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The Politics of Credibility in Refugee Reception: Final Project Workshop

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28 April 2023 - 28 April 2023

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Cosin's Hall, Palace Green

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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.

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 • 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 Impact
Chairs: 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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