A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (subject to minor amendments and allocation of panel chairs)

Friday, 28th March 11:00 – 13:00

Registration Main Reception, Malet Street Main Building, Birkbeck College

13:00 – 14:30

Parallel Sessions I Panel I.1 Exploring irregularity’s puzzles Puzzles of Irregularity Stream, Session 1 Diego Acosta Arcarazo (University of Bristol School of Law) Turning the migration policy paradox up-side down on irregular migration: The discursive gap in South American immigration policy-making Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London) Flirting With Arbitrariness: The Changing Nature of ‘Effectiveness’ in the Field of Migration Control - The case of the Returns Directive Bernard Ryan (University of Leicester) Irregular Migrants: Legal Puzzles

Panel I.2 The Limits of Exclusion: controlling movement of labourers and questions of social integration Critical Perspectives on Labour Migration Stream, Session1 Chair: Anastasia Tataryn (Birkbeck College School of Law) Ana Beduschi (University of Exeter, Law School) An Empty Shell? Critical Reflection on the Social Integration of Third-Country Workers in the EU after the Single Permit Directive Laura Calafà (University of Verona) The Social Borders of the European Union’s Immigration Policy Paola Pasquali (Birkbeck College School of Law) Problematising European Labour Migration Through China’s Administrative Borders

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

Panel I.3 Immigration Adjudication Sarah Craig (University of Glasgow) Access to justice in immigration and asylum adjudication: a view from Scotland Jill Family (Widener University School of Law) Sovereignty and Immigration Adjudication Rowena Moffatt (Oxford University/ Lamb Building) Just desserts? The effect of former violations of the law on procedural protection in migration law Sheona York (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent) Richard Warren (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent) How children became failed asylum seekers

14:30 – 15:00

Tea and Coffee

15:00 – 16:30

Parallel Session II Panel II.1 Irregularity and migration control Puzzles of Irregularity Stream, Session 2 Maybritt Jill Alpes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Irregular migration at the airport: leaving and entering one’s country Yewa Holiday (Queen Mary University of London) The Drowned and the Saved: considering prosecution and persecution in the light of section 31(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Anita Hurrell (University of Essex) The logic of immigration control and the rights of children

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

Panel II.2 Sanctions, Penalties, Permits: Employers and Irregular or Undocumented Migrant Workers Critical Perspectives on Labour Migration Stream, Session 2 Chair: Serena Natile (Kent Law School) Ayşe Akalin (Istanbul Technical University) Paying Premiums as Ransom: The Regularisation of Domestic Workers in Turkey Leena Kumarappan (Working Lives Research Institute, London Met University) Workplace immigration enforcement raids: an analysis of impacts through personal narratives of workers and employers Veronica Pavlou (European University Institute) Undocumented migrant workers and the doctrine of illegality

Panel II.3 Judicial and quasi-judicial spaces: Challenging immigration decisions Part 1 Judicial and Quasi-judicial Spaces Stream, Session 1 Chair: Melanie Griffiths (University of Bristol) Robert Gibb (University of Glasgow) Language, Power and Decision-Making in the French National Asylum Court Nicolas Fischer (CESDIP-CNRS/ University of Versailles-St Quentin) Minors between protection and repression. The judicial management of “Isolated foreign minors” in French immigration courts

16:45 – 18:15

Keynote Plenary Marie-Bénédicte Dembour (University of Brighton)

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

Saturday, 29th March 10:00 – 11:30

Parallel Session III Panel III.1 The social rights of migrants without status Puzzles of Irregularity Stream, Session 3

Maria Teresa Rovitto (University of Urbino) Immigrants’ right to housing in the Italian legal order Lieneke Slingenberg (VU University Amsterdam) What basis for migrants’ social rights? Liam Thornton (University College Dublin) Judging Socio-Economic Rights for Asylum Seekers

Panel III.2 Judicial and quasi-judicial spaces: Challenging immigration decisions Part 2

Judicial and Quasi-judicial Spaces Stream, Session 2 Chair: Ines Hasselberg (University of Oxford) Anthony Good (University of Edinburgh) Role confusion in the asylum courts: some instantaneous ethical dilemmas Alison Harvey (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) The Immigration Bill and challenging immigration decisions Nick Gill (Department of Geography, University of Exeter) Melanie Griffiths (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol) From outcomes to processes: differences in procedure, behaviour and timing of asylum appeals between Tribunal hearing centres

Panel III.3 Critical Migration Studies Part 1 Critical Migration Studies Stream, Session 1 Anne Neylon (University College Cork, Centre for Human Rights and Criminal Justice) Ensuring precariousness: the status of Designated Foreign National under Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act 2012

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Faculty of Law) How the migration policies wreck the European values. The lessons of Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as another”. Juan Amaya-Castro (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Bringing Emigration Policies into the Global Migration Picture

Panel III.4 Migrants and Precarious Employment: The Legal Production of Precarious Labour Critical Perspectives on Labour Migration, Session 3 Chair: Serena Natile (Kent Law School) Anastasia Tataryn (Birkbeck College School of Law) Regular Irregularities: precarious labour and the idea of the migrant Mimi Zou (St. John’s College, University of Oxford) Legal Construction of Migrant Work Relations: Hyper-dependence and Hyper-precarity under Temporary Labour Migration Programmes

11:30 – 11:45

Tea and Coffee

11:45 – 13:15

Parallel Session IV Panel IV.1 All at sea? Irregular migration and the Mediterranean region Puzzles of Irregularity Stream, Session 4 Dalia Malek (King’s College London School of Law) Exhausting Local Remedies in Accordance with the African Charter in a Host Country: The Case of Detained Refugees in Egypt Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths College) Rescuing and controlling migrants at sea. Quarrels and strategies between the EU and Southern member states in the new politics of security in the Mediterranean Valentina Zagaria (Independent Researcher) Dealing with the dead in Lampedusa

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

Panel IV.2 The Body of the Refugee Claim: Bodies and Nation The Body of the Refugee Claim, Session 1 Chair: Eddie Bruce-Jones (Birkbeck College School of Law) Lucille Abassade (Université du Havre) Female Genital Mutilation and the Asylum Claim in France: What Rights, What Legal Protection? Paraskevi Boukli (Birkbeck College School of Law) Wars on Trafficking: necropolitics on the Greek-Turkish borders Maria Benedita Queiroz (European University Institute) Suspicion or Surveillance? EU Immigration Databases Shaping Migrants' Illegality

Panel IV.3 Critical Migration Studies Part 2 Critical Migration Studies Stream, Session 2 Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck College School of Law) The Perils of Differentiated Integration in the Field of Asylum Diego Acosta Arcarazo (University of Bristol School of Law) Jacopo Martire (Stirling Law School) Trapped in the Lobby: Europe’s Revolving Door and the Other as Xenos Simon Behrman (University of East Anglia) The Genesis of Refugee Law: 1789-1951

13:15 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Parallel Session V Panel V.1 Protection of Family Life Helena Wray (Middlesex University School of Law)

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

The ‘pure’ marriage: sham and forced marriages and immigration control Encarnación La Spina (Human Rights Institute, University of Valencia) “To be, or not to be” good families under the European family reunification rules

Panel V.2 The Body of the Refugee Claim: Body Politics The Body of the Refugee Claim, Session 2 Chair: Eddie Bruce-Jones (Birkbeck College School of Law) Andreas Dimopoulos (Brunel University School of Law) The Disabled Body in Refugee Law Dallal Stevens (University of Warwick School of Law) Depersonalisation and 'the body' in asylum law Keina Yoshida (London School of Economics and Political Science) Critical and Practical Perspectives on LGBT Asylum

Panel V.3 Space, Movement, Control: The Case of the Greek Detention Centres and Practices Critical Migration Studies Stream, Session 3 Roundtable Ross Adams (Consortium & Bartlett School of Architecture) Platon Issaias (Bartlett School of Architecture) Christos Pallas (Department of Government, University of Essex) Thanos Zartaloudis (Birkbeck College School of Law)

16:15 – 5:30

Closing Plenary Interdisciplinary Roundtable

******* For queries about the 2014 Migration and Law Conference, please contact Eddie Bruce-Jones ([email protected]), Nadine El-Enany ([email protected]) or Bernard Ryan ([email protected]).

A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law Migration and Law Network 2014 Conference: March 28th & 29th In association with Birkbeck College School of Law

The Migration and Law Network The Migration and Law Network was set up in 2007 to promote migration law as a subject within United Kingdom universities. It is overseen by a steering committee of academics and other professionals in the immigration law field. It runs the Migration and Law mailing list for those who work in the field, for which subscription requests may be made at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/migrationlaw. Further information about the network or mailing list may be obtained from the network’s co-chairs, Bernard Ryan ([email protected]) and Prakash Shah ([email protected]).