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New IMER seminar in the making: Communicating migration

Would you like to contribute to IMER Spring Program, present your ideas, receive professional feedback and discuss with peers! For 2014, we are planning a seminar series called
Communicating Migration. This will be the topic for the seminar series at IMER Bergen spring and autumn 2014. The seminar series will end with a two-day conference in October/November 2014.

Skjermbilde 2013-12-14 kl. 01.13.06The seminar series will cover 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 what ways has it changed? How does migration theory and research fit in within other topics and theories in the social sciences, and how do results from migration research inform public debate and policy development? Continue reading →

New PhD fellow at IMER Bergen: Trespassing the borders of Europe.

Migrants walking along the road between a semi-open return centre and a small town in the countryside an hour away from Oslo.

Migrants walking along the road between a semi-open return centre and a small town in the countryside an hour away from Oslo.

Halvar Andreassen Kjærre is the second of our two new PhD fellows at IMER Bergen this year. He also started his project in October and he will follow IMER Bergen for four years. His scholarship is connected to the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Kjærre’s PhD project investigates irregular/illegalized migration in Europe, and he will mainly focus upon three countries within the Schengen area: Norway, Sweden and Italy. Rather than investigating how migrants settle in a certain places or neighbourhoods, Kjærre will “follow the migrants” around. Continue reading →

New PhD fellow at IMER Bergen: Mobility and the Politics of Place.

Fishing_platform_Mamuju

Wanvik carried out research into Norwegian companies and their strategic and tactical use of CSR towards local stakeholders in Indonesia. Here we see one of the projects by Statoil in Mamuju, West Sulawesi.

In October Tarje Wanvik started working as a PhD fellow at IMER Bergen.  His scholarship is connected to IMER Bergen and the department of Geography at the University of Bergen. Wanviks PhD project will investigate the nature and consequences of encounters between transnational companies and how they interact with the relatively poor communities where they establish to gain profits. Among other things Wanvik will focus upon how expatriate managers and skilled workers interact with the local communities where they work. He will investigate how Norwegian companies abroad are received and perceived within the communities they operate. Are they subject to territorialising forces, and if so, are they responding relevant to local expectations? Continue reading →

IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 3/2013

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 Continue reading →

IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 2/2013

FEBRUARY 2013

Content:

  • The publics of Europe and the European public sphere: Do the EU policies for creating a common public sphere have democratic and inclusive consequences for different diversity groups?
  • IMER-related Phd fellowship in comparative politics, University of Bergen
  • Open rank position in anthropology (migration and culture)
  • New series: Religion and global migrations
  • Conferences and seminars
  • Masters, PhDs and Post Docs
  • New Publications Continue reading →

IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 1/2013

JANUARY 2013

Content:

  • IMER Bergen seminars spring 2013: Trans-European powers and the re-structuring of majority-minority relations
  • Multicultural citizenship in policy and practice: Historical and contemporary perspectives
  • International migration 2011-2012
  • Migraciones, movilidad humana y pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe
  • Conferences and Seminars
  • New Publications Continue reading →

IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 9/2012

NOVEMBER 2012

Content:

  • Race, gender, and reproduction in the migrant metropolis: From “illegal” migrants to “criminal” citizens
  • Call for applications to the EMMIR study programme
  • Etikk i Praksis 2/2012: Irregulær migrasjon – Nordiske perspektiver
  • Campaign to stop racism in academia
  • Multicultural citizenship in plicy and practice: Historical and contemporary perspectives
  • Transnational Social Networks
  • Conferences and Seminars
  • New Publications Continue reading →

IMER NEWSLETTER NR. 8/2012

october 2012

Content:

  • Boklansering: Kritiske hendelser – nye stemmer
  • New issue of Nordic Journal of Migration Studies
  • Online conference: Migration in a changing world: were do we go?
  • The first Romanian research and documentation center on immigrants’ integration in Romania
  • The Turkish Migration Studies group
  • Conferences and Seminars
  • Masters, PhDs and Post Docs
  • New Publications Continue reading →