the Hulsman
Foundation will take place from Saturday 26th – Sunday 27th April 2014 at Shire Hall,
Nottingham. Can we imagine law without the state? Could what we now call ‘crime’ be dealt
with by means other than criminal law and punishment? This conference seeks to explore
interrelationships and tensions that exist between the philosophies and practices associated
with penal law, abolitionism and anarchism. It aims to provide a space for the
interdisciplinary exploration of complex critiques of state law and legality, criminalization
and other forms of state and corporate power in neoliberal contexts. The rich and complex
European tradition of abolition recently explored in great detail by Vincenzo Ruggiero, to
which Louk Hulsman made such a creative contribution, provides important intellectual
resources to challenge neoliberal penal and social [well/war –fare] politics and policies and to
expose their harms and underlying power-dynamics. Joe Sim underlined the continued
importance of Angela Davis’ concept of ‘abolitionist alternatives’ as well as of forms of a
renewed penal activism. These and other abolitionist or minimalist approaches to criminal
justice challenge existing hegemonic belief systems that continue to legitimate the generation
of harms via the operations of law, psychology, criminology, the media and frequently shape
public opinion. For some critical criminologists such reflections might imply promoting an
Anarchist Criminology, while for others this might involve the use of courts to challenge
decisions made by ministers. The direct action taken by the Occupy movement and similar
movements (e.g. UK Uncut) can of course also be linked to a diversity of philosophies and
principles of anarchism as well as to contemporary media movements and digital activism
that are of crucial relevance in the current context.
For further details please contact Andrea Beckmann [abeckmann@lincoln.ac.uk] or Tony
Ward [A.Ward@hull.ac.uk]
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IV. News from Europe and the World
Australia
Some disturbing pictures of conditions at the Australian asylum detention centre on the
Pacific
island
of
Nauru
available
here:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/dec/06/nauru-gallery
Guardian report on the realities of life in the Australian immigration detention centre on
Manus Island: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/manus-island-key-pointsfrom-asylum-seeker-incidents-investigation
Gay asylum seekers detained in Australian detention centres in Papua New Guinea told they
could
be
reported
to
local
police,
Amnesty
says.
See
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/gay-asylum-seekers-told-they-could-bereported-to-png-police-amnesty-says
Argentina
Message from Mauro Testa: I’m part of a research group about the punitive power "poder
punitivo" and youth.
I saw the website of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and
it’s very very interesting!
You can visit our site: http://jovenesypoderpunitivo.org (it’s in Spanish language)
In 2013 we organized a seminar called "Youth and social control", aimed particularly at
workers of the institutions that constitute the "punitive chain" (cadena punitiva): police, jail
and courts...almost 100 people participated in this course (including students and
researchers).
For this year, we want to organize another seminar about social control and we want to know
if it is possible to invite someone of your group to talk about social control in Europe and
some theoretical issues about it...
We don`t have our own funding resources but if we talk with time, maybe we can access to
some public or private financing.
If you are interested, please contact: testa.mauro@gmail.com
Colombia
The citizens of Bogotá, Colombia, are asking for solidarity from the international community.
The leftist mayor of Bogotá was banned from office through an anti-democratic and illegal
decision. Bogota's mayor, Gustavo Petro, is a former combatant from the M-19 guerrilla. He
has been struggling against speciesism, anthropocentrism and inequality. Some of his main
changes were to cancel bullfighting in Bogotá, to forbid the use of horses as means of
carrying big loads through the city (replacing them with cars); taking away the "recycling
business” from private corporations and handing it over to poor people. Many of his actions
were seen as attacks against Colombian oligarchy. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worldlatin-america-25310963
Israel
The European Group recently passed a resolution condemning the latest amendment to the
‘Law to Prevent Infiltration’ passed by the Israeli Parliament in December 2013 which allows
the detention of migrants illegally entering the country without trial for up to one year (for
more info, see http://www.acri.org.il/en/2013/12/16/new-petition-anti-infil/). It also
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condemned the racist violence perpetrated against African refugees (for more info, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA).
Council of Europe report on the state of human
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2013/dec/coe-austerity-hr-report.pdf
rights
in
Israel:
Greece
The rise of the right-wing extremism in Greece has now attracted attention from George
Soros. See: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/greece-what-lies-ahead
United Kingdom
Past Event
A new module entitled ‘Crime, Harm and Victimisation’ is running for the first year on the
Criminology Programme at the University of Chester. Taking a zemiological approach, the
module looks at crimes, harms and victimization commissioned by the powerful, including
trusted perpetrators. These include trusted industries, organisations and institutions such as
the professional wrestling industry, organized religions, the financial sector, and the Police.
We were very pleased that Sheila Coleman, spokesperson for the Hillsborough Justice
Campaign and co-author of No Last Rights, was able to contribute to the module. This was a
real privilege and one that we envisage will be repeated in future years. Sheila discussed the
Hillsborough disaster and its subsequent aftermath. In keeping with the module, she
discussed the significance of the resistance and resilience of the bereaved and the survivors of
Hillsborough, some of whom have died during this long drawn out campaign for truth and
justice. Issues that were addressed by Sheila were the tensions of care and control in response
to the immediate disaster and the initial and continued denial of victimhood and victim
blaming by the media and state actors. Sheila also powerfully conveyed the significance of
the 3:15 pm cut off and the damning findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Finally
students were provided with an update of where the Hillsborough families and survivors
campaign for truth and justice was currently up to and envisaged future directions. Students
engaged in a sensitive question and answer session and some insightful questions were asked.
This was especially the case regarding the role of the Independent Police Complaints
Commission. Sheila spent some time with a small group of students who found it hard to
believe the various levels of abuse of power. I am sure it will be one of the more memorable
sessions that will stay with students during their post-university life.
Dr Karen Corteen
Relevant sources:
Scraton, P., Jemphrey, A., Coleman, S. (1995). No Last Rights: The Denial of Justice and the
Promotion of Myth in the Aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool
City Council.
Hillsborough Justice Campaign Website: http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/
Hillsborough Family Support Group Website: http://hfsg.co.uk
Hillsborough Independent Panel Website: http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk
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Events
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the University of Liverpool will behosting a
conference entitled ’How violent is Britain?’ on Friday 16th May 201’. For more details, see
http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=35
Aimilia Voulvouli and Dr Raul Gerardo Acosta Garcia, a Mexican fellow anthropologist
currently working at ITESO, are organizing a panel for the upcoming Royal
Anthropological Institute Conference on Anthropology and Photography to be held in
London Next May (29th – 31st) at the British Museum. You are more than welcome to
apply to our panel entitled “Visibility of dissent: meanings and repercussions of urban
activism
through
digital
photography
and
video”
(http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2827) or any of
the other panels of the conference.
British Society of Criminology Conference, Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Social
Policy and Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, The University of Liverpool. 1012 July (preceded by a postgraduate conference on 9 July). For further details see:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/law-and-social-justice/conferences/bsc/
Reports
New report from Medical Justice on Mental Health in Immigration Detention:
http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk/reports-a-intelligence/other-organisations-reports/aboutdetainee-health/2251-mental-health-in-immigration-detention-action-group-initial-report-1712-13.html
Bordering on Criminal: The Routine Abuse of Migrants in the Removal System: This threepart series highlights the findings of the Migrant Border Crossing Study—a binational, multiinstitution study of 1,110 randomly selected, recently repatriated migrants surveyed in six
Mexican cities between 2009 and 2012. The study exposes widespread mistreatment of
migrants at the hands of U.S. officials in the removal system. See:
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/bordering-criminal-routine-abusemigrants-removal-system
Petitions
Urgent campaign from No Borders Leeds, for bisexual man facing deportation to Jamaica.
Sign the petition, lobby BA to stop the flight, join the protest at Leeds UKBA centre:
http://ncadc.org.uk/right-to-remain/orashia-must-stay/
USA
Call for Papers
Journal of the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno Border-Lines is an
interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to the dissemination of research on Chicana/o—
Latina/o cultural, political, and social issues. The publication is a peer-reviewed academic
journal that seeks to publish scholarly articles in interdisciplinary fields such as
Anthropology, Education, Geography, History, Human Health, Literary and Cultural Studies,
Political Science, Social Work, and Sociology, as well as creative writing pieces by Latino
writers such as essays, short stories, and poems.
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Submissions are invited for the new volume of Border-Lines. The topic is open. Submission
Guidelines
• Manuscripts submitted to Border-Lines should be the original and unpublished research
that is not under consideration for any other journal at the time.
• Manuscripts should include an abstract of 150 words or less.
• Manuscripts are accepted in English or Spanish; 4,000-6,000 words, plus bibliography.
• Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, double spaced in 12 point type, Times
New Roman, Chicago Style Manual.
• Graphs and images must be submitted as independent files in .EPS or .TIFF format.
• Creative writing pieces are invited for review in English or Spanish. Essays and short
stories should not exceed 1,000 words; poems may also be submitted for review and possible
publication.
• Book reviews on publications related to Chicana/o—Latina/o cultural, political, and social
issues will be considered for publication and should not exceed 1,500 in length.
• Deadline for Submission: January 24, 2014.
Send submissions (on PC/Mac compatible CD or by electronic attachment) to BorderLines@unr.edu
A BIG THANKS to all the European Group members for
making this newsletter successful.. Please feel free to
contribute to this newsletter by sending any
information that you think might be of interest to the
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