PGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory: intersections and cross-fertilisations
13th -14th May 2009, jointly hosted by the University of Brighton and University of Sussex
A two-day international conference of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
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This conference aims to explore the many ways in which different, yet possibly interconnected, forms of contemporary migration, for example internal and transnational migration, are being reconfigured in the developed and developing worlds, and how these shifts are being theorised by academics from different (sub)disciplines of academia. Key here is how and why these shifting expressions of migration flows may have major implications for new theorisations of migration. Papers are therefore sought which critically engage with one or more of the above issues.
Conference organising committee: Darren Smith, Russell King, Rebecca Elmhirst and Ron Skeldon,
Some of the papers from the conference will form the basis of an edited book publication. There is an expectation that presenters will therefore provide full papers at the conference.
Confirmed keynote speakers are: Professor Rachel Silvey (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Professor Adrian Favell (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Dr Keith Halfacree (University of Wales Swansea, UK).