2nd Global Conference
Migrations and Diasporas
incorporating Cultural Diversity as a special focus strand
Saturday 1st December 2018 – Sunday 2nd December 2018
Vienna, Austria
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday 1st December 2018
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words
09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Freedom of Movement
Chair: Jonathan Rollins
Fortress Australia – barriers facing intending migrants.
Tony Caravella
10:30 – 11:00 tea/coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Sanctuary, Security, Protection
Chair: Hazel Erdal Baran
Refugees, Asylum Seekers, or Work Immigrants? Israel and the Africans-The Case Study of South Tel-Aviv
Liat Steir-Livny
Expanding the Legal and Political Boundaries of “Sanctuary” Through Practices of Compassionate Migration in the American Context
William F. Arrocha
Addressing the Vulnerability Factors to Illegal Migration and Human Smuggling in Cameroon
Jamils Richard Achunji Anguaseh and Agbor Mary Akondip
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Sense-making, Place-making, Practice
Chair: Nino Parsadanishvili
Place-Making Itineraries of German-Turks In Schleswig-Holstein
Hazel Erdal Baran and Nilay Ünsal Gülmez
Identity Crisis of Indian Diasporas in Contemporary Sri Lankan Society; the Case of Colombo Chettiars and Negombo Bharathas
Sriyani Gunarathne
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 4: Globalisation and Postcolonial Perspectives
Chair: Cláudio Braga
Globalisation and Cultural Conflicts
Joan Bailey
17:00 – 17:30 End of day Discussion and Consolidation
17:30 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 2nd December 2018
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Development, Integration, Economics
Chair: Tony Caravella
Analysing the Obstacles to the Achievement of the Local Integration of Refugees in Europe
Juliana Di Cotaldo (presenting for Miracle Chinwenmeri Uche)
Poverty Eradication and Temporary Migration Controversies Between UN and WTO
Nino Parsadanishvili
10:30 – 11:00 tea/coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Policy and Politics
Chair: Jane Rösel
China’s Minority Policy in Xinjiang and Uyghur Migration
Sandeep Kumar
Syrian Migration In Lebanon: Peculiarities and Problems
Elena Savicheva
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Education and the Classroom
Chair: Sriyani Gunarathne
A Case Study on Cultural Diversity in the Classroom – “The good, the bad and the ugly.”
Jane Rösel
State-Sponsored Multiculturalism: Charity or Power?
Salah Haddad
15:30 – 16:00 tea/coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 8: Representations
Chair: William F. Arrocha
Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers: a 21st Century Diasporic Gaze on the American Dream
Cláudio Braga
17:00 – 17:30 afternoon discussion and Day 2 consolidation
17:30 – 18:00 Development, planning, closing words, photographs and goodbyes