Garden Party & Book Launch - Migration and Refugees Network

The Migration and Refugee Network Summer Garden Party & Book Launch event convenes on Thursday 15th June 2023.

You will see we have some fascinating speakers from local migrant/refugee organisations including Migrant Help, Asylum Welcome, Oxford City Council as well as the launch of books by MRN members; Alice Gerlach, Zoe Jordan and Michal Palacz. We also have a research talk on UK Borderscapes by Dr Karen Hough. 

Programme

12:00 Welcome + Lunch

12.45 Book Launch

• Zoe Jordan, From Education to Employment? Young people's trajectories in protracted crisis
• Michal Palacz and Bastiaan Willems (UCL), (ed.) A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars
• Alice Gerlach, Dignity, women, and immigration detention

14.00 Tea/Coffee Break

14.10 Current Research

• Karen Hough and Tamsin Barber: UK borderscapes. Sites of enforcement and resistance

14.45 Tea/Coffee Break

14.55 Practitioners Session

• Stephen Cohen and Will Side, Oxford City Council
• Mark Goldring, Asylum Welcome

16.05  Aperitifs + nibbles

16.05 Gemma Humphreys, Migrant Help

All welcome.