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Children's Voices of Migration: Historic and Contemporary Experiences
21 June 2023, 2:00 pm–5:00 pm
Against the backdrop of the rise in refugees and migrants across the world, half of them under the age of 18, we would like to invite you to join us at our event and share your research on children’s voices of migration.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten
The goal of the symposium is to share, promote and exchange core research in the area of child migration, whether in the past or contemporary times.
Programme & Abstracts/Summaries
14.00-14.05: Welcome
14.05-15.05: Part 1 ‘Child Migration: Historical Experiences’
- “Origins and treatment of child slaves in the Arab-Muslim slave trade: light on an undefined genocide” Dr Sylvain Mbohou, Department of History and Archeology, University of Dschang (Cameroon)/ University of Maranho (Brazil)
- “Child Migrant Stories” Dr Eithne Nightingale, Queen Mary University of London
- ‘I do not want to go home, but go abroad, I have made my mind up a long time ago to do so.’ Narratives from care records of emigration decisions made for children committed to state care in England and Wales in the latter decades of the nineteenth-century’ Dr Annie Skinner, Oxford Brookes University
15.10-16.20: Part 2 ‘Child Migration in a Global Context’
- ‘Exploring Migrant Childhoods: Spatial Experiences and Meaning-Making among Bengali Child Migrants in Kerala, India’ Madhuwanti Mitro, 3rd year Ph.D. student, Institute for Social And Economic Change, Bengaluru.
- ‘Intimacy and migration: transition to adulthood during forced displacement (Indonesia)’ Dr Danau Tanu, Waseda University and Professor Antje Missbach, Professor of Sociology (Migration & Mobility), Bielefeld University
- ‘Exploring the Sense of Home among Ukrainian and Belarusian Teenage Migrants. A case from Wroclaw, Poland’ Joanna Wyrwa, Wroclaw University of Life and Environmental Studies, Institute of Spatial and Social Geography.
- ‘All my friends are in my hometown’ migrant children’s experiences of migration and inclusion (China)’ Boyang Yin, PhD student, University of Sheffield
16.30-17.30: Part 3 ‘Child Migrant voices’
- ‘A refugee boy's story from Moria Refugee Camp, Greece’ Maryam Elika Ansari refugee youth worker and author.
- ‘Kindertransport from Austria to Belgium’ Professor Paul Weindling, Oxford Brookes University
- ‘Why do more not go?’ Nineteenth-century emigrant boys and their letters 1850-1900’ Dr Gillian Lamb, University of Oxford.
This event will now take place online. Anyone is welcome to attend and listen to the discussions. Please register to receive the joining link: https://children-migration.eventbrite.co.uk