Second Class citizens: Are Progressives Failing Migrants?

The Migrants’ Rights Network will be present at the Compass ‘Born Free and Equal’ conference which will take place in London on Saturday 14^th June.

We are organising a fringe seminar with the Barrow Cadbury Trust, which will take place at 1:30 pm, entitled:

Second Class citizens: Are Progressives Failing Migrants?

Speakers are:

Jack Dromey, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE

Sukhvinder Stubbs, CEO, Barrow Cadbury Trust,

Zrinka Bralo, Migrant and Refugee Community Forum;

Don Flynn, MRN Sukhvinder Stubbs, Barrow Cadbury Trust

Please note that to attend this seminar you will need to register for the main ‘Born Free and Equal’ conference. To register, and for further information about the conference, visit the Compass website at http://www.compassonline.org.uk/conference/.

Best regards,

Don Flynn

Director

Migrants' Rights Network

Club Union House

253-254 Upper Street

London N1 1RY

Tel: (44) (0)20 7288 1267

Fax: (44) (0)20 7354 5620

Email: d.flynn@migrantsrights.org.uk

Website: http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk

TODAY: REFUGEE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINARS, SEMESTER B, 2007-08

REFUGEE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINARS, SEMESTER B, 2007-08

IN COOPERATION WITH

CENTRE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICT

May 7, 2008, 4:30 – 6 pm, Room EB.G05, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus

Dr Nadje Al-Ali

Director, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London, will give a talk entitled:

‘What kind of Liberation? Diaspora Mobilization, Women's Rights and Violence in Post-Invasion Iraq’

Nadje Al-Ali is Director in Gender Studies, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Her publications include Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); New Approaches to Migration (ed. Routledge, 2002); Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000) and Gender Writing – Writing Gender (The American University in Cairo Press, 1994) and as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her forthcoming book (co-authored with Nicola Pratt) is entitled What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation in Iraq (University of California Press). She is also a founding member of Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq. (www.acttogether.org ) and a member of Women in Black UK.

ALL WELCOME!

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