IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 10/2011

December 2011

Content:

  • IMER Bergen 15 Years Conference
  • Immigrants and Civil Society
  • PhD Conference: Transnational Migration and Global Development
  • Migration and Marriage: Examples of Border Artistry and Cultures of Migration?
  • Early bird Articles of NJMR 1(3) out now
  • Videreutdanning: Norge som innvandringsland
  • Conferences and Seminars
  • Masters, PhDs and Post-Docs
  • New Publications

 

IMER BERGEN 15 YEARS CONFERENCE

Read the articles related to the conference:

En overraskende forskningsferd
– Intervju med Yngve G. Lithman
De ny jødene

– Intervju med Elisabeth Eide
Misplaced women?
– Read the blog and see photos from Tanja Ostojic’s performances in Bergen

 

IMMIGRANTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY

16th Nordic Migration Research Conference & 9th ETMU Days.
Date : 13-15 August 2012.
Venue : University of Turku, Finland.

 

PHD CONFERENCE: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS), University of Bergen.
Date : 20-22 June 2012.
Venue : Bergen.
Application deadline : 15 February 2012.

 

MIGRATION AND MARRIAGE: EXAMPLES OF BORDER ARTISTRY AND CULTURES OF MIGRATION?

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, no. 2 2011.
Editor: Garbi Schmidt.

 

EARLY BIRD ARTICLES OF NJMR 1(3) OUT NOW

The first three articles of issue 3/2011 of Nordic Journal of Migration Research (NJMR) are out now, and can be accessed online.

 

VIDEREUTDANNING: NORGE SOM INNVANDRINGSLAND

Høstsemesteret 2012 tilbyr Universitetet i Bergen to videreutdanningsemner i fagtilbudet “Norge som innvandringsland”. Hvert emne er på 15 studiepoeng og kan gjerne tas separat. De to emnene er:
– Unge flyktninger
– Arbeidsmiljø på flerkulturelle arbeidsplasser
Søknadsfrist : 15. desember.

 

Conferences and seminars

IMMIGRATION, HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSIONAL SECTOR
International symposium under the framework of the project “Young immigrants’ successful journeys into higher education and the professional sector”.
Date : 23 March 2012.
Venue : College of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona.

SPOTLIGHT ON MULTICULTURALISM
Academic Workshop.
Call for Papers. Submission deadline: 10 January 2012.
Date : 3-5 May 2012.
Venue : Istanbul, Turkey.

POPULATION CHANGE AND EUROPE: THINKING BEYOND THE DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDE
International workshop, UCSIA.
Date : 9-11 May 2012.
Venue : University of Antwerp, Belgium.

LIVING TOGETHER “IN” DIVERSITY. NATIONAL SOCIETIES IN THE MULTICULTURAL AGE
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 31 December 2011.
Date : 21-11 May 2012.
Venue : Central European University, Budapest.

THE FUTURE OF MULTICULTURALISM: STRUCTURES, INTEGRATION POLICIES AND PRACTICES
8th Annual CRONEM Conference.
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 1 February 2012.
Date : 26-27 June 2011.
Venue : University of Surrey, UK

INTERSECTIONALITY AND THE SPACES OF BELONGING
International Conference.
Call for abstracts. Submission deadline: 22 January 2012.
Date : 28-29 June 2012.
Venue : Bangor University, UK.

 

Masters, PhDs and Post-docs

REMESO GRADUATE SCHOOL IN MIGRATION, ETHNICITY AND SOCIETY
The REMESO Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society offers courses for Swedish and international postgraduate students (PhD or MA) that address a variety of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives on international migration. Courses are taught by REMESO staff and international guest lecturers.

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, ETHNICITY AND GENDER: INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LABOUR, POWER AND CITIZENSHIP
REMESO Graduate School .
Course offered to postgraduate students (PhD and MA). Application deadline: 2 March 2012.
Course directors: Anna Bredström, PhD, REMESO and Prof. Diana Mulinari, University of Lund.
Date : 2 April – 4 May, 2012, Intensive on-campus week: 16-20 April.
Venue : Linköping University, Campus Norrköping.

SURVEYING IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITIES
Summer School.
Application deadline : 9 January 2012.
Date : 27 June-4 July 2012.
Venue : Paris, France.

 

New publications

* Dæhlen, Marianne og Hanne C. Kavli (2011): ”Lærere i Oslo voksenopplæring. Erfaringer med Krafttak for norskopplæring. Krafttak for norskopplæring – delrapport 3”. Fafo-notat 2011:02.

* Friberg, Jon Horgen og Line Eldring (2011): ”Polonia i Oslo 2010. Mobilitet, arbeid og levekår blant polakker i hovedstaden”. Fafo-rapport 2011:27.

* Hagelund, Anniken and Kaja Regård (2011): “’Changing teams’: a participant perspective on citizenship ceremonies”. In Citizenship Studies, Vol 15, 6-7.

* Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold (eds.) (2011): Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations. Ashgate.

* (2011) Mapping Statelessness in the United Kingdom. UN High Commissioner for Refugees. 22 November 2011.

* Rogstad, Jon and Viggo Vestel (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, 243-264, 10(3):243-264.

* Sajjad, Torunn Arntsen (2011): Hvis det fødes et sykt barn, hva tror du det skyldes? En medisinskantropologisk studie av genetisk veiledning blant pakistansknorske familier. Doktoravhandling. Oslo: Seksjon for medisinsk antropologi og historie, Institutt for helse og samfunn, UiO.

* Sandbæk, Miriam Latif og Kristian Rose Tronstad (2011): ”Hovedtrekk ved integreringspolitikken i Norge, Sverige, Danmark, Storbritannia, Frankrike og Canada”. Fafo-notat 2011:18.

* Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (2011): “The Rise and Fall of the “Migrant Superhero” and the New “Deportee Trash”: Contemporary Strain on Mobile Livelihoods in the Central American Region”. In Border-Lines vol. 5, Special Issue, pp. 90-120.

* Triandafyllidou, Anna, Tariq Modood & Nasar Meer (2011): European
Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges
. Edinburgh University Press.

* Vassenden, Anders og Nils Asle Bergsgard (2011): Et skritt tilbake? En sosiologisk studie av unge, norske kunstnere med innvandrerbakgrunn. Norsk kulturråd/Fagbokforlaget.

* Vassenden, Anders (2011): “Hvorfor en sosiologi om norskhet må holde norskheter fra hverandre“. I: Sosiologi i dag. Vol 31(3/4):156-182.