Séminaire INTEGRIM du groupe de recherche Migrations et mobilités du CERI, en partenariat avec MIGRINTER, Université de Poitiers

Coorganisé par Kamel Doraï (Ifpo)

Forced migrations have usually been described as "spontaneous" migrations and analysed in terms of political and security constraints. But even refugee movements resulting from conflicts are often fashioned by previous migration flows and correlated network structures that are re-mobilised during the humanitarian crisis. Therefore, tracing a genealogy of mobilities in the Middle East will help better understand current forced migration processes and their connections with other forms of social organisation built over time in a regional area (commercial mobility, family strategies, pilgrimage, etc.).

The distinction commonly made between forced migration and voluntary migration in the Middle East and elsewhere has already been criticised by a growing number of authors (Long: 2013, Richmond: 1994). In the case of “refugee” category, a huge diversity of social, legal and economic statuses and personal backgrounds coexist within such a category (Malkki: 1995, Marx: 1990). Early attempts to build a general theoretical model of refugee issues have focused mainly on push factors to explain refugee movements (Kunz, 1973). Studies have also emphasised the role of international relations in the production of refugee flows (Loescher, 1990). If push factors as well as international politics are key issues for the understanding of refugee movements, little attention has so far been paid to dynamics generated by the refugees themselves. Seteney Shami (1993) suggests that "displacement often leads to labour migration as a coping strategy". But conversely, as will also be shown, labour migration may also mould and structure forced displacement patterns of dispersion and settlement.
The questioning of the dichotomy between forced and voluntary migrations is even more interesting in the Middle East as neither Jordan, Lebanon Iraq nor Syria, are not signatories of the Geneva Convention on Refugees. The refugee category (with the exception of Palestinians who are recognised as refugees in the state where they have their permanent residency) does not exist as such. There is often a confusion in the field of forced migration between legal categories (refugees, asylum seekers, etc.) and those relating to the analysis of migration (Zetter, 2007). This project aims to re-examine the production categories of asylum in an area outside the Convention (Jordan, Lebanon) and one signatory (Turkey) from three unusual situations, the Syrians, the Iraqis and the Palestinians from Syria.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement 316796.

Programme

Foreword: Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

9h30- Introduction

Céline Cantat, University of East London & MIGRINTER, CNRS, Université de Poitiers

Kamel Dorai, IFPO, Amman & MIGRINTER, CNRS, Université de Poitiers

Helene Thiollet, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

10h00- Panel 1 : Refugees, a regional perspective

The Syrian humanitarian Crisis: Understanding Perceptions and Aspirations among Hosts, Practitioners, and Guests in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan

Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford

Refugees and the state: the importance of Iraq

Philip Marfleet,University of East London

12h00-Lunch Break

14h00-Panel 2, part 1: Some national experiences

Mass Migration Flows and Border Management in Turkey

Didem Danis, Galatasaray University, Istanbul

From Mostapha Mahmoud to Levinsky Park: Comparative political ethnography of Sudanese circulation in Egypt and Israel

Pauline Brücker, Sciences Po-CERI & CEDEJ

15h30- Break: Screening of two short-films on Yarmouk by Syrian Palestinian directors

MIG, by Thaer Alshali

Blue, by Abo Gabi

16h15-Panel 2, part 2: Some national experiences

Palestinians from Syria in Lebanon: from refugees to asylum seekers?

Kamel Dorai, IFPO, Amman & MIGRINTER, CNRS, Université de Poitiers

Reflections On Belonging: The Abandoned Yarmouk As Seen From Exile

Salim Salameh, Malmö University, Sweden

17h45– Conclusions

Responsables scientifiques:

Helene Thiollet (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS),

Céline Cantat (MIGRINTER, CNRS, Université de Poitiers),

Kamel Dorai (IFPO, Amman & MIGRINTER, CNRS, Université de Poitiers)

Lieu : Sciences Po-CERI: 56,rue Jacob 75006 Paris (salle de conférences)

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