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Seminar 3:"Security/Insecurity Racism, Xenophobia, Gender and Migration"

Whose Security? Migration-(In)security Dilemmas Ten Years After 9/11(Research Councils UK Global Uncertainties Programme)

Seminar 3: ‘Security/Insecurity Racism, Xenophobia, Gender and Migration’

Thursday 27th September 2012

Sparkenhoe & Goscote Suite, 4th floor Charles WilsonBuilding,University of Leicester

Programme

12:00 – 13:00 Welcome lunch and coffee
13:00 – 15:00 Session 1 (Chair: Gabriella Lazaridis, University of Leicester)
 

Zrinka Bralo: (Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum)

“Securitising Migration: Policies and Impacts”

Brigitte Beauzamy: (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick; Editor OpenSecurity)

“Migration Crisis, Security Practices and Xenophobia: The Case of Post-Arab Spring France”

Discussion

15:00 – 15:30 Tea/ coffee break
15.30 - 17.30 Session 2 (Chair: Dr Khursheed Wadia, University of Warwick)
 

Leah Bassel: ( Department of Sociology, University of Leicester)

“The Political Promise of Insecurity: Migrant Women at the Intersections”

Irini Zempi: (Department of Criminology, University of Leicester)“Islamophobia veiled as ‘Liberation’: The Crimininalisation of the Muslim Veil in Europe” Discussion

For Registration and further information

Please contact:

Dr Khursheed Wadia

Centre for the Study of Safety & Well Being

University of Warwick

Coventry

CV4 7AL

Email: khursheed.wadia@warwick.ac.uk

Tel: +44(0)247 652 3970

Dr Gabriella Lazaridis

Department of Politics and International Relations

University of Leicester

University Road

Leicester

LE1 7RH

Email: GL36@leicester.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2522

A buffet lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Registration is essential as places are limited.

The seminar will take place at Sparkenhoe & Goscote Suite

4th floor, Charles Wilson Building

University of Leicester

University Road

Leicester

LE1 7RH

For a map of the campus please see the following link:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/maps/campus-map

 

 

 

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