International Conference «THE GLOBAL MIGRATION TURN HOW NEW MIGRATION GOVERNANCE CHANGED THE WORLD IN THE LONG 1970S» 7-8 September 2023

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PAPERS: 

The Long Rise of Anglo-American Immigration Restrictions

Michael Slaven (University of Lincoln), “Immigrants, Citizens, Both? The invention of the UK’s immigrant-citizen distinction”   PDF

Alexandra Dellios (Australian National University), “Migrant Rights Activists and Transnational European Workers in the Formation of Australian Multiculturalism in the long 1970s”   PDF

Keynote lecture: Martin Schain (New York University), “The Politics of the Border in the United States and Europe: A Comparison”   PDF

 

A New Geography of Global Migration Governance

Alexander Betts (University of Oxford) and Julia Schweers (University of Oxford), “Authoritarian Sanctuaries: How 1970s African Dictators Shaped Contemporary Refugee Policy”   PDF

Julie Weise (University of Oregon), “Dead Ends and Passageways: Temporary Migrant Workers in the Long 1970s”   PDF

Emmanuel Comte (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy), “Fenced Futures: The Economic Exclusion of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Developed Nations”   PDF

 

The Mediterranean between North and South

Christian Jacobs (Freie Universität Berlin), “Culture as a Political Tool for Migrant Activists in France Facing Repression”   PDF

Keynote lecture: Randall Hansen (University of Toronto), “War, Work, & Want: Global Migration since 1973”   PDF

 

The Détente and Central And Eastern European Migration

 

Migration Governance in the New International Order

Christopher Szabla (Durham University) and Lina Venturas (Panteion University), “ICEM’s Mandate Transformed: from East/West to North/South dichotomy”   PDF

Simone Paoli (Università di Pisa), “The International Labour Organisation and the New International Order: the Dilemma between Control and Rights” PDF

Keynote lecture: Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester), “UNHCR in the long 1970s: Engagement with States and Refugees”   PDF

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