ISA 2011 Conference

The International Studies Association (ISA) is holding its annual conference in Montreal this year. The dates are 16-19 March 2011 and the theme is "Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition."

The programme lists a number of papers and panels that focus on forced migration-related issues. I have highlighted a number of them below, and provided links to abstracts. Eventually, many of the papers will be made available in full-text through the ISA Paper Archive, so it's worth checking back again after the conference if a paper addresses a topic of particular interest.

PAPERS

March 16:
- Brings Norms Entrepreneurs Back into the Picture: Role of Individuals in the Case of Protecting and Assisting the Internally Displaced
- Constructing Cooperation: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking
- Delivering Health Services and Changing Health Systems in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
- Human Security as Practices of Governance and the Temporalization of Otherness in the Case of IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Policies in Colombia
- Religion, Hospitality and Alternatives in Global Responses to Asylum Seekers and Refugees
- Sudanese Voices: I and We, and the Dominant Refugee Discourse(s)
- Whose Right to What Justice? Humanitarian Intervention and the Administration of Justice in Refugee Camps

March 17:
- Cheap Talk or Meaningful Communication? Assessing Humanitarian Governance through the Sphere Project
- Disastrous Encounters: Trafficking in Natural Disasters
- Forced Displacement in Africa: Challenges for Human Security and International Security
- The Impact of the Mass Influx of Zimbabwean Migrants and Asylum Seekers on South Africa's Conflict Resolution Efforts in Zimbabwe
- The Politics of Protection: Interest, Altruism, and the State Priorities that Shape UN Peacekeeping
- The Politics of Water Literacy: A Case Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Schools in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
- Rethinking Refugeehood: Statelessness, Repatriation and the Contributions of Hannah Arendt
- The Tragedy of Human Trafficking: Competing Theories and European Evidence

March 18:
- Development and Democracy: Forced Displacement and Resettlement in Hydropower Projects
- Displacing Subjectivities: Refugee Narratives in the City of Rio de Janeiro
- International Regime Complexity and the Fight against Human Trafficking
- Modern Day Slavery? Race and Gender in International Anti‐Trafficking Discourses
- The Refugee Regime Complex: Institutional Proliferation and International Organization Adaptation
- Transnational Networks in the Black Sea Region: Human Trafficking and NGOs That Transcend Borders

March 19:
- Activism and the Count: From Sanctuary to Spectacle in a Politics of Asylum
- Between Nation and Territory: Refugees and the Sovereign Impetus
- Loopholes in the Responsibility to Protect: Acknowledging Structural Violence in Relation to Internal Displacement and Statelessness
- Political Activism After Asylum
- Promoting Regional Cooperation without Local Capability: Combating Trafficking in Persons in Southeast Asia
- The Public/Private: The Rise of the Private Border Guard and International Refugee Law
- Re‐Connecting Histories: British Asylum Policy in Global Historical Perspective
- Worlds unto Themselves: Questioning State Governance of Refugee Camps

PANELS

For more information on the panels and their associated papers, check the programme (page numbers indicated below) or search the "panels" tab here.

March 16:
- Environmental Refugees (p. 67)
- Human Trafficking (p. 20)

March 17:
- The Way Home: Refugees, IDPs and Diaspora Social Networks (p. 118)

March 18:
- Humanitarianism and International Politics (p. 145)
- "There's No Home for You Here": Refugees, Transnational Networks, and the Spread of Conflict (p. 177)
- Trafficking Is Problematic: Reflections on Critical Analyses of Human Trafficking (p. 178)

March 19:
- The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees (p. 230)
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights (p. 199)


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