Events
2012
January
18/01/12
- The Iranian Diaspora and the dynamics of Muharram rituals in Mumbai
Reza Masoudi (SOAS)
25/01/12
- Media Discourses of Chinese Integration in Prato, Italy
Kevin Latham (SOAS)
February
01/02/12
- The ‘developmental state’ in action: river-basin development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
Lovise Aalen and David Turton (Oxford)
22/02/12
- Refugees are migrants too: rethinking refugee protection
Katy Long (LSE)
March
07/03/12
- Naturalisation and the politics of desire
Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster)
14/03/12
- Practices of Algerian belonging: Return to Oran & Tlemcen
Sami Everett (SOAS)
14/03/12
- Shia Muslim Burials in London
Kathryn Spellman (Aga Khan University)
June
14/06/12
- Commonwealth Migration: learning from the past, anticipating the future
Professor Nigel Harris
Commonwealth Migration: learning from the past, anticipating the future
18/06/12
- Migration, Unfree Labour and Precarious Work: From Industrialization to the Global Economic Crisis
Professor Stephen Castles (University of Sydney)
18/06/12
- Migration, Unfree Labour and Precarious Work: From Industrialization to the Global Economic Crisis
Professor Stephen Castles, Research Chair in Sociology, University of Sydney
18/06/12
- Migration, Unfree Labour and Precarious Work: From Industrialization to the Global Economic Crisis
Professor Stephen Castles
Professor Stephen Castles is a sociologist and political economist, and currently works on international migration dynamics, global governance, migration and development, and regional migration in Africa, Asia and Europe.
September
15/09/12
- Framing Muslims - Reframing the Study of Muslim Diasporas in Britain
The speakers are listed in the programme below
October
09/10/12
- Shaping the future: communicating different perspectives on global migration
Migration is one of the key global challenges that we face in the twenty first century, yet it is perhaps one of the most misrepresented topics in both public and political discourse.
10/10/12
- The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: gender, rights and representation
Rutvica Andrijasevic (Leicester)
17/10/12
- A Game of Risk: boat migration and the business of bordering Europe
Ruben Andersen (LSE)
24/10/12
- The Dynamics of Diaspora among Caribbean Migrants in Manchester, 1940-1981
Laurence Brown (Manchester)
31/10/12
- Transnational Links to Rural and Urban Areas in Somaliland and Puntland: Remittances and Livelihood Security
Laura Hammond (SOAS) & Abdirashid Duale (Dahabshiil)
November
14/11/12
- Diasporas and Development: a marriage of convenience or true love?
Oliver Bakewell (QEH, Oxford)
20/11/12
- Minggu Pagi Di Victoria Park [Sunday Morning in Victoria Park]
Ben Murtagh, Parvathi Raman, Carol Tan (SOAS, Univeristy of London)
21/11/12
- Transnational Connections and Development Disconnections: stories from Sylhet.
Katy Gardner (Sussex)
21/11/12
- Development & Revolution
Professor Gilbert Achcar
24/11/12
- Religion and Diaspora: African Migrants' Religious Networks in Britain and Europe
The list of speakers is confirmed in the programme
This one-day event brings together African Muslim and Christian religious practitioners with historians, anthropologists and scholars of religion
28/11/12
- Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space
Professor Claire Alexander (Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester)
December
06/12/12
- Alexander Aleinikoff: The Responsibility to Solve
Alexander Aleinikoff
