Conference podcasts
Audio podcasts are available of most sessions at the conference - click on session title below for individual sessions.
The conference playlist is also available on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/refugeestudiescentre/sets/rsc-conference-2017-beyond-crisis
Thursday 16 March
Alexander Betts, Director, Refugee Studies Centre
Keynote Address
Audrey Macklin, Professor and Chair in Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Resettler Society: The Canadian Model of Private Refugee Sponsorship
Session I
Theorising African Displacement
Nora Bardelli, RSC, University of Oxford: Malian urban refugees in Burkina Faso: integration and hidden statuses
Ayla Bonfiglio, UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University: Mapping refugee movements to Kenya, Uganda and South Africa
Sonja Fransen, University of Amsterdam: The constituents of reintegration of displaced populations in Burundi
Lucy Hovil, International Refugee Rights Initiative: With or without policy? Forging spaces for belonging
Susanne Jaspars, SOAS, University of London: Migration from Darfur: food insecurity, conflict and abandonment
Andrea Purdeková, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford: Beyond the crisis frame: the micro-politics of redisplacement and entrenchment in post-war Burundi
Chair: Alexander Betts, RSC, University of Oxford
Restricted Mobility of Extremely Vulnerable Migrants and the Creation of Safe Spaces
Aurélie Ponthieu, Médecins Sans Frontières: Humanitarian assistance in the context of the fight against irregular migration: challenges in meeting the needs of vulnerable migrants at borders
Kinga Janik, Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Research Member, McGill University: The notion of extremely vulnerable migrants enshrined in the contemporary mixed migration phenomenon: do fundamental rights have a nationality?
Sandy Irvine, Wilfried Laurier University, and Sonal Marwah, Project Ploughshares: Acknowledging the impacts of interdiction: producing interdiction knowledge and policy change (video presentation and conference call)
Chair: Aurélie Ponthieu, Médecins Sans Frontières
Architecture, Urban Design and Refugee Shelter
Mark Breeze, RSC, University of Oxford: Architecture without building; building without architecture [not podcast]
John Edwards, Cape Craft and Design Institute: The relationship between space-making and the perception of place within two refugee camps on the Turkish-Syrian border
S Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL: Exploring in-betweeness: space of contradiction in refuge
Toby Parsloe, former MPhil candidate in Architecture and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge: The politics of architectural appropriation in the Berlin-Tempelhof refugee camp
Quirino Spinelli, IUAV, University of Venice: Spaces for refugees and asylum seekers in the European city: the case of Turin
Chair: Tom Scott-Smith, RSC, University of Oxford
Annika Kaabel, University of Kiel: Losing human(itarian) capital: analysis of labour potential of refugees arriving to Germany
Craig Loschmann, UNU-MERIT/ Maastricht University, and Katrin Marchand, UNU-MERIT/ Maastricht University: Determinants of labour market outcomes of Congolese refugees in Rwanda
William Monteith, International Institute for Environment and Development: Refugee economies and urban humanitarian response in Kampala, Uganda [not podcast]
Chair: Olivier Sterck, RSC, University of Oxford
Basak Cali, Hertie School of Governance, and Cathryn Costello, RSC, University of Oxford: The United Nations treaty bodies: an emerging soft enforcer of refugee law?
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: International refugee law in a post-liberal world
Stefan Schlegel, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity: A property rights approach to refugee law
Maximilian Scholz, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity: The struggle to define the refugee in Europe (1550-1700)
Chair: Cathryn Costello, RSC, University of Oxford
Rethinking Refugee Resettlement as Durable Humanitarian Governance
Adèle Garnier, Université libre de Bruxelles: Durable humanitarian governance, resettled refugees and work in Canada and Québec
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Peace Research Institute Oslo: Humanitarianism, nationalism and economic interests: competing political discourses on burden-sharing in Norway
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Peace Research Institute Oslo: Governing resettlement: due process, uncertain duties and undue rights
Discussant: Naoko Hashimoto
Chair: Adèle Garnier, Université libre de Bruxelles
Technology or Technophilia in Refugee Studies?
Nora Danielson Lanier, COMPAS, University of Oxford: ‘It’s hard to get hard’: mistrust and the problem of bad news in humanitarian communication
Giorgia Dona’, University of East London, and Marie Godin, University of Oxford: Agency and mobile telephony among refugees at the Calais border [not podcast]
Victoria Jack, Independent researcher: Humanitarian communication: path to refugee agency or threat to refugee management?
Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh, Sarah Lester, ODID, University of Oxford, and Charlotte Ray, University of Edinburgh: Renewable energy and the needs of refugees
Cory Rodgers, University of Oxford: Bottom-up energy: the politics of refugee infrastructure in Kakuma, Kenya
Chair: Roger Zetter, RSC, University of Oxford
Session II
The Need for Solidarity and Responsibility Sharing in Global Refugee Protection
Madeline Garlick, UNHCR: From rhetoric to practice: operationalising solidarity for refugee protection after the NY Declaration [not podcast]
Constantin Hruschka, University of Bielefeld: Solidarity as fairness: are there alternatives to the distribution model in the Dublin IV proposal?
Eleni Karageorgiou, Lund University: Solidarity as a value in refugee protection? Swinging from formal international law to capricious national politics
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary Law School: Solidarity as a legal obligation and its role in international refugee law
Lilian Tsourdi, European University Institute: Solidarity at work? The prevalence of emergency-driven solidarity in the administrative governance of the Common European Asylum System
Discussant: Stephanie Motz, University of Luzern
Chair: Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary Law School
Deportation and Denationalisation
Matthew Gibney, RSC, University of Oxford: Banishment and the pre-history of deportation
Diletta Lauro, RSC, University of Oxford: Who belongs to the nation-state? Deportation and its constestations in the United Kingdom
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Global Refugee Studies: European deterrence and deportation of child refugees, past and present [not podcast]
Nassim Majidi, Sciences Po Paris / Samuel Hall: Deportation of unaccompanied minors: between autonomy and assistance (video presentation and conference call) [not podcast]
Chair: Matthew Gibney, RSC, University of Oxford
Beyond Eurocentrism: ‘Global Refugee Studies’?
Madeline-Sophie Abbas, University of Manchester: Dis/placing whiteness: decolonising refugee relations
Bonnie Cherry, University of California, Berkeley: The gift and the ghost: a transnational feminist reading of border security in Tohono O’Odham borderlands
Anna Wherry, The Johns Hopkins University: Forced migration in the ‘First World’: challenging the concept’s limit
Chair: Tom Scott-Smith, RSC, University of Oxford
Labour Market Impacts and Opportunities
Alexander Betts, RSC, University of Oxford: Thrive or survive? Explaining variation in economic outcomes for refugees
Gilles Spielvogel, OECD, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne: An assessment of the impact of refugee flows on labour supply in European countries
Wolter Hassink, Utrecht University, School of Economics: The impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on firm entry in Turkey
Jean-François Maystadt, Lancaster University: The development push of refugees: evidence from Tanzania
Isabel Ruiz, COMPAS, University of Oxford, and Carlos Vargas Silva, COMPAS, University of Oxford: The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: a gender perspective
Roger Zetter, RSC, University of Oxford, and Héloïse Ruaudel, Independent Researcher: Refugees’ right to work – legal and policy challenges and opportunities
Chair: Roger Zetter, RSC, University of Oxford
Samantha Arnold, Trinity College, Dublin: A children’s rights approach to the Refugee Convention
Melissa Gatter, University of Cambridge: Remaking childhood: humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za’atari
Annika Lems, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern: ‘They only help some of us’: the slippery slope between vulnerability and vilification in the treatment of unaccompanied refugee Youth in Switzerland
Carly McLaughlin, University of Potsdam, Germany: Child asylum-seekers and the politics of childhood
Lena Sophia Opfermann, University of York: Beyond vulnerability: undocumented children’s performative agency
Chair: Maryanne Loughry, Jesuit Refugee Service Australia
Simon Collings, Director of Learning and Innovation, Energy4Impact: What can the humanitarian sector learn from the field of energy access? Findings from the Moving Energy Initiative
Fotini Rantsiou, Humanitarian Advisor, Lesvos, Greece: Obstacles and enablement factors for meeting refugee energy needs in Greece: the case of Kara Tepe
Glada Lahn, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House: Jordan as a laboratory of change in the way humanitarian agencies use and think about energy and water
Chair: Sarah Lester, ODID, University of Oxford
Session III
Responsibility Sharing and Delivering as One: A Protection Based Approach to Solutions
Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex: UNHCR and delivering as one: the operationalization of interoperability
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford: Responsibility-sharing by and for states
Jackie Keegan, UNHCR: Capacity building of states to promote inclusive rights-based responses [not podcast]
Chair: Cathryn Costello, RSC, University of Oxford
Refugee Crisis in Europe: Ripple Effects of Welcome and Deterrence
John Borton, Overseas Development Institute: The rise of ‘citizen humanitarians’ and ‘refugee helpers’ in Europe – where are they heading and what do they tell us about the international humanitarian sector?
Gonzalo Fanjul, porCausa/Overseas Development Institute: Migration deterrence in Europe: roots, manifestations and consequences of a growing industry
James Kisa, African Population and Health Research Centre (video presentation & conference call) [not podcast], and Karen Hargrave, Overseas Development Institute: Closing borders: the ripple effects of Australian and European refugee policy
Iakovos Michailidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Greek refugees in the Middle East and Africa (1941-1946)
Chair: Jeff Crisp, RSC, University of Oxford and Chatham House
Eritrean Refugees: An Exceptional Case?
Milena Belloni, CeMIS, University of Antwerp: Emotion and decision-making: effervescence among Eritreans in transit
Lior Birger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Intimate strangers: Eritrean men’s perceptions of sexuality
Diddy Mymin Kahn, A.R.T.S ( African Refugee Therapeutic Services): Surviving rape and the stigma of rape: Eritrean asylum seekers
Alebachew Kemisso, Addis Ababa University, and Jennifer Riggan, Arcadia University: Lessons from Ethiopia: an ethnographic investigation of the policy and politics of welcoming Eritrean refugees
Chair: Georgia Cole, RSC, University of Oxford
Forced Migrants in the Labour Market? Inclusion, Exclusion, Rights and Realities
Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University, Marc André Luik, Helmut Schmidt University, and Max Steinhardt, Helmut Schmidt University: The employment patterns of immigrants in Sweden: longitudinal evidence for refugees, family reunion and labour migrants (1997-2011)
Katharina Lenner, University of Bath, and Lewis Turner, SOAS, University of London: Making refugees work? The politics of labour market integration for Syrian refugees in Jordan
Mouna Maaroufi, Freie Universität Berlin: Precarious integration: the activation and flexibilisation of refugees on the German labour market [not podcast]
Lucy Mayblin, Warwick University: Asylum seekers and the right to work in the UK: policy making in the absence of evidence
Chairs: Katharina Lenner, University of Bath, and Lucy Mayblin, Warwick University
Redefining the Challenges of Mass Migration: The Role of Civil Society and Social Entrepreneurship
Ana Maria Alvarez Monge, Migration Hub Network: Civil mobility: the moral obligation taken by civil society
Alexandra Embiricos, Migration Hub Network gGmbH: An introduction to social innovation and migration
Mireia Nadal Chiva, Head of Community Development, ReDI School of Digital Integration: Co-creating impact
Elmedin Sopa, Refugee Law Clinic Berlin e.V: Imparting knowledge and free legal aid on asylum issues through student law clinics
Ghaith Zamrik, Bureaucrazy: A Syrian’s experience in Germany - from asylum seeker to social entrepreneur
Chair: Alexandra Embiricos, Migration Hub Network gGmbH
Elisheva Cohen, University of Minnesota: Education for inclusion? Refugee education policy in Jordan
Ashley Haywood, Kepler, Carolyn Tarr, Kepler, and Nina Weaver, Southern New Hampshire University: Rethinking refugee self-reliance through a lens of higher education
Torsten Janson, CMES: Learning, belonging, resisting: young Palestinians in higher education
Emma Bonar, University of Geneva – InZone, and Barbara Moser-Mercer, University of Geneva- InZone: Transcending boundaries and borders
Chair: Barbara Zeus, IMI, University of Oxford
Friday 17 March
Session IV
Filippo Dionigi, Middle East Centre, LSE: Borders and civil war: lessons from the Syrian refugee crisis
Leïla Vignal, RSC, University of Oxford: The Syrian borders and borderlands: from the margins of the state to the emergence of new transnational spaces, the Syrian conflict as process of rebordering
Ann-Christine Wagner, University of Edinburgh: Unsteady frontiers, wild growth at the margins: cross-border and rural-urban displacement of Syrian refugees in the north of Jordan
Discussant: Professor Dawn Chatty, RSC, University of Oxford
Chair: Filippo Dionigi, Middle East Centre, LSE
Contemporary Debates on Refugee Resettlement
Adèle Garnier, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Power, politics and refugee resettlement: comparing Canada and Australia’s responses to the Syrian crisis
Naoko Hashimoto, University of Sussex: Reconceiving refugee resettlement in (unforced) migration studies
Suzanne Shanahan, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, and Catherine Ward, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University: Civic engagement and resettled refugee youth
Marcia Vera-Espinoza, University of Sheffield: Understanding resettlement through refugee integration: paradoxes between the politics of humanitarianism and the politics of belonging
Chair: Marcia Vera-Espinoza, University of Sheffield
Practitioner Perspective: Frameworks to Address Situational and Embodied Vulnerabilities of Migrants
Sanjula Weerasinghe, International Organization for Migration: MICIC Initiative Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries in Crisis
Lorenzo Guadagno, International Organization for Migration: Including migrants in disaster risk management
Tiziana Bonzon, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – IFRC: Smart practices that enhance resilience of migrants with Honduras as a case study
Heather Komenda, International Organization for Migration: Understanding migrant vulnerabilities and capacities: a framework for analysis and programming
Chair: Oliver Bakewell, IMI, University of Oxford
Ethical and Political Issues in Refugee Protection
Benjamin Boudou, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity: Giving shelter or granting rights? Refugees and the rhetoric of hospitality
Matthew Gibney, RSC, University of Oxford: The duties of refugees
David Owen, University of Southampton: Refugees and the politics of indignity
Robin Vandevoordt, Universiteit Antwerpen: The politics of food and hospitality
Chair: Matthew Gibney, RSC, University of Oxford
Protection and Norms: Understanding Commitment, Compliance and their Opposites
Shani Bar-Tuvia, International Relations Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The diffusion of noncompliance: refugee policies of Western countries
Maja Janmyr, University of Bergen: Legitimising Lebanon’s rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
Christian Donny Putranto, UNHCR: Explaining the generosity of non-signatories to the 1951 Convention [not podcast]
Christina Velentza, Democritus University of Greece: European refugee crisis: explaining (non) compliance with refugee norms
Chair: Cathryn Costello, RSC, University of Oxford
Gerhard Hoffstaedter, University of Queensland: Attitudes towards refugees in Malaysia: hospitality and fear
Craig Loschmann, UNU-MERIT/ Maastricht University: The labour market impact of refugee camps on host communities
Zsofia Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University: Host populations’ reactions to asylum institutions in Hungary
Caitlin Nunn, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, and Raelene Wilding, La Trobe University: The role of rural and regional communities in hosting refugees
Chair: Georgia Cole, RSC, University of Oxford
Session V
Concepts of the Camp: Defining, Researching and Imagining Encampment in the 21st Century
Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Institut Universitaire de France: The undesirable ones and their encampment: the CAMPS Project
Irit Katz, University of Cambridge: Towards a new genealogy of the camp [not podcast]
Kirsten McConnachie, Warwick University: Camps as containment: a genealogy of the refugee camp
Simon Turner, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen: Refugee camps as sites of depoliticisation and hyper-politics
Benjamin Thomas White, University of Glasgow: Humans and animals in a refugee camp: Baquba, Iraq (1918-21)
Chair: Tom Scott-Smith, RSC, University of Oxford
Refugees in International Relations
Elizabeth Campbell, U.S. Department of State: Leaders’ Summit on Refugees: outcomes and lessons learned [not podcast]
Anne Hammerstad, University of Kent: Global refugee policymaking in a time of resurgent nationalism
Adam Lichtenheld, University of California, Berkeley: Coercive displacement in civil wars: a research agenda
Chair: Alexander Betts, RSC, University of Oxford
Ana Beduschi, University of Exeter: Vulnerability on trial: human rights courts approaches to the protection of migrant children’s rights
Mary Anne Kenny, Murdoch University: How is vulnerability defined and responded to?
Maryanne Loughry, Jesuit Refugee Service Australia: What does vulnerability look like in a crisis?
Matthew Willner-Reid, RSC, University of Oxford: No neutral arbiter? The role of organisational mandates in assessing comparative vulnerability levels in Afghanistan
Chair: Maryanne Loughry, Jesuit Refugee Service Australia
State Responsibility Beyond and Across Borders
Nikolas Feith Tan, DIHR/University of Aarhus: Judicial reactions to extraterritorial migration control and offshore processing [not podcast]
Pauline Endres de Oliveira, University of Gießen: From territorial to extraterritorial access to asylum – a necessary shift in paradigm for the CEAS?
Dana Schmalz, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity: Layered vs. alternative responsibility: the overlapping schemes of responsibility-sharing for refugees in Europe
Raluca Bejan, University of Toronto: The ‘East/West’ divide and Europe’s relocation system for asylum seekers
Chair: Pauline Endres de Oliveira, University of Gießen
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum in Europe
Carmelo Danisi, University of Sussex: The Italian case study
Moira Dustin, University of Sussex: The UK case study
Nuno Ferreira, University of Sussex: The SOGICA project and the EU/CoE Framework
Nina Held, University of Sussex: The German case study
Chair: Nuno Ferreira, University of Sussex
SESSION vi
Outside the Box: Big Ideas in Refugee Studies
Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School: The arc of protection: toward a new international refugee regime
Rachel Landry, International Rescue Committee: Histories of race and racism: a blind spot in refugee studies
Etienne Piguet, University of Neuchâtel: The migratory crisis: a geohistorical interpretation
Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford: Welcome and deterrence: assessing alternative pathways to protection
Nicholas Van Hear, COMPAS, University of Oxford: Imagining Refugia
Chair: Alexander Betts, RSC, University of Oxford
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Syrian Refugees
Ali Ali, RSC, University of Oxford, and Fulya Memişoğlu, RSC, University of Oxford: Unpacking national and local policies towards Syrian refugees: views from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey [not podcast]
Helen Mackreath, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, and Şevin Gülfer Sağniç, Boğaziçi University: Civil society and Syrian refugees in Turkey
Kristin Fabbe, Harvard Business School, Chad Hazlett, UCLA, and Tolga Sinmazdemir, Boğaziçi University: Violence and political attitudes: a study of Syrian refugees in Turkey [not podcast]
Josepha Ivanka Wessels, CMES Lund University: From a state of shock to agency in liminality: IDP camps inside Syria
Chair: Leïla Vignal, RSC, University of Oxford
Negotiating Citizenship, Inclusion and Exclusion in Forced Migration
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz, CEDEJ, Khartoum: The slippery slope of citizenship: Southern Sudanese in the landscape of Khartoum [not podcast]
Katarzyna (Kasia) Grabska, GMC, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva: Negotiating citizenship and belonging in displacement: Nuer in Khartoum
Milena Belloni, CeMIS, University of Antwerp: Refugees and citizens: understanding Eritrean refugees’ ambivalence towards homeland politics
Cathrine Brun, Oxford Brookes University, Oroub El-Abed, British Academy-Council for British Research in the Levant CBRL, and Anita H. Fábos, Clark University: Abject citizenship: when categories of displacement collide with categories of citizenship
Chair: Matthew Gibney, RSC, University of Oxford
The Limitations of ‘Self-Reliance’?
Evan Easton-Calabria, Humanitarian Innovation Project, University of Oxford: Rhetoric and reality: refugee self-reliance historically and today
Claudena Skran, Lawrence University, and David Duncombe, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh: Promoting entrepreneurship and self-reliance in post-conflict refugee reintegration schemes - UNHCR and Sierra Leone
Lewis Turner, SOAS, University of London: Self-reliance under encampment? The markets of Jordan’s Syrian refugee camps
Barbara Zeus, IMI, University of Oxford: Refugees between humanitarian and development assistance: what education for unknown futures? [not podcast]
Chair: Evan Easton-Calabria, Humanitarian Innovation Project, University of Oxford
Tommy Andersson, Lund University: Matching refugees in Swedish resettlement
Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: International matching and tradable quotas
Will Jones, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Alex Teytelboym, INET, University of Oxford: Redesigning resettlement in the UK and the USA
Chair: Will Jones, Royal Holloway, University of London
Welcoming Refugees as a Humanitarian Act and/or as a Political Moment?
Simon Turner, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen: ‘I’m not that kind of person’: post-humanitarian altruism in Denmark since 2015
Yasmine Bouagga, CNRS: The French refugee crisis and politics of dispersing
Cannelle Gueguen-Teil, RSC, University of Oxford: Encountering and countering hostility within the camp des Landes [not podcast]
Elisa Sandri, University of Sussex: Volunteer humanitarianism: volunteers and humanitarian aid in the Jungle Refugee Camp of Calais
Madeleine Trépanier, School for Advanced Studies in Social Science: British solidarities in Calais
Michel Agier, School for Advanced Studies in Social Science, Research Institute for Development: The returns of hospitality: a political mobilisation? [not podcast]
Chairs: Simon Turner, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, and Michel Agier, School for Advanced Studies in Social Science, Research Institute for Development
Endnote Address
Achim Steiner, Director, Oxford Martin School, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016)