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Conference Announcement Theme: Migration in Legal and Political Theory Subtitle: Remaining Challenges Type: International Conference Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge Location: Cambridge (United Kingdom) Date: 28.–29.10.2011 __________________________________________________ The conference aims to address some of the legal, political and ethical challenges posed by transnational migration that so far have received limited attention in the theoretical literature on the subject. Legal and political theorists—in particular, those working in the so-called Anglo-American tradition—have been slow to give migration its due attention. Even where they have done so the issue often has been treated as an appendix to other debates in the normative literature, rather than a topic worthy of independent scholarly attention. Hence, a number of pressing topics crucial in the empirical literature on migration seldom have been analysed from a normative perspective. This includes such pressing issues as the rights of undocumented migrants, international/state responsibility for refugee populations, the emerging problem of ecological refugees, „brain drain‟, and sex trafficking, to mention but a few examples. The proposed conference aims to fill this gap in the literature and to provide a forum for sustained, interdisciplinary analysis by asking leading scholars to present new work in each of the areas where the normative literature on migration appears limited or underdeveloped. The papers divide into four broad categories: 1) normative foundations 2) entry and exit 3) naturalisation and citizenship 4) forced migration The conference will feature world leading scholars as well as emerging researchers active in the fields of law, social and political theory, and philosophy, who have contributed to the literature on migration from a normative perspective and are aware of the need to approach the topic in a contextually-sensitive and interdisciplinary fashion. Conveners: Dr Sarah Fine (Corpus Christi/POLIS/Philosophy) Dr Lea Ypi (LSE) Contact: Helga Brandt, Conference Programme Manager Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences University of Cambridge 17 Mill Lane Cambridge CB2 1RX United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0)1223 760487 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1700/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
