IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 8/2011

SEPTEMBER 2011

Content:

  • Migration, Globalization and New social Formations
  • Migration in the Nordic Regions: Recent Studies
  • Indigenous Migration in Latin America: Interethnic Relations and Transformations of Identity
  • Conferences and Seminars
  • Masters, PhDs and Post-Docs
  • New Publications

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 in the Nordic Regions: Recent Studies

Workshop organised by IMER Bergen in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen.
Date : 7 October 2011, 09.00-15.30.
Venue : Faculty of Law, Seminar room 1, Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1, Bergen.

 

Indigenous migrations in Latin America: Interethnic relations and transformations of identity

Call for Papers for a Special Number of Latin American Perspectives in Memory of Michael Kearney. Issue editors:  Laura Velasco and María Dolores París, Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.
Contact editors for more information:
Laura Velasco
Dolores París

 

Conferences and seminars

CONCEPTUALIZING SITES OF DISPLACEMENT
Date : 6 October, 10.00-15.00.
Venue : Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen.

PATHWAYS OF IRREGULARITY
Second Norwegian EMN Conference.
Registration deadline : 3 October 2011.
Date : 10 October 2011, 09.00-16.00.
Venue : Hotel Bristol, Oslo.

THE RESILIENCE OF PEOPLE IN MOTION: PROCESSES OF IMMIGRATION, TRANSMIGRATION, AND REMIGRATION IN THE WIDER EUROPE TODAY
Registration deadline : 7 October 2011.
Date : 13-15 October 2011.
Venue : University of Trier, Germany.

FORCED RETURN IN EUROPE –ADDRESSING THE HUMANITARIAN CHALLENGES
Norwegian Red Cross Seminar. Registration deadline: 15 October 2011.
Date : 17 October 2011, 10.00-15.15.
Venue : Hausmannsgate 7, Oslo.

BORDER-CROSSING: MIGRATION ACROSS NATIONAL AND MENTAL STATES
Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival.
Date: 3-6 November 2011.
Venue : BAFTA, 195   Picccadilly, London.

LIVING TOGETHER ‘IN’ DIVERSITY. NATIONAL SOCIETIES IN THE MULTICULTURAL AGE
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 31 December 2012.
Date : 21-11 May 2012.
Venue : The Central European University, Budapest.

THE FUTURE OF MULTICULTURALISM: STRUCTURES, INTEGRATION POLICIES AND PRACTICES
CRONEM’s 8th Annual Conference.
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 1 February 2012.
Date : 26 – 27 June 2012.
Venue: University of Surrey, UK.

DIGITAL CROSSROADS: MEDIA, MIGRATION AND DIASPORA IN A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Call for papers. Submission deadline : 10 January 2011.
Date : 28-30 June 2012.
Venue : Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

 

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: Auditorium, Bergen Resource Centre , Jekteviksbakken 31.

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA SYMPOSIUM
The Africa & African Diaspora Studies Graduate Student Association (AADSGSA), is sponsoring a two day conference designed for students to present research and works-in-progress related to the continental Africa and its Diasporas.
Call for proposals. Submission deadline: 28 October 2011.
Date : 2-3 February 2012.
Venue : Florida International University, Miami Florida.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
The Africana Research Center invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in any aspect of African American and Diasporan Studies, beginning August 2012.
Application deadline: 7 November 2011.

 

New publications

Djuve, Anne Britt (2011): Introduksjonsordningen for nyankomne innvandrere. Et integreringspolitisk paradigmeskifte? FAFO rapport 2011: 19.

Rogstad, Jon (2011): “Grenseløst engasjement. Sosial kapital og behovet for transnasjonale perspektiver”. I Wollebæk, Dag og Signe Bock Segaard (red.): Sosial kapital i Norge. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.