3rd Global Conference
Migrations : An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project
Sunday 1st December 2019 – Monday 2nd December 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
29/11/2019
Sunday 1st December 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Opening Words
09:15 – 10:45 Session 1: On Globalization, Inclusion, and Exclusion
Chair: William Arrocha
Traversing Boundaries and Borderlands
Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul
“It was a beautiful life”
Suzanne Goopy
10:45 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: The State, Networks and IDPs (Joint Migrations-Diasporas Session)
Chair: Farzad Salahshour
The Unfaded Political Boundaries: Irreconcilability of State Sovereignty and International Responsibility to Protect Internally Displaced Persons
Aditi Singh
A Phenomenological Analysis of Household-level Disaster Management in Pama Sawata, Caloocan, Philippines
Claudine Joyce Gabur
Understanding the Emergence of a Social Enterprise by Highly Skilled Migrants: The Case of Honduras Global Europa
Ingrid Fromm
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Belonging and the Challenges of Inclusion (Joint Migrations-Diasporas Session)
Chair: Efrat Tzadik
Towards a Common Theory of Second-Generation Assimilation: Comparing United States and European Studies on Education and Labour Market Integration
Kacper Grass
Becoming “Native”: A Performance in Immigrant Narratives
Laura Duncan
Avowed or Ascribed Identity? The Homogenization of the African Diaspora in Europe
Chinta Musundi-Beez
15:30 – 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 – 17:45 Session 4: Assistance, Settlement, Wellness (Joint Migrations-Diasporas Session)
Chair: Sophia Pandya
Varied Settlement Programming in Western Canada and Settlement Agencies’ Responsiveness
Katerina Palova and Cesar Suva
Public Service Provision for Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges
Emrah Atar
How Sport Can Be An Effective Tool to Promote Community Cohesion and Integration in the UK and Internationally
Helen Vost
The Bambisanani Partnership: Using the Power of Sport to Change Lives in one of South Africa’s Poorest Regions
David Geldart
17:45 – 18:00 End of Opening Day Cross Panel Issues, Discussion and Consolidation
18:00 Wine and Drinks Reception
Monday 2nd December 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: ROUNDTABLE: Agency and Strategies Across Stages of Migration
Creating a Turkish Muslim Festival/Identity in Southern California
Nancy Gallagher
Turkish Refugees: Constructing Meaning out of Trauma
Sophia Pandya
Blocked Agency/Boxed into Violence: Yemenis and the “Muslim ban”
Louise Cainkar
10 :30-11:00 Tea/coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 6: On the Plight of Migrants, Refugees and their Host Communities
Chair: Ingrid Fromm
The Things They Carried: A Refugee Project
Lisa C. Camichos
Refugees Economies, The Case of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Salam Alhaj Hasan
Choices Made in the Process of Material Development Targeting Women Migration Integration
Elena Xeni
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 7: The Politics of Identity (Joint Diasporas-Migration Session)
Chair: Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul
Contemporary Hegemony: A Rethink of Transnational Long-distance Democratic Participation
Njikang Kennedy Ebang
The Growing Role of the Indian Diaspora in the Assembly Elections
Eva Loreng
My Milkshake!
Charlene Clempson
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee
16:00-17:30 Session 8: Reimagining identity (Joint Migration-Diasporas session)
Chair: Hazel T. Biana
Strategies of Acculturation and Cultural Integration of Jewish and non-Jewish Migrants in Brussels
Efrat Tzadik
“I Feel Threatened By My Very Identity,” or Are Americans Free to Live Outside the United States?
Laura Snyder
Making Home In-Between: Relieving the Conflicts of One and Other Through Negotiations of Spatiality
Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi
17:30 – 17:45 End of Day 2 Cross Panel Issues, Discussion and Consolidation
17:45 – 18:00 Development, planning, closing words, photographs and goodbyes