Workshop

Workshop: Making up Migrants / Disabilities

Date: Friday 31 January 2025
Time: 10:30 - 17:00
Location: 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 organising.

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. That's why 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 van den Helder, who we will interview to learn more about their activism/professional practice in the Netherlands. For more 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 can 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 on the intersections of migration, mental health, and substance use, based on her experiences as a migrant in Amsterdam and as a former social worker in a shelter for homeless people, and on her research for Correlation, the European Harm Reduction Network. Followed by a Q&A.
	Coffee/Tea Break
16:00-16:45	Jasmijn Rana interviews Claire van den Helder on the embodiment of ‘disability’ and ‘race’, or how different bodies are made unequal. Followed by a Q&A.
	Drinks