october 2012
Content:
- Boklansering: Kritiske hendelser – nye stemmer
- New issue of Nordic Journal of Migration Studies
- Online conference: Migration in a changing world: were do we go?
- The first Romanian research and documentation center on immigrants’ integration in Romania
- The Turkish Migration Studies group
- Conferences and Seminars
- Masters, PhDs and Post Docs
- New Publications
BOKLANSERING: KRITISKE HENDELSER – NYE STEMMER
Universitetsforlaget og IMER Bergen har gleden av å invitere til lansering av den nye boka Kritiske Hendelser – nye stemmer: Politisk engasjement og transnasjonal orientering i det nye Norge (Red. Mette Andersson, Christine M. Jacobsen, Jon Rogstad, Viggo Vestel). Redaktørene vil presentere boken. Kommentar ved Jan Kåre Breivik.
Dato: Torsdag 1. november, 14.00-16.00.
Sted: Speilsalen, det Akademiske Kvarter, Olav Kyrres gate 49, Bergen.
Seminaret er gratis og åpent for alle.
NEW ISSUE OF NORDIC JOURNAL OF MIGRATION STUDIES
The new issue of NJMR (Vol. 2, issue 3) is now available for free download.
ONLINE CONFERENCE: MIGRATION IN A CHANGING WORLD: WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
Wiley-Blackwell’s Exchanges Online Conference. Conference registration and participation is free of charge. The conference will bring together academics from the disciplines of geography, economics, history, policy, philosophy, peace studies, religious studies, sociology, politics, cultural studies and more.
Date : 5-9 November 2012.
Venue : Online.
THE FIRST ROMANIAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON IMMIGRANTS’ INTEGRATION IN ROMANIA
Romanian Asociation for Health Promotion (ARPS) together with Soros Foundation Romania have launched the first “Research and Documentation Center on Immigrants’ Integration” from Romania. The project aims to create and develop a research and documentation centre on immigrants’ integration, to create a multidisciplinary network of researchers and to publish studies on the integration of the immigrants.
THE TURKISH MIGRATION STUDIES GROUP
The Turkish Migration Studies Group (TurkMiS) at the University of Oxford is a platform for researchers, students and other stakeholders interested in migration issues in, from, and through Turkey and its neighbourhood.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
MIGRASJON TIL NORGE – STRØMMER OG REGULERING
Seminar. Påmelding på nettsidene.
Dato: 15. november, 13:00-15:00.
Sted: Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Munthes gate 31, Oslo.
EUROPAS UDI: HVA BETYR OPPRETTELSEN AV EUROPEAN ASYLUM SUPPORT OFFICE (EASO) FOR NORGE?
European Migration Network (EMN) Seminar. Påmelding på nettsidene.
Tid : 16. november 2012, 14:00-16:00.
Sted: Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Munthes gate 31, Oslo.
FORSKNING PÅ VELFERD, ARBEIDSLIV OG MIGRASJON – HVA NÅ?
VAM – programmets midtveiskonferanse. Norges Forskningsråd.
Dato : 20. mars 2013.
Sted : Oslo Kongressenter.
INTIMATE MIGRATIONS: MARRIAGE, SEX WORK AND KINSHIP IN TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION
Call for abstracts to conference. Submission deadline: 15 November 2012.
Date : 3-5 April 2013.
Venue : Roskilde University and at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark.
NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION
Call for papers to ASEN 23 rd Conference. Submission deadline: 30 November 2012.
Date : 9-11 April 2013.
Venue : London School of Economics, UK.
MIGRATION: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW FRONTIERS
Call for papers to conference organised by the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at UCL.
Submission deadline : 16 December 2012.
Date : 10-13 April 2013.
Venue : University College London.
GLOBAL THOUGHT, LOCAL LIVES: CULTURAL POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISMS, COSMOPOLITANISMS, AND SECULARISMS
Call for papers to workshop. Submission deadline: 15 December 2012.
Date : 18-20 April 2013.
Venue : Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
THE HOMETOWN IN THE EVERYDAY: GEOGRAPHIES OF NOSTALGIA WITHIN DIASPORIC POPULATIONS
Call for abstracts to session at the Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies. Short abstracts (250 to 300 words) can be sent to Anindita Datta (anindita.dse@gmail.com) and Ajay Bailey (A.Bailey@rug.nl) by 10th December 2012.
Date : 1-3 July 2013.
Venue : University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
CROSSROADS – EUROPE, MIGRATION AND CULTURE
Call for papers to conference. Submission deadline: 31 January 2013.
Date : 24-25 October 2013.
Venue : University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
MIGRANTS AS “TRANSLATORS”: MEDIATING EXTERNAL INFLUENCES ON POST WORLD WAR II WESTERN EUROPE, 1945-1973
Workshop. Application deadline: 6 January 2013.
Date : 24-26 October 2013.
Venue : Hamburg, Germany.
MASTERS, PHDS AND POST DOCS
MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND SOCIAL COHESION
Application for the MISOCO Master Course 2013-2015 is now open.
Application deadline : 15 December 2012.
“INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION”: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING REGIMES OF INTEGRATION IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES
PhD Course organised by Department of Philosophy-FOF, Research project IDIN, Interculturalism & Diversities. Registration deadline: 31 October 2012.
Date : 26-30 November 2012.
Venue : Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway.
HOME AND AWAY: GENDER, NATION, DEPORTATION
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship available at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Application deadline: 23 November 2013.
THE POST-COLONIAL PRISON: CITIZENSHIP, PUNISHMENT AND MOBILITY
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship available at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Application deadline: 23 November 2013.
INTENSIVE COURSE ON MIGRATION RESEARCH BY CHRISTIAN DUSTMANN
The Ifo Center for Excellence in Migration and Integration Research (CEMIR) offers an intensive course on migration research held by Christian Dustmann, University College London. The main topics covered are: 1) The migration decision, immigrants’ behaviour, and immigrant selection. 2) The second generation. 3) The effects of migration on the sending and receiving countries. Interested Ph.D. students and post docs in economics with a firm interest in the field of migration are invited to send their CV to Sabine Rumscheidt (rumscheidt@ifo.de) by 17 December 2012. Applicants are welcome (but not required) to attach one research paper of their own.
Date : 28 February – 2 March 2013.
Venue : The Ifo Institute in Munich, Germany.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Espeland, Carl Endre and Jon Rogstad (2012): “Antiracism and Social Movements in Norway: the Importance of Critical Events”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online 4 October 2012. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.723251.
Friberg, Jon Horgen (2012): “The Stages of Migration. From Going Abroad to Settling Down: Post-Accession Polish Migrant Workers in Norway”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 38, Issue 10.
Messer, Michi, Renee Schroeder and Ruth Wodak (eds.) (2012): Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer.