Deadline-
- March 15th, 2013 (international participants)
- March 31st, 2013 (local participants)
The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is organizing conference on Identity & Belonging: Experiencing Forced Migration and the Role of Community, Participation and Collaboration. This conference will be held on April 26th and 27th, 2013 at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This event offers graduate and upper year undergraduate students from different disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues, an opportunity to present and discuss research with like minded individuals.
The goal of this conference is to explore the multiple meanings, contexts, communities and interactions characterizing identity and belonging of forcibly displaced persons. We hope to exchange research and ideas in order to better understand the complex and multi-faceted experiences of forcibly displaced persons from the perspective of the individual, communities, government, and organizations and to develop more integrated, collaborative durable solutions. This overarching theme seeks to embrace a comprehensive and interdisciplinary discussion of forced migration.
Topics for the proposals are-
- Narratives about/from refugees and displaced persons
- Experiences of partnerships and collaboration on refugee issues (resettlement, advocacy, protection, social service provision, etc.)
- Intersectionality of identity, nation, and citizenship
- Hierarchies and responsibility for the protection of refugees, i.e. government legislation, Bill C-31
- Overcoming barriers and challenges to belonging (gender, race, class, sexual orientations, (dis)ability, age, language, etc.)
- Role of community in integration and belonging
- Austerity and its impact on refugee claimants
- Artistic and literary representations of forced migration and experiences of identity and belonging
- Methodological and ethical issues of research with refugees and displaced persons
Requirements-
- Name(s) of presenter(s)
- Key presenter e-mail address
- Title of abstract
- A short personal profile (no more than 150 words)
- Indication of whether the presentation will be made by a panel or an individual
- Indication of the type of audio-visual aids needed (i.e., projector, laptop, DVD player etc
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