Call for Papers – Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

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Call for Papers – Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

CHASE Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World

Abstract Deadline – 22 February 2025

Seminar Date – 19 March 2025 at SOAS, London

Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social, imaginative. Bordering methods that exert their force on human lives and experiences by ordering statehood, stagnation and citizenship regimes have for long been in discussion. However, the nuances and challenges of the problem are yet to be re-evaluated and re-thought. While discussions of certain geographical areas and lives affected by borders have been in the spotlight, many remained unanalysed and, as a result, invisible. This interdisciplinary seminar aims to re-interrogate the methods of (un)doing of borders, colonisation-decolonisation processes, and negotiations strategies by focusing on various aspects of refugee lives and borders: stories, lived experiences, visuals, music, curatorial, law- and policymaking, pandemic-related issues, ecological crisis and more. The seminar invites 200-word abstracts by 22nd February from graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Selected candidates will be notified by early March and the seminar will be held on 19th March at SOAS, London.

The seminar invites submissions under the following disciplinary categories but is not limited to the same: (a) Law (b) Literature (c) Music (d) Geography (el History (f) Anthropology (g) Creative methodologies. The seminar also encourages students to contribute a picture of their choice, of materials, family, or others out of consent-as related to borders and refugeehood, accompanied with a small description putting into context the theme of “border and refugees” for an online exhibition.

Kindly send your abstracts to: Justicerefugee@gmail.com with cc to aborderlessworld@refugeejustice.com with the subject line: Abstract for (mention the subject theme like law/literature/ music/etc. under which you want your abstract to be considered).

Thanking you,
The CHASE Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World Team
Amrita DasGupta, Subhadip Mukherjee, Arka Chakraborty.
Funded by CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership

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Feature Image: Armenia’s Day, In Aid of the Armenian Refugees (Lord Mayor’s) Fund. June 13, 1917. United Kingdom. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-28-291.
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Amrita DasGupta

Amrita DasGupta is a PhD scholar at the Department of Gender Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London) and a guest teacher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the evolution and history of port brothels in the Indian Ocean deltas. She has been a fully funded visiting student research collaborator at Princeton University, a visiting scholar at the King’s India Institute (King’s College London), a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, LMU. Her decade-long research on the Sundarbans was recognised at the launch of the “Mangrove Project” at the House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom. Some of her recent publication are “Puppets at the Hands of Water” published in the Springs Journal (2025), “Accommodative Apparatus: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coasts of Sundarbans” in the Environment and History Journal (2024).

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