CDT Borders and Bordering Annual Symposium

Please note that this event is invite only, and is intended as a research sharing space for members of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Borders and Bordering. However, if you are based at the University of Sheffield and have a particular interest in attending, please email l.mayblin@sheffield.ac.uk

Schedule

9.00 Coffee

09.30-11.00 Session 1

• Nikola Lero - When homing meets bordering: Diaspora Place-Belonging Nexus and Migrant Struggle for Ontological Security
• Charly Morris - Visions in the making: A creative approach to reimagining the city with Young Migrant Women Activists
• Myra Mufti - “Doing family or undoing family?” – Grandparental care relations among Pakistani transnational families in the UK

11.00-11.15 Break

11.15-12.15 Session 2

• Owen Parker - Digital by default’ or ‘digital at fault’ in UK migration governance? The case of Roma EU citizens and the EU Settlement Scheme
• Lucy Mayblin - The Border-Security Economy in the English Channel

12.15-13.00 Lunch 

13.00-14.30 Session 3

• Aneta Piekut - Frontier dis/order in a migrant community in Rotherham: 'frontier vacuum', disinvestment and racialisation of space 
• Clare Rishbeth - Border-crossing experiences of nature
• Jo Britton - Muslim family life as a site of struggle: discrimination, inequality and poverty

14.30-14.45 Round up and close