NOVEMBER 2012
Content:
- Race, gender, and reproduction in the migrant metropolis: From “illegal” migrants to “criminal” citizens
- Call for applications to the EMMIR study programme
- Etikk i Praksis 2/2012: Irregulær migrasjon – Nordiske perspektiver
- Campaign to stop racism in academia
- Multicultural citizenship in plicy and practice: Historical and contemporary perspectives
- Transnational Social Networks
- Conferences and Seminars
- New Publications
RACE, GENDER, AND REPRODUCTION IN THE MIGRANT METROPOLIS: FROM “ILLEGAL” MIGRANTS TO “CRIMINAL” CITIZENS
The research project Provision of Welfare to ‘Irregular Migrants’ (PROVIR) hosts the last IMER Bergen Seminar of the year, with anthropologist Nicholas De Genova (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Date : Friday 14 December, 13:15-15:00.
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6 th floor.
All interested are welcome.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS TO THE EMMIR STUDY PROGRAMME
EMMIR is the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations. It is the first African-European Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Migration Studies, and a unique study programme focusing on migration through an intercultural approach. It provides profound theoretical skills in migration studies combined with field work in Europe and Africa. It is designed as a multidisciplinary programme that addresses important contemporary issues in an emerging field of study.
Application deadline : 15 December 2012.
ETIKK I PRAKSIS 2/2012: IRREGULÆR MIGRASJON – NORDISKE PERSPEKTIVER
Det nyeste nummeret av tidsskriftet Etikk i Praksis tar for seg irregulær migrasjon. Les artiklene i fulltekst her.
CAMPAIGN TO STOP RACISM IN ACADEMIA
According to a report published by the Guardian on Friday 27 May 2011 there are about 14,000 British professors but only approximately 75 are black. Change.org has launched a new campaign in the UK against the racial exclusion of black academics and professors from equal job opportunities at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Sign the petition here.
MULTICULTURAL CITIZENSHIP IN POLICY AND PRACTICE: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
Call for papers to research seminar organized by the Uni Rokkan Centre, Bergen, in collaboration with The Network for Research on Multiculturalism and Societal Interaction,
University of Turku (Finland). Submission deadline: 1 February 2013.
Date : 18-19 April 2013.
Venue : Uni Rokkan Centre, Bergen.
TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS
The third issue of the journal Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal (TSR), is now out, with a special focus on the topic “Transnational Social Networks”. Open access.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
PROTECTING CIVILIANS IN REFUGEE CAMPS: ISSUES OF RESPONSIBILITY AND LESSONS FROM UGANDA
PhD Defence, Maja Janmyr ( University of Bergen).
Date : 4 December 2012, 10:15.
Venue : Auditorium 2, Faculty of Law, Bergen.
SCANDINAVIAN POPULATION GROUPS ORIGINATING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – POPULATION CHANGE AND INTEGRATION: A COMPARISON
Workshop, IMER Malmö
Date : 11 December 2012, 12:30-16:15.
Venue : Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University.
SEGREGERING OG MISTILLIT
Lunsjseminar, Institutt for Samfunnsforskning. Påmelding på nettsidene innen 11. desember.
Tid: Torsdag 13. desember kl. 12.00-13.00. Servering fra 11.45.
Sted: Store møterom, NOVA, Munthes gate 29.
MIGRATION: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW FRONTIERS
Call for papers to interdisciplinary conference on migration jointly 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.
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION, DIVERSITY, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER: INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON MANAGEMENT OF LABOUR, POWER, AND CITIZENSHIP
Call for papers to track at the 2013 EURAM Conference: Democratising Management. Submission deadline: 15 January 2013.
Date : 26-29 June 2013.
Venue : Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey.
THE NEW MOBILITY: MANAGING GROWTH, SECURITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
International Metropolis Conference 2013. Join it on Facebook
Date : 9-13 September 2013.
Venue : Tampere, Finland.
THEORIZING ‘THE LOCAL TURN’ IN IMMIGRANT POLICIES: A MULTI-LEVEL APPROACH
Call for papers to workshop. Submission deadline: 1 February 2013.
Date : 20 September 2013.
Venue : Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).
EXAMINING MIGRATION DYNAMICS: NETWORKS AND BEYOND
Call for papers to THEMIS international migration conference. Submission deadline: 15 January 2013.
Date : 24-26 September 2013.
Venue : Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Andersson, Mette (2012): “The debate about multicultural Norway before and after 22 July 2011”. In Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 19:4, 418-427.
Aure, Marit (2012): ”Ny arbeidskraft, nye innbyggere – nye nordlendinger”. I Jentoft, S., Nergaard, J-I. og Rørvik, K. A. (red.): Hvor går Nord-Norge – et institusjonelt perspektiv på folk og landsdel. Orkana Akademisk.
Eide, Solveig Botnen (2012): ”Individuelt ansvar og sløvhet i profesjonsutøvelse”. I Etikk i Praksis 2/2012.
Fangen, Katrine og Kjærre, Halvar Andreassen (2012): ”Uten lovlig opphold = uten rettigheter? Tilværelsen til migranter uten oppholdstillatelse i lys av normativ teori om rettferdighet”. I Etikk i Praksis 2/2012.
Fryklund, Björn (ed.) (2012): Sweden’s Population Groups Originating from Developing Countries: Change and Integration. Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) and Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Malmö University.
Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2012): “Legitimizing policies: How policy approaches to irregular migrants are formulated and legitimized in Scandinavia”. In Etikk i Praksis 2/2012.
Lysaker, Odin og Moan, Marit Hovdal (2012): ”Irregulær migrasjon – etiske, rettslige og politiske dilemmaer”. I Etikk i Praksis 2/2012.
Mahdavi, Mojtaba and Knight, W. Andy (eds.) (2012): Towards the Dignity of Difference? Neither ‘End of History’ nor ‘Clash of Civilizations’ . Ashgate.
Miller, Tom (2012): China’s Urban Billion: the Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History. Zed Books.
Stålsett, Sturla J. (2012): ”Asylbarn og menneskeverd: Etiske refleksjoner med utgangspunkt i erfaringer fra Helsesenteret for papirløse migranter”. I Etikk i Praksis 2/2012.
Svendsen, Lars Fr. H. (2012): ”Papirløses rett til å søke arbeid. En konsekvensetisk vurdering”. I Etikk i Praksis 2/2012.
Yonemura, Akemi and Penson, Jonathan (eds.) (2012): Next Steps in Managing Teacher Migration: Papers of the Sixth Commonwealth Research Symposium on Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migration. Commonwealth Secretariat.