British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Refugee Problem and the Problems of Refugees

A conference jointly organised by the British Academy and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and the Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, and supported by Birkbeck College, London, and the Wiener Library, London

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

22-23 March 2004

PROGRAMME

Monday 22 March 2004
Keynote lecture: The western asylum crisis: the way forward
Professor B.S. Chimni (The W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, India)

The western asylum system is in ‘crisis’. This is commonly reflected in the ever changing national asylum laws and the adoption of a series of restrictive administrative and legal measures to stop third world asylum seekers reaching the western world. Professor Chimini will outline some procedural and substantive measures that could go some way to shape a progressive western response to the global refugee problem.

Tuesday 23 March 2004
All-day conference on the issue of refugees in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Historical and contemporary perspectives on refugee movements and the institutions that respond to them. This conference convenes historians, social scientists and legal scholars for discussion across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Speakers include, Gil Loescher, Institute of Strategic Studies, Graeme Rodgers, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, Bernard Wasserstein, University of Chicago and Aristide Zolberg, New School, New York.

A full conference programme is available online