Sessions on Borders, Migrations and
Displacement
1 Politics and the academy:
activism on migration issues (Chair: Bernd Belina)
General debate with discussants: Peter
Krasztev (film making), Ricard Moren:
(academic research and social activism in Spain and Portugal), Franck Duevell (european noborder
network)
2 The borders of a borderless world I: The global scale:
borders, borderless economies and migrations (Chair:
Olivier Kramsch)
Helen
Sakho: Migration
of global corporate managers to the UK
Franck
Duevell:
Migration, the global migration regime and global justice
Matt
Sparke: On the
borders of borderless world: the transborder entrenchment of neoliberalism
3 The borders of a borderless world II: Restless
populations (Chair: Anders Löfgren)
Peter
Krasztev: The
balkans from the perspective of permanent migration
Julius
Komolafe:
Nigerian Migration to Dublin
Edwin
Bakker: The
Roma "Exodus"
Uli Best
& Anke Strüver: Tunnel
visions
4 National politics and discourses of integration and
exclusion (Chairs: Uli or Anke)
Harald
Bauder: Labour
market integration and exclusion of migrants in Canada and Germany
Thomas
Buerk-Matsunami:
"Nationally liberated" zones / spaces of fear in Germany
Ricard
Moren: Is
'integration' a useful concept in migration issues? Lessons and open questions
from a research in Spain and Portugal
Robert
Vanderbeck:
British discourse and practice in relation to gypsies and travellers
5 New political constellations: regressive politics,
right wing governments and reactions to sep11th (general debate with discussants)(Chair: Matthias Nauman)
Jana
Haeberlein:
'Anti-terrorism' legislation and its consequences for refugees in the UK
Bernd
Belina, Uli Best & Anke Strüver: Nothing remains = more of the same? German politics after Sep 11
Peter
Mayall:
Geopolitical world-views after September 11th
6 Regionalism and Europe (joint session with "The Geopolitics of
Europe") (Chair: James Scott)
Sebastian
Schroeder:
EU regional policy
Jozsef
Benedek:
New meanings of regions in Romania
Csaba
Miklós Kovács: Motivational
Backgrounds and Patterns of Migration for Romaniafs Ethnic Hungarian
Intellectual Elites
Andrea
Kotoszne Szekely:
Hungarian cross-border cooperation with the neighbouring countries
7 Regional geopolitics, governance and borders (Chair: Olivier Kramsch)
Sanjay
Chaturvedi: The
Unfolding Partition of 'British India': Borders , Migrations and Displacements
in South Asia
James D
Sidaway, Tim Bunnell, Carl Grundy-Warr, and Matt Sparke: Accumulation,
Regionalisation and Sovereignty: The Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth
Triangle (IMS-GT)
Huang
Li, Chaoyin Liu and Tefu Lin: Developing a frontier region - the cotton textile industry behind the
West China Development Policy
Chaoyin Liu
and Tefu Lin: Border
Region in Cross-border City-Region Development
8 Film Screenings
Peter
Krasztev:
Franck
Duevell:
Campaigning against the deportation of lebanese kurds in Germany
9 Open forum / final discussion: (Geo)Politics, Methodologies, Borders (Chair:
James Sidaway)