LSA 2018 (TORONTO): CRN 11 PRESENTATIONS AND BUSINESS MEETING

Massive thank you to all who presented and attended CRN11 Sessions and the Business Meeting. We received glowing reviews especially regarding Saša Rajšić’s ground-breaking visual art –To Un-Become– displaying his journey from his family’s first refugee house in Serbia to their former home in Croatia.

CALL FOR CRN 11 VOLUNTEERS

CRN 11 is recruiting volunteers for the following position:

• Research and Development Committee:
• Newsletter Coordinator
• Guest Editor for the LSA-CRN11/Journal of Internal Displacement Special Issue

For more information, email: veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

JOIN CRN 11 RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Send an expression of interest to fynnbruv@seattleu.edu including the following:

• biographical sketch (250 words maximum)
• affiliation
• research interests
• list of recent publications
• a headshot (optional), and
• a link to your website

As a CRN 11 Research Collaborator, you will have the opportunity to share your draft research papers, chapters or manuscripts with colleagues in order to receive constructive feedback and collaborate on research and publication projects.

BOOKS, REPORTS AND ARTICLES

• Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debateby Alice Bloch and Giorgia Dona (2019).
• A post-colonial legal approach to the Chagos case and the (dis)application of land rights normsby Kinnari Bhatt (2018).
• Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility, eds. Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh, & Annamari Vitikainen (2018).
• Migration in an Era of Restriction and Recession: Sending and Receiving Nations in a Changing Global Environment, eds. David L Leal & Nestor P Rodriguez (2018).
• From forced migration to forced arrival: the campization of refugee accommodation in European cities, by René Kreichauf (Mar. 2018).
• Migrants, Borders and the Criminalisation of Solidarity in the EU, by Liz Fekete, 59 Institute of Race Relations, 65 (Feb. 2018).
• Transient: A Descriptive Concept for Understanding Africans in Guangzhou, by Dong Niu, 17 African Studies Quarterly, 85 (Feb. 2018)
• Community Dimensions of Smuggling: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia, by Nassim Majidi, 676 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 97 (Mar. 2018).
• Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion Conference Reportby Liam Patuzzi and Alexandra Embiricos (May 2018).

UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

• Europe, Migrations and the Mediterranean: Human Mobilities and Intercultural Challenges, IMISCOE 15^thAnnual Conference, 2-4 July 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
•  2018 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, July 2-13 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
• 11^thInternational Conference on Migration and Development, Stanford Center of Global Poverty and Development, 5-6 July 2018, California, USA.
• 2^ndInternational Conference on Migration and Mobilities, 12-13 July 2018, University of Plymouth, Devon, UK.
• ICRFMC 2018: 20th International Conference on Refugee and Forced Migration Crisis, 12-13 July 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Refugee Protection in a Hostile World, RLI 3^rdAnnual Conference, 18-19 July 2018, University of London, London, England.
•  ‘Revitalising the IDP Field’: 20 Years of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Special Workshop, 20 July 2018, University of London, London, England.
• Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large, IASFM 17^thConference, 24-27 July 2018, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• The 13^thAnnual Limina Conference on Home: Belonging and Displacement, 26-27 July 2018, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
•  IZA Annual Migration Meeting, 9-10 August 2018, Cambridge, USA.
•  Southern Perspectives on Migration:  Addressing Knowledge Production, Policies, and Cooperation, International Migration Conference 2018, 5-7 September 2018, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
• Design History Society 2018: Design and Displacement, Parsons School of Design, 6 September 2018, New York, USA.
• Needs and Care Practices for Refugees and Migrants, 1st Annual CESSMIR Conference, 17-19 September 2018, Ghent, Belgium.
• International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugees and Forced Immigration, 12-13 October 2018, Istanbul, Turkey.

NEWS

City Council repeals head tax: The Seattle City Council voted 7 to 2 Tuesday to repeal a tax to fund homelessness services and affordable housing that council members passed unanimously less than a month before. Councilmembers Lorena Gonzalez, Lisa Herbold and Mike O’Brien expressed regret over the vote, but said that the opposition, funded by the very businesses that they intended to tax, had waged a campaign against the measure so effective that is could not be overcome by the public vote in November.

Indigenous resistance, title make Trans Mountain pipeline extension ‘untenable,’ says economist: The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is a high-risk investment for Canada and any future financial backers because it runs through unceded Indigenous lands, says one economist. D.T. Cochrane, an economic researcher with the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade. He says the Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan’s April decision to suspend non-essential spending and the federal government’s subsequent nationalization of the controversial project are either ignorant to, or minimize, legal and financial risks that make the project “completely untenable.”

Without US leadership, what is the future for refugees and migrants?: The U.S. is slated to admit the lowest number of refugees in the upcoming year since the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980. Talks are ongoing for two proposed international agreements: “Global Compact on Refugees” and “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.”

AG Provides Guidance for Crime-Based Asylum Claims: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision in Matter of A-B-which provides restrictive bright-line rules for immigration judges, asylum officers, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to follow in adjudicating asylum claims based upon criminal harm (in this case, domestic violence) inflicted or threatened by non-government actors such as a domestic partner. For an in-depth analysis on footnote 12 see The Safe Third-Country Sleeper.

The Sessions Asylum Decision: What Are Its Implications?: Interview with Dree Collopy, a partner at Benach Collopy LLP. Dree serves as chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (AILA) National Asylum and Refugee Liaison Committee and is the author of Asylum Primer.

Brazil Public Defender’s Office Train Attorneys on Migration Law: IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and Brazil’s Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU, in Portuguese) held a training on migration law for 31 DPU attorneys from ten Brazilian states.

German Migration Policy Feuding: Horst Seehofer has threatened to go it alone if a compromise with Merkel’s CDU cannot be achieved soon. Seehofer insists on stricter border checks, while Merkel is focused on a long-term EU-wide strategy.

Pope Francis Calls for Protection: Pope Francis said migrants are not numbers, but persons with feelings who need ongoing protection, adding that “particular concern must be shown for migrant children and their families.”

Hungary: Bill Makes Aiding Migrants a Crime: A revised draft bill published by the Hungarian government on May 29, 2018, would criminalize efforts to help migrants and asylum seekers and curb their access to protection.

Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP and Deloitte UK to Form Alliance to Deliver World’s First Global Immigration Service: Berry Appleman & Leiden (BAL) LLP, one of the world’s largest immigration law firms, today announced a strategic alliance with Deloitte UK. The alliance represents an industry-first, combining Deloitte’s scale, expertise and breadth outside of the U.S. with BAL’s legal expertise and immigration services in the U.S.

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