AUGUST 2011

Content:

• Nordic Journal of Migration Research Vol. 1
• IMER Bergen Seminar
• Ny VAM utlysning med søknadsfrist 12. oktober
• Multiculturalism and Integration: Struggling with Confusions
• Diaspora and Migration: Rethinking African Development in the 21st Century
• Mapping Social Remittance
• Conferences and Seminars
• Masters, PhDs and Post-Docs
• New Publications

 

Nordic Journal of Migration Research Vol. 1

Nordic Journal of Migration Studies has launched its first volume.
NJMR publishes high quality articles and book reviews on the Nordic region and beyond in the field of international migration and ethnic relations. It provides a unique and up-to-date window to top scholarship in its field.
Eds: Hakan G. Sicakkan ( University of Bergen) and Tuomas Martikainen (Åbo Akademi).

Access the articles online

 

IMER Bergen Seminar

Balancing the Borders: Irregular Migrants as the Excommunicated of the Norwegian Welfare State
– Cecilie Øien (Fafo – Institute for Applied International Studies)
Date : 2 September, 13.15-15.00.
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

 

Ny VAM utlysning med søknadsfrist 12. oktober

VAM programmet åpner for søknader for nye forskningsprosjekter og postdoktorprosjekter.

 

Multiculturalism and Integration: struggling with confusions

By Tariq Modood.
The ACCEPT PLURALISM project invites you to read an online academic debate.

 

Diaspora and Migration: Rethinking African Development in the 21st Century

Under the generalized rubric of diaspora and migration, the Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) seek submissions of papers that explore the intersection between diaspora, migration and the discourse of development in Africa in the 21st century. Submission deadline: 30 April 2012.

 

Mapping Social Remittance

Migration Letters invites contributions for a Special Issue on social remittances and the migrant-left behind nexus, to be approached in a comparative, fieldwork-based perspective.
Submission Deadline : 20 September 2011.

 

Conferences and seminars

16 TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE
Date: 12-16 September 2011.
Venue: Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands.

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF YOUNG ADULT IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE
The final conference of the EUMARGINS Research Team.
Date : 14 September 2011.
Venue : University of Oslo, Norway.
Registration. No registration fee.

ETHNOGRAPHY, DIVERSITY AND URBAN SPACE CONFERENCE
ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
Date : 22-23 September 2011.
Venue : University of Oxford.

I-DAGE
Registration deadline : 16 September 2011.
Date : 6-7 October 2011.
Venue : Københavns Universitet, Denmark.

MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION AND NEW SOCIAL FORMATIONS
IMER Bergen 15 years anniversary conference and PhD course.
Registration deadline : 20 October 2011.
Date : 9-11 November 2011.
Venue : Bergen, Norway.

MIGRATION AS A SIGN OF THE TIMES: PERSPECTIVES FROM SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THEOLOGY
Call for paper proposals. Submission deadline: 31 January 2012.
Date : 12-14 April 2012.
Venue : Salzburg, Austria.

THE MASHRIQ AND THE MAHJAR: MIGRATION FROM THE LEVANT, 1800-2000
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 31 October 2011.
Date : 20-22 April 2012.
Venue : North Carolina State University.

INHERITING THE MIGRATION EXPERIENCE IN THE AMÉRICAS
Date : 6-8 June 2012.
Venue : Université Paris Diderot, France.

RELIGION, RIGHTS, MOBILITY, MIGRATION
Call for abstracts to session. Submission deadline: 15 December 2011.
Second ISA Forum of Sociology.
Date : 1-4 August 2012.
Venue : Buenos Aires, Argentina.

IMMIGRANTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY
16th Nordic Migration Research Conference & 9th ETMU Days
Date : 13-15 August 2012.
Venue : University of Turku, Finland.

 

Masters, PHDs and Post-Docs

MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION AND NEW SOCIAL FORMATIONS
PhD course and conference, IMER Bergen. Registration deadline: 20 October 2011.
Date : 9-11 November 2011.
Venue : University of Bergen, Norway.

CULTURES OF MOBILITY IN EUROPE. PAST AND PRESENT TRAJECTORIES OF TRAVELLING COMMUNITIES
The Research Group Cultures of Mobility in Europe (COME), Institute for Cultural Anthropology, Freiburg University, Germany, invites applications for 1 post-doc position (100% ) and 2 doctoral positions (50%).
Application deadline : 16 September 2011.

 

New Publications

Brochmann, Grete and Anniken Hagelund (2011): “Migrants in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Emergence of a Social Policy Problem”. Nordic Journal of Migration Studies 1/1: 13-24.

Fandrem, Hildegunn (2011): Mangfold og mestring i barnhage og skole: Migrasjon som risikofaktor og ressurs. Høyskoleforlaget.

Fossland, Trine og Marit Aure (2011): ”Når høyere utdanning ikke er nok: – Integrasjon av høyt utdannede innvandrere på arbeidsmarkedet”. Sosiologisk tidskrift 19/2: 131-150.

Holtug, Nils (2011): “The Ethics of Immigration Policy”. Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1/1: 4-12.

Kraus, Peter A. (2011): “The Multilingual City: The Cases of Helsinki and Barcelona”. Nordic Journal of Migration Studies 1/1: 25-36.

Lithman, Yngve G. (2011): “Stationarity and Non-Stationarity in Immigrant Problem Discourse”. Nordic Journal of Migration Studies 1/1: 37-42.

Munck, Ronaldo, Carl Ulrik Schierup and Raúl Delgado Wise (eds.) (2011): Migration, Work and Citizenship in a Global Era. Special issue of Globalizations, Vol. 8, issue 3.

Piguet, Étienne, Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire (eds.) (2011): Migration and Climate Change. UNESCO and Cambridge University Press.

Sciortino, Giuseppe and Martina Cvajner (eds.) (2011): Survival Strategies of Irregular Immigrants . Special issue of Migration Letters, Vol. 8, No. 1.

Syssner, Josefina (red.) (2011): Perspektiv på turism och resande. Begrepp för kristisk turismanalys. Studentlitteratur.

Øien, Cecilie and Silje Sønsterudbråten (2011): No way in, no way out? A study of living conditions of irregular migrants in Norway. Fafo-report 2011:03.