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Wednesday 15 April 2015 09:00 - 10:30
PAPER SESSION 1
other' and the paper calls for a broader inter-disciplinary discussion of prejudicial language and notions of 'belonging'
and 'inclusion' with regards to marginalised groups such as Roma minorities. The paper draws on examples from
research that show how understandings of ethnic and racial categorisations shift when research approaches
transcend 'the interview'.
‘They Have Brilliant Castles Here, We’ve Never Seen That in Poland’: Changes to Family Leisure Postmigration
Among Eastern European Migrants
Sime, D.
(University of Strathclyde)
The importance of family leisure for family bonding and strengthening of relationships has been emphasised by
previous research (Schänzel et al., 2012). However, there is little evidence on what happens to families' leisure
behaviours when they migrate to another country. In this paper, we are interested in how children's leisure spaces and
types of leisure activities are affected by migration, and how they adapt to the need to reconfigure their leisure
activities and leisure-enabling networks post-migration. Migration engages children in a variety of social, cultural and
emotional settings. As the significance of social networks has been extensively discussed in research with migrants
(Ryan, 2011; McGhee et al., 2013), we examine how leisure activities post-migration are reconfigured by the sudden
absence of leisure-enabling ties with grandparents and friends, for example, and identify new spaces for family
leisure.
The paper reviews first the theoretical and research underpinnings of social network analysis to the study of children's
relationships and argues for a more nuanced examination of children's multiple networks. We present evidence from
research with over 100 Eastern European migrant children, which examined children's experiences post migration and
changes to their leisure activities. Findings outline the significant role of increased family income in encouraging
family tourism in the new country and transnationally, while also identifying significant barriers to family leisure, such
as children's limited language skills and knowledge of available services, lack of established peer networks, parents'
extended working hours, and increased control of children's independent movements due to perceived safety risks.
'Poles Have Adapted Here, but the English Haven't'
Seredynska-Abou Eid, R.
(University of Nottingham)
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union resulted in a massive migration from Poland to the United Kingdom
(UK). More than a decade later, issues such as adaptation, lifestyle and cultural translation are very much blurred by
political populism. In the times of economic crises, a potential terror threat and political instability to the east of EU
borders, multiculturalism has become a favourite cliché in political campaigns in the United Kingdom; however, the
politicization of the term resulted in observable dichotomy between the social and cultural perspectives of migration
and political jabbering.
This paper focuses on the initial analysis of the results of a doctoral project Translating Cultures – Adapting Lives
among Polish post-2004 first-generation migrants in the East Midlands. Cultural elements of adaptation and
interpretation of cultures, comprehension of the environment and expectations versus reality have been researched in
the light of challenges of social integration from the point of view of migrants. The social cohesion issue was broadly
commented on and recapitulated in the claim that 'Poles have adapted here [in the UK], but the English haven't.'
Moreover, a need of more efficient communication with Polish communities was recorded at the institutional level as
well. Therefore, this paper attempts to propose a set of recommendations how to overcome cultural hurdles in order to
improve mutual understanding and built more integrated communities. Such guidance could be interest to local policy
makers, those involved in everyday contact with Polish migrants and immigrants themselves.
Rights, Violence and Crime
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The Politics of Anti-denial Legislation: Cambodia’s ‘Law on the Non-Recognition of Khmer Rouge Crimes’
Manning, P.
(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Anti-denial laws are a contentious way of managing public accounts of genocide and mass killing. As a socio-political
technique, anti-denial laws specifically criminalise the propagation of versions of the past that transgress moral
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