WG1 Geography as Fortune

WG1 will explore issues related to geographical birth location as determining fate with regard to what ID one possesses.

Focus Points

• Forced migration/ displaced people living in
  camps/ border hotspots
• Passport ‘apartheid’ – the unequal differentiation between the possession of passport(s)
• Birth right ‘lottery’
• Frontier states/island states
• States that resist refugees
• LGBTQI migrants – rights to migrate/ recognition of identity and family relationship status

Activities

• Collation of bibliography for publication on HIDDEN
  website.
• Regular WG meetings to coordinate, share research findings and plan further
  activities and workshop hosted at same time
• Participation in Action conferences
• STSM
• Preparation of future funding bid

Deliverables

• Contribution to online bibliography
• Report on Annual workshop on theme or method of the group
  on website
• Reports on regular WG meetings
• Publication of 2 scientific articles
• STSM reports
• Contribution to joint funding application