Workshop

Workshop “Making up Migrants / Disabilities

Date

Friday 31 January 2025

Time

10:30 - 17:00 hour

Address

Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden

Room

0B.13

This workshop brings together scholars and practitioners working across the intersections of migrant and disability justice, to share insights, and identify contemporary challenges and future lines of inquiry and organizing.

This is the first event of the Making up Migrants/Disabilities project, which was awarded a seed-grant by Leiden University in June 2024, and is run by Wiebe Ruijtenberg, Paul van Trigt, Nadia Sonneveld, and Jasmijn Rana. In this first event, we are looking to get inspired, and for that, we have invited Rebecca Yeo, who will share insights from the UK context, as well as Saïed el Karim, Amany Shalha, and Joana Moana, and Claire den Helder who we will interview to learn more about their activism/professional practice in the Netherlands. For further inspiration, we invite scholars and practitioners who work on the intersection of migration controls and disability. To include a diverse range of voices, but to allow everyone to actively participate in the conversation, we aim for an audience of 20 – 25 people. You may register through the link below, in which you can also indicate what you need in order to be able to attend:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZtQ61YIxK7SlCZdSm-9rhh1sLLWy6YktelDEWTfAYEcn8LQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Program

10:30-11.00	Coffee, tea, cookies
11:00-11:15	Welcome by Wiebe Ruijtenberg
11:15-12.15	Book Talk Rebecca Yeo “Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity, and Collective Resistance (Routledge, 2024). Followed by Q&A, moderated by Wiebe Ruijtenberg
	Lunch (sandwiches and salads)
13:00 -13:45	Nadia Sonneveld interviews Saïed el Karim, on his experiences with healthcare with a Dutch deportation center, and on his current experiences as a service provider to illegalized people in Amsterdam. Followed by a Q&A
	Coffee/Tea break
14:00 -14:45	Paul van Trigt interviews Amany Shalha, who has set up a network to support migrants with visual impairments navigate the Netherlands. Followed by a Q&A
	Coffee/Tea break
15:00-15:45	Wiebe Ruijtenberg interviews Joana Moura, who works at a shelter for EU citizens in crisis, who have limited access to Dutch services, and who are encouraged to return. Followed by a Q&A
	Coffee/Tea Break
16:00-16:45	Jasmijn Rana interviews Claire den Helder on the embodiment of ‘disability’ and ‘race’, or how different bodies are made unequal. Followed by a Q&A
	Drinks