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Conference Announcement Theme: Studying Migration Policies at the Interface between Empirical Research and Normative Analysis Type: Interdisciplinary Workshop Institution: Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University Cluster of Excellence 'Religion and Politics', University of Münster Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn Location: Bielefeld (Germany) Date: 10.–12.9.2018 __________________________________________________ In recent years, scholars of social sciences on the one hand and those of philosophy/political theory on the other hand dedicated a lot of work to the study of the phenomenon of migration and its regulation by states. However, the exchange between these two disciplines is insofar insufficient for at least two reasons. First, empirical endeavours into migration policies are most often linked to normative assumptions over the role of the state or their consequences for migrants and societies. If only these normative concerns were made explicit, the debate on research results could avoid the tedious polarization, which all too often prevents productive exchange among each other. Furthermore, using results of ethical discourse, scholars of empirical work could justifiably refer to ethical claims in order to motivate their studies or to highlight the ethical importance of their results – if the political relevance of empirical migration studies should be emphasized, an ethical reflection seems to be unavoidable. Second, the philosophical debate usually unfolds without notice of the current questions and results of the corresponding empirical research. That way, philosophers stick to very general questions on the legitimacy to restrict access to a country under ideal conditions and miss the more concrete ethical questions on the ethical acceptability of actual migration politics that are implemented under complex conditions. With the international conference, we aim at the reflection of possible intersections between these two disciplines both studying migration and migration policies. Preliminary Conference Programme Monday, 10 September 9:00 – 13:00 Welcome address by Center for Interdisciplinary Research and convenors Plenary Sessions Lecture I: Joseph Carens (Toronto): On the relationship between normative claims and empirical realities in immigration Lecture II: Sandra Lavenex (Geneva): Should empirical migration studies take a normative stance? 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break (ZiF Cafeteria) 14:30 – 17:45 Panel Sessions Panel 1: Critical migration studies, normative convictions and empirical research Alisha Heinemann (Vienna): Deutschkurse zwischen staatlicher Kontrolle und Selbstermächtigung Steffania Maffeis (Berlin): Migrationskämpfe als demokratische Herausforderungen und als Subjektivierungsprozesse. Sozialphilosophische und -wissenschaftliche Überlegungen Verena Risse (Dortmund): Recent deviations in border control practices – new challenges for normative strategies of justification? Helge Schwiertz (Osnabrück): Radical democracy and struggles of migration: A dialogue of theory and practice Panel 2: Normative frames of political actors on migration and asylum Kim Bräuer-Zeltner (Braunschweig): Begegnung auf Augenhöhe!? Zur Bedeutung und Verschränkung von normativen Annahmen in der Interaktion von Geflüchteten und Helfer*innen der Flüchtlingshilfe Andreas Kewes (Siegen): Evidenzgewissheit und die Affirmationen normativer Überzeugungen in der frühen deutschen Flüchtlingsbewegung Nicolas Kleinschmidt / Jessica Krüger (Münster): The role of Entscheider in the asylum procedure: a legal, psychological and ethical analysis Christof Roos (Flensburg): The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: normative change in the discourse of EU actors Nausikaa Schirilla (Freiburg): Studying refugee solidarity as an ‘ethics from below’ 18:00 Dinner (ZiF Cafeteria) 19:00 Come together (Fellow room) Tuesday, 11 September 9:00 – 13:00 Plenary Sessions Lecture III: Ayelet Shachar (Göttingen): Global inequalities in access to territory and membership Lecture IV: William Walters (Ottawa): Mapping deportation: ethics, politics, publics 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break (ZiF Cafeteria) 14:30 – 17:45 Panel Sessions Panel 3: Exploring the paths from immigration to membership: observing and problematizing inequalities within citizenship Camille Pascal (Louvain-la-Neuve): Right to vote: does residence matter for epistemic reasons? Luicy Pedroza (Berlin): A framework to study comprehensive migration policies Mark Savarajah (Bristol): Migration facts, political principles and non-citizenship Samuel Schmid (Florence): Open borders versus inclusive citizenship? How Germany defies and darkens empirical assumptions in immigration ethics Panel 4: The ethics of return and deportation Olivier Angeli (Dresden): The ethics and politics of return and deportation Rutger Birnie (Fiesole): The ethics of resisting deportations Derek Denman (Göttingen): Targeting sanctuary: U.S. Immigration Enforcement as political retaliation Mollie Gerver (Newcastle): Ethical refugee repatriation 19:00 Conference Dinner Wednesday, 12 September 9:00 – 11:00 Panel Sessions Panel 5: The EU border regime and asylum politics: fairness against refugees and fairness amongst states Lukasz Dziedzic (Tilburg): Justice between states and justice towards refugees – Finding reconciliation Johanna Günther (Berlin): Why comply? The impact of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on the asylum and migration policies of the European Union Nicole Hoellerer (Exeter): to be announced Johannes Servan (Bergen): ‘What justice requires’ – state-centric and cosmopolitan perspectives on priority criteria in resettlement policies Panel 6 Global inequalities, the birthright lottery, and border control Eszter Kollar (Leuven): to be announced Stefan Schlegel (Göttingen): Ticket to ride – The property right over migration as the entity of analysis to map the allocation and transaction of access to institutions Anja Weiß (Duisburg-Essen): Socio-spatial autonomy and the system of nation-states 11:30 – 13:00 Plenary Session Lecture V: David Miller (Oxford): Selecting refugees 13:00 – 14:00 Snack and lunch packages (ZiF Cafeteria) Convenors: Matthias Hoesch (Münster, GER), Lena Laube (Bonn, GER) Please direct questions concerning the organisation of the workshop to Trixi Valentin at the Conference Office: [email protected] Questions regarding scientific content and contributions should be directed to the organizers: [email protected] Contact: Trixi Valentin Conference Office Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld University Methoden 1 33615 Bielefeld Germany Tel: +49 521 106-2769 Fax: +49 521 106-152769 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/AG/2018/09-10-Hoesch.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
