28 April 2023 - 28 April 2023
10:00AM - 4:00PM
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green
Free
The workshop focuses on the politics of credibility in asylum procedures and the processes and structures that develop around them. Looked at in the current moment of juncture in the legal safeguards to protection, the workshop discusses political landscapes of reception, and particularly the processes of political mobilization and the discourses around asylum and recognition that they animate.
Border control
• How has the onslaught on asylum been developing and how is the current moment to be understood?
• Are notions of deservingness and credibility still relevant in political discourses and their critical assessment?
• How can we analyse anew the boundaries between the legal and political processes of asylum assessment and political mobilization?
• What are the possibilities for ethical and activist research on these themes, and to what extent are (or should) the two (be) connected?
Workshop Agenda: 9:30 – 10:00 Coffee and Introductions
10:00 – 11:30 Session I - Refugee Reception and Asylum: A Crisis?
Chairs: Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Anthropology / DGSi, Durham), Olga Demetriou (SGIA / DGSi, Durham) and Lauren Martin (Geography, Durham)
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee
12:00 – 1:30 Session II - Credibility and Asylum in the Longue Duree Chairs: Liza Schuster (City University, London) and Efi Voutira (University of Macedonia, Greece)
1:30 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:30 Session III - Action and Activism – Locating Research and its ImpactChairs: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmith’s, London) and Aila Spathopoulou (Durham, Geography)
The workshop is supported by the Institute of Advanced Study as part of The Politics of Credibility project, the Durham Global Security Institute, and the MEDRECEPTIONS project (Cyprus Research Foundation)
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