DAMR FALL 2016 meeting: Urban refugees: migration and the city
Participation in the DAMR fall event is free of charge. Please register by sending an email to L.E.Berntsen@uvt.nl
(Preliminary Program)
18 November 2016, Tilburg University
10.45-11.00 Registration
11.00-11.45 Welcome and introduction
Keynote Lisa Berntsen undocumented urban migrant workers
11.45-12.45 Session 1: urban migrants and informal practices
Lieneke Slingenberg (Free University Amsterdam) Informal migrant settlement and the right to respect for a home
Sjors Joosten (Wageningen University) Survival on the Streets of ‘Babylon’: West African migrants in Barcelona
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Keynote (TBC)
14.15-15.45 Session 2: urban and rural responses to migrants and refugees
Aslan Zorlu (University of Amsterdam) Attitudes toward asylum seekers in small local communities
Teressa Juzwiak, Elaine Lebon-McGregor and Melissa Siegel (Maastricht University) Migrant and Refugee Integration in Global Cities: the role of businesses and cities
Elaine Lebon-McGregor and Nora Ragab (Maastricht University) Art, Culture and the Integration of refugees and migrants in European cities
16.15 Inaugural lecture prof.dr. Conny Rijken Victimisation through migration, at the Auditorium