This section gives news about the Refugee Council Archive at UEL.
The latest updates concerning developments at the Archive will be
reproduced below. More general news national and international
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stories refugees and related issues are available in the table
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the bottom of this page. The latest news stories are as follows:
December 2008
The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference Call for Papers
Call for Papers. "Refugees: Lives Pushed to the Margins?"
The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference organised by postgraduates and hosted by the Refugee Research Centre at the University of East London on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of April.
Living a life in the margins or a marginalised life is a recurrent trope in the field of forced migration studies. Throughout the whole refugee experience from persecution and flight to settlement and integration, refugees find themselves pushed to the margins and often excluded. The marginalisation of various categories of forced migrants brings into question the effectiveness of protection regimes. Livelihood strategies of forced migrants are formulated at the very margins of society, some of whom are compelled to do so 'outside' the law. How do refugees negotiate identities that help them to combat social exclusion? Adopting a reflexive gaze, as researchers and aspiring academics we must ask ourselves how considerable and pertinent are the dialogues of practitioners and academics? Is academia to be confined to the sidelines or can it be more engaged with forced migrants? In which ways can the study of forced migration be related to wider global issues?
The conference invites papers that fit within the broad theme of the conference and forced migration more generally. We solicit papers that converge on the following sub-themes of the conference:
1) Conversations and interdisciplinary dialogues (scholarly, policy, practitioners, NGOs)
2) Sites of liminality and change (state; regional; local, trans-national; familial; individual)
3) Conversations in issue-areas (development; human rights; migration; security; post-conflict)
4) Sites of experience (gender; flight; re-settlement; camps; exclusion)
Postgraduate students (Masters/MPhil/PhD) are invited to submit abstracts for papers (no more than 250 words) and a personal profile (no more than 100 words). They should be sent, with full contact details, by 4pm on 26th January 2009 to: fmconference2009@googlemail.com
University of East London
The Refugee Research Centre/UEL invite you to IN FLUX, the culmination of artist Marie Ange Bordas' Leverhulme Residency at UEL.
During her time at UEL, the artist has developed work around displacement and belonging through informal encounters with students and use of the Refugee Archive resources. She has also collaborated with Anita Fábos on her MA and undergraduate refugee modules, with the aim of stimulating students to challenge their assumptions about the research process and to encourage them to find new approaches to interact with people and explore concepts.
The event will open on December 10th at 17:00 in Matrix East when Marie Ange will show part of the artwork she produced, along with students' creative projects, and Anita Fábos will address the learning and teaching possibilities of this kind of collaboration for university programmes.
Throughout the week - 11th to the 17th of December- the creative projects produced by Anthropology of Refugees and Cultures of Exile students will be on display in the Library Foyer and the Refugee Archive, (from the 15th).
And on December 15th, Anita Fábos will give the lecture "Refugees as Actors" and, together with John Nassari, host a roundtable discussion on approaches to refugee-centred representation in the Main Lecture Theatre at Business School.
For more information see flyer - [JPEG format] or [PDF format].
Contact: influx.uel@gmail.com
Marie Ange Bordas - http://www.displacements.info/
October 2008
Anita Fabos, who is part of the Refugee Studies academic team here at UEL, will be launching her new book by giving a lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, (London Middle East Institute). This will take place on Tuesday 21st October 2008 and will start at 5.30pm in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS. This lecture and book launch will be free to attend and there is no need to book. A reception will follow.
Further information can be found here and additional information can be providfed on request by emailing us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.
September 2008
I can now confirm the dates for Saturday openings for Semester A 2008/09. The dates will be as follows
Saturday 18 October, 2008: 10am-5pm
Saturday 1 November, 2008: 10am - 5pm
Saturday 6 December, 2008: 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10 January, 2009: 10am - 5pm
April 2008
Refugee Archives at UEL: Saturday Openings.
In response to recent expressions of interest, I have arranged to open the Archive on the following dates between now and the end of the UEL academic term. The dates in question are list below, commencing with this coming Saturday:
Saturday 26 April 2008: 10am-5pm
Saturday 10 May 2008: 10am-5pm
Saturday 7 June 2008: 10am-5pm*
*(can be switched to Sat 17 May if students would prefer an extra Saturday prior to coursework submissions – please let me know!).
If you would like this last Saturday to be switched, then do please let me know via e-mail on
p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk or 020 8223 7676 or just pop in and let me know. Any feedback on this matter will also be very much appreciated and will help in the planning for the opening hours over the summer and for next semester.
As a consequence of working these Saturdays, I will be taking some time off in lieu. This will mean that I will be out of the office all day on the Fridays listed below:
Friday 25 April 2008 (all day)
Friday 9 May 2008 (all day)
Friday 16 May 2008 (all day)
Friday 23 May 2008 (all day)
Friday 20 June 2008 (all day)
Friday 27 June 2008 (all day)
February 2008
Prof Nira Yuval-Davis and Erene Kaptani invite you to a two day conference to celebrate the conclusion of the three year research Project Identity, Performance and Social Action: Community Theatre Among Refugees.
Day 1 – 7 March 2008
A discussion of the theoretical, methodological and political issues emanating from the research.
This will be followed by a performance by Playback South and a reception in the evening.
Venue: Oxford House, Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG
Day 2 – 8 March 2008
Playback and Forum Theatre workshops in which the conference participants will be able to try out the theatre techniques used by the research project.
Venue: Room UH304 Stratford Campus, University House.
Keynote speakers will include Don Flynn, Prof Paul Heritage, Dr Phil Marfleet and Prof Margie Wetherell as well as members from the refugee organisations that the Research Project worked with. Admission is free, but places are limited.
For more information please see www.uel.ac.uk/ipsa or to book a place contact: Catherine Donaldson c.donaldson@uel.ac.uk or Tel: 020 8223 7085
July 2007
We have now taken the time to launch a couple mor eonline reseouces relating to both the Archive and the related studies of international development and refugee studies. We ar epleased to announce the launch of the Refugee Archives cCurrent Awareness Blog, the Refugee Archive Wiki and the International Development / Refugee Studies / NGO Management wiki. Further information can now be found via the web sites listed below:
Refugee Archives Blog: http://www.refugee-archives.blogspot.com
Refugee Archives Wiki: http://refugeearchives.wetpaint.com/
International Development Wiki: http://intdev.wetpaint.com/
Please feel free to register and contribute to these services and please let us have any feedback or comments you may have.
June 2007
Refugee Week 2007.
The 2007 Refugee Week will take place between 18-24 June 2007. Further information about events in your local area can be found on the Refugee Week website.
May / June 2007
We have now received two significant donations over the past six weeks. The first as from the charity Asylum Aid in May 2007 and this was followed in June 2007 by a large donation of resources from The Refugee Council itself. We would like to thank both parties for donating these resources to us. The boxes have now been unpacked and the new resources are currently awaiting to be catalogued.
January 2007
This month we are very pleased to announce the arrival of the archive collection of the Northern Refugee Archive, which is currently based in Sheffield. This collection will provide a very useful addition to the refugee archival collections that we already hold. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff of the Northern Refugee Centre for agreeing to transfer their Archive to us and for helping to facilitate the actual move itself.
December 2006
The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) at Kew have recently made availble online a selection of Alien Registration Cards dated between 1876 and 1991. `Alien' was originally the formal legal term for an immigrant in Britian. These selected documents can be viewed and downloaded online via The National Archives website. Web Address: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/aliens.asp
November 2006
The Museum of London has launched a new exhibition examining the voices, memories and successes of people who have found refuge in the capital. Entitled "Belonging: voices of London’s refugees," the exhibition will run at the Museum of London until 25 February 2007. Entry to the exhibition is free of charge.
For further details, please consult the Museum of London website at:
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/Belonging/
News Web Sites
Further news related information can be found in the following websites:
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