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.

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.