Working Group 1
Geography as Fortune
Leaders: Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino and Dr. Tugba Aydin Halisoglu
WG1 explores 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