Call for Papers, deadline 25 November, 2011
International Conference to be held on 2nd – 3rd April 2012
at UEA London, 102 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EZ.
Organised by the Social Protection and Mobilities Research Group,
at the School of International Development, UEA, Norwich.
This conference seeks to attend to neglected linkages between migration, (social) reproduction and social protection. The tensions between (social) reproduction and migration shift across the family life course and are deeply implicated in the potential for migration to contribute to inter-generational wellbeing. The configuration of these tensions is embedded in wider changes in social provisioning and the restructuring of the social contract between the state and mobile or secondary citizens. The conference adopts a critical gendered approach to social policy and the framing of social protection and aims to contribute to a revaluing of (social) reproduction within debates about migration and social protection for development.
Themes
The conference addresses three themes around key family life course transitions:
• Making marriages, bearing children and early child rearing
• School age children, adolescents and young adult children, and
• Caring for the ageing or the sick or the disabled.
Cross-cutting these themes will be an interest in conceptual linkages, research methodologies, empirical evidence and policy analysis. Key note speakers include Prof. Brenda Yeoh (Asia Research Institute, Singapore) and Dr Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford).
Call for Papers
We welcome proposals for papers that address the individual themes or cross-cutting concerns. The deadline for proposals is 25th November 2011.
Please see www.uea.ac.uk/dev/socialprotection/conference or email c.locke [at] uea.ac.uk for further details.