Legal Identity, Citizenship, and the Politics of Civil Registration: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

DETAILS

DATE:09/01/2023 9:00 am

ORGANIZER

University of Amsterdam

VENUE

Political Science Common Room (REC B9.22) Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, Amsterdam

An Interdisciplinary Workshop hosted by the CitizenGap project,
University of Amsterdam

January 9th, Monday

ActivityTime
Coffee and Welcome9:00-9:30
Mohsin Bhat (Queen Mary University)
(Un)Credible Citizen: Citizenship Dispossession and the Politics of Rule of
Law in India

Aashish Yadav (Jindal Global Law School)
Due Process at Foreigners Tribunals in Assam

Chair: Imke Harbers
9:30-11:00
Break11:00-11:15
Christoph Sperfeldt (Macquarie Law School)
Legal Identity and Minority Statelessness in Cambodia

Chair: Gulshan Banas
11:15-12:00
Lunch Break12:00-13:00
Bronwen Manby (EUI)
Post-colonial Citizenship and Decolonisation as a Turning Point:
Continuities and Discontinuities in African States

Amanda Hammar (University of Copenhagen)
National ID Systems and the Paradoxes of Possibility: Contradictory Logics
and Effects of Digitisation and Centralisation of ID registration in African
Contexts

Chair: Vy Tran
13:00-14:30
Break14:30-15:00
Gulshan Banas (University of Amsterdam)
Brokers, Documents and Welfare

Vy Tran (University of Amsterdam)
Access to legal identity: Theoretical and empirical challenges

Imke Harbers (University of Amsterdam)
Boundaries of Membership: Political Exclusion, Ethnicity, and Uneven
Access to Civil Registration

Chair: Abbey Steele
15:00-17:00

January 10th, Tuesday

ActivityTime
Marika Sosnowski (GIGA) – virtual presentation
The Bureaucratic Revolution

Katharine Fortin (Utrecht University)
Legal Perspectives on Birth Registration in Armed Conflicts

Chair: Christoph Sperfeldt
9:00-10:30
Break10:30-11:00
Fernando de Medina-Rosales (Norwegian Refugee Council)
Legal Identity in Current Humanitarian Practice

Chair: Mohsin Bhat
11:00-12:00
Lunch Break12:00-13:00
Ramesh Ganohariti (Dublin City University)
(Non-)Recognition of Legal Identity in post-Soviet Aspirant States

Anil Persaud (Independent Researcher)
Transports, Documents and Housing in 1946 British Guiana

Chair: Bronwen Manby
13:00-14:30
Break14:30-15:00
Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam)
The local state and legibility in war-affected Colombia

Kristin Cain (University of Amsterdam)
Legibility of violent conflict: Peacebuilding reporting on Nepal’s Madhes

Chair: Ramesh Ganohariti
15:00-16:30
Concluding Discussion16:30-17:00

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