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IMER BERGEN NEWSLETTER
NR. 1/2017 - 2nd of February 2017
CONTENT
- IMER Bergen News
- Imer lunch seminars
- Upcoming conferences
- New publications
Below you will find the IMER newsletter for January and February 2016. If you want to publish something in the newsletter, send an email to imer@uni.no. To subscribe or unsubscribe from our newsletter see imer.w.uib.no.
IMER BERGEN NEWS
PHD DEFENSE ON FILIPINO AU PAIRS IN NORWAY
Mariya Bikova from the IMER network is defending her PhD today, which explores the life of Filipino au pairs in Norway. In her PhD, Bikova has looked at how Norwegian egalitarian values are shaping the interaction between host families and the au pairs. More information on the PhD can be found here, on the website of the Department of Sociology at UiB. She will also present findings from her PhD at a IMER seminar on the 14th of March. Our congratulations!
MIGRATION COURSE AT BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL 2017
This is a kind reminder that Maja Janmyr and Marry-Anne Karlsen from the IMER network will be leading the PhD course 'Migration and the (Inter-)National Order of Things', under the umbrella of Bergen Summer Research School from June 12-22 next summer.
This interdisciplinary course aims to deepen the understanding of the politics of protection and control of contemporary migration. How are migrants given different bureaucratic and legal identities (e.g. refugees, stateless persons, irregular migrants) and what are the consequences of such distinctions and labels? What protection does international law and humanitarian institutions offer to different categories of people? How is this challenged by migrants themselves?
This course is one of six parallel courses in 2017, spanning disciplines within health, humanities, and social sciences. In addition to the courses, there will be a series of joint sessions about research tools for PhD candidates, but also plenary sessions with keynotes, debates, and an excursion.
We would appreciate if you could share this invitation with PhD candidates in your network. You may visit the website (www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs) to find more information about the course and submit an online application. The application deadline has been extended to the 1st of March.
GUEST RESEARCHER AT IMER
Sándor Klapcsik from the Technical University of Liberec will be a guest researcher at IMER Bergen from the 15th to the 20th of February. He will give a presentation on Wednesday 15th of February from 14.15 to 16.00, on Acculturation of South Asian Families in Three Diasporic Films. The seminar takes place in the Seminar Room at the Department of Sociology, Rosenberggata 39.
IMER LUNCH SEMINARS
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
14. FEBRUARY: TRANSMISSION OF VALUES BETWEEN GENERATIONS IN THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY POPULATION
Are values transmitted from one generation to the other, or do they change? Are there differences between groups in how values are transmitted between generations? For this lunch seminar, Rebecca Dyer Ånensen will present findings from her PhD-project, which is part of a larger study on the transition to adulthood in Norway and the UK. The broader study looks at three-generation families, and investigates the transmission of values between these generations. Ånensen’s project adds an immigrant perspective, by investigating inter-generational value transmission in families of immigrant origin (from Pakistan and Vietnam). How does the transmission of values look in these families, and how does it compare with the transmission of values in families from majority population?
21. FEBRUARY: ORDINARY ICONS. PUBLIC DISCOURSES, POLICY WORLDS AND EVERYDAY LIVES
In what ways do public discourses shape everyday lives, and how can we research these connections? For this seminar, Anouk de Koning comes to IMER to present findings from fieldwork in Amersterdam and Antwerp, through the concept ‘ordinary iconic figures’. Such iconic figures can be the US “welfare queen”, white Dutch “Henk and Ingrid”, or the Belgian “Flemish Interest voter”. Such iconic figures are part and parcel of public discourses, but are also taken up in policy worlds and everyday interactions. Tracing how such figures resurface in policy practices and urban lives provides insight into the connections between public discourses and everyday lives.
14. MARCH: IN A MINEFIELD OF TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL RELATIONS. FILIPINO AU PAIRS BETWEEN MORAL OBLIGATIONS AND PERSONAL AMBITIONS
What are the ambitions of Filipino au pairs in Norway? How are their experiences shaped by the egalitarian ideals in Norway, and expectations from their families? Bikova is coming to IMER to to present findings from her recently finished PhD thesis.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
9-10 MARCH, BRISTOL: HIDDEN MIGRATION SYMPOSIUM
The University of Bristol will be hosting an international symposium on hidden migration. The program can be found here:
http://www.wun.ac.uk/article/hidden-migration-symposium-in-bristol-9-10-march-2017
21-23 AUGUST, BERGEN: EADI NORDIC CONFERENCE
EADI (European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes) is having its Nordic conference in Bergen this year. The title for the conference is Globalization at the crossroads. Rethinking Inequalities and Boundaries. More information can be found here: http://eadi-nordic2017.org/
NEW PUBLICATIONS
- Marianne Rugkåse, Signe Ylvisaker og og Ketil Eide: Barnevern i et minoritetsperspektiv. This book, co-authored by Ketil Eide who has been associated with the IMER network, addresses the dilemmas that the Norwegian Child Care Services confront when working with families in the minority population.
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