Monthly Archives: November 2014

IMER Seminar: Maja Janmyr – “Returnmania”, A seminar on Norway´s readmission agreements

IMER seminar in collaboration with Centre on law and social transformation (Note time: 12.15- 14.00 Tuestday 25th of November – UNI Rokkansenteret)

logo_lawandsocialtransformationFor Norway, deporting irregular migrants is currently among the highest political priorities, and never before have so many deportations taken place – with 7100 forced returns an all-time high is expected to be reached in 2014. In this presentation, Janmyr will discuss one of the oldest instruments used by states to control migratory flows – readmission agreements. Such agreements typically assist in overcoming bilateral difficulties by setting out reciprocal obligations on the contracting parties to facilitate the return of persons who do not fulfil the Continue reading

Open events PROVIR conference: Film, panel discussion and presentation of research findings

Film and panel discussion on the dilemmas of mediating irregular migration

Wednesday 19th of November @ Tegleverket, Det Akademiske Kvarter, Bergen. 

Letter to the king18-00 to 19.30 Letter to the King portrays five people on a day trip from a refugee camp to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. But we soon realize that each and every one of them has an agenda for their trip. All five will make decisive choices on this day, as they discover happiness, humiliation, love or fulfill a long-awaited revenge. The five stories are tied together by a letter, written by eighty-three year old Mirza. Mirza wants to hand over the letter to the King personally. (Film by Hisham Zaman) Continue reading