CONFERENCE 2015, 13-14 NOVEMBER
PROGRAMME and SCHEDULE available to download
The Birkbeck Law Review's 2015 conference, ‘Migration, Borders & Violence: A Critical Encounter with Theory, Law, and Policy', was held over two days on Friday 13 November and Saturday 14 November 2015.
As detailed below, the conference included papers and presentations from a variety of world-class academics, lawyers, research students and representatives from leading civil society groups, organised into specialised panels and keynote speeches. The panels and talks aimed to address the conference topic from critical, legal philosophical perspectives.
It was sponsored by:
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Keynote speakers
Michael Garcia Bochenek, Attorney
Senior Counsel on Children’s Rights, Human Rights Watch.
Michael is senior counsel to the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, focusing on juvenile justice and refugee and migrant children. He has researched and reported on criminal and juvenile justice systems and prison conditions, the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, the exploitation of migrant workers and other labour rights issues, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, and rights violations in armed conflict, including the use of children as soldiers. From December 2006 to February 2015, he was director of policy and then director of law and policy for Amnesty International’s secretariat in London, where he oversaw their strategic litigation, among other responsibilities. Earlier, he worked as counsel, senior researcher, and then deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Children’s Rights Division in New York, directed a non-profit immigration legal services office in Washington State’s Yakima Valley, and was the Leonard Sandler Fellow with Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and received his JD from the Columbia University School of Law.
Senior Counsel on Children’s Rights, Human Rights Watch.
Michael is senior counsel to the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, focusing on juvenile justice and refugee and migrant children. He has researched and reported on criminal and juvenile justice systems and prison conditions, the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, the exploitation of migrant workers and other labour rights issues, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, and rights violations in armed conflict, including the use of children as soldiers. From December 2006 to February 2015, he was director of policy and then director of law and policy for Amnesty International’s secretariat in London, where he oversaw their strategic litigation, among other responsibilities. Earlier, he worked as counsel, senior researcher, and then deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Children’s Rights Division in New York, directed a non-profit immigration legal services office in Washington State’s Yakima Valley, and was the Leonard Sandler Fellow with Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and received his JD from the Columbia University School of Law.
Dr Sonia Morano-Foadi
Reader in Law, School of Law, Oxford Brookes University
Research Associate at the International Migration Institute, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Dr Morano-Foadi’s research combines empirical findings with theoretical and doctrinal investigations on European citizenship, governance and internal migration within the EU with a main focus on the relationship between migration within the EU and European citizenship. Her work takes a socio-legal, cross-national approach combining detailed legal analysis with in-depth empirical work in a range of European Union counties. She has published extensively, and two of her recent books are (with Micaela Malena) Integration for Third Country Nationals: The Equality Challenge (Edward Elgar Publishing 2012), and (with Lucy Vickers)Fundamental Rights in Europe – A Matter for Two Courts (Hart Publishing 2015).
Her research interests include European Union Law, Free Movement of Persons and European Union Citizenship, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Migration Law, Citizenship and Integration, Governance in the EU and Equality Law.
Reader in Law, School of Law, Oxford Brookes University
Research Associate at the International Migration Institute, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Dr Morano-Foadi’s research combines empirical findings with theoretical and doctrinal investigations on European citizenship, governance and internal migration within the EU with a main focus on the relationship between migration within the EU and European citizenship. Her work takes a socio-legal, cross-national approach combining detailed legal analysis with in-depth empirical work in a range of European Union counties. She has published extensively, and two of her recent books are (with Micaela Malena) Integration for Third Country Nationals: The Equality Challenge (Edward Elgar Publishing 2012), and (with Lucy Vickers)Fundamental Rights in Europe – A Matter for Two Courts (Hart Publishing 2015).
Her research interests include European Union Law, Free Movement of Persons and European Union Citizenship, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Migration Law, Citizenship and Integration, Governance in the EU and Equality Law.
Nicholas De Genova
Reader in Urban Geography and Director of the Spatial Politics research group, King’s College London
Nicholas De Genova is Reader in Urban Geography and Director of the Spatial Politics research group at King’s College London. He has previously held teaching appointments at Stanford, Columbia, and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as visiting professorships or research positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Bern, Chicago, and Warwick. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2006), and co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (2010). He is currently writing two new books — one on The Migrant Metropolis and another on The “European” Question: Migration, Race and Postcoloniality — and also editing a new book on The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering.
Reader in Urban Geography and Director of the Spatial Politics research group, King’s College London
Nicholas De Genova is Reader in Urban Geography and Director of the Spatial Politics research group at King’s College London. He has previously held teaching appointments at Stanford, Columbia, and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as visiting professorships or research positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Bern, Chicago, and Warwick. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2006), and co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (2010). He is currently writing two new books — one on The Migrant Metropolis and another on The “European” Question: Migration, Race and Postcoloniality — and also editing a new book on The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering.
Jean-Pierre Gauci
Research Fellow, British Institute for International and Comparative Law
Director, The People for Change Foundation
Jean-Pierre is a Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He is also a founder and director of The People for Change Foundation. He consults to a number of national and international governmental and non-governmental organisations. He lectures in international migration and refugee law at the University of Malta and King’s College London. Between 2004 and 2007 Jean-Pierre was the national coordinator of Amnesty International Malta.
Jean-Pierre holds a PhD in Law from King's College London where his research focused on trafficking-based asylum claims. He also holds a Doctor of Laws (LLD) and a Magister Juris in international law from the University of Malta. Jean-Pierre has extensive experience of research and various human rights related issues on both the national and European level, including coordination of research teams. His main areas of expertise include: migration and asylum, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and anti-discrimination with a focus on discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity. Over the last 5 years he has written reports and analysis regarding: integration, vulnerability, hate speech and hate crime, access to international protection, migrant and asylum seeker reception, detention, human trafficking, migrant smuggling and fundamental rights.
He has co-edited Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law: Current Protection Challenges (Brill 2015) and Towards a Liberal Tide? Migration and Asylum Policies in Latin America (ILAS 2015). He has also authored a number of journal articles and books chapters on related issues. He presents regularly at academic and policy conferences and has given keynote addresses at the OSCE, European Parliament and the Fundamental Rights Agency. He has also been a member of the European Integration Forum / European Migration Forum since its inception.
Research Fellow, British Institute for International and Comparative Law
Director, The People for Change Foundation
Jean-Pierre is a Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He is also a founder and director of The People for Change Foundation. He consults to a number of national and international governmental and non-governmental organisations. He lectures in international migration and refugee law at the University of Malta and King’s College London. Between 2004 and 2007 Jean-Pierre was the national coordinator of Amnesty International Malta.
Jean-Pierre holds a PhD in Law from King's College London where his research focused on trafficking-based asylum claims. He also holds a Doctor of Laws (LLD) and a Magister Juris in international law from the University of Malta. Jean-Pierre has extensive experience of research and various human rights related issues on both the national and European level, including coordination of research teams. His main areas of expertise include: migration and asylum, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and anti-discrimination with a focus on discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity. Over the last 5 years he has written reports and analysis regarding: integration, vulnerability, hate speech and hate crime, access to international protection, migrant and asylum seeker reception, detention, human trafficking, migrant smuggling and fundamental rights.
He has co-edited Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law: Current Protection Challenges (Brill 2015) and Towards a Liberal Tide? Migration and Asylum Policies in Latin America (ILAS 2015). He has also authored a number of journal articles and books chapters on related issues. He presents regularly at academic and policy conferences and has given keynote addresses at the OSCE, European Parliament and the Fundamental Rights Agency. He has also been a member of the European Integration Forum / European Migration Forum since its inception.
Robin Reineke
Executive Director, Colibri Center for Human Rights
Robin Reineke is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Colibri Center for Human Rights (www.colibricenter.org), a family advocacy organisation working to end death and suffering on the US-Mexico border by partnering with families of the dead and the missing. From Seattle, Washington, Reineke received a BA from Bryn Mawr College, and an MA from the University of Arizona, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Anthropology. Her work has been featured in the BBC, the New York Times, TIME Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Nation, and the documentary film, Who Is Dayani Cristal? Reineke is a recipient of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award is an Echoing Green Global Fellow.
Executive Director, Colibri Center for Human Rights
Robin Reineke is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Colibri Center for Human Rights (www.colibricenter.org), a family advocacy organisation working to end death and suffering on the US-Mexico border by partnering with families of the dead and the missing. From Seattle, Washington, Reineke received a BA from Bryn Mawr College, and an MA from the University of Arizona, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Anthropology. Her work has been featured in the BBC, the New York Times, TIME Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Nation, and the documentary film, Who Is Dayani Cristal? Reineke is a recipient of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award is an Echoing Green Global Fellow.
Dr Ruben Andersson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LSE
Associated Researcher, Stockholm University
Ruben Andersson is an anthropologist and an AXA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, and an associated researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. His book Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe is published by the University of California Press.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LSE
Associated Researcher, Stockholm University
Ruben Andersson is an anthropologist and an AXA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, and an associated researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. His book Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe is published by the University of California Press.