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One week left to submit your abstract!

 

The call for proposals for our conference “LGBTQ+ Refugees in the Welfare State: Research, Policy and Practitioners in Dialogue” closes on 25 March.

 

The conference, hosted by the Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University, is built around a simple but important idea: research and practice need to be in genuine conversation. Not parallel monologues, real dialogue.

 

We have confirmed participation from the UNHCR and migration authorities from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Our three keynote speakers, Eleonora Azzurra Mantovani (EUAA), S. Chelvan (33 Bedford Row), and Moira Dustin (University of Sussex), bring together (contesting) perspectives from policy, law, and research that rarely sit in the same room.

 

If you are working on questions around LGBTQ+ refugees, asylum procedures, welfare state integration, or queer migration more broadly: this is your space. We welcome submissions from researchers at all career stages, as well as practitioners and policy professionals with research to share.

 

Abstracts of up to 250 words for presentations or posters. Extended abstracts of up to 1,500 words for those interested in contributing to a policy brief anthology.

 

The conference takes place 21–22 May 2026 in Uppsala, in person.

 

Submit here https://www.uu.se/institution/kulturgeografiska/samverkan/lgbtq--refugees-in-the-welfare-state

 

Best,

Thomas

 

 

Thomas Wimark, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Human Geography

Pronouns: he, him, his
Department of Human Geography

Uppsala University

Box 513

SE-75120 Uppsala
+46 18 4717377 (office)

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