Migration and Diasporas
Saturday 2nd December – Sunday 3rd December 2017
Vienna, Austria
Final Conference Programme
Saturday 2nd December 2017
9:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:00 Welcome and opening remarks
10:00-11:15 Introductory Group Discussion – Stories of our Journeys
11:15-11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30-12:30
Session 1 – Education
Chair: Andrea Berg
Resilience of Humanitarian Entrants to Pursuing Higher Education
Silvia Lozeva and Shamim Samani
“We are too old to learn”: Adult Refugees’ Perspectives on English as a Second Language Classes
Otieno Kisiara
A Comparative Study on the Relationship between the Cultural Oriented Strategies of EU and Non-EU Migrant Students over their Mental Health and their Academic Achievement: A Case Study of the Vienna University, Austria (poster)
Aylar Mansouri
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Session 2 – Literary Approaches
Chair: Alexander Lassner
Renegotiating Cultural Identity in Lahiri’s The Lowland
Kaitlin Chase
Displacement as a Celebration of Blurring in Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines
Shweta Kushal
15:15-15:30 Tea and Coffee
15:30-16:15
Session 3 – House and Home(land)
Chair: Ine Van Emmerik
Next Year in Jerusalem or in New York?
Efrat Tzadik
Provisional House
Ine van Emmerik
16:15-17:15
Workshop: Tugging at the Heart Strings – Is affective exhibition design able to effect change in museum visitors’ perception of refugees and migrants?
Christopher Sommer
17:15 – 17:45 First Day Wrap-up
18:00 Wine Reception
Sunday 3rd December 2017
09:00-10:15
Session 4 – Refugee Experiences
Chair: Zeynep Unsal
Narrative of Displacement: Stories of Migration and the Power of a Community’s Resilience
Amany Qaddour
Journey Narratives of Eritrean Refugees living in The Netherlands: Becoming and Being a Refugee-Notions of Time, Place and Home
Jeanette Kindipan-Dulawan
How Real is Fictional Empathy?
Jane Chamberlin
10:15-11:15
Round Table Discussion: Migration in the 21st Century – Challenges, Opportunities, Predictions
Moderator: Jonathan Rollins
11:15-11:30 Coffee and Tea
11:30-12:30
Session 5 – Diasporas and plurinationality
Chair: Jyri Jäntti
Human Mobility and Plurinationality: The Catalan Case
Dina Bousselham
‘Expat-Preneurs’: An Unexplored Potential Source of Economic Growth For Developing Countries? A State of the Art Literature Review.
Richard Girling
Hapsburg Empire, European Union: Past as Prologue
Alexander Lassner
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Session 6 – Questions of Security
Chair: Silvia Lozeva
Migration: A Security Threat or Securitisation Process?
Ivica Simonovski and Zeynep Ece Unsal
Effects of Securitization: Increased Security Risks of Unsettled Refugees
Jyri Jäntti
Xenophobia and discriminatory attitudes towards Mozambican immigrants in South Africa
Maboe Mokgobi
15:15-15:30 Tea and Coffee
15:30-16:30
Open Discussion – Working in Migration
16:30-17:30 Final Wrap-up and Call to Action