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Journeys and Justice: Forced migration, seeking Asylum and human rights.
A Conference at the University of Leeds, Friday 29 January 2010

This conference will examine the journeys of forced migrants. It will explore these journeys through the lenses of justice and human rights. A key part of the conference will be to debate better solutions to the problems of injustice and human rights denial that so often taint the journeys of forced migrants.

The conference aims to trace forced journeys from insecurity and fear to safety and justice. It will examine journeys without justice or safety and it will debate solutions to the problems of forced migration. It will explore the blurred boundaries between those migrants who are forced to work in conditions akin to slavery and those who migrate because of persecution, have their asylum claims denied, and end up in utterly exploitative and/or illegal working conditions. This conference aims to support the struggle for all migrants' human rights. Its focus is mainly on the UK, but contributions from elsewhere are welcome.

More details and booking forms are here: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/conferences/journeys-and-justice.html

(organised by Amnesty International, Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network and the University of Leeds and Leeds Met University)

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