transnational migration and global development

Transnational Migration and Global

Development

PhD Conference

2012

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE

TIME EVENT VENUE

09.00-09.45 Formal Opening of BSRS PhD Conference 2012: Transnational Migration and Global Development Welcome by Professor Mette Andersson, Scientific leader BSRS 2012, University of Bergen (UiB), Official opening by Vice-rector for international relations Astri Andresen, UiB Music by Øyvind Øksnes, Grieg Academy, UiB Practical information by Kristin Hansen, Administrative coordinator BSRS 2012, UiB

Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 (Dragefjellet)

09.45-10.45 Plenary Session Keynote speaker: Professor Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US inner City Chair: Senior researcher Are Knudsen, Chr. Michelsen Institute

Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3

10.45-11.00 Coffee/tea

11.00-13.00 4 Parallel workshops 2 papers presented

Faculty of Law, 4th Floor

13.00-14.00 Lunch Faculty of Law, Canteen

14.00-15.00 Plenary Session Keynote Speaker: Research Professor Camilo Pèrez-Bustillo, Coordinator of the Center on Migration and Human Rights, Autonomous University of Mexico City: The Right To Have Rights: Poverty, Forced Migration and Displacement and the Struggle for Global Justice Chair: Assoc. Professor Hakan Sicakkan, UiB





17.30-18.30 BSRS 2012 Mini Film Festival Film title: Refugees for Life Presenter: Alf Gunvald Nilsen


THURSDAY 21 JUNE

TIME EVENT VENUE

09.30-10.30 4 Parallel workshops 1 paper presented


10.30-11.00 Walk to Grand Selskapslokaler

11.00-13.00 Open debate meeting: “Ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labour market.” Chair: Christine M. Jacobsen Speaker: Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen Hosted by: The Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry Including lunch

Grand Selskapslokaler, Bergen Center

13.00-13.30 Walk to Dragefjellet

13.30-14.30 Plenary Session Keynote speaker: Professor Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College: Reform through Return? Migration, Social Remittances and Development Chair: Professor Mette Andersson, UiB





FRIDAY 22 JUNE

TIME EVENT VENUE

09.00-10.00 Plenary Session Keynote Speaker: Professor Satvinder Singh Juss, King`s College London: Excluding the “Unworthy” in Refugee Law Chair: PhD Candidate Jessica Schultz, UiB





11.30-12.30 Lunch Faculty of Law, Canteen

12.30-13.30 Plenary Session Keynote speaker: Lecturer Laleh Khalili, University of London: Exemplary Martyrs in the Arab Intifades Chair: Postdoctoral fellow Alf Nilsen, UiB


13.30-13-45 Coffee/tea



14.45-16.00 Roundtable: Summing up discussion by Keynote speakers Chair: Professor Mette Andersson, UiB Distribution of BSRS Certificates


19:00- Goodbye Dinner for Faculty, Keynote Speakers

and Doctoral Participants at Nøsteboden

Restaurant

Nøstegaten 32, Bergen

Political Mobilization and Collective Action

This thematic area has as its focus of attention the forms of political mobilization and collective

action that are being developed by various migrant groups and communities across and beyond

nation-state boundaries in the contemporary world-system. In particular, we will seek to address

how the practices and discourses of resistance and assertion that have emerged among these groups

challenge and transform collective identities, notions of political and social citizenship, processes of

class formation and class-based politics, and extant modes and modalities of political mobilization.

We invite empirically grounded and theoretically informed papers that focus on political mobilization

and collective agency among a wide range of actors, including but not restricted to: irregular

migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, transnational religious communities, migrant workers,

minority groups in the global North and the global South, and transnational solidarity networks

grounded in migrant and diasporic communities.

Faculty: Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology, UiB Knut S. Vikør, Professor, Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, UiB Marit Tjomsland, Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Development, UiB

Doctoral participants:

Naim Cinar, Anadolu University, Turkey Tsegay Gebrelianos, NTNU, Norway Gabiela Quevedo Gutierrez, University of Nottingham, UK Derese Kassa, University of Louisville, USA Dennis Londo, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Agnes Pakot, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Tatjana Peric, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Presenter Commentator Chair

20 June

11.00

Tatjana Paric: A Different Look at Roma Migrations: The Case of Romani Women´s Transnational Activism

Naim Cinar Marit Tjomsland

12.00 Agnes Pakot: Transnational Migration and Political Identities, Loyalties and Activities – Discourses of and about Romanian Diaspora and Homeland Politics

Gabriela Quevedo Gutierrez

Knut S. Vikør

15.30 Dennis Londo: Understanding the Interplay between “Trust” and Transnational Communities Participation for the Development of their Countries´ of Origin: The Case of Tanzanian Transnational Community in Finland

Agnes Pakot Alf Gunvald Nilsen

21 June

09.30

Naim Cinar: Understanding the Motives for Joining Ethnic Online Communities: A Study of Turks in Norway

Derese Kassa Marit Tjomsland

15.00 Derese Kassa: Cities of Refuge: African Refugees and the Struggle for Urban Citizenship

Tsegay Gebrelibanos

Knut S. Vikør

22 June

10.30

Gabriela Quevedo Gutierrez: Intersectionality, Subjectivity and Migrant´s Participation in Left Wing Movements

Tatjana Peric Alf Gunvald Nilsen

13.45

Tsegay Gebrelibanos: Gender African Immigration and Integration in Norway: The Experiences of Ethiopian Women in Trondheim

Dennis Londo Marit Tjomsland

Segregated Zones of Living: Refugee Camps, Asylum Centers, Ghettos

In the modern world, global flows of voluntary and involuntary migrants have produced new forms

of segregated zones of living whose main purpose is, as demonstrated by Michel Agier, “managing

undesirables”. These new and old forms of incarceration are either enforced by outside agencies

such as in the refugee camp, through systemic discrimination in the ghetto or by temporary

detention and isolation in asylum centers. These are not traditional environments, but artificial

“Nowherevilles” and “Non-Places” seeking to contain, manage and control surplus populations –

those we do not need or cannot otherwise control. Typologically diverse, camps, ghettos and asylum

centers are all marked by insecurity, surveillance and segregation where residents live in what could

be called a “permanent state of emergency”. This also includes other forms of “biopolitical” spaces

such as the hyperghetto, inner-city slums and (concentration) camps theorized by scholars such as

Loïc Wacquant, Philippe Bourgois and Giorgio Agamben.

This thematic area invites empirically grounded contributions from all disciplines that examine one or

more of these Foucauldian “crisis heterotopias”; the spaces where residents remain socially and

physically segregated from majority society. In particular we invite contributions that critically

examine heterotopias; their histories, narratives, production, modes of governance, legality and

livelihoods.

Faculty: Are Knudsen, Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute Mette Andersson, Professor, Department of Sociology, UiB

Doctoral participants: Keven Bermudez Anderson, Queen Margaret University, UK Erika Grajeda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Oscar Ugalde Hernandez, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica Gerald Koessl, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Martha Berhanu Meshesha, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Thien-Huong Ninh, University of Southern California, USA Kimberly Wynne, University of Oslo, Norway


20 June

11.00

Kimberly Wynne: Segregated Together: Settling in the Dominican Banana Bateyes

Erika D.

Grajeda

Are Knudsen Mette Andersson

12.00 Erika D. Grajeda: Informality in Housing Production along the Texas-Mexico Border: A Transnational Interrogation

Kimberly

Wynne


15.30 Oscar Ugalde: Urban exclusion and social discrimination in a multi-national community: the experience of La Carpio-Costa Rica

Keven

Bermudez


16.30 Roundtable discussion: Summing up Panel 1

All

participants


21 June

09.30

Gerald Koessl: Precariousness and futurity: the example of subcontracted migrant cleaning workers in the banking and finance industry in London

Thien Huong-

Ninh


15.00 Thien Huong-Ninh: Comparative Perspective on the Cross-Border Identity Formation of Vietnamese Catholic and Coadai Immigrant Communities in the U.S. and Cambodia

Oscar Ugalde Are Knudsen Mette Andersson

16.00 Martha Berhanu Meshesha: Post Migration Livelihood Strategies of Ethiopian Female Labor Migrants to the Middle East

Gerald Koessl Are Knudsen Mette Andersson

17.00 Keven Bermudez: Migrants and Asylum-Seekers in Barcelona Emergency Shelters

Martha

Berhanu

Meshesha


22 June

10.30

Roundtable discussion: Summing up Panel 2

All

participants


13.45 Roundtable: Future research trajectories

All

participants


Rhetoric of Exclusion

The rhetoric of exclusion invariably originates in and with manifestations of borders, and hence

consistently also turns on conceptions of inclusion – an order of non-belonging and belonging, of

outside and inside, there and here. Borderization and the discourses the process generates take

place in all spheres of the migratory, on multiple levels, and in various modalities: Social media,

detention centers, the gravitas of assumed cultural/epistemological paradigms, the institutionalized

discourses of law and foreign policy are all constitutive of as well as constituted by rhetoric of

exclusion and inclusion.

This thematic area invites papers from all disciplines reflecting on the representations, expressions,

interpretations, and/or the relationality of such rhetoric in relation to for instance economy,

geography, politics, aesthetics, epistemology, the social, the cultural, and the judicial, to mention

some. Research may be based in fieldwork including but in no way limited to legal documents,

literature, art, border crossing practices, linguistic traditions, concepts of ghettoization and

integration, religious and/or ethical customs, or technology.

Faculty: Kjersti Fløttum, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, UiB Lene M. Johannessen, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, UiB

Doctoral participants: Maria Hernandez Carretero, University of Oslo, Norway Maria Helena Restrepo Espinosa, Universidad del Rosario, Columbia Eda Hatice Farsakoglu, Lund University, Sweden Natalie Dietrich Jones, University of Manchester, UK Dragana Kovacevic, University of Oslo, Norway Julia Carrillo Lerma, New School for Social Research, USA Tekla Nicholas, Florida International University, USA Nafeesa Nichols, University of Bergen, Norway Lela Rekhviashvili, Central European University, Hungary Milfrid Tonheim, Centre for Intercultural Communication (SIK), Stavanger, Norway


20 June

11.00

Lela Rekhviashvili: Georgia’s Political Narrative on The War of August 2008 and Endorsement of Internally Displaced Persons by Georgian Society

Dragana Kovacevic

Kjersti Fløttum

12.00 Dragana Kovacevic: Young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Norway: Migration, Identity and Ethnicity

Lela Rekhviashvili

Kjersti Fløttum

15.30 Natalie Dietrich Jones: Beyond the rhetoric: The borderisation of Bridgetown and the logic of ‘managed’ migration in Barbados

Nafeesa Nichols

Kjersti Fløttum

16.30 Tekla Nicholas: Shifting Boundaries of the Land of God and Shrines to the Anti-Christ

Eda Hatice Farsakoglu

Kjersti Fløttum

21 June

09.30

Eda Hatice Farsakoglu: The Gendered and Sexualized Politics of Belonging: Reflections on Migrating Sexualities

Tekla Nicholas Kjersti Fløttum

15.00 Julia Carrillo Lerma: Migration Policies, Power, and the Making of a Colombian ‘Diaspora’

Maria Hernandez Carretero

Lene Johannessen

16.00 Maria Helena Restrepo Espinosa: Biopolitics and trauma in early childhood: Victims, Vulnerability and Mental Health in the condition of Forced Internal displacement in Colombia

Milfrid Tonheim

Lene Johannessen

17.00 Maria Hernandez Carretero: Morals, reciprocity and belonging: transnational engagements and migrant trajectories

Julia Carrillo Lerma

Lene Johannessen

22 June

10.30

Milfrid Tonheim: Social acceptance or social exclusion? Former girl soldiers in eastern Congo returning home to their families and communities

Maria Helena Restrepo Espinosa

Lene Johannessen

13.45 Nafeesa Nichols: “Mak(ing) Songs From the Barricade”: Gender, Place, Space in Tumi and the Volume`s “Yvonne”, “76”, and “These Women”

Natalie Jones Lene Johannessen

Precarious Lives: The Law of States versus the Law of Peoples As the relations of power in which states' sovereignty and people's rights are entrenched have changed historically, and as they also continue to vary geographically, sovereignty as an empirical phenomenon and the repertoire of rights still appear in different forms. A major contemporary source of this variation is the tension between the rights categories that are held as universally valid and states' particularistic right to free reign in the constitution of social, cultural, political and economic relations. The ethical force of the law of peoples have now for decades defined, not only new rules of conduct for states about how to treat their own citizens, but also a new set of rights for aliens, resulting in a new legal and political context for interactions between states and individual aliens. This thematic area explores the tension between people's universal rights and states' sovereignty rights. The papers are expected to cover a wide span of the problems associated with this tension and its consequences - ranging from normative and legal analyses of UN and state practices to ethnographic accounts of daily-life experiences of this tension by aliens, native citizens, and immigration and aid workers. Questions to consider may include, among others: How does immigration status affect the allocation of rights, and what are the social, cultural and legal consequences that follow from a lack of formal status? For the individual? For families? For different groups? For men and women? For the sending and receiving states? Do existing categories address the needs of migrants whose lives are destabilized by climate change and natural disasters?

Faculty: Hakan Gurcan Sicakkan, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, UiB Jessica Schultz, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, UiB

Doctoral participants: Marlene Becker, Rachel Carson Center, Germany Mariya Bikova, University of Bergen, Norway Kristoffer Halvorsrud, University of Nottingham, UK Marry-Anne Karlsen, University of Bergen, Norway Juliana Masabo, University of Cape Town, South Africa Donghyuk Park, University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France Montserrat Gea-Sánchez, University of Lleida, Spain Ajwang Warria, University of Johannesburg/University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Mary Christine Wheatley, University of Texas at Austin, USA


20 June

11.00

Donghyuk Park: Bangladeshi asylum seekers in France

Mariya Bikova Camilo Bustillo

12.00 Mariya Bikova: Au pairs as a “non-category” in Norway

Donghyuk

Park

Jessica Schultz

15.30 Kristoffer Halvorsrud: White South Africans in the UK

Mary Christine Wheatley

Camilo Bustillo

16.30 Mary Christine Wheatley: Deportation and value of non-citizen life

Kristoffer Halvorsrud

Camilo Bustillo

21 June

09.30

Ajwang Warria: South Africa Legislative Measures to Protect Trafficked Children

Marlene Becker

Jessica Schultz

15.00 Montserrat Gea-Sànchez: Access to health care services to Latin American undocumented women in Spain and Canada

Juliana Masabo

Camilo Bustillo

16.00 Marry-Anne Karlsen: Irregular migration and the welfare state

Montserrat Gea-Sanchez

Jessica Schultz

17.00 Juliana Masabo: The plight of irregular migrant workers in the SADC

Marry-Anne Karlsen

Camilo Bustillo

22 June

10.30

Marlene Becker: Closing the Protection Gap? Environmental Refugees

Ajwang Warria

Jessica Schultz

transnational migration and global development

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