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The Migration Studies PhD students at the University of Sussex are glad toannounce a Call for Papers for their third two-day international graduatestudent conference. The conference is open to doctoral students across alldisciplines, in the UK and beyond, who are working on migration-relatedissues. We welcome 20-minute presentations on a wide range of topics, withan emphasis on methods and theory.It is anticipated that the conference will include panels that focus on thefollowing (although submissions are not limited to these areas):-Migration policy processes-Transnational fields-Ethnography of migration-Climate-related migration-Gender/class issues-Irregular migrants-Migration and developmentThis graduate conference is an opportunity for researchers working oninnovative migration- related doctoral projects to present their work andreceive constructive and critical feedback from interested and qualifiedpeers. Presentations of PhD projects adopting qualitative, quantitative andmixed-methods approaches from different disciplinary and theoreticalperspectives are welcome. We encourage a wide and creative range of themesand contributions to multi-sited and comparative approaches.The event will coincide with the first Sussex Centre for Migration Research(SCMR)/Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) annual conference,which will take place at Sussex on 10 April 2014. Graduate Conferenceparticipants are invited to stay on for this conference, and JEMS willaward a 'best paper' from the Graduate Conference, which will besubsequently published in the journal after review by the editor. Thekeynote for the SCMR/JEMS event is Prof Rogers Brubaker (UCLA), who willpresent on 'Linguistic and Religious Pluralism: Between Difference andInequality.'Date and location: the graduate conference will take place at theUniversity of Sussex, in Brighton, UK, on the 8-9 April 2014.Deadline for submission: please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by15 February 2014 to: js290@sussex.ac.uk. Accepted participants will benotified by 28 February 2014.Costs: Participation in the conference is free of charge for speakers, andlunch and refreshments will be provided. A limited number of travelbursaries of £100 each are available for applicants from outside the UK. Ifyou are interested in being considered for one of these, please provide aparagraph-long explanation of why you require such funding.For more information: please contact js290@sussex.ac.uk.For more info on the Sussex Centre for Migration Research please visit:http://www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/