Brexit and Migration - World on the Move
Event Information
Description
Join us for the first day of our Wold on the Move conference for an afternoon of discussion on ‘Brexit and Migration’
Free entry for University of Manchester students and staff.
For more information visit Migration Lab website: http://www.migrationlab.manchester.ac.uk/
Provisional programme
13.00 – 14.30 Keynotes
Don’t mourn: Organize and theorize dispossession: Thinking beyond Brexit, Trumpism and migration policy speak
Nina Glick-Schiller, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Migration and diversity in the Brexit vote and the post-Brexit landscape
Robert Ford, Professor of Politics and Government, University of Manchester
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14.30 – 16.00 Plenary Panel: Brexit and Belonging
‘Before Brexit, I intended to live in the UK forever’: Identity and belonging among Eastern European young people post-Brexit
Daniela Sime and Christina McMellon, University of Strathclyde, Naomi Tyrrell and Claire Kelly, University of Plymouth, Marta Moskal, University of Durham
Conviviality before and after Brexit: the case of Polish migrants in the UK
Alina Rzepnikowska, University of Manchester
Caring across borders: transnational families and the implications of Brexit
Majella Kilkey and Louise Ryan, University of Sheffield
Cities of Sanctuary? The ‘Muslim question’ and reformulations of imaginaries of belonging in the context of the Syrian ‘refugee crisis’ and the aftermath of Brexit in the UK
Madeline-Sophie Abbas, University of Manchester
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16.00 – 16.30 Coffee
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16.30 – 17.30 Plenary Discussion: Brexit and migration policy
Panellists: Fizza Qureshi (Migrants Rights Network), Estelle Worthington (Asylum Matters), Cristina Tagolo (3Million), Prof Corrine Squire (University of East London)
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17.30 – 18.00 Book launch
Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures: Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe
Yaron Matras and Daniele Viktor Leggio (Eds.) University of Manchester
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18.00 – 19.00 Drinks reception opened by Prof Fagan