Solidarity in Humanitarian Crisis
Date and time
Location
The School of Law and Social Justice Building, The University of Liverpool
Chatham Street
Liverpool
L69 7ZR
United Kingdom
Solidarity in Humanitarian Crisis hosted by the International Criminological Research Unit and Publics and Practices.
About this event
Solidarity in Humanitarian Crisis
Date: Tuesday May 17th, 2022
Time: 10:00am –5pm GMT
This hybrid event is free and open to the public. If you are able to, please consider giving a donation to our fundraiser for Asylum Link Merseyside and Africans in Ukraine Education Fund who are helping African students who have fled the invasion in Ukraine (more information below).
On February 24th 2022, the Russian army, sanctioned by Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine, causing atrocities, destruction and a humanitarian crisis reaching far beyond Eastern Europe. In the Global North, refugees from Ukraine were met with solidarity and widespread support. But the response to the crisis also exposes the limitations of governments, politicians and policy makers, and the unequal treatments of global refugees forced into mobility by war and poverty.
This public event aims to generate an open dialogue between NGOs, activists, academics and those bearing witness to humanitarian crisis around the globe. It looks at complexities of the politics of humanitarian crises, solidarity and ‘compassion’. How can we account for differing experiences of, and responses to, people’s suffering in war and conflict? How is the mobility of refugees out of war zones unequal and racialised? What can be done to fight border violence, unequal treatment, and to support refugees of war, conflict and poverty globally?
Co-organised by Publics & Practices and the International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU), both research clusters within the Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology, University of Liverpool, this event is the second in a series of events addressing the recent humanitarian crisis and its consequences. It follows the event “Fighting Disinformation in Ukraine: A multidisciplinary perspective”, which took place on April 8th 2022. With this series of events, we hope to encourage critical awareness of the complexities of, and responses to, war, conflict and humanitarian crisis.
Speakers and Timetable
10:00-10:15: Welcome and Introductions
10:15- 11:00: Keynote
“A 'proud history' of welcoming refugees: hostile 'compassion' and UK asylum policy”
Dr Ala Sirriyeh (University of Lancaster)
11:00- 11:15: Break
11:15-12:45: Asylum Policy Impacts and Experiences
“Afterlives of 'crisis' at the borders of Europe: The case of Samos, Greece”
Dr Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)
“Spectacles of Deterrence: Emerging Trends in UK Asylum Policy”
Dr Anne Nelyon (University of Liverpool)
“How the asylum system has changed over the years (or not changed) and what ALMs role is locally to combat this.”
Ewan Roberts (Centre Manager Asylum Link Merseyside)
12:45- 1:45: Lunch (not provided)
1:45- 15:15: The War in Ukraine: ‘Race’, Migration and Global Inequality
“What next for African students who fled Ukraine?”
Korrine Sky (Black Women 4 Black Lives, and Africans in Ukraine Education Fund)
“Africans in Ukraine, EU Embassies in Africa and Disinformation”
Ambrose Musiyiwa (poet and journalist)
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and emerging global food security crisis”
Oleg Nivievskyi, PhD (Kyiv School of Economics)
"Ukrainian migration crisis through the eyes of Ukrainians".
Hanna Vakhitova, PhD (Kyiv School of Economics)
15:15-15:30: Break
15:30- 16:45: Modern Slavery and Gendered Experiences of Migration
“The vulnerabilities of asylum seekers in relation to modern slavery.”
Sarah Page (Staffordshire University)
“How I became the ‘wrong’ kind of migrant”
Cosima Doerfell Hill (Citizen’s Advice Liverpool)
16:45- 17:00: Closing comments
Fundraiser:
If you want to donate to Asylum Link Merseyside, please use the following link:
If you want to donate to Africans in Ukraine Education Fund, please use the following link:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/korrine-sky
Location: This is a Hybrid event with two locations:
1. School of Law and Social Justice Building event space,
School of Law and Social Justice Building,
Chatham Street
L69 7ZR
2. Zoom (link available up on registration)
Please get in touch if you have any queries about the day to one of the following emails:
elham.amini@liverpool.ac.uk (Publics and Practices co-lead)
david.baker@liverpool.a.uk (ICRU co-lead)
kirsty.morrin@liverpool.ac.uk (Publics and Practices co-lead)
laura.naegler@liverpool.ac.uk (ICRU co-lead)
