IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 4/2014

CONTENT

• IMER Bergen news
• Seminars and workshops
• Courses and conferences
• Positions
• Publications and reports

IMER BERGEN NEWS

 

PROVIR Conference

Provision of Welfare to Irregular Migrants (PROVIR) will be organizing its closing conference “Exceptional welfare: Dilemmas in/of irregular migration” at the University of Bergen, 19^th - 21^th of November 2014. The conference will bring together researchers from various disciplines and geographic regions who are interested in the interplay between migration control and welfare policy.

At the conference, findings from the PROVIR-project will be presented by the research team. In addition to a number of distinguished key note speakers, we also welcome papers to be presented at workshops. Paper proposals (maximum 300 words) can be submitted until the 25^th of April 2014. Please include a short bio with the abstract.

For submitting abstract or other enquiries, please send an e-mail to marry-anne.karlsen@uni.no More information about the PROVIR-project, full call for papers and list of keynote speakers, plenary discussion participants and workshop discussants for the PROVIR closing conference is available at http://rokkan.uni.no/sites/provir/events/ and IMER Bergen at http://imer.w.uib.no/ai1ec_event/provir-closing-conference/?instance_id=314

Useful links:

http://imer.w.uib.no/2014/02/10/provir-closing-conference-call-for-papers/ 

http://imer.w.uib.no/2014/03/10/key-note-speakers-and-discussants-provir-closing-conference/

 

Communicating migration seminar series 

There are two upcoming seminars in the Communicating migration series. The IMER seminar series for 2014 covers how migration and ethnic relations are communicated in every-day encounters, in mass and social media, in politics and in teaching at the universities.  Has the way people talk about migration and migrants in different social contexts changed over time, and in which ways has it changed? How does migration theory and research fit in with other topics and theories in the social sciences, and how do results from migration research inform public debate and policy development? Communicating migration will be discussed from various angles in our seminar series on international migration and ethnic relations during spring and autumn 2014. We welcome papers that touch upon this broad theme from different angles.  Historical analyses of change over time in regard to politics and public debate, research foci and disciplinary concerns are specifically welcomed.  The seminar series will end with a two-day conference in October/November 2014.

 

Hans Lucht is a senior researcher and journalist at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Niger, Hans Lucht discusses how stranded migrants have become facilitators of the very journey they have failed to make themselves. These connection men, or ‘pushers’ as they say themselves, are now key actors in high-risk migration across the Sahara Desert via Libya to Europe. They have somehow turned all their misfortunes into a form of capital, while awaiting a new chance to go to Europe. Read more.

 

Sébastien Chauvin is assistant professor of Sociology at the the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. Since late 2007, he has been working on a collective study exploring the labour market experience and following the union-supported mobilization of undocumented immigrant workers in France. From 2008 to 2010, with the support of a coalition of trade unions and immigrant rights groups under the leadership of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), thousands of France’s undocumented migrant workers conducted strikes and occupied their workplaces, demanding that their employers sponsor their regularisation applications. Based on three years of extensive participant observation and more than a hundred in-depth interviews Chavin considers the strategic challenges encountered by this innovative movement which broke simultaneously with the more traditional repertoires of both French trade unions and the ‘sans-papiers’ movements of the preceding decade. Read more.

 

IMER Abroad: PROVIR Workshop at COMPAS Oxford: Precarious migrants and access to welfare - Between policy, law and practice

This workshop will discuss the legal and experienced dilemmas found in the encounter between migrants living in a legally precarious situation and the welfare state in which they reside. Participants will present on-going empirically based research on migrants’ access to welfare in policy, law and practice in various European countries. They will also discuss the particular position of youth and children in vulnerable situations. The program is available here. Read program here: http://rokkan.uni.no/sites/provir/files/2014/04/Precarious-Migrants-and-Access-to-Welfare-MAY2014.pdf
More details: http://imer.w.uib.no/ai1ec_event/imer-abroad-provir-seminar-precarious-migrants-and-access-to-welfare-between-policy-law-and-practice/?instance_id

 

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