Earlier this week, IMER organized a PhD relay where PhD candidates from various disciplines and across departments were offered the opportunity to discuss their research and receive feedback from IMER board members. The session aimed at furthering dialogue between senior and junior researchers working on migration.

Participants:

IMER Board Members and Affiliated Researchers

• Hakan Sicakkan
• Jan Hovden
• Knut Hidle
• Marry-Anne Karlsen
• Sarah Tobin
• Susanne Bygnes

Members from IMER Junior Scholars Network

• Amany Selim, Department of Sociology, “Political Activism in the Context of Recent Displacement: Exploring Trajectories of Political Engagement among Syrian Activists in Europe. A Case of Two Cities”
• Anders Rubing, SKOK, “Infrastructures of Resilience and Security”
• Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid, Department of Foreign Languages, “A Culinary  Quest: Peruvian Women Entrepreneurs in Southern California Negotiating Home and Belonging”
• Cathrine Talleraas, CMI/PRIO, “Institutionalising Transnationalism: The National Welfare System’s Encounter with People who lead Transnational Lives”
• Kari Hagatun, Department of Education,“The Educational Situation for Roma Pupils in Norway: Silenced Narratives on Schooling and Future”
• Joanna Spyra, Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion,“Madness as Resistance: Disciplining Sexual Behavior of Jewish Immigrant Women in Argentina in the Interwar Period”

We are indebted to Kari Anne Drangsland, the PhD representative on IMER board, for her efforts in planning and organising the event.

We are grateful to everyone who could attend and participate!