Refugee protection and the European civil society 
Scientific workshop
Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Central European University, Budapest
4-5 May 2017
Different forms of institutional, collective, or individual acts for refugee protection and the influences of these acts on wider social and political processes has only recently become subject of scholarly interest. In some countries, like Spain and Italy, since the 1990s specialized organisations and networks have emerged in service of refugee protection. In other countries, refugee related organisational and informal networks have been initiated by ’newcomers’ to the field. The workshop aims to understand the emergence of such refugee related networks by examining their mobilization paths, norms and values, and identities of the individual and collective actors.
The role of networks formed both among the refuges themselves and in the host societies to coordinate volunteering activities is crucial to understanding the actual effects of transnational forced migration and refugee protection in Europe. The workshop presents empirically supported analyses of individual, collective and institutional forms of refugee protection, in particular practices of humanitarianism and solidarity towards forced migrants and refugees. Papers and discussions will examine the relevance and limits of existing knowledge on migration experiences developed predominantly in the old immigration countries saturated with post-colonial relations and exposed to industrial labour migration in the post-WWII era. In the current European political and economic conditions, ideologies of support and solidarity towards migrants seem to be intimately tied to transformative mobilisations, political struggles and social movements in other domains of life, such as minority protection and empowerment, support of homeless and other vulnerable people including precarious workers. In exchange, moral economies of care towards migrants and refugees are expected to have impacts on broader politics of solidarity in the host societies.
The workshop is organized and co-sponsored by the Centre for Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Central European University, its Centre for Policy Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Additional support has been offered by Ruhr University, Bochum, Department of Sociology and the International Sociological Association, Research Committee 31, Sociology of Migration.
The event is one of the many recent initiatives which bring together the international networks of the Central European University and several Hungarian academic institutions to the benefit of the wider scholarly public in Budapest and beyond.
Refugee protection and the European civil society
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
DAY 1
4th May 2017
Due to limited capacity of the venue, please register at refugee.civic@tk.mta.hu till Midday 3rd May 2017
Venue: Centre for Humanities, HAS (1097 Budapest, 4, Tóth Kálmán str., Ground floor, Conference Hall)
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13.00 - 13.20 |
Welcoming address |
Iván Szelényi William Graham Sumner Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ludger Pries Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Cátedra Guillermo y Alejandro de Humboldt, El Colegio de México Margit Feischmidt Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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1st Section Chaired by Attila Melegh (Corvinus University, Budapest)
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13.20 - 14.00 |
Ludger Pries Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Cátedra Guillermo y Alejandro de Humboldt El Colegio de México
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Networks of asylum and refugee related organisations in the Mediterranean Area of the European Union Networks of asylum and refugee related organisations in the Mediterranean Area of the European Union (co-authors: Juliana Witkowski, Anna Mratschkowski, Ruhr-University, Bochum) |
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14.00 - 14.40
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Robin Vandevoordt University of Antwerp, Department of Sociology
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Between subversive and professional humanitarianism: on Belgian civil support for refugees (co-author: Gert Verschraegen, University of Antwerp, Department of Sociology) |
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14.40 - 15.20
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Margit Feischmidt lldikó Zakariás Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Politics or anti-politics of care and compassion
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15.20 - 16.00
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Daniel Mikecz Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Claim making and prefigurative action: the case of helping organizations in Hungary during the refugee crisis |
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16.00 - 16.20 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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2nd Section Chaired by Vera Messing (Institute for Social Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University)
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Refugee protection and the European civil society
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
DAY 2
5th May 2017
Due to limited capacity of the venue, please register at refugee.civic@tk.mta.hu till Midday 3rd May 2017
Venue: CEU (Budapest 1051, 9, Nádor str., Monument Building, 1st floor, Popper Room)
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9.15 - 9.30 |
Welcoming address |
Éva Fodor Pro-Rector for Social Sciences and Humanities, Professor of the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University Prem Kumar Rajaram Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University |
1st Section Chaired by Margit Feischmidt (Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, HAS)
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9.30 - 10.10
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Céline Cantat Center for Policy Studies Central European University
Prem Kumar Rajaram Central European University
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Border spectacles: refugee protection and the spectacularisation of mobility
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10.10 - 10.50
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Ildikó Asztalos Morell Mälardalen University; Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University
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Collaboration between Swedish municipal authorities ongoing the reception of unaccompanied refugee minors
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10.50 - 11.30
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Zsófia Nagy Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE
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„Thank you crisis” – the integration of refugee children into public education in Greece |
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11.30 - 11.50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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2nd Section Chaired by Ludger Pries (Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Cátedra Guillermo y Alejandro de Humboldt, El Colegio de México)
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11.50 - 12.30
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Paul Scheibelhofer Department of Educational Science, University of Innsbruck
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(De-)Constructing gender and difference in the context of refugee-sponsorship of unaccompanied young men
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12.30 - 13.10
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Robert Rydzewski Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland |
"My family has another friend” – volunteers’ initiatives and the dialectic relations between them and migrants on the Western Balkan Route. |
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13.10 - 14.00 |
LUNCH |
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3rd Section Chaired by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University)
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14.00 - 14.40
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Katarina Kosmina European Policy Center, Belgrade, Serbia |
Ways and Means of Refugee Aid Provision: Reshaping Civil Society. Structures Along the Western Balkan Route (co-author: Sena Maric, European Policy Center, Belgrade, Serbia)
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14.40 - 15.20
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Natalija Perisic Jelena Tanasijevic Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Belgrade
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The Role of Civil Society in Overcoming Gaps in Migrant Protection – a View from Serbia
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15.20 - 16.00
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Patrícia Artimová University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, Department of Human Geography and Regional Development |
Variations in volunteers´ motivation (co-author: Miriama Mikulášiková, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, Department of Human Geography and Regional Development) |
4th Section Chaired by Céline Cantat (Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies, Central European University)
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16.20 – 17.00 |
Drago Župarić-Iljić Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
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From ‘humanitarian opportunism’ to ‘securitization discomfort’: The role of refugee rights’ actors in Croatia (co-author: Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) |
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17.00 - 17.40 |
Claudia Olivier-Mensah Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Education/Social Work
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Transnational Social Support: A multi-level approach for refugees in the face of repatriation
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17.40 - 18.00 |
Céline Cantat Ludger Pries |
Concluding remarks |