Transnational Migration and Global Development PhD Conference 2012
WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE
TIME EVENT VENUE 09.00-09.45 Formal Opening of BSRS PhD Conference Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 2012: Transnational Migration and Global (Dragefjellet) 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 09.45-10.45 Plenary Session Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 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 10.45-11.00 Coffee/tea 11.00-13.00 4 Parallel workshops Faculty of Law, 4th Floor 2 papers presented 13.00-14.00 Lunch Faculty of Law, Canteen 14.00-15.00 Plenary Session Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 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 15.00-15.30 Coffee/tea 15.30-17.30 4 Parallel workshops Faculty of Law, 4th Floor 2 papers presented 17.30-18.30 BSRS 2012 Mini Film Festival Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 Film title: Refugees for Life Presenter: Alf Gunvald Nilsen
THURSDAY 21 JUNE
TIME EVENT VENUE 09.30-10.30 4 Parallel workshops Faculty of Law, 4th Floor 1 paper presented 10.30-11.00 Walk to Grand Selskapslokaler 11.00-13.00 Open debate meeting: Grand Selskapslokaler, “Ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labour Bergen Center market.” Chair: Christine M. Jacobsen Speaker: Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen Hosted by: The Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry Including lunch 13.00-13.30 Walk to Dragefjellet 13.30-14.30 Plenary Session Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 Keynote speaker: Professor Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College: Reform through Return? Migration, Social Remittances and Development Chair: Professor Mette Andersson, UiB
14.30-15.00 Coffee/tea
15.00-18.00 4 Parallel workshops Faculty of Law, 4th Floor 2 papers presented
FRIDAY 22 JUNE
TIME EVENT VENUE 09.00-10.00 Plenary Session Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 Keynote Speaker: Professor Satvinder Singh Juss, King`s College London: Excluding the “Unworthy” in Refugee Law Chair: PhD Candidate Jessica Schultz, UiB 10.00-10.30 Coffee/tea 10.30-11.30 4 Parallel workshops Faculty of Law, 4th Floor 1 paper presented 11.30-12.30 Lunch Faculty of Law, Canteen 12.30-13.30 Plenary Session Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 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
13.45-14.45 4 Parallel workshops Faculty of Law, 4th Floor 1 paper presented 14.45-16.00 Roundtable: Faculty of Law, Auditorium 3 Summing up discussion by Keynote speakers Chair: Professor Mette Andersson, UiB Distribution of BSRS Certificates 19:00- Goodbye Dinner for Faculty, Keynote Speakers Nøstegaten 32, Bergen and Doctoral Participants at Nøsteboden Restaurant
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 Tatjana Paric: Naim Cinar Marit Tjomsland A Different Look at Roma Migrations: The Case of Romani 11.00 Women´s Transnational Activism
12.00 Agnes Pakot: Gabriela Knut S. Vikør Transnational Migration and Political Identities, Loyalties Quevedo and Activities – Discourses of and about Romanian Gutierrez Diaspora and Homeland Politics 15.30 Dennis Londo: Agnes Pakot Alf Gunvald Nilsen 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 21 June Naim Cinar: Derese Kassa Marit Tjomsland Understanding the Motives for Joining Ethnic Online 09.30 Communities: A Study of Turks in Norway
15.00 Derese Kassa: Tsegay Knut S. Vikør Cities of Refuge: African Refugees and the Struggle for Gebrelibanos Urban Citizenship 22 June Gabriela Quevedo Gutierrez: Tatjana Peric Alf Gunvald Nilsen Intersectionality, Subjectivity and Migrant´s Participation 10.30 in Left Wing Movements
13.45 Tsegay Gebrelibanos: Dennis Londo Marit Tjomsland Gender African Immigration and Integration in Norway: The Experiences of Ethiopian Women in Trondheim
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 Kimberly Wynne: Erika D. Are Knudsen Segregated Together: Settling in the Dominican Banana Grajeda Mette 11.00 Bateyes Andersson
12.00 Erika D. Grajeda: Kimberly Are Knudsen Informality in Housing Production along the Texas-Mexico Wynne Mette Border: A Transnational Interrogation Andersson 15.30 Oscar Ugalde: Keven Are Knudsen Urban exclusion and social discrimination in a multi- Bermudez Mette national community: the experience of La Carpio-Costa Andersson Rica 16.30 Roundtable discussion: All Are Knudsen Summing up Panel 1 participants Mette Andersson 21 June Gerald Koessl: Thien Huong- Are Knudsen Precariousness and futurity: the example of Ninh Mette 09.30 subcontracted migrant cleaning workers in the banking Andersson and finance industry in London 15.00 Thien Huong-Ninh: Oscar Ugalde Are Knudsen Comparative Perspective on the Cross-Border Identity Mette Formation of Vietnamese Catholic and Coadai Immigrant Andersson Communities in the U.S. and Cambodia 16.00 Martha Berhanu Meshesha: Gerald Koessl Are Knudsen Post Migration Livelihood Strategies of Ethiopian Female Mette Labor Migrants to the Middle East Andersson 17.00 Keven Bermudez: Martha Are Knudsen Migrants and Asylum-Seekers in Barcelona Emergency Berhanu Mette Shelters Meshesha Andersson
22 June Roundtable discussion: All Are Knudsen Summing up Panel 2 participants Mette 10.30 Andersson
13.45 Roundtable: All Are Knudsen Future research trajectories participants 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 Lela Rekhviashvili: Dragana Kjersti Fløttum Georgia’s Political Narrative on The War of August 2008 Kovacevic 11.00 and Endorsement of Internally Displaced Persons by Georgian Society 12.00 Dragana Kovacevic: Lela Kjersti Fløttum Young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Norway: Rekhviashvili Migration, Identity and Ethnicity 15.30 Natalie Dietrich Jones: Nafeesa Kjersti Fløttum Beyond the rhetoric: The borderisation of Bridgetown and Nichols the logic of ‘managed’ migration in Barbados 16.30 Tekla Nicholas: Eda Hatice Kjersti Fløttum Shifting Boundaries of the Land of God and Shrines to the Farsakoglu Anti-Christ 21 June Eda Hatice Farsakoglu: Tekla Nicholas Kjersti Fløttum The Gendered and Sexualized Politics of Belonging: 09.30 Reflections on Migrating Sexualities
15.00 Julia Carrillo Lerma: Maria Lene Johannessen Migration Policies, Power, and the Making of a Colombian Hernandez ‘Diaspora’ Carretero 16.00 Maria Helena Restrepo Espinosa: Milfrid Lene Johannessen Biopolitics and trauma in early childhood: Victims, Tonheim Vulnerability and Mental Health in the condition of Forced Internal displacement in Colombia 17.00 Maria Hernandez Carretero: Julia Carrillo Lene Johannessen Morals, reciprocity and belonging: transnational Lerma engagements and migrant trajectories 22 June Milfrid Tonheim: Maria Helena Lene Johannessen Social acceptance or social exclusion? Former girl soldiers Restrepo 10.30 in eastern Congo returning home to their families and Espinosa communities 13.45 Nafeesa Nichols: Natalie Jones Lene “Mak(ing) Songs From the Barricade”: Gender, Place, Johannessen Space in Tumi and the Volume`s “Yvonne”, “76”, and “These Women”
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 Donghyuk Park: Mariya Bikova Camilo Bustillo Bangladeshi asylum seekers in France 11.00
12.00 Mariya Bikova: Donghyuk Jessica Schultz Au pairs as a “non-category” in Norway Park
15.30 Kristoffer Halvorsrud: Mary Camilo Bustillo White South Africans in the UK Christine Wheatley 16.30 Mary Christine Wheatley: Kristoffer Camilo Bustillo Deportation and value of non-citizen life Halvorsrud
21 June Ajwang Warria: Marlene Jessica Schultz South Africa Legislative Measures to Protect Trafficked Becker 09.30 Children
15.00 Montserrat Gea-Sànchez: Juliana Camilo Bustillo Access to health care services to Latin American Masabo undocumented women in Spain and Canada
16.00 Marry-Anne Karlsen: Montserrat Jessica Schultz Irregular migration and the welfare state Gea-Sanchez 17.00 Juliana Masabo: Marry-Anne Camilo Bustillo The plight of irregular migrant workers in the SADC Karlsen
22 June Marlene Becker: Ajwang Jessica Schultz Closing the Protection Gap? Environmental Refugees Warria 10.30