Section: Conferences

PhD Workshop 2012

University of Edinburgh, 5 October 2012

Chrystal MacMillan Building, 6th Floor Common Room

9.30 - 10.00 Registration

10 - 10.05 Opening remarks

10.05 - 11.15 Panel 1: Researching Migration and Citizenship in a Changing World

Chair: Joanna Wiseman, Newcastle University

Presenters:

Elisabeth Badenhoop, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow: ‘Researching Citizenship Ceremonies in Germany and the UK’

John McManus, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford: ‘Reflections on Fieldwork in England/Germany/Facebook: the difficulties of migration research in the internet age’

Sylvia Simpson, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS: ‘Japanese Women in the UK and their Media’

11.15 - 11.45 Tea and coffee break

11.45 - 13.00 Panel 2: Intersectional Identities in the Migration Context

Chair: Reza Bagheri, University of Edinburgh

Presenters:

Hengameh Ashraf Emami, Department of Social Science, University of Northumbria: ‘Immigration, Gender and Workplace in the North East of England’

Farhana M. Hoque, Department of Anthropology, University College London: ‘The Journey of Cultural Identity in Chittagong Hill Tracts: A Transgenerational Approach’

Zeb Sattar, Department for Travel and Tourism, Sunderland University: ‘The Mobilities of First Generation Pakistani Migrants in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 - 15.15 Panel 3: Reflexivity and the Fieldwork Experience

Chair: Supurna Banerjee, University of Edinburgh

Presenters:

Lucy Lowe, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh: ‘Juxtaposed Networks: Urban Refugees, ‘Illegal Migrants’, and the Refugee Regime in Nairobi’

Dia Flores, Department of Anthropology, University College London: ‘The Researcher as an Insider: Blurred lines of subjectivity and objectivity in migration research’

Megumi Esperanza Nakamura-Barrera, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh: ‘Negotiating Two Cultures in One Household: Japanese/British Families in Edinburgh’

15.15 - 15.45 Tea and coffee break

15.45 - 17.00 Panel 4: Refugee Regimes and Immigration Policies

Chair: P. Trent Olsen, University of Edinburgh

Presenters:

Erica Consterdine, Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex: ‘Learning to Change: evidence based policymaking and UK immigration policy change in the 2000s’

Kimiko Kuga, Department of Political Science, Keio University: ‘Battles over human trafficking in the UK’

17.00 Wine reception

 


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