Warwick & Monash Refugee Conference 2011


WORKSHOP ON REFUGEES AND THE REFUGEE CONVENTION 60 YEARS ON: PROTECTION AND IDENTITY

Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy - 2-3 May 2011

 

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(This event is endorsed by UNHCR as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations for the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees)

Organised by Dallal Stevens (Warwick University), Susan Kneebone (Monash University), and Loretta Baldassar (Director, Monash Prato Centre)

Location: Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy

Dates: 2-3 May 2011

 

PROGRAMME: Latest full programme available here and see below

VENUE DETAILS:
Monash Prato Centre 
Hotel San Marco  
Art Hotel Milano  

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DAY 1

KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON THEME OF PROTECTION – ERIKA FELLER (ASSISTANT HIGH COMMISSIONER, UNHCR)


Roundtable 1: Protection 60 years on – shifting patterns of forced migration and current protection needs

  1. Susan Kneebone (Faculty of Law,  University  of  Monash) : ‘Surrogate Protection under the Refugee Convention and the Responsibilities of States to Displaced Persons’
  2. Alice Edwards (RSC, University of Oxford/UNHCR): ‘Rethinking the right to asylum and the notion of temporary protection’
  3. Alexander Betts (Department of Politics and International Relations,  University  of  Oxford ): 'Survival Migration: Old Institutions and New Challenges' 

 

Roundtable 2: Protection 60 years on: current approaches, theory and practice

  1. Maria O’Sullivan (Faculty of Law,  University  of  Monash) : ‘Protection against Refoulement: The Notion of “Acquired Rights” under the Refugee Convention’
  2. Elspeth Guild (Professor of European Migration Law at the Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Partner, Kingsley Napley Solicitors, London) ‘Identity and Securitisation in Refugee Law: Lessons from the EU’
  3. Hélène Lambert (Department of Advanced Legal Studies,  University  of  Westminster ): ‘Transnational Jurisprudence and Refugee Law: The EU and Beyond’

 

DAY 2

KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON THEME OF THE ROLE OF THE STATE, STATUS, AND IDENTITY – ROGER ZETTER (DIRECTOR, RSC,   UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)


Roundtable 3: State Practices and Identity: unscrambling the identity crisis

  1. Maurizio Ambrosini (Department of Social and Political Studies,  University  of  Milan ): 'Better than our fears? Refugees in Italy - between rhetorics of exclusion and local projects of inclusion'
  2. Ulla Bjornberg (Department of Sociology,  University  of  Gothenburg): 'Social relationships and trust in asylum seeking families in Sweden'
  3. Loretta Bldassar (Director, Monash Prato Centre)

Roundtable 4: Regional approaches to refugees: experience, practice and lessons

  1. Dallal Stevens (University of  Warwick ): ‘Reconceiving refugee protection as indulgent hospitality: the case of the Middle East’
  2. Martin Jones (Centre for Applied Human Rights,  University  of  York ): South East Asia