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Thursday 16 April 2016 15:30 - 17:00
PAPER SESSION 6 / PECHA KUCHA SESSIONS
relationships between marriage migration and integration (conceptualised both as a multi-directional and multi-faceted
process, and as a normative discourse) by contrasting transnational marriages with those contracted within the UK
ethnic group. Drawing on both existing quantitative survey data and new qualitative interviews, the project includes not
only British Pakistani Muslims (most often problematized in integration discourses) but also British Indian Sikhs, who
also have significant rates of transnational marriage, but who are less frequently presented as problematic in terms of
integration. These new findings will cast fresh light on both academic and political debates.
'Beauty and the Beast': Everyday Bordering and 'Sham Marriage' Discourse
Wemyss, G., Yuval-Davis, N., Cassidy, K.
(University of East London)
Historically a partnership has existed between state 'Border Enforcement' and civil registry offices in the UK. For
several decades couples from Britain and the ex-Empire seeking fiancée visas have been cross examined about the
intimacies of their relationships by immigration officers in British High Commissions across South Asia and Africa and
also faced questions of marriage registrars in the UK. More recently as borders have been opened up for Europeans
whilst being tightened against those from ex-colonies and elsewhere, marriages between women from Eastern
Europe and men from South Asia and Africa have been targeted as potential 'sham marriages' aimed at achieving
'immigration advantage' by the Home Office.
The 2014 Immigration Act introduced further requirements for registry staff to work more closely with 'Border
Enforcement' to manage the border. Official discourses of 'partnership', 'relationships' and 'engagement' are used to
describe the shared work of border enforcement by civil registrars and uniformed enforcers. As well as negotiating the
border during the process of marriage and civil partnerships, the official and media 'sham marriage' discourses impact
on the bordering experienced by couples in their subsequent everyday lives.
In this paper, the life and border narratives of targeted couples are explored in order to develop a situated,
intersectional and postcolonial analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of partnerships that embody the
interface of Europe and its ex-colonies in London.
Rights, Violence and Crime
W119, HAMISH WOOD BUILDING
POST-CONFLICT AND POST-VIOLENT SOCIETIES AS SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION
The 2015 conference theme on societies in transition, which is designed to address whether transition results in
progression or regression, is thrown into high relief by a focus on the specific type of societal transition that follows
from the ending of communal conflict and violence. It isolates particular kinds of issue involved in this form of societal
transition, such as the protection of human rights, the appropriate balance to be struck between human and group
rights, the management of risk, particularly over the outbreak of renewed conflict and violence, the transformation of
gender roles, particularly the mainstreaming of women’s rights and the deconstruction of violent forms of masculinity,
the need to deal with a raft of legacy issues deriving from the conflict, and the political, sociological and sociopsychological
dynamics involved in these kinds of society becoming reconciled to the past. This type of societal
transition isolates the importance of certain moral categories – victim, perpetrator, by-stander – as well as throws up
important issues and processes around truth recovery, memory, reparations, forgiveness, and, in particular, the nature
of justice and its connection to socio-economic redistribution. This kind of transition al society highlights the many
forms of justice – retributive, restorative, social – and illustrates the inter-connections between them and their
importance to victims’ sense of having got justice after conflict. A focus on victims, by-standers and perpetrators
enables us to expand and elaborate the meaning of human rights in post-conflict societies and to explore the
complexity of what progress or regression means to them.
Transitional (In)justice and Mexico’s Violent Post-authoritarian Regime
Trevino-Rangel, J.
(Center of Research and Teaching on Economics)
Vicente Fox’s victory in the 2000 presidential elections ended 71 years of authoritarian rule. Mexico’s authoritarian
regime lasted for 7 decades, in part, because it exterminated its enemies. The use of torture, ‘disappearances’, and
assassinations to attack the regime’s opposition was not an isolated practice. After the election Fox designed a series
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