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Conference 2008
Children and Migration: Identities, mobilities and belonging(s)
9-11th April 2008
Venue: University College Cork, Ireland
To register for this conference please click here.
Please note it will NOT be possible to refund registration fees to delegates who withdraw after March 14th.
A preliminary conference programme is available here.
A detailed draft conference timetable including papers and speakers is available here.
A major international conference to be held in UCC in April 2008
Please note that the call for papers is now closed.
Please note that the final date for registration is 29/02/2008.
While a wealth of research exists in the broad area of migration and childhood from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds, there are few opportunities to bring this together in an integrated forum. This conference aims to provide such a forum by focusing on the intersection of these research and policy areas, focusing on children’s own experiences and perspectives of migration, diaspora and transnationalism. One of the aims of the event is to facilitate a dialogue between academic, practitioner and policy-maker perspectives. It is hoped the conference will also be an opportunity to bring together related but distinct areas of research/policy, for example national dynamics of integration with transnational processes, and, children’s experiences of migration with the experiences of children and youth in ethnic minorities.
Keynote speakers:
Katy Gardner (University of Sussex, UK):
Diasporic childhood: transglobal children in east London
Jill Rutter (Institute for Public Policy Research, UK)
Changing patterns of child international migration in Europe: challenges for research, public policy and practice
Over 80 papers will be presented over the course of three days by researchers from over 20 countries across the globe and a wide variety of disciplines.
Papers will explore different aspects of children’s migrations, transnational childhoods, diasporic childhood/youth, including internal and international migration, refugee childhoods, family migration, nomadic lifestyles, and return migration, from a variety of perspectives including for example participatory methodologies with children and families, and analysis of policy, practice and legal frameworks.
The conference is being hosted by the Marie Curie Migrant Children research team, Department of Geography, UCC, and is funded by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant.
