WHAT FLIGHT AND EXILE DO TO CHILDREN
An online symposium in collaboration with the Austrian Society for Exile Research
Open to all interested parties, registration required
Flight and exile almost always mean severe and lasting stress for children. The
Protecting the best interests of the child is therefore defined as a primary principle in all international and national legal norms. However, the way this is dealt with in the reality of everyday political life is usually different and accepts the traumatisation of children.
On the occasion of 5 May, the „Day of Remembrance against Violence and Racism in Memory of the Victims of National Socialism“, Austrian experts will discuss these connections from a psychosocial, historical, sociological, sociolinguistic and legal perspective in an online event. Symposium participants will have the opportunity to take part in the discussion via Zoom and Facebook.
Prof Dr Ernst Berger is a child psychiatrist, psychotherapist and development researcher.
Em. Prof. Dr DDr.h.c. Ruth Wodak is a linguistic sociologist and discourse researcher.
PROGRAMME RUN
14:00 Introduction: Ruth Wodak, Ernst Berger
14:10 Panel 1: FLIGHT AND TRAUMA
Birgit Ulla Wurm: „Aspects of psychotherapeutic/psycho-educational work with parents from the Kara Tepe camp - a field report“
Lisa Wolfsegger: „We have two types of children - children and child refugees“
Nora Ramirez-Castillo: „Hurt and strong at the same time: Refugee children and young people“
Discussant: Christoph Reinprecht
Followed by discussion
16:00 Panel 2: FLIGHT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Manfred Nowak„Deprivation of liberty of children“
Anna Sporrer„The best interests of the child in asylum and alien law proceedings“
Gerald Knaus„Compassion, international law and violence - Can the Refugee Convention still be saved?“
Discussant: Philipp Ther
Followed by discussion
18:00 End of the event
Participants:
Professor Dr Ernst Berger, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Medical University of Vienna
Dr Gerald Knaus, sociologist, European Stability Initiative, Berlin
Professor Dr Manfred Nowak, Secretary General of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC), Venice
Dr Nora Ramirez-Castillo, psychologist and psychotherapist, Hemayat
Professor Dr Christoph Reinprecht, sociologist, Vice-Rector, University of Vienna
Dr Anna Sporrer, Vice-President of the Administrative Court
Professor Dr Philipp Ther, MA, Historian, University of Vienna
Em. Distinguished Professor Dr DDr.h.c. Ruth Wodak, sociologist of language and discourse researcher, University of Lancaster/University of Vienna
Lisa Wolfsegger, Asylum Coordination Austria, expert on child refugees
Dr Birgit Ulla Wurm, child psychiatrist, psychosocial service, Eisenstadt