OCTOBER 2011

Content:

• IMER Bergen 15 Years Anniversary Conference
• Open Lecture
• Performance: Misplaced Women? Marking the City and Crossing Borders
• Hva er norskhet?
• Glocalising Care in Nordic Countries
• WZB seeks Senior Researcher
• Conferences and Seminars
• Masters, PhDs and Post-Docs
• New Publications

IMER BERGEN 15 YEARS ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE AND PHD COURSE

“Migration, Globalization and New Social Formations”.

Topics include media discourses after 22\7, right wing populism in Scandinavia, secularism and religion in Europe, multiculturalism and ideologies of integration, diversity and European publics, and migration, transnationalism and neoliberal globalization.
Registration deadline extended. Still possible to register!
Date : 9-11 November 2011.
Venue : Bergen, Norway.

 

OPEN LECTURE

David Ley ( University of British Columbia): “Masters of Space or Prisoners of Space? Locating the Neoilberal Migrant”
Yngve G. Lithman ( University of Bergen): “De-etatizing Social Science? : “Verstehen” and “Erklärung” in a (Somewhat) Flatter Earth”

Organised as part of IMER Bergen’s anniversary conference Migration, Globalization and New Social Formations.
Date : Wednesday 9 November, 10:15.
Venue : “Egget” (Student centre, Bergen), Parkveien 1.

 

PERFORMANCE: MISPLACED WOMEN? MARKING THE CITY AND CROSSING BORDERS

Starting on November 2 nd, Serbian performance artist Tanja Ostojic’s street performance Misplaced Women? continues themes of migration, desired mobility, and relations of power and vulnerability in regards to the mobile female body.
On November 10 th she will give the performance lecture Crossing Borders.
Date : Thursday 10 November, 19:00.
Venue : Stiftelsen 3,14, Vågsallmenningen 12, Bergen.
Free entrance.

Organised as a collaboration between IMER Bergen and Stiftelsen 3,14.

 

HVA ER NORSKHET?

Sosiologi i dag 3/4 2011.
Hva er norskhet? Et nytt nummer av Sosiologi i dag presenterer forskning som undersøker norskhetens mange betydninger. Artiklene i dette nummeret viser hvordan etnisitet, kjønn og klasse har betydning for hvem og hva som representerer og forbindes med det «norske». Gjennom ulike empiriske nedslagsfelt viser flere av artikkelbidragene hvordan grensene som blir etablert mellom Norges innbyggere ikke er tilfeldige, men utgjør noen bestemte mønstre for inklusjon og eksklusjon. Spørsmålet som undersøkes i dette temanummeret er derfor ikke bare hvilke ulike aspekter norskhet kan romme, men også hva som faller utenfor norskhetens grenser.

 

GLOCALISING CARE IN NORDIC COUNTRIES

Call for abstracts Special Issue to be proposed for the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
We invite abstracts of research papers, which examine the glocalising care in Nordic countries. We are particularly interested in papers that link previously separate research literatures or reframe traditional concepts in order to study complex processes of glocalisation in imaginative ways.
If you would like to contribute to this Special Issue, please send your abstract both to Lena Näre and Sirpa Wrede by 30 November 2011.

 

WZB SEEKS SENIOR RESEARCHER

The Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) seeks to hire one fulltime senior researcher for the research unit “Migration, Integration, Transnationalization” (directed by Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans), preferably beginning on 1 January 2012.
Application deadline : 24 November 2011.

 

Conferences and seminars

NATIONALISM, ETHNICITY AND BOUNDARIES
22nd ASEN Annual Conference .
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 6 November 2011.
Date : 27-29 March 2012.
Venue : London School of Economics.

KURDISH MIGRATION AND DIASPORA
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 30 October.
Date : 12-14 April 2012.
Venue : Uppsala University, Sweden.

MIGRATIONS AND SOCIETIES IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST: A LONG TERM PERSPECTIVE
4th Global Migration History Conference.
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 1 December 2011.
Date : 19-21 May 2012.
Venue : Rabat, Morocco.

HIGHLY SKILLED MIGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 12 December 2011.
Date : 24-25 May 2012.
Venue : Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, London.

DIASPORAS: EXPLORING CRITICAL ISSUES
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 13 January 2012.
Date : 21 June-1 July 2012.
Venue : Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom.

AT RISK IN EUROPE: IRREGULAR MIGRANTS FACING AND CIRCUMVENTING UNCERTAINTY
Workshop at the conference EASA 2012: Uncertainty and disquiet.
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 28 November 2011.
Date : 10-13 July 2012.
Venue : Nanterre University, France.

DEPORTATION, JUSTICE AND ANXIETY
Workshop at the conference EASA 2012: Uncertainty and disquiet.
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 28 November 2011.
Date : 10-13 July 2012.
Venue : Nanterre University, France.

DISPLACEMENT AND UNCERTAINTY
Workshop at the conference EASA 2012: Uncertainty and disquiet.
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 28 November 2011.
Date : 10-13 July 2012.
Venue : Nanterre University, France.

 

Masters, PhDs and Post-docs

PROVIR MASTER SCHOLARSHIPS
The research project “Provision of Welfare to Irregular Migrants” (IMER Bergen/Uni Rokkan Centre) invites master students from the University of Bergen and Bergen University College to apply for scholarships. The scholarships are of Nok 20 000 per project and is given to maximum 3 students. We especially invite applicants whose projects focus on children (in families or unaccompanied minors) and school and/or health.
Flexible application deadline . Contact project leader Christine M. Jacobsen for more information: christine.jacobsen@uni.no

 

New Publications

Barrett, Martyn, Chris Flood and John Eade (eds.) (2011): Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Berg, Mette Louise (2011): Diasporic Generations. Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain. Berghahn Books.

Furseth, Inger og Lene Maria van der Aa Kühle (2011): “Prison Chaplaincy from a Scandinavian Perspective”. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 153 (janvier-mars 2011): 123-141.

Furseth, Inger (2011): “The Hijab: Boundary Work and Identity Negotiations among Immigrant Muslim Women in the Los Angeles Area”. Review of Religious Research 52(4): 365-385.

Kayaoglu, A. and A. Kaya (2011): “Is National Citizenship Withering Away?: Social Affiliations and Labor Market Integration of Turkish Origin Immigrants in Germany and France”. Discussion paper 2011-33. Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).

Kjellberg, Janne og Caroline Rugeldal (2011): Illegal. Papirløs i Norge. Spartacus.

Nielsen, Jørgen S., Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Hugh Goddard and Brigitte Maréchal (eds.)(2011): Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 3 . Brill Publishing.

Rogstad, Jon (2011): “The Art of Articulation. Political Engagement and Social Movements in the Making among Young Adults in Multicultural Settings in Norway”. In Social Movement Studies, 10 (3).