Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

deadline for submissions: 
February 22, 2025
full name / name of organization: 
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England's Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World
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Call for Papers for the inaugural event of CHASE's newly established Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World: Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social,  imaginative. Bordering methods that exert their force on human lives and experiences by ordering statehood, stagnation and citizenship regimes have for long been in discussion. However, the nuances and challenges of the problem are yet to be re-evaluated and re-thought. While discussions of certain geographical areas and lives affected by borders have been in the spotlight, many remained unanalysed and, as a result, invisible. This interdisciplinary seminar aims to re-interrogate the methods of (un)doing of borders, colonisation-decolonisation processes, and negotiations strategies by focusing on various aspects of refugee lives and borders: Stories, lived experiences, visuals, music, curatorial, law- and policymaking, pandemic-related issues,  ecological crisis and more. The seminar invites 200-word abstracts by 22nd February from graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Selected candidates will be notified by early March and the seminar will be held on 19th  March at SOAS, London.   The seminar invites submissions under the following disciplinary categories but is not limited to the same:(a) Law (b) Literature (c) Music (d) Geography (e) History (f) Anthropology (g) Creative methodologies. The seminar also encourages students to contribute a picture of their choice, of materials, family, or others out of consent—as related to borders and refugeehood, accompanied with a small description putting into context the theme of “border and refugees” for an online exhibition. Kindly send your abstracts to: Justicerefugee@gmail.com with cc to Aborderlessworld@refugeejustice.comWith the subject line: Abstract for (mention the subject theme like law/literature/ music/etc. under which you want your abstract to be considered).