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Call for Papers: ‘Volunteering for Refugees’ for panel at IASFM Conference 2016
Ignacio Urquijo
16 December 2015
The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is receiving papers for the ‘Conference IASFM 16: Rethinking Forced Migration and Displacement: Theory, Policy, and Praxis’, organized in Poznan, Poland, from 12th to 15th of July 2016). The papers will contribute to the panel ‘Volunteering for Refugees’.
According to the information issued in the call for papers, “while professional humanitarian aid work is increasingly being examined in Refugee Studies, volunteering work for and with refugees has received very little attention”.
The panel organiser points out that various particular aspects are yet of concern:
- What motivates volunteers to work with and for refugees?
- Who are the volunteers and how are they organized?
- What effect does volunteering have on refugees’ lives?
- How does volunteering for refugees relate to civil society, democracy and the integration potential of refugees receiving countries?
- What impact does volunteering have on refugee policies and the role of the state in refugee protection?
- How do volunteers relate to established aid organisations and other civil society actors?
IASFM is looking for papers addressing these and other aspects of volunteering work for and with refugees from “any discipline and from any region”. They are particularly interested in “empirically based considerations about methodological and conceptual approaches to this new area of research”.
The association invites the possible contributors to send abstracts for a 15-20 minute presentation and a brief autobiographical note to the organiser of the panel (Dr. J. Olaf Kleist from the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück) by 15th January 2016 to jkleist@uni-osnabrueck.de.
For more information about the other topics proposed by the conference organisers, please visit http://iasfm.org/iasfm16/call-for-papers/.
Source:
http://jolafkleist.net/call-for-papers-volunteering-for-refugees-for-panel-at-iasfm-conference-2016/
According to the information issued in the call for papers, “while professional humanitarian aid work is increasingly being examined in Refugee Studies, volunteering work for and with refugees has received very little attention”.
The panel organiser points out that various particular aspects are yet of concern:
- What motivates volunteers to work with and for refugees?
- Who are the volunteers and how are they organized?
- What effect does volunteering have on refugees’ lives?
- How does volunteering for refugees relate to civil society, democracy and the integration potential of refugees receiving countries?
- What impact does volunteering have on refugee policies and the role of the state in refugee protection?
- How do volunteers relate to established aid organisations and other civil society actors?
IASFM is looking for papers addressing these and other aspects of volunteering work for and with refugees from “any discipline and from any region”. They are particularly interested in “empirically based considerations about methodological and conceptual approaches to this new area of research”.
The association invites the possible contributors to send abstracts for a 15-20 minute presentation and a brief autobiographical note to the organiser of the panel (Dr. J. Olaf Kleist from the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück) by 15th January 2016 to jkleist@uni-osnabrueck.de.
For more information about the other topics proposed by the conference organisers, please visit http://iasfm.org/iasfm16/call-for-papers/.
Source:
http://jolafkleist.net/call-for-papers-volunteering-for-refugees-for-panel-at-iasfm-conference-2016/
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