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1 de Junho: CALL FOR PAPERS - Abstracts of 300 words (max)

“How Safe is Safe? Evaluating Migration Channels for Women Migrants”- INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

The workshop aims to chart and deepen our understanding of the expression “safe migration channels” by critically assessing the supposition that documented channels of migration provide unsurpassed legal protection to migrants and migrant workers. Specifically, it aims to discuss how the effects of women’s labour mobility can be coordinated, using different means to maximize the potential of transnational movements, and to alleviate less desirable outcomes for migrants.

Organizers: Asia Research Institute (NUS), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) and University of New England, Australia (Asia Pacific Centre) Workshop

“How Safe is Safe? Evaluating Migration Channels for Women Migrants”

25-26 November 2010, ISEAS, Singapore

The objective is to bring together researchers, civil society organizations, faith-based groups and others working on international mobility and to interrogate the contextualized relationships between these movements and the human rights of migrants.

The workshop’s focus is on women migrants since women experience greater vulnerability in the migration process. We invite submission of papers on various aspects of international migration, including, but not limited to the following:

· Gendering less-skilled labour mobility

· Linking women’s labour mobility and safe migration channels

· Transnational networks and development

· Governance of migration and migration policies

· Labour conditions

· Issues regarding integration and adaptation (particularly for foreign brides)

· What is the impact of differences between immigrants (e.g. gender, age, human capital) on the questions above?

The women migrants under study will be restricted to Southeast Asian countries while the countries to which they migrate include those within and outside the region.

Important Dates

Abstracts of 300 words (max.) should be submitted before 1 June 2010.

Successful applicants will be notified by 30 June 2010 and will be required to send in a completed paper (5,000-6,000 words) by 30 September 2010.

Registration fee (applied to observers only): S$100

Abstracts should be sent to:

Dr. Theresa W. Devasahayam

Fellow/Gender Studies Programme Coordinator

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang, Singapore 119614

Tel: (65) 6870-4506

Fax: (65) 6775-6264

E-mail: theresa@iseas.edu.sg