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Dr. Cavidan Soykan
Freelance Researcher, Turkey
Dr. Soykan is an independent researcher based in Izmir/Turkey. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex. For her doctoral studies she conducted a multi-sited legal ethnography on Afghani, Iraqi, Iranian, Somali and Sudanese refugee populations in Turkey. She taught human rights at undergraduate level and research methods and ethics for the Human Rights MA programme of Ankara University from 2013 to 2017. She is a member of the Association for Solidarity with Refugees. She served on the board of this NGO as the vice-president for two terms between 2014 and 2018. Since 2017 she has contributed to different projects of women’s, LGBTs’ and human rights NGOs in Turkey. She co-authored a gender monitoring report on women refugees in Turkey for the Association for Monitoring Gender Equality in 2021. Dr. Soykan is currently working on two papers. One of them is on the battle of women's movement against the AKP regime after Turkey's withdrawal from the CoE's Istanbul Convention and the other one is on the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey from a sociology of law perspective.
Alice Coventry
Lumos Foundation, England
Alice Coventry studied Sociology at the University of Leeds and focused her last year of studies on the institution of Yarl's Wood Detention Centre and the harmful practices that took place therin. Specifically, the focus was upon offences enacted against women from minority groups. Since then, Alice has been working at an international NGO called the Lumos Foundation which is dedicated to working towards ending the systematic institutionalisation of children worldwide. Alice feels passionately about ending the harm caused by institutionalisation and believes every child deserves to grow up feeling safe and loved within a family.
Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan. Currently teaches Feminist Theory, Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of Sexuality. She published articles on issues such as sex work, sexual migration across Taiwan Straits in well-known journals both in Chinese and English. Her research interests including women’s work in body work, and non-conforming intimacies in Taiwan. Recently her research has concentrated on migration and sexuality; particular interesting in examining the ways in which migration has an impact on Chinese migrant sex work in Taiwan, and Taiwanese men’s sex tourism in China.
Mei-Hua Chen
Professor
Department of Sociology
National Sun Yat-sen University
Taiwan
Rafia Kazim is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lalit Narayan Mithila University, India. She had taught earlier at Osmania University, Hyderabad. She was also awarded the ICSSR fellowship, Hyderabad for her study on the issues and challenges of Multi Lingual Education in Hyderabad. Her research interests are diverse and cover a wide spectrum ranging from language, education, gender studies, Dalits and other subalterns, urbanity, cultural anthropology, and migration. Her writings got published in national and international peer reviewed journals such as English Today (CUP), Sociological Bulletin (Sage), Economic and Political Weekly (ST) and many more.
She has authored “Learning the Infidels’ Language: Muslim Women and the English Language” (Manak International 2020). Currently she is working extensively on Dalit Muslims and on internal migration in India.
Rafia Kazim
LN University, DBG, India
Ana is a PhD candidate in International Politics and Conflict Resolution at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and holds a European Master's (EMA) Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre in Human Rights (Venice, Italy and Copenhagen, Denmark). She is a law graduate, admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association in 2005. Her main areas of research are international refugee protection, migration and human rights. As a researcher, she worked at the Human Rights Centre, a research institute in public international law and human rights, in Coimbra. She was teaching assistant at the undergraduate level in International Relations, at the University of Coimbra, and also taught in several post-graduate courses on the subjects of refugees’ protection and migrants’ integration. She has recently joined the Portuguese research team of FRANET, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Multidisciplinary Research Network.
Ana Filipe Neves
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Katherine Langley
The Refugee Convention as a practical tool is like the sun, we all know what it is, it shines over everything we do, but we never stare directly at it”. This quote from an immigration practitioner sets out perfectly the interplay between the Refugee Convention and practical immigration law within the UK. This presentation examines, and critically evaluates the reasons why the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (Refugee Convention) may be considered unhelpful at a practice level by current immigration practitioners. Further, this paper looks at some of the barriers raised by the current immigration legal framework in the United Kingdom. A consistent and strong theme arising from the data suggests that immigration practitioners are climbing a mountain of legal framework to support their clients. Whilst this paper may highlight areas for amendment in the Convention, and potentially in domestic legislation, there is much evidence to show that international law and associated domestic policy remain a difficult thing to change. Therefore, as much as the Refugee Convention is drafted as a living instrument, and for the many commentators who believe that it is outdated, it is not likely to be amended or revoked in the near future.