Conference: Intersecting Migration Discourses in the UK, Germany and Russia

This ESRC-funded conference explores immigration and migrant integration discourses and their influenes on policy-making. The focus will be on three countries: The UK, Germany and Russia. All three countries are important destination countries attracting large numbers of migrants and refugees. At the same time, there are distinct differences in migration trajectories and responses across them. The conference thereby intends to bring the different contexts of these three countries together, and to gain new insights into a topic of great relevance to society, particularly in the context of the current refugee and migration crisis. The conference is organised by PhD students Szymon Parzniewski and Anja Benedikt and is supported by the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and the Institute for German Studies (IGS) at the University of Birmingham.