IMER Bergen 15 year anniversary conference and phd course
En overraskende forskningsferd Yngve Lithman har opplevd både trams, trassel og larmerier av alle slag som leder for IMER gjennom 12 år. Men mest av alt har det vært en intellektuelt overraskende reise. I dag fyller migrasjonssatsingen 15 år. (Intervju med Yngve G. Lithaman i anledning IMER Bergens 15 års jubileum)
De nye jødene Elisabeth Eide tror ikke på at historien gjentar seg selv, men ser likevel mange likhetstrekk mellom 1940-tallet og i dag. Forskjellen er at muslimene er de nye jødene. (Intervju med Elisabeth Eide i anledning IMER Bergens jubileumskonferanse)
Misplaced women On Tuesday November 8 from 13:40 I performed my “Misplaced Women?” at arrivals & departures terminal of Bergen international airport. In approximately 30 minutes time I took out the entire contents of my two suitcases, out of my handbag as well as out of my cosmetics and make-up bags. (Read more and see the photos from the performances in Bergen previous to Tanja Ostojic’s performance lecture at Gallery 3,14)
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International migration and attendant processes of globalization, both as social phenomena and in efforts at theorization, have become especially critical for the development of social theory and analysis, notably by challenging some of the fundamental questions of the social sciences. If one wishes, as Georg Simmel did, to answer the question “How is society possible?”, one cannot take for granted that the relevant object is defined within the parameters of the nationstate, nor by those of ´ethnic groups´ or ´cultures´.
In a recent evaluation report on Norwegian sociology research, it is stated that ´[t]he key question to be explored by sociology today is not, perhaps, how society is possible, but rather how to study social processes and changes at local, national and global levels (Sociological research in Norway: An evaluation, p. 17). Across the social science disciplines, it now seems impossible to imagine place, society and culture without the mobilities of people, goods and information – thus recasting questions exploring e.g. social stratification, scale, space, media and politics.
In its 15 years of existence, IMER Bergen has directed its collaborative efforts towards examining, but also reframing the fundamental questions of the social sciences, as variously defined within particular disciplines. To celebrate this 15th anniversary, we want to put to the forth the contributions that IMER research in Bergen, but also in the wider international scholarly community, has made to the study of society in general, processes of social change and new social formations in particular.
A combination of international and local scholars will in the course of a two day seminar, discuss how IMER researchers deal with issues such as migration, globalization and transnational movements – how they examine ‘culture’, ´politics´, ´space´, ´gender´, ´media´, ´government´ and ´law´ – through the prism of International Migration and Ethnic Relations.
A commitment to provide a strong and creative scholarly environment for students and research recruits has been one of IMER Bergen´s main vocations. In this spirit, the 15th anniversary comprises a PhD course for candidates within the humanities and social sciences. In addition to the main conference, the course component of the conference will be constituted by workshop sessions with essay presentations.
Programme
Wednesday 9 November Anniversary conference. OPEN LECTURE:
Venue: ‘Egget’, Parkveien 1: 10.15-10.30: Official opening with Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Knut Helland, and Director of the Uni Rokkan Centre, Jan Erik Askildsen. 10.30-12.00: • DAVID LEY (University of British Columbia): “Masters of Space, or Prisoners of Space? Locating the Neoliberal Migrant” • YNGVE G. LITHMAN (University of Bergen): ”De-Etatizing Social Science?: “Verstehen” and “Erklärung” in a (somewhat) Flatter Earth”
Chair: Edvard Hviding (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen)
12.15-13.15: Lunch.
Venue: Auditorium, Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31: 13.15-14.45: • HAKAN G. SICAKKAN (University of Bergen): “The Politics of Diversity, the European Publics, and the European Public Sphere”
• METTE ANDERSSON (University of Bergen): “‘Reflexive Transnationalization’ among Politically Engaged Minority Youth” [Read interview with Mette Andersson in På Høyden 7 November]
Chair: Susanne Bygnes (Department of Sociology, University of Bergen)
14.45-15.00: Coffee break.
15.00-16.30:
• RANDI GRESSGÅRD (University of Bergen): “Equality Equals Hierarchy – the Holistic Foundation of Liberal Ideology and Integration Policy” • BRUCE KAPFERER (University of Bergen): ”The Tamil Crisis: State, War and Peace in Sri Lanka and Shifts in Global Power”
Chair: Kathinka Frøystad (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen)
Thursday 10 November Anniversary Conference. Venue: Auditorium, Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31:
10.15-11.45:
• CHRISTINE M. JACOBSEN (Uni Research and University of Bergen): “The (not so) New Islamic Presence in Western Europe: Secular Governance and Religious Freedom in a Globalized Era” • ANDRÉ ITEANU (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris): “The Free Noble and the Poor Beggar. What does the Veil Controversy Reveal about French Ideology”
Chair: Synnøve Bendixsen (IMER Bergen and Uni Rokkan Centre)
12.00-13.00: Lunch.
13.00-14.30: • SUSI MERET (University of Aalborg): “Exploring the Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Right Wing Populism in the Nordic Countries: Comparative Approaches, Developments and Perspectives”
• ELISABETH EIDE (Oslo University College and University of Bergen): “Media Discourses, Migration and Post-22.7-Debates; a Critical Inquiry”
Chair: Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen)
14.30-14.45: Coffee break.
14.45-16.30: PANEL DISCUSSION: “The Future of IMER Research”
David Ley (University of British Columbia) Susi Meret (University of Aalborg) Hilde Lidén (Nordic Migration Research and Institute for Social Research, Oslo) Yngve G. Lithman (IMER Bergen and University of Bergen) Mette Andersson (IMER Bergen and University of Bergen) Hakan G. Sicakkan (IMER Bergen and University of Bergen)
Chair: Yngve G. Lithman (IMER Bergen and Department of Sociology, University of Bergen)
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19:00: Performance lecture by artist TANJA OSTOJIC: “Crossing Borders“. Venue: Galleri 3,14. Vågsallmenningen 12. Free entrance. Refreshments will be served. In addition, her project “Misplaced Women? Marking the City” is a series of performances, interventions and delegated performances which will take place in the public space of Bergen previous to the lecture. In collaboration with the International Contemporary Art Foundation 3,14. Friday 11 November PhD course. PhD candidates, please see the Course Site for more information.
Venue: Seminar room, Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgt. 5, 6th floor. 10:15-16:30: Essay presentations. Conference fee: Nok 500,- for two days (includes lunch) Students: Nok 300,- REGISTRATION to Hanna Skartveit. Still possible to register!
The Conference is organised in collaboration with Uni Rokkan Centre, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology, Dept. of Geography, Dept. of Comparative Politics and SKOK, University of Bergen.
Race, Gender, and Reproduction in the Migrant Metropolis: From “Illegal” Migrants to “Criminal” Citizens
Nicholas De Genova (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Nicholas De Genova is Reader in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously, he taught at Stanford and Columbia Universities, and held visiting professorships or research positions at the Universities of Chicago, Amsterdam, Bern, and Warwick. De Genova is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2006), and co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (2010). He is currently writing a new book, titled The Migrant Metropolis.
Friday 14 December, 13.15– 15.00.
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor
Lider det norske folk av en kollektiv realitetsvegring?
Regi Theodor Enerstvedt (UiO og ISS)
I boken Massemorderen som kom inn fra ingenting (2012) analyserer professor emeritus Regi Theodor Enerstvedt, (ISS, UiO) Anders Behring Breiviks manifest, hva Breivik faktisk står for, hva han er imot, hans økonomiske og politiske syn, og vurderer ham i en norsk og internasjonal historisk sammenheng. Enerstvedt behandler forhold som påtalemyndigheten og mediekommentatorer flest har unngått. Det synes å være en typisk oppfatning i Norge at Breivik bryter med alt som er norsk. Enersvedt påstår det motsatte, nemlig at Breivik går inn i en voldelig norsk og europeisk høyreorientert tradisjon som er høyst levende. I sin innledning vil han begrunne dette.
Regi Theodor Enerstvedt er sosiolog, statsviter og fillosof, og er Professor emeritus ved
Institutt for Sosiologi og Samfunnsgeogra , Universitetet i Oslo.
Fredag 31. august, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg
Før og etter 22. juli 2011 seminar serie
22. juli blir ansett som et vendepunkt i norsk historie og politisk liv – både i forhold til terror, etniske relasjoner, innvandring, beredskap, uskyldighet og debattkultur.
IMER vil høsten 2012 drøfte betydningen av 22. juli i lys av ulike fagtradisjoner. Forskere fra sammenlignende politikk, sosialantropologi og sosiologi vil presentere forskning og analyser som belyser dette spørsmålet.
Seminaransvarlig: Mette Andersson
Health Care for Undocumented Migrants discussed from three perspectives: Human rights, Public health, and Economics
Ursula Karl-Trummer (Center for Health and Migration, Vienna)
Access to health care is defined as a human right laid down in various documents and has been ratified by all European member states (Pace, 2007). At the same time, access to health care is regulated by national law, which in most cases connects access to certain preconditions like insurance, citizenship, or another defined regular status. Undocumented migrants who by definition do lack a regular status are a specific group of interest concerning access to health care. They live in a parallel world that is characterised by exploitation, insecurity, and constant fear of being trapped. Their health is a key issue in several aspects
- They face extreme physical and mental strains.
- Although a majority seems to be working, they have no insurance as they do not hold regular work contracts.
- They increase the overall risk of communicable diseases as they do not appear in any monitoring and do not have access to preventive treatments.
A growing body of knowledge on public health regulations in EU member states has been built up in the last years in the framework of various projects funded by the EU (IOM, 200; HUMA, 2009; PICUM, 2007; Karl-Trummer, Novak-Zezula, 2011; FRA, 2011). Reliable numbers on UDM in the EU are not at hand. A database on irregular migration states that only estimates are available, in most cases of low quality (Clandestino, 2009). Estimates on the share of UDM in 2008 for EU 27 vary with 0.39 %-0.77 % of the total population or 7% and 13% of the foreign population (Vogel 2009).
It can be shown that in a majority of European countries, be it tax based or insurance based systems, undocumented migrants are excluded from regular health care services, with emergency care being the only official gateway into the system. It is often argued that this causes humanitarian costs as it violates in some respect the human right to health, but that such restrictions are necessary as open access would cause high costs for treatments of people who do not pay into welfare systems. Additionally, open access irrespective of regular status and/or financial contributions would cause unwanted additional attraction for undocumented migration.
It may as well be argued that, recognising that “there will always be a number of irregular migrants present in Europe, regardless of the policies adopted by governments to prevent their entry or to return them speedily.” (European Parliament resolution of 8 March 2011 on reducing health inequalities in the EU, 2010/2089(INI) this exclusion from regular care causes not only costs in a humanitarian dimension, but also unnecessary economic costs due to inefficient postponed treatment processes and resulting “forces emergencies”. The evidence base on these subjects so far is poor.
The workshop intends to open a floor for discussing the issue of health care for undocumented migrants from three angles: the human rights perspective (how can national policies incorporate human rights obligations?), public health perspectives (given the care for the most vulnerable as a core principle of public health), and economic arguments (is it more expensive to exclude than to include? What is the contribution of undocumented to national economies?)
Ursula Karl-Trummer, Ph.D, MSc., is Head of the Center for Health and Migration and
Executive Director of Trummer & Novak-Zezula OG. She lectures at various universities,
as well as being an independent expert to the European Commission,
DG SANCO and DG Research, and a reviewer for the German Ministry for
Education and Science and for the Norwegian Research Council.
She also works as a consultant and coach,
specialising in diversity management, risk management, and management coaching.
Wednesday 5 September, 10.15-12.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.
Poster
Respons på 22. juli
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (UiB) og Jan Oskar Engene (UiB)
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten vil ta for seg hovedtendensene i opinion (som har vært distansering fra anti-islamske og anti-demokratiske partier og standpunkter). Hun vil også legge frem noe av sin egen forskning omkring fremveksten av en norm mot fordomsfull adferd og holdninger som bakteppe for å forstå hvorfor responsen ble slik og om den er varig.
Jan Oskar Engene vil ta opp hvordan norsk respons på terror tidligere, skiller seg fra reaksjonen på
terrorangrepene 22. juli. Det avtegner seg en politisk respons som åpner for ytterligere senkning av straffeterskelen, større kontroll og mer (politisk) overvåkning, motivert av ønske om å motvirke anti-jihadistiske strømninger, men med langt mer vidtrekkende konsekvenser, også for andre enn disse.
7. september, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.
Plakat
Før og etter 22. juli 2011 seminar serie
22. juli blir ansett som et vendepunkt i norsk historie og politisk liv – både i forhold til terror, etniske relasjoner, innvandring, beredskap, uskyldighet og debattkultur.
IMER vil høsten 2012 drøfte betydningen av 22. juli i lys av ulike fagtradisjoner. Forskere fra sammenlignende politikk, sosialantropologi og sosiologi vil presentere forskning og analyser som belyser dette spørsmålet.
Seminaransvarlig: Mette Andersson
Mourning and belonging: The becoming political of irregularized migrants in Norway
Synnøve Bendixsen (IMER Bergen) and Christine M. Jacobsen (IMER Bergen and UiB)
As Norway was still recovering from the shocks of the 22 of July terror attacks, around 25 so-called irregular migrants marched from Oslo to Trondheim along the St. Olav pilgrim way. The march was attended by Ethiopian, Iranian, Afghan and Kurdish migrants, and co-organized by political activists on the radical left. It followed a series of church occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations and petitions that in the last year has made the presence and living condition of irregulars a pressing challenge to deal with for the Norwegian social-democratic welfare-regime.
In this paper, we examine the asylum march alongside other public interventions as moments of “becoming political”. Drawing on ethnographic data from an ongoing research project on the provision of welfare to irregularized migrants (PROVIR), we look at how irregularized migrants question the current order and ideas of who should be protected, and who should be listened to. How, if at all, do they in this process reconfigure ‘the political’?
Drawing on the works of, among others, Engin F. Isin and Aihwa Ong on citizenship, we discuss how irregularized migrants resist the reduction of them to “human detruits” and “criminals” – attempting to constitute themselves as in need of protection and worthy of citizenship. By examining the performative side of their citizenship struggle, we ask whether they in this process contribute to transforming the meaning of citizenship – or whether they, in the process of mobilizing against the system which defines them as noncitizens – simultaneously enforce established presumptions of what a potential and worthy citizen is?
Friday 14 September, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor
Poster
Før og etter 22. juli 2011 seminar serie
22. juli blir ansett som et vendepunkt i norsk historie og politisk liv – både i forhold til terror, etniske relasjoner, innvandring, beredskap, uskyldighet og debattkultur.
IMER vil høsten 2012 drøfte betydningen av 22. juli i lys av ulike fagtradisjoner. Forskere fra sammenlignende politikk, sosialantropologi og sosiologi vil presentere forskning og analyser som belyser dette spørsmålet.
Seminaransvarlig: Mette Andersson
22 July: Media, Freedom of Expression and Multiculturalism
Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College and University of Bergen)
The lecture presents research based on the mainstream press coverage post 22 July. A special search concentrating on coverage linked to “Freedom of Expression” and “Multiculturalism” for the first 100 days
after the terror attacks, was conducted, and subsequently analysed. The analysis shows that the opinionated articles on these topics were numerous, and that a variety of discourses occurred, among them the “pressure cooker” discourse and other attempts at explaining “what went wrong”.
Friday 21 September, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor
Før og etter 22. juli 2011 seminar serie
22. juli blir ansett som et vendepunkt i norsk historie og politisk liv – både i forhold til terror, etniske relasjoner, innvandring, beredskap, uskyldighet og debattkultur.
IMER vil høsten 2012 drøfte betydningen av 22. juli i lys av ulike fagtradisjoner. Forskere fra sammenlignende politikk, sosialantropologi og sosiologi vil presentere forskning og analyser som belyser dette spørsmålet.
Seminaransvarlig: Mette Andersson
Why Human Rights Fail to Protect Undocumented Migrants
Gregor Noll (Lund University)
I intend to first present core findings from my earlier research on the traditions of thought that make human rights law rather unhelpful for undocumented migrants. This work focused on the question of jurisdiction and operated with a distinction between polis (from which undocumented migrants are excluded) and oikos (into which undocumented migrants are included). In the course of the seminar, I shall try to move from a critique of current understandings of jurisdiction as tied to the physis to the question whether a different understanding might be developed. To this end, I shall draw on Martin Heidegger’s essay “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” to inquire into the preconditions for a changed understanding of jurisdiction.
Gregor Noll is professor of international law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Currently, he occupies the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations Chair in Commemoration of Samuel Pufendorf. His research is in the area of refugee law, human rights law, international humanitarian law and the theory of international law. In 2010, he guest-edited an issue of the European Journal of Migration and Law on “The Law of Undocumented Migration” in which the work of a group of five researchers at his Faculty on undocumented migration was reported. At present, he is writing on the norm of proportionality in international humanitarian law rules appertaining to targeting in armed conflict. Some of his publications are at http://works.bepress.com/gregor_noll/
Information on the work of the International Legal Research Group at Lund is at www.pufendorf.org
Friday 5 October, 13.15-15.00
Faculty of Law, room 546, Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1
Poster
Anders Behring Breivik og den anti-islamske bevegelsen
Lars Erik Berntzen (UiB) og Sveinung Sandberg (UiO)
Seminaret presenterer en studie av forholdet mellom retorikken i Anders Behring Breivik’s manifest 2083 A European Declaration of Independence og retorikken til den anti-islamske bevegelsen. Studien viser at ideologien, verdensforståelsen og språket til den større sosiale bevegelsen var retningsgivende for terrorhandlingene. Dette gjelder også terror mer generelt. Paradokset er at sosiale bevegelser med apokalyptiske og antagonistiske verdensforståelser inspirerer politisk vold og terror de i mange tilfeller ikke støtter. Vi argumenterer for at bekjempelse av terror må adressere politiske retorikk. Terrorbekjempelse er mest effektiv når den kommer fra, eller involverer, moderate aktører i det ideologiske landskapet rundt terroristene.
Lars Erik Berntzen er vitenskaplig assistent ved Institutt for Sammenlignende Politikk ved Universitetet i Bergen. Han har tidligere skrevet en masteroppgave om den anti-islamske bevegelsen i Norge.
Sveinung Sandberg er postdoktor ved Institutt for Sosiologi og Samfunnsgeografi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Han har tidligere arbeidet med rusmidler, vold, gatekultur og narrativ- og diskursanalyse. Det siste året har han arbeidet med Breiviks manifest.
Fredag 19. oktober, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg
Plakat
Før og etter 22. juli 2011 seminar serie
22. juli blir ansett som et vendepunkt i norsk historie og politisk liv – både i forhold til terror, etniske relasjoner, innvandring, beredskap, uskyldighet og debattkultur.
IMER vil høsten 2012 drøfte betydningen av 22. juli i lys av ulike fagtradisjoner. Forskere fra sammenlignende politikk, sosialantropologi og sosiologi vil presentere forskning og analyser som belyser dette spørsmålet.
Seminaransvarlig: Mette Andersson