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| Date: | Thursday 8th April 2010 |
| Location: | Dublin City University |
| Venue: | Gallery Room, The Helix, Dublin City University, Ireland |
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‘Migrant Lives: Past, Present and Future’ is the second conference in the Migration Studies in Ireland Postgraduate Conference Series. The past decade has seen a growing number of postgraduate students working in an Irish context within the area of Migration Studies across the Humanities and Social Sciences. This conference series is an inter-university endeavour which was established in 2008 to create a forum for this research. The inaugural conference was held in Trinity College Dublin in 2008 and was successful in bringing together academics interested in migration studies from across a range of disciplines.
This second conference, to be held in Dublin City University, picks up on one of the main issues raised in the closing plenary of the Trinity conference in 2008. This is the need to further critically investigate the concepts and language which we use and the manner in which we use them, when engaging with the area of Migration Studies. In brief, this 2010 postgraduate conference aims to explore and encourage discussion in relation to the use of terminology in Migration Studies in an Irish context.
Key Note Speaker: Han Entzinger
Han Entzinger is Professor of Migration and Integration Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Professor Entzinger has worked for the International Labour Organization in Geneva and the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy in the Hague. He is co-founder and former director of the European Research
Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (Ercomer). His research interest include international migration, integration and
multiculturalism, migration and the welfare state, Islam in Western societies as well as comparative policies on these matters.
Featuring a Presentation by Dr. Debbie Ging and Dr Miriam Judge entitled
"Someone Else’s Shoes: Developing a ‘serious game’ for educating about migration and interculturalism in Ireland"
