Friday, 12 December 2014, 9:30–16:00

University of Osnabrück, Zimeliensaal (Central Library)

09:30 Registration & Poster Exhibition

10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Marisa Raditsch and Helen Schwenken

10:15 Panel I: Threatened Existences

Chairs: Lala Gadirova and Nodira Kholmatova

 Demonstrating against the ‚Other'. Anti-Muslim protests in Europe

Emma Eggink, Lala Gadirova and Hanne Schneider
 Repatriation at any cost? Afghan refugees in Pakistan
Khawja Akram Sidiqi, Sidra Khan and Darya Momand
 Eritrean and Sudanese Refugees in Israel
Judith Bucher and Franziska Wronka
 The other American dream: Deportation politics in the United States
Lucia Bonilla Lara, Mauricio Olivares, Radu Triculescu and Marlene Trost
 Importing precarity: Migrant workers on palm oil plantations in Malaysia
Tatat Tatat
 Only the tip of the iceberg: Debating (migrant) sex work in Germany
Consuelo Flores, Hannah Goebel and Stefanie Hamm

11:45 Tea & Coffee Break

12:00 Keynote Lecture: Dr Silja Klepp (University of Bremen)

Maritime border conflicts. A legal anthropological perspective
Moderated by Radu Triculescu

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Panel II: Border Conflicts

Chairs: Tatat Tatat and Souvik Lal Chakraborty

 A tale of two borders: North Korea-China and Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan

Armen Grigoryan, Nodira Kholmatova, Marisa Raditsch and Tahnee Reed
 Kobanê: conflict and cross-border mobility on Turkish-Syrian border
Pelin Çakır and Shannon Lemay
 The migration dimension of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Andargarchew Birara and Nuamah Ofori
 India-Bangladesh: Why migration is a conflictive issue
Souvik Lal Chakraborty
 Frontex: Merciless border guard or necessary protector?
Antonia Aulbert, Kristina Klimke, Ousseini Ouedraogo, Muhammad Usman

15:15 Refugee struggles in Germany – Turgay Ulu (Berlin)

Moderated by Pelin Çakır, Hannah Goebel & Lucia Bonilla Lara

16:00 Closing of the conference – Emma Eggink

Photos: HSchwenken

International Graduate Student Conference Organizers

The students of the seminar “Migration Regimes and Social Conflict”
Institute for Migration Research and and the Chair “Migration and Society”, Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken
Intercultural Studies (IMIS) Contact: soz-imis@uni-osnabrueck.de

Venue: University of Osnabrück

Zimeliensaal in the Universitätsbibliothek (Central
Library), 1st floor, Alte Münze 16

Admission: free; no prior registration necessary