http://www.qmul.ac.uk/migration/
Migration Across the Disciplines
Organized by Tendayi Bloom and Parvati Nair
30th June -1st July 2011
Few will dispute that the study of migration involves numerous possible disciplinary routes
and methodologies of research. With this conference, the Centre for the Study of Migration
brings together scholars, practitioners and performers from several continents. They work
in the fields of: anthropology, geography, governance, languages, law, literature, media,
medicine, philosophy, physics, and poltics. They will be expressing themselves through
traditional academic papers, through poetry, through music, through film, through
photography, and through insights from their daily practice. Based physically at the heart of
Britain’s migration story, we will have the option of a walking tour of London’s East End and
a conference dinner at a local Lebanese restaurant. We hope that you will join us and help
us to explore Migration Across the Disciplines.
TO RESERVE* YOUR PLACE AT THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE, PLEASE EMAIL:
events@qmul.ac.uk
and please specify whether you hope to come on Thursday’s walk, as there are limited places on the walk.
*There is no registration fee, but attendees will be expected to supply their own lunch (there are
numerous reasonably priced cafes in and around the campus) and pay for the conference dinner, should
they wish to join.
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Migration Across the Disciplines
Detailed Conference Programme
Organized by Tendayi Bloom and Parvati Nair
Location
Most of the Conference will be held at Lock Keeper’s Cottage, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End
Campus http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/ . The dinner will be held at The Orange
Room Café, a Lebanese restaurant near the campus. Information on getting there is available at:
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/restaurants/orange-room-cafe-info-18499.html. The evening performance
on Thursday will be in the Hitchcock cinema, which is in the Arts I Building, also at the Mile End Campus.
Information about Panels
Each panel is made up of three or four presenters that are grouped broadly. It is hoped that the presenters
will discuss their work for 15-20 minutes each. We will then have a generous time for discussion. During
this time it is hoped that everyone present will have the opportunity to engage with what has been said in
the panel, and also bring in themes from the rest of the conference
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Thursday 30th June
(Location: Lock Keeper’s Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile end Campus)
Registration from 10am
10:30
Coffee and Introduction
11:00
Panel 1: Migrants in Place: Locating migrants in host societies
Chair: Tendayi Bloom
Multiculturalism: a failed European issue? – Critical discourse analysis of British, German and French
newspaper reactions to their country leaders’ multiculturalism proposals – Silja Nordmeyer, London School
of Economics
Certainty and Chaos: Self Similar Patterning and Refugee Warriors in the Kivus - Suda Perera, University of
Kent
National, Transnational, Regional, Exilic? Cinema History, Film Genre and Diaspora - Rachael Langford,
University of Cardiff
Biculturalism in Germany from an Iranian point of view - Nazli Nikjamal, Queen Mary University of London
13:00
The academic contribution to the community development of migrant
communities
Vaughn Jones, Chief Executive of Praxis; Alex Sutton, Community Development Lead,
Praxis
13:30 - 14.45 LUNCH
(There are many cafes available on and near campus. Lunch will be provided for speakers)
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14.45
Panel 2: Theorising theory
Chair: Parvati Nair
Crossing borders and boundaries – The politics of marriage migration, mobility, and citizenship in an
interdisciplinary perspective – Rikke Wagner, London School of Economics
Migration Studies and Discourse Analysis: A Promising Marriage – Szilvia Simai and Rosana Baeninger,
University of Campinas NEPO/Population Studies Center
Migration undermines justice theorising: forcing interdisciplinary study – Tendayi Bloom, Queen Mary
University of London
16:15-16.45
Tea Break
16:45
Debate: Migration research is not of any use at all if it is not inter-disciplinary.
Proposition: Valsamis Mitsilegas, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Opposition: Jane Anderson, Homerton University Hospital
17:30
East End Migration Walk
Exploring some of the rich migration history in London’s East End with an accredited
Blue Badge Guide.
Julianne Marriott, London Walks
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Screening of Shorts
We will be screening a selection of recently released Migration-related shorts in the
Hitchcock Cinema, Arts I, Mile end Campus
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18:30
Dinner
(You are welcome to join us as we take the speakers to dinner at The Orange Room Café, near the campus.
The address is: 63, Burdett Road, London E3 4TN)
20:00
Poetry reading by Stephen Watts and the Farsi poet Ziba Karbassi
Bengali Baul folk music by Sudarshan Das (tabla maestro) and accompaniment
(Hitchcock Cinema, Arts I, Mile end Campus)
Friday 1st July
(Location: Lock Keeper’s Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Campus)
Arrive from 10am
10:30
Coffee and Introduction to second day
11:00
Panel 3: Migrants in Place: Creating Communities
Chair: Nazli Nikjamal
Paris 19: Mobility, Memory and Migration – David Kendall, Abbas Nokhasteh, Andres Borda, Moustafa
Traore, affiliations in France and the UK
Immigration and identity among Italians in London – Morena Tiberi, Queen Mary University of London
Transformation of places and spaces; the gentrification of Brixton and migrant culture in public spaces –
Shuhei Okada, Royal Holloway University of London
Traditional Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Legal Research – Marcus Goffe, Queen Mary University of
London
13:00 - 14.15
LUNCH
(There are many cafes available on and near campus. Lunch will be provided for speakers)
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14:15
Panel 4: Theorising Movement
Chair: Parvati Nair
Studying the ‘migration-security nexus’ in Europe: towards which end of the ‘nexus’? – Dimitris Skleparis,
Queen Mary University of London
On Pragmatism and Legal idolatry: ‘Fortress Europe’ and the Desertion of the Refugee – Nadine El Enany,
Brunel University
Chasing the wage and job opportunities. Intra-EU highly skilled worker migration – Elena Samarsky,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
‘A justice for climate refugees: in the scope of a global economic contract’ – Violaine Hacker, Sorbonne and
Think tank Lépac on GeoEconomy
16:30
Tea and summation
Parvati Nair, Director, Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of
London
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