march-april 2013
Content:
- IMER Ph.D fellowship at the University of Bergen
- Upcoming IMER Bergen Seminars
- New issue of Nordic Journal of Migration Research
- Comparative migration studies (CMS)
- The journal Identities has been relaunched
- Mobility and politics
- Conferences and seminars
- Masters, PhDs and Post Docs
- New Publications
IMER PH.D. FELLOWSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
The Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, has a vacant PhD position related to International Migration and Ethnic Relations. The scholarship period is set to 4 years, 25% of which must be dedicated to teaching, supervision and administrative tasks at the Department and IMER Bergen. Application deadline: 31 May 2013.
IMER Bergen has three upcoming seminars:
– Lise Rolandsen Agustin: “Minority Women, European Integration, and the European Union”.
– Friday 19 April, 14.15-16.00.
– Robert Sata: “Challenges of European Integration – Diversity and Immigration in Political Discourses of Integration”.
– Friday 26 April, 14.15-16.00.
– Camilo Pérez-Bustillo: “Peoples in Movement: Potential Contributions of Migrant Rights Movements of Latin American Origin to the Emergence of Counter-Hegemonic Paradigms of Human Rights – Comparative Aspects in the Euro-African and Global Context”.
– Friday 3 May, 14.15-16.00.
NEW ISSUE OF NORDIC JOURNAL OF MIGRATION RESEARCH
The new issue of NJMR (vol. 3, issue 1, March 2013) is now available (open access).
COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES (CMS)
Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) is an open access, international, peer-reviewed journal for comparative research in the field of migration, integration and ethnic studies. Contributions are invited in particular on the following topics: migration, integration, assimilation, migration policies, incorporation policies, governance of migration and integration, ethnic/cultural/religious diversity, migrant rights, gender & migration, migration & citizenship, migration & national identity, migration & security, civic integration, nationalism and migration, ethnic entrepreneurship.
THE JOURNAL IDENTITIES HAS BEEN RELAUNCHED
Identities– Global Studies in Culture and Power (ed. Dr. Claire Alexander) has been relaunched, with new editors, new board, and updated aims and scope. Submit papers and queries to identities@surrey.ac.uk
See the most recent issue (Vol. 20, issue 2, 2013) here
Mobility and Politics is a new series from Palgrave Pivot, edited by Martin Geiger, Parvati Raghuram and William Walters. The series invites original, theoretically and empirically
informed studies for academic and policy-oriented debates. Authors examine issues such as refugees and displacement, migration and citizenship, security and cross-border movements, (post-) colonialism and mobility, and transnational movements and cosmopolitics.
THE SCANDINAVIAN WELFARE STATE AND IMMIGRATION. GOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS?
Open lecture by Anniken Hagelund.
Date : Friday 19 April, 11.30-12.15.
Venue: Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.
MINORITETSBEFOLKNINGENS MØTE MED DET POLITISKE NORGE
Boklansering. Forfattere: Tor Bjørklund og Johannes Bergh. Påmelding innen 18. april.
Dato: 22. april, 14.00-16.00.
Sted: Institutt for Samfunnsforskning, Munthes gate 31, Oslo.
RETUR
UDIs vårkonferanse. Påmelding på nettsidene.
Dato: 22. april 2013, 09.00-15.30.
Sted : Oslo Kongressenter (Folkets hus).
KRYSNINGSPUNKTER
Institutt for Samfunnsforskning inviterer til lansering av boken Krysningspunkter: Likestillingspolitikk i et flerkulturelt Norge (redigert av Beret Bråten og Cecilie Thun). Påmelding innen 25. april.
Dato: 29. april, 14.00.
Sted: Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Munthes gate 31, Oslo.
DIALOGMØTE OM FORSKNINGSPROGRAMMET VAM
Forskningsrådet inviterer til dialogmøte for forskere innen VAM-feltet. Påmelding innen 25. april.
Dato : 30. april, 10.00-12.00.
Sted: Stensberggata 22, Oslo.
CULINARY ’SELF’ AND ’OTHER’: MIGRATION AND FOOD IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
International Conference.
Dates : 24-25 May 2013.
Venue : St. Pölten, Austria.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AFTER THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Public keynote speech by Stephen Castles, as part of the Marie Jahoda Summer School.
Date : 10 July 2013, 19.00.
Venue : University of Vienna, Kleiner Festsaal.
SUBJECTIVITIES AND MIGRATIONS: PROJECTS OF LIFE, DESIRES AND EXPECTATIONS
Call for papers to panel on the 5 th Portuguese Congress of Anthropology. Submission deadline: 22 April.
Dates : 8-11 September 2013.
Venue : Vila Real, Portugal.
MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES
Call for papers to panel on the 5 th Portuguese Congress of Anthropology. Submission deadline: 22 April.
Dates : 8-11 September 2013.
Venue : Vila Real, Portugal.
RELIGION, MIGRATION, MUTATION
Call for papers to BASR 2013 Annual Conference. Submission deadline: 1 June 2013.
Dates : 3-6 September 2013.
Venue : Liverpool Hope University.
2013 INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE
The deadline for submitting proposals for workshop has been extended to 30 April.
Dates : 9-13 September 2013.
Venue : Tampere, Finland.
PRESS AND EXILE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Call for abstracts to workshop. Submission deadline: 24 April 2013.
Dates : 23-24 September 2013.
Venue : École française de Rome, Italy.
DENATURALIZING CLIMATE CHANGE: MIGRATION, MOBILITIES AND SPACES
Call for papers to workshop. Submission deadline: 30 April 2013.
Dates : 31 October-1 November 2013.
Venue : Gästehaus Teerhof, University of Bremen, Germany.
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES AND CONTINUITIES
Call for abstracts to Turkish Migration Conference 2014. Submission deadline: 3 September 2013.
Dates : 30 May-1 June 2014.
Venue : Regent’s College London.
INTERROGATING THE GLOBAL: CHALLENGES TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Migration, Environment and Development research group at the Department of Sociology is pleased to be able to invite PhD candidates from across the social sciences at the University of Bergen to a two-day seminar dedicated to an interrogation of the ways in which we encounter and engage with the global in our research.
Extended deadline for abstract submission : 25 April 2013.
Dates: 6-7 June 2013.
Venue: UiB Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen.
MIGRATION AND INEQUALITY
Marie Jahoda Summer School. Application deadline: 25 April 2013.
Dates : 8-10 July 2013.
Venue : Department of Sociology, University of Vienna.
TRAINING SCHOOL ON FIELD RESEARCH METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTALLY-INDUCED MIGRATION
As part of COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory, COST Action Network and UNU-EHS organize a training school on field research methods for early PhD and late Master students, and those planning to conduct a PhD. The training school is designed for students interested in environmentally-induced migration who are planning to conduct field research on this topic.
Application deadline : 5 May 2013
Dates : 8-12 July 2013.
Venue : Bonn, Germany.
TWO POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS AVAILABLE
The Historical Institute in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne seeks to appoint two full-time post-doctoral researchers for a period of three years starting on 1st October 2013. The positions will form part of an ERC-funded research project into the transnational history of “Left-wing Exile in Mexico, 1934-60”.
Application deadline : 31 May 2013.
Bjørklund, Tor og Johannes Bergh (2013): Minoritetsbefolkningens møte med det politiske Norge: Partivalg, valgdeltagelse, representasjon. Cappelen Damm.
Bore, Lene, Anne Britt Djuve og Kristian Rose Tronstad (2013): ”Etnisk mangfold og likestilling i arbeidslivet”. Fafo-rapport 2013:11.
Brochmann, Grete and Elena Jurado (eds.) (2013): Europe’s Immigration Challenge: Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility. I. B. Tauris.
Bråten, Beret og Cecilie Thun (2013): Krysningspunkter: Likestillingspolitikk i et flerkulturelt Norge. Akademika.
Espeland, Carl Endre and Jon Rogstad (2013): “Anti-Racism and Social Movements in Norway: The Importance of Critical Events”. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39:1.
Jupskås, Anders Ravik (red.) (2013): Akademiske perspektiver på 22. juli. Akademika.
Martikainen, Tuomas (2013): Religion, Migration, Settlement: Reflections on Post-1990 Immigration to Finland. Brill.
Sandlie, Hans Christian og Marie Louise Seeberg (2013): ”Fremtidens leiemarked i et internasjonalt arbeidsmarked”. NOVA Notat 1/2013.
Söderström, Ola, Didier Ruedin, Shalini Randeria, Gianni D’Amato and Francesco Panese (eds.) (2013): Critical Mobilities. Routledge.
”UDI Årsrapport 2012” (2013). Utlendingsdirektoratet.