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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
Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3
15.00-15.30 Coffee/tea
15.30-17.30 4 Parallel workshops 2 papers presented
Faculty of Law, 4th Floor
17.30-18.30 BSRS 2012 Mini Film Festival Film title: Refugees for Life Presenter: Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3
THURSDAY 21 JUNE
TIME EVENT VENUE
09.30-10.30 4 Parallel workshops 1 paper presented
Faculty of Law, 4th Floor
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
Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3
14.30-15.00 Coffee/tea
15.00-18.00 4 Parallel workshops 2 papers presented
Faculty of Law, 4th Floor
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
Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3
10.00-10.30 Coffee/tea
10.30-11.30 4 Parallel workshops 1 paper presented
Faculty of Law, 4th Floor
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
Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3
13.30-13-45 Coffee/tea
13.45-14.45 4 Parallel workshops 1 paper presented
Faculty of Law, 4th Floor
14.45-16.00 Roundtable: Summing up discussion by Keynote speakers Chair: Professor Mette Andersson, UiB Distribution of BSRS Certificates
Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3
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
Presenter Commentator Chair
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
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
15.30 Oscar Ugalde: Urban exclusion and social discrimination in a multi-national community: the experience of La Carpio-Costa Rica
Keven
Bermudez
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
16.30 Roundtable discussion: Summing up Panel 1
All
participants
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
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
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
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
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
22 June
10.30
Roundtable discussion: Summing up Panel 2
All
participants
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
13.45 Roundtable: Future research trajectories
All
participants
Are Knudsen Mette Andersson
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
Presenter Commentator Chair
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
Presenter Commentator Chair
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