Migration:a joint Birkbeck College/University of East London Symposium
Friday 4th February 2011, 1.00pm to 5.30 p.m.
Prof Nira Yuval-Davis - ‘Exile, diaspora and the politics of belonging’ - download the podcast here.
Audio from seminars at Oxford are available here.
Ruba Salih (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Wednesday 2 February: UEL
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Speaker: Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London
Wednesday 24 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10
How do immigration officials and judges manage when judging the validity of acts of marriage solemnisation, which take place on trans-jurisdictional terms? How do we explain their responses? These are some questions raised by this paper, which presents evidence gleaned from the writer’s own work as an ‘expert’ witness in immigration cases. Two case studies have been selected on the basis that the chief issue in contestation is the validity of a trans-jurisdictional marriage among South Asian Muslims, and therefore raise the issue of whether the marriages are valid according to Muslim law. The paper also raises some questions for future research, given that we know little as yet about how recognition of minority trans-jurisdictional marriages takes place across European legal systems and, in particular, the role of experts who get involved in the legal processes in which such marriages are contested.
Welcome and introduction:
Dr Rob Berkeley, Director, Runnymede Trust
Opening Plenary: Raising the Questions
Baroness Prof Haleh Afshar, York University;
Gita Sahgal, writer and film-maker
Panel 1: Faith Communities and Racism
Dr AbdoolKarim Vakil, Kings College London;
Cassandra Balchin, Muslim Women’s Network;
Dr Ben Gidley,Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford University
Panel 2: The Debate on ‘The Veil’
Prof Sawitri Saharso, VU University, Amsterdam;
Rania Hafez, University of East London;
Prof Karima Bennoune, Rutgers University
Panel 3: Faith, Racism and Education
Dr Rob Berkeley, Runnymede Trust;
Jonathan Bartley, Ekklesia;
Marieme Helie-Lucas, Women Living Under Muslim Laws
Plenary 2: Outcomes of discussion/ continuing initiatives
Prof David Feldman, Pear’s Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College;
Prof Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College;
Prof Nira Yuval-Davis, Director CMRB, University of East London
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