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