A Conference at the University of Leeds, UK
Friday 29 January 2010
Presentations
- Madhulika Sahoo (University of East London): A journey of pain and sorrow: Sri Lankan failed asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
- Naomi Milner (University of Bristol): Does anti-trafficking campaigning make life worse for asylum-seekers? No borders activism and the critique of 'pity politics'
- Clare Cochrane (The Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law): The Psychology of Seeking Sanctuary
- Kari Burnett: Integration of refugees in the Czech Republic: Policy vs. Practice
- Lisa Doyle (Refugee Council): Working for change: an organisational approach to improving the lives of refugees
- Lorraine Pannett (University of Manchester), Sylvester Thomas (Manchester Refugee Support Network): Protesting "Employment prohibited": Claiming Justice through Feeling, Analysis and Activity
- Leanne MacMillan, Sonya Sceats (Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture): 2 weeks to 15 years: Waiting for justice as torture survivors
- Jonathan Darling (University of Manchester), Vicki Squire (the Open University): Rightful presence: Politics and Justice in the City Sanctuary network
- Cavidan Soykan (University of Essex): Seeking Refuge in Turkey: The denial of Human Rights
- Lucy Jackson (Aberystwyth University): Settlement, home and feelings of belonging amongst female migrants in South Wales
- Trevor Trueman (Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network): Reasons for refusal: An audit of 200 refusals of Ethiopian asylum-seekers in England
- Stephanie Terreni-Brown (University of Edinburgh): Refugee Journeys: Eritrean narratives of rupture and suture
- Teresa Piacentini (University of Glasgow): Interrogating 'settlement' as journey: where is the destination?
- James Simpson (University of Leeds), Melanie Cooke (King’s College, London): ‘An unavoidable must’? Asylum seekers, refugees, and English classes
- Ashraf Milad Ruxi (American University in Cairo): Darfuri Diaspora: Challenges of Refugees and IDPs
- Nermin Oruc (Staffordshire University): A theoretical model of forced migration: the role of relative deprivation
- Jo Newell (Health Access Team for Asylum Seekers in Leeds): Health needs of newly arrived asylum seekers in Leeds
- Keelin Howard (Buckinghamshire New University): Welfare as Control: Contradiction, Dilemma and Compromise in the Everyday Support of Asylum Seekers after the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act. Attachment 1, Attachment 2.
A full list of papers presented at the conference can be found here.
