Past Events
2019-20
Migration, Racism and the Hostile Environment: Making the Case for the Social Sciences
2 April 2020
Online Launch of the Report
Sponsored by CMRB and with contributions from CMRB members, the report was prepared by Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE), a project of the Academy of Social Sciences Special interest group on Migration, Refugees and Settlement. SSAHE is a network of universities, non-governmental organisations and campaigners.
Migration, Racism and the Hostile Environment: Making the Case for the Social Sciences
2 April 2020
Online Launch of the Report
Sponsored by CMRB and with contributions from CMRB members, the report was prepared by Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE), a project of the Academy of Social Sciences Special interest group on Migration, Refugees and Settlement. SSAHE is a network of universities, non-governmental organisations and campaigners.
2018-19
Friday 22 November, 2019, 5 - 7pm University Square Stratford, Room USS1.01
In conversation
Giorgia Donà, CMRB, University of East London
Alice Bloch, University of Manchester
Laura Hammond, SOAS, University of London
Gaim Kibreab, South Bank University
Majid Ameen, artist
Chair: Georgie Wemyss, CMRB, UEL
2016-17
This event is being held in conjunction with Refugee Week 2017 and the 20th Anniversary of the MA in Refugee Studies Programme at the University of East London.
Full details of the programme are now available. The event is free, however for catering purposes we kindly ask you to register via the Eventbrite link.
Monday 6 March 2017, 4 – 6pm, University of East London (UEL), Docklands Campus, Room EB.1.44
The trafficking of children and young people has become an increasingly debated issue in the UK and the Modern Slavery Act 2015 now contains an enabling clause for future roll-out of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) across England and Wales for all children who have experienced ‘trafficking’. This talk will outline the findings of two studies related to this ‘trafficking’ of children and the use of ICTAs in a UK context - the first study between the NSPCC and the University of Bedfordshire and the second an independent evaluation of a pilot of ICTAs conducted for the UK Home Office.
Dr Patricia Hynes is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire. Prior to this she has worked in a range of roles within refugee camps across Southeast Asia. Her research interests include forced migration in all its forms, including trafficking, refugees and asylum; human rights; and child abuse. Her publications include papers for UNHCR, the Journal of Refugee Studies, International Migration and International Journal of Human Rights.
This event is FREE, however for catering purposes we ask you to register your place(s).
This is a collaborative event with the Centre for Narrative Research (CNR)
Wednesday 30 November 2016, 1 – 2pm, Docklands Campus, Room EB.1.40
For more information and to book a place(s) please follow the Eventbrite link.
Kubra Khademi is an Afghan artist and feminist. She studied at Kabul University and Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan where she began to create public performance. Returning to Kabul her work actively responded to a society dominated by extreme patriarchal politics. After performing her piece Armor in 2015, Khademi was forced to flee Afghanistan. She currently lives and works in Paris, France. In 2016 she was awarded an MFA Scholarship at Pantheon Sorbonne University and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the Ministry of French Culture.
CMRB with CNR present, on behalf of the Academy of Social Sciences Study Group on Refugee Issues the AcSS Refugee Issues Special Interest Group Inaugural Event
Monday 12 December 2016, 5 – 7pm, Venue TBC
To book a place(s) please follow the Eventbrite link.
An international two-day conference on the histories and futures of anti-racism
As part of the ESRC series ‘Racism and Political Mobilisation’
19 - 20 January 2017, 10am – 6pm, UEL, University Square Stratford (USS)*
Racism has come to infect the politics of many places. Far from entering the promised post-racial era, we are living through times when all manner of disputes and divisions can become racialised, sometimes with little warning. We have seen the rise of racist, populist parties across the whole of Europe; popular racism against refugees, migrants and Muslims, including discrimination and violence; increased evidence of police racism and violence against African-Americans; the emergence of new forms of racism across the globe and the racialisation of terror across the West. And this is happening in a moment of economic depression and implementation of austerity which has disproportionately impacted on racialised minorities and migrants and has been accompanied by a ‘divide and rule’ between them and the so-called ‘white’ working class. That said, we have also witnessed the emergence of new and significant progressive movements such as Black Lives Matter, Rhodes Must Fall, various decolonial initiatives and the formation of refugee support networks and others. While these, like the particular forms of racism to which they respond, are new they must be understood both sociologically and historically in terms of the historical precedents, legacies and projects they reference or are implicated in or cut off from.
This conference brings together scholars, students and activists to discuss the changing map of racism in our time and to consider the lessons that can be drawn from historical and transnational studies of racisms and anti-racisms. We hope to learn from the diversity of approaches to mobilising against racism and to reach a more open and inclusive way of thinking about the place of anti-racism in different social movements.
Keynote speakers include:
Marcelle Dawson (University of Otago)
Xolela Mangcu (University of Cape Town)
Avtar Brah (Birkbeck)
Sivamohan Valluvan (University of Manchester)
Gavan Titley (University of Maynooth)
John Solomos (Warwick University)
Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL)
How to Book and Ticket Prices:
Early bird ticket prices: One Day £6; Two Day £10 (available until Sunday 15 December 2016)
Standard ticket prices: One Day £10; Two Day £15 (available from Monday 16 December 2016 - Sunday 15 January 2017)
Please contact e.shrimpton@uel.ac.uk if you have any queries about the event.
*University Square Stratford is located at 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF. For a map and directions please follow the link.
Monday 3 April 2017 4 – 5.30pm
University of East London (UEL), University Square Stratford (USS) Campus, Room US2.40
Dr. David M. Malone is Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is also Chairman for 2017 of the Global Migration Group (GMG), the International Organization inter-agency grouping focusing on migration issues. A diplomat and scholar, Dr. Malone was previously the Canadian High Commissioner to India and concurrently Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal, and the President of Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the President of the International Peace Academy (now International Peace Institute) in New York. He was previously Canada’s representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and Ambassador to the United Nations. He is currently a Senior Fellow at New York University’s School of Law.
Dr. Malone will be speaking about the challenges and opportunities the United Nations faces in the current context of negotiating inter-state agreements regarding migration. The GMG acts as the lead for 21 international and regional organizations dealing with these issues, and while the difficulties are significant in the current global climate, the incoming UN Secretary-General is an advocate on these issues.
This event is part of the 10th anniversary of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, and is co-sponsored by the University of East London’s Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging.
Wednesday 22 February 2017, 4 – 6pm (Refreshments provided)
University of East London (UEL), Docklands Campus*, Room EB.2.44
This is a collaborative event between the Centre for Migration on Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) and the Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR). This is also a CMRB School Seminar, as part of the School’s Seminar Series.
Speakers
Gary Younge, Editor-at-large, The Guardian
Avtar Brah, Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck, University of London
Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor, UEL, Director, Living Maps Network
Ashwani Sharma, Principle Lecturer, CCSR, UEL
Chaired by Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, Director, CMRB, UEL
This event is FREE, however for catering purposes we ask you to register your place(s).
*Docklands Campus is located at University Way, London E16 2RD.
Wednesday 30 November 2016, 4 – 6pm, Docklands Campus, Room EB.1.04
Seminar to be hosted by CMRB Visiting Fellows
For more information and to book your place(s) please follow the Eventbrite link.
A CMRB seminar with opening remarks by CMRB Directors: Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor Giorgia Dona and Dr. Georgie Wemyss
Monday 10 October 2016, 5.15 – 6.30pm (refreshment served at 5pm), University of East London, Docklands Campus, Room EB.G.06
The seminar will focus on the implications of Brexit in the (re)constructions of national boundaries, identity and belonging in the UK. The panel will make links between the underlying racialisation discourses of Brexit, everyday bordering as the British government technology of control of diversity and discourses of diversity, and autochthonic populist political discourses. Brexit will also be examined in the context of wider developments in Europe and globally.
Book your place through the Eventbrite link.
8 - 16 October 2016
CMRB to present:
Migration Plan and its Influence on Integration Strategic among Bangladeshi Migrants in Italy: A first glance at the data
Tuesday 11 October 2016, 6.30 - 8.30pm, Lab 1, Idea Store Whitechapel
By Valeria Giannuzzi, CMRB Visiting Fellow
Popular East India Company Dockside walk
Saturday 15 October 2016, 11am - 1pm
By Dr Georgie Wemyss, CMRB Co-Director
FREE ENTRY and ALL WELCOME
View the wide range of other events that will be taking place.
Monday 10 October 2016, 4 – 5pm (followed by refreshments), University of East London, Docklands Campus, Room EB.G.06
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Thursday 24 November 2016, 2 - 3.30pm, Docklands Campus, Room EB.1.08
Speaker: Innocent Magambi
2015-16
Monday 28 September 2015, 3 - 6pm, UEL, Docklands Campus
Monday 14 March 2016, 4 - 6pm, UEL, Docklands Campus
10 - 12 November 2015, UEL, Docklands Campus
Wednesday 11 May 2016, 2 – 4pm, UEL, University Square Stratford
Monday 14 March 2016, 7 - 9pm, London School of Economics
Saturday 30 April 2016, 2 - 5pm, SOAS
Saturday 17 October 2015, 2 – 5pm, SOAS, University of London
Tuesday 26 January 2016, 6 - 8pm, House of Commons
Monday 14 December 2015, 4 – 6pm, UEL, Docklands Campus
Monday 25 January 2016, 3 - 9pm, Arcola Theatre