Agenda

Our new Focus Area provides a platform for researchers and stakeholders in the wider society working on migration and related societal transformations. Facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations, and strengthening existing ties between researchers and stakeholders in the field, allows us to push the boundaries of existing research by further improving our understandings of the multi-faceted and interconnected issues concerning migration and societal change.

Programme:

15.00 Opening by Prof. dr. Henk Kummeling, Rector Magnificus Utrecht University
15.15 Keynote lecture 'Migration and settlement in an age of crises' by Professor Nando Sigona (Director of IRiS: Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham)
16.15 Panel discussion with Professor Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor Ajay Bailey, Professor Paul Minderhoud and Jan Braat (municipality of Utrecht)
17.00 Drinks

Don't forget to register at migration@uu.nl

Kerken uit Zeist, Baarn en Culemborg gaan door met het organiseren van de maandelijkse wake op iedere eerste zondag van de maand, een teken aan de politiek dat het vreemdelingenbeleid anders moet. De wake is voor ALLEN  die zonder strafblad eindeloos vastzitten.

Locatie: het hek van het Detentiecentrum, Richelleweg 13, Soesterberg

Raden van kerken Zeist en Soest/Soesterberg
Informatie: 06 29025008 / 06-38795678; www.wakezeist.nl

Groepjes van Europeanen lopen samen met vluchtelingen de zware route over de Balkan van Griekenland naar Italië, door Macedonië, Servië, Bosnië, Kroatië en Slovenië. Zij doen dagelijks verslag via live video. Daarnaast worden er in heel Europa evenementen georganiseerd en kan men ook vanuit huis meedoen. Mede-initiatiefnemers zijn de mensen achter de Civil March For Aleppo, zij trokken in 2016 al eens over de Balkan in omgekeerde richting. Hun vredesmars van Berlijn naar de grens van Syrië werd genomineerd voor de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede.

Zie: https://wegaanzehalen.nl/

Algemeen Overleg Achterlating Minderjarigen in het Buitenland. Agenda:

1. Antwoorden op vragen commissie over achterlating van minderjarigen in het buitenland (kst 32175-68, 1.7.19)
2. Achterlating van minderjarigen in het buitenland (kst 32175-67, 22.5.19)

European premiere of the play The Suppliants in the open air theatre in Vondelpark. The Suppliants tells the timeless story of fifty female refugees seeking asylum from forced marriage and domestic violence, based on a Greek tragedy by Aeschylus.

https://debalie.nl/agenda/opening-performance-the-suppliants/

The Summer School has been designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the immigration and asylum policy of the EU from a legal perspective. The programme is organised by the Odysseus Academic Network under the umbrella of the Institute for European Studies of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Participants in the Summer School typically include PhD and graduate students, researchers, EU and Member State officials, representatives of NGOs and International Organisations, lawyers, judges, social workers and more.

In addition to the classes, evening debates and visits to the European Institutions, the course provides an excellent opportunity to spend an intellectually stimulating fortnight and to network among a group of around one hundred fellow participants coming from all over Europe. The setting of the summer school in Brussels, capital of the European Union, creates a unique environment that facilitates participants' deeper engagement with EU institutions and networking between participants.

https://odysseus-network.eu/2020-summer-school/

The SOGICA project aims to produce the necessary evidence base for a more just and humane asylum process for individuals seeking refuge in Europe on the basis of their SOGI.

To this end, since 2016, the project has studied the social and legal experiences of SOGI asylum claimants across Europe, by exploring the European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) frameworks and by focusing on Germany, Italy and the UK as case studies. During this time, SOGICA has carried out more than 150 interviews and focus group discussions with asylum claimants, refugees, decision-makers, practitioners, and experts in the field, and has conducted observations of hearings of SOGI claimants in courts and tribunals. The team has produced a number of publications on different aspects of SOGI asylum (such as credibility, persecution, discretion, domestic and European adjudication of these claims) and made presentations at conferences and seminars across Europe. A database of materials, website of resources and network of more than 1,000 friends and allies beyond academia has been established. The SOGICA project will conclude in 2020 with the publication of a monograph and further peer-reviewed articles, all of which are intended to inform fairer SOGI asylum processes in Europe and greater sensitivity and humanity for SOGI minorities outside the legal process.

Registration deadline is 30 April 2020.
Conference registration is free. However, we are keen to provide bursaries to enable some project participants – asylum claimants, refugees and activists – to take part. We are therefore creating a bursary fund.

http://www.sogica.org/en/final-conference/

This panel interrogates how migrants without settled legal status in the Global South and North use the law to demand political, economic, social and cultural rights. It brings together research on migrants' navigation of bureaucratic landscapes as well as ethnographic work on state bureaucracies.

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8815