The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford is organizing an international conference on the theme of Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is part of ‘Mapping Romani mobilities in Europe’, a two-year research project funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund.

The main aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students from across a variety of disciplines to discuss the multiple dimensions and impacts of Romani mobilities in Europe.

Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

We invite proposals for papers which investigate the variety and directions of contemporary Romani mobilities into, out of and within the EU and locate them in the broader political, social, historical and cultural context. We welcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:

    * Provide historical perspectives on policy and practice aimed at governing Romani mobilities
    * Interrogate, through the Roma case, the concept and practice of freedom of movement in the EU
    * Investigate broader demographic trends or specific migratory movements of Roma in the EU
    * Explore the relationship between different legal statuses and patterns and directions of Romani mobility
    * Explore Romani politics in the enlarged EU and the process of Europeanisation of the Roma issue, looking in particular at international NGOs, Roma elite and grassroots activism
    * Investigate the relationship between indigenous and long-established Romani communities and newly arrived Roma migrants
    * Discuss continuities and discontinuities in public discourses and social policies for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in the EU
    * Explore settlement and resettlement issues in the context of widespread anti-Gypsyism
    * Analyse the impacts of migration on identity and cultural production.

The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature a range of plenary and panel sessions and a keynote lecture by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP.

Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (max 300 words) and a brief CV (max 150 words) to the conference organisers by Friday 25th September 2009.

For full details see: Call for Papers Romani mobilities in Europe (PDF).

An online registration system will be accessible shortly.

For paper proposals and further information regarding to the conference, please email : Nando Sigona or call on +44(0)1865 281703

Link: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?conf_conferences_140110

Deadline: 2009/09/25