Session 1
Wednesday (May 4):
8.30-10.00 AM ET
CHAIR
Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban
(Central U of Gujarat, India)
PAPERS
Maria Koinova
(U of Warwick, UK)
Power and Informality in the Governance of Transit
and Irregular Migration
Geetha Ganga
(D.G. Vaishav College, India)
Yesterday, Tomorrow But What About Today?:
Narratives of the Somali Refugees Across the Diaspora
Olga Iakimova
(Ural Federal U, Russia)
Xenophobia as a Challenge to Solidarity in Times of Crisis:
Comparative Analysis of Russia and the United States
Gülce Safak Özdemir
(Pompeu Fabra U, Spain)
Urban Solidarity Typology: Comparison of Local Responses to the
“Refuge Crisis” of Europe in 2015
DISCUSSANT
Ali R. Chaudhary
(Rutgers U, US)
arc249@sociology.rutgers.edu