Call for Papers: 1st Annual Crimmigration Control Conference 11-12 October 2012
Researchers, graduate students and practitioners working in the field of crime (control) and migration are invited to participate in the 1st Crimmigration Control Conference, a two-day conference to be held at the Universidade de Coimbra on the 11th and 12th of October 2012. Over the past years, various authors have shown that migration policy and criminal law have increasingly become merged, mainly in the United States. Stumpf (2006) who has coined the term ‘crimmigration’, observes how immigration violations are increasingly addressed as criminal offenses. This label has spurred a vivid debate across nations and disciplines. At the same time, immigration law is also increasingly used as an instrument of crime control: rather than being rehabilitated and re-integrated in the country of residence, non-citizen criminals may lose their residence permits, in order to be excluded from the territory with the help of immigration law. Strongly related to the crimmigration trend is the development of a political and public discourse in which immigrants are increasingly seen and addressed as ‘dangerous others’, comparable to criminals. Whereas there is ample empirical evidence underlining the crimmigration trend, empirical research into the practice of ethnic/race/nationality profiling as a possible (un)intended result of crimmigration is still lacking.
For this first conference of the Crimmigration Control International Net of Studies we aim to bring together leading academics and junior scholars and practitioners from around the world who are interested in immigration issues, from a legal, sociological and interdisciplinary perspective in order to discuss these and other issues. While informal discussions are as much a part of appeal of this conference as formal workshops, this year we are especially delighted to have two keynote speakers who are leading scholars in the field of crimmigration control: Juliet Stumpf (Lewis & Clark Law School) and Doris Marie Provine (Arizona State University).
CALL FOR PAPERS REGULATION
Presentations must follow one of two formats: Oral or Written. All participants must be registered in the event, and the registration of at least one of the authors is mandatory in submissions with more than one author. Authors who intend to send their proposals for communications must send in their proposals by July 1st 2012. When making your submission, you should clearly indicate in which thematic workshop your paper and presentation fit best. The conference proceedings (papers and plenary sessions) will be published in a book to be presented during next year’s Crimmigration Control conference. Attendees will be responsible for their own funding.
Abstract and Paper Submission Requirements
In order to participate, authors must submit their abstracts before July 1st, 2012. Abstracts must be written in the Congress official languages, Portuguese or English. Submissions should report original work that has not been previously published. Contributions that advance the theory or practice of any aspect of crimmigration and crime control are welcomed. This includes for example theoretical papers, practice case studies, empirical evaluation and methodological work. Abstracts must follow narrative format with 500 words, and the selection of a Topic Area and a Presentation Format (oral or written) is mandatory. Abstracts must include the author(s) identification, professional or academic affiliation (whenever applied) and contacts. Additionally, abstracts must comply with the following authoring guidelines:
1- Title, with a maximum of 100 characters (including spaces)/approximately 10 words;
2 – Three to five keywords arranged according to the relevance of their content in the presentation;
3- A brief description of the presentation goals, its theoretical framework, methodology, main conclusions and bibliographical references; Investigation works should include their objectives, hypotheses and methodological procedures, namely data collection dates, participants, research techniques and main results.
Presentation Requirements (Oral or Written)
Presentations can be carried out in one of the two official languages of the Congress, Portuguese or English, and they most follow one of three proposed formats:
A – Oral Presentations will last for 15 minutes and participants will have access to a video projector and a computer.
B – Written Communications must include: 1- Title; 2 – Name of the author(s); 3 – Institution/affiliation; 4- Key-words; 5 – Bibliographical references;
B- Written Communications must have a maximum of 30 pages in A4 Word format (around 100000 caracters), Calibri, size 11, line spacing of 1,5 lines and 3 cm margins.
Abstracts can be sent to 1crimmigrationconference@crimmigrationcontrol.com
Important Dates
Abstracts due: 1st July 2012
· Admissions notification: 31 July 2012
· Final Papers due: 1st September 2012
· Conference starts: 11th – 12th October 2012
KJ