Events

Upcoming Events

23 May 2011 “How can European Migration Policies Promote Development?”|

• Speakers: Tobias Billström - Swedish Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy Peter Sutherland - Chairman of the LSE Court of Governors and United Nations Special Representative for Migration.

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Past Events

6^th December 2011 'Economic Prospects and Migration Fluctuation'

• Speaker: Mathias Czaika (University of Oxford)

29 October, 2011
LSE SU Student Action for Refugees Conference: 'Protecting Human Rights: Sexuality, gender identity, and asylum in the UK' |

• Speakers: Erin Power (Executive Director, UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group), John Bosco Nyombi, Ali Hili (Leader, Iraqi LGBT), Lucy Yeatman (University of Greenwich), Akshay Khanna (Institute of Development Studies), and Thibaut Raboin (University College London)

4^th October 2011
'Queer cases make bad law'

• Speakers: James Hathaway (University of Michigan) and Jason Pobjoy (University of Cambridge)

24 May, 2011
'The Multiple Impacts of Deportability on the Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants in England'

• Speaker: Professor Alice Bloch (City University London)

9 March, 2011 
ASEN Seminar ' Ethnic Minorities and Europe: Integration under the French Republic'

• Speaker: Dr Alec Hargreaves

8 March, 2011
'The Political Uses of Research in Migration Politics and Policymaking' |

• Speaker: Dr Christina Boswell (University of Edinburgh)

8 February, 2011
'Iraqi Women's Diaspora Mobilization: Gender, War, and Transnational Activism'|

• Speaker: Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS)

25 January, 2011
'Limits of Restricting Islam: The French Burqa Law of 2010′|

• Speaker: Professor Christian Joppke (American University of Paris)

30 November, 2010
'The Relationship between Immigration Status and the Allocation of Rights: Exploring the Rationale'| (Power Point available)

• Speakers: Sarah Spencer (COMPAS, Oxford) and Jason Pobjoy (Cambridge)  

6 November, 2010
'Human Rights Denied: Indefinite Immigration Detention - Is There No End In Sight?'|

July 2010
Book Launch: Justin Gest's Apart|

10 June, 2010
Workshop on Comparative Migration Research (IMPALA)|

16 and 20 June, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ethnographies of Migration Workshop|

27 April, 2010
An MSU- STICERD Roundtable: 'Assessing the Political Impact of Migrants' Presence in the Arab World'|

• Speakers: Dr. John Chalcraft, Dr. Laurence Louër, Elizabeth Frantz, and Lucile Gruntz 
• Chair: Professor Philippe Fargues
  

17 March, 2010
'New Labour, Xenophobia and Immigration'| 

 

 

• Speakers: Arun Kundnani (Institute of Race Relations), Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London), and Joseph Harker (The Guardian)
• Chair: Malcolm James & Naaz Rashid

 

 

 

 

 

• Speaker: Professor Adrian Favell (UCLA and Aarhus University)
• Chair: Dr Patrick McGovern

28 February, 2009
MSU Co-sponsored Event: Roundtable on Migrant Literature| 

 

 

• Speakers: Kapka Kassabova, Mustafa Kör, and Naema Tahir
• Chair: Professor Luc Bovens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Speaker: Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government)
• Chair: Justin Gest

 

 

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• Speaker: Peter Sutherland (UN Special Representative for Migration)
• Chair: Professor David Held
  
  
  
  

 

 

 

• Speakers: Jonathan Faull (Director-General, Justice, Freedom, and Security, European Commission), Jean-Christophe Peaucelle (Head of European Affairs at the French Ministry of Immigration, Integration, and National Identity), and Christophe Prince (Director of International Policy, UK Border Agency)
• Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann
  
  
  
  
  

 

 

 

• Speaker: Professor David Metcalf (LSE)
• Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann
• Panelists: Colin Stanbridge (Chief Executive, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and Professor Richard Pearson (University of Sussex Centre for Migration Research)

 

 

 

 

• A two-day conference at Goodenough College for researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners engaged in managing migration research or practice

 

 

 

 

 

• Speakers: Sir Bernard Crick and Professor Anne Phillips (LSE)
• Chair: Professor David Held
  
  
  
  

 

 

 

• Keynote Speaker: Jan Sikuta (Judge at the European Court of Human Rights)
• Speakers: Madeline Garlick, Martin Schieffer, Syd Bolton, Rick Scannell, and Kathryn Cronin
  

   

  6 December, 2007
  Winter Lecture: 'Europe Should Open its Doors to Immigrants'

   

   

   

  • Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann
  • Speaker: Philippe Legrain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Chair: Professor David Held
• Speaker: Jacqui Smith MP
  
  
  
  

 

 

 

 

 

• Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann
• Speaker: Professor Stephen Castles (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford)