The Nordic Migration Researchers Conferences have established themselves as a major contact point not only between Nordic researchers in the field of international migration and ethnic relations, but also between these and international scholarship generally. To the reasons for their success belongs the steadily increasing participation from researchers from non-Nordic countries, interested in our work and wishing to collaborate. It is therefore that we proudly invite participation in the 14 Nordic Migration Researchers Conference in Bergen Norway, hosted by IMER/UiB (the International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit at the University of Bergen). More..
IMER/UiB-konferanse om relasjonen mellom insikter fra forskning og hva disse kan bety for ’brukere’. Utgangspunktet er resultatet fra IMER/UiB’s prosjekt om mangfoldssamfunnet, og hvordan disse relaterer til de problem som beslutningstakere og administratorer håndterer. Prosjektet om mangfoldssamfunnet ble finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd, og ble en sentral del av hele IMER/UIB’s virksomhet.
Denne konferansen søker å belyse hvilke verdier resultatene fra mangfoldsprosjektet kan ha for ulike brukerkategorier. Dette vil belyses og diskuteres på mange nivåer, fra de mer generelle perspektiv på relasjonen mellom forskning og samfunnsproblemer til diskusjoner av hvordan forskningsresultat kan belyse ulike måter å forstå spesifikke politiske eller sosiale problem. Et viktig aspekt blir å vise hvilke konsekvenser dette kan få for hvordan ’brukere’ kan relatere til den virkeligheten de håndterer.
Mangfoldsprosjektet bestod av mange ulike deler, og ga rom for å sysle med innvandring og kjønn, religion, transnasjonalisme, nye former for samfunnsborgerskap, dannelsen av nye sosiale rom delvis utenfor de nasjonalstatlige rammene. Alt for å forsøke å forstå hvilke forandringer som pågår i det norske og europeiske nasjonalstatssamfunnet.
Gjennom sin satsing på å belyse og integrere forskningsresultaters betydning på ulike nivåer, fra det allmenne til det spesifikke, søker denne konferansen å være en møteplass for forskere med ulike spesialiteter og brukere i mange ulike deler av det norske samfunnet.
Konferansen er lagt opp til å skape rom for en aktiv dialog.
See webpage for more information
The University of Bergen, through its Department of Sociology and IMER/UiB, is organizing a joint conference and PhD course around the theme of First Generation Nationals September 27-30, 2010. This event, focussed on “First Generation Nationals,” will attempt to elucidate several issues of major importance with respect to understanding the diversity of our societies, and many of these are also of significant political importance. A fuller presentation of the conference theme is presented here.
The conference will draw together researchers and scholars from across the Nordic countries and beyond. For PhD students within the humanities and social sciences, the course component of the conference will be constituted by workshop sessions dedicated to different themes. Participating PhD students that after submitting a post-conference paper get their work accepted, will be awarded 9 credits.
The conference programme with confirmed speakers, schedule and conference sessions is found here.
Convenors for the conference and the PhD workshops are:
Mette Andersson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Bergen (contact person regarding the academic programme)
Yngve Lithman, Dept. of Sociology, University of Bergen
For queries of a more practical and administrative nature, please contact the administrative co-ordinator of IMER at imer@uib.no .
As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing cultural differences through planned pluralism. This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicts that emerge when differences are managed within this conceptual framework. After a critical investigation of the perceived logic of identity, indicative of Western nation-states and at the root of their pluralistic intentions, the author takes issue with both universalist notions of equality and cultural relativist notions of distinctiveness. However, without identity is it possible to participate in dialogue and form communities? Is there a way out of this impasse? The book argues in favor of communities based on nonidentitarian difference, developed and maintained through open and critical dialogue.
Randi Gressgård is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen. She is also affiliated with the research unit International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Bergen. Her research interests focus on minority research, gender studies, and philosophy of science. Her publications include Fra identitet til forskjell [From Identity to Difference] (Spartacus/Scandinavian Academic Press, 2005) and Kjønnsteori[Gender Theory] (co-ed., Gyldendal Akademisk, 2008). Read more…
Religious traditions and muslim youth in europe
Christine M. Jacobsen (UiB/Uni Rokkansenteret)
Jonas Otterbeck (University of Lund)
Synnøve Bendixsen (SKOK/Uni Rokkansenteret)
A major question regarding Islam in Europe concerns the religiosity of “Muslim youth” – a category currently epitomizing both the fears and hopes of multicultural Europe. At this seminar, researchers working in 3 European countries look at how Islamic traditions are engaged and reworked by young people, born and educated in European societies, and discuss the modes of religiosity that are shaped in a context of international migration, globalization, and secular modernity.
Christine M. Jacobsen launches her new book Islamic Traditions and Muslim youth in Norway in conversation with Jonas Otterbeck, the author of Samtidsislam: unga muslimer i Malmö och Köpenhamn and Synnøve Bendixsen, the author of “It’s like doing SMS to Allah” Young Female Muslims Crafting a Religious Self in Berlin.
Seminar and book launch.
Organised in collaboration with Department of Social Anthropology, UiB.
Time: Friday 21 January, 13.15-16.00.
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)
PROVIR Kick-off Conference
IMER Bergen, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, UoB and Nordic Migration Research (NMR), is organizing a 2 days kick-off conference for the research project “Provision of Welfare to ‘Irregular Migrants’” (PROVIR).
PROVIR will investigate the Norwegian welfare system’s assessment of irregular migrants’ rights and their actual social and health situation from a combined legal and social science approach, examining the complex relationship between law, institutional practice, and migrants’ lived experience.
The conference fee is Nok 400,- and includes lunch and coffee/tea both days.
The conference has a limited number of spaces. Please register as soon as possible to Hanna Skartveit
PROGRAM:
Thursday 12 May
09:30: Welcome and introduction by Christine M. Jacobsen (IMER Bergen, Uni Rokkan Centre).
10:00-12:00: Conceptualizing Irregular Migration • BRIDGET ANDERSON (COMPAS): “A Chrysalis for Every Species of Criminal”: Illegal immigration, Benefit Scrounging and Criminality • TRINE LUND THOMSEN (Aalborg University): Reconceptualizing Irregular Migration – Between Legal Status and Social Practices Moderator: Mette Andersson (University of Bergen)
12:00-13:15: Lunch
13:15-15:30: Rights Discourse and Vulnerability • KIRSTEN KETSCHER (University of Copenhagen): Irregular Immigrants – a Challenge to Traditional Legal Concepts Embedded in the Nordic Welfare States • ODIN LYSAKER (University of Oslo): Vulnerable yet Inviolable: Recognition of the Bodily Vulnerability of ‘Irregular Migrants’ • MARIT SKIVENES (Bergen University College): “There’s a Lot of Barriers”: How Child Protection Case Workers in the United States Deal with Service Barriers for Undocumented Immigrant Families Moderator: Karl Harald Søvig (University of Bergen)
15:30-17:30 : PROVIR partner meeting
19:30: Conference dinner
Friday 13 May
10:00-12:00: Legal Regimes and Welfare to Irregular Migrants • HENRIETTE ROSCAM ABBING (Emeritus Professor of Health Law): Legal Regimes and Health Care for Irregular Migrants in the Netherlands • KARL-HARALD SØVIG (University of Bergen): Regulation of Welfare to Irregular Migrants: A Multi-Level Approach
Moderator: Henriette Sinding Aasen (University of Bergen)
12:00-13.00: Lunch
13:00-15:00: External and Internal Borders of the Scandinavian Welfare State • VIBEKE ERICHSEN (University of Bergen): The Noncitizen: on Political Exclusion • SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI (Stockholm University): ‘Undan-tagna’ People: Undocumentedness in Sweden
Moderator: Synnøve Bendixsen (IMER Bergen, Uni Rokkan Centre)
Venue: Faculty of Law (Dragefjellet, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1), Auditorium 4, Bergen. Date: 12-13 May 2011