Questioning Crisis: Forced Migration in Theory and Practice
2017 Annual Conference of the Institute for the Study of International Development 㽶Ƶ
15-16 March 2017, Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish
PROGRAM
Wednesday, 15 March
3:00-3:30 | Arrival, registration |
3:30-3:45 |
Welcome, introduction of conference theme Professor Sonia Laszlo, Director, ISID |
3:45-5:45 |
Keynote Address Chair: Catherine Lu, Associate Director, ISID “Governing migration under the Global Compacts: Towards an agenda for facilitating mobility” “Responding to the global refugee crisis: UNHCR perspectives” |
5:45-7:00 | Reception |
Thursday, 16 March
8:30-9:00 |
Arrival, registration |
9:00-9:15 |
Welcome, recap, plan for the day |
9:15-11:00 |
Panel 1: “Crisis” in context: Rethinking responsibility for forced migration crises Chair: Eric Hirsch, Global Governance Postdoctoral Fellow, ISID Re-Theorizing the Ethics of Forced Migration Beyond the State Reading Crisis: Race and the Politics of Deportation in 1960s Australia |
11:00-11:15 |
Coffee Break |
11:15-11:45 |
Address by Serge Cormier, MP and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship |
11:45-1:50 |
Panel 2: Perspectives on Syria Chair: Francesco Amodio, ISID and Department of Economics, McGill Host state policy, socio-economic class, and initial settlement patterns among Syrian refugees in Germany and Turkey The Refugee Surge in Europe |
1:00-2:00 |
Break |
2:00-3:45 |
Panel 3: Crisis spaces: From black holes to the built environment Chair: Diana Allan Maritime Legal Black Holes: Migration and Extra-Legality The Architecture of “Crisis”: Housing Refugees in Germany and Turkey |
3:45-4:00 |
Coffee Break |
4:00-5:00 |
Roundtable and open discussion: Implications for research, policy and practice Chair: Sonia Laszlo |