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First generation nationals: Structural trajectories, mobilisation and social imaginaries.

The University of Bergen, through its Department of Sociology, and in collaboration with IMER/UiB, is organizing a joint conference and PhD course around the theme of  First Generation Nationals September 27-30, 2010. This event, focussed on “First Generation Nationals,” will attempt to elucidate several issues of major importance with respect to understanding the diversity of our societies, and many of these are also of significant political importance. The conference will draw together researchers and scholars from across the Nordic countries and beyond. For PhD students within the humanities and social sciences, the course component of the conference will be constituted by workshop sessions dedicated to different themes. Participating PhD students that after submitting a post-conference paper get their work accepted, will be awarded 10 credits.

Time: 27-30 September 2010

Venue: IMER, University of Bergen

For more information, please see the conference website

 

 

15. Nordic Migration Research Conference. "GLOBAL CHALLENGES - LOCAL RESPONSES." Malmö, 25-27 August 2010

Migration is currently one of the most prominent political issues both at national and supranational levels, inviting reconsideration of policies and redefinition of social inclusion. Migration is also prominent in academic debates that cross disciplines and involve experiences and politics at local, regional, national and international levels. Migration affects local social processes and individual lives in ways that call for new perspectives and discussions of place, belonging and community-making. We invite scholars to present and discuss their research on the economic, political, social and cultural impacts of migration, with focus on Nordic countries in themselevs and in broader international comparisons. Results of empirical research engaging both qualitative and quantitative methods are welcome, as are critical examinations of concepts and methodologies.

Time: 25.-27 August 2010

Venue: Malmö University

For more information, please see the conference website

 

Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identity and translocal practises

The Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University is organizing a conference on the Sikhs in Europe. The aim is to gather leading scholars in the multi-disciplinary field of Sikh studies and discuss current research projects focusing on patterns of migration, identity formations, self-representations, transmission of traditions and translocal practices among Sikhs in different parts of Europe. While two conference days are dedicated to presentation and peer-review of papers by the members of the academic network Sikhs-in-Europe, the third conference day is a workshop for Ph.D. students from different European universities. The conference is public and open to students and researchers in all disciplines.

Time: 16-18 June 2010

Venue: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 8, Lund, Sweden

For more information, please contact the conference convener at: Kristina.Myrvold@teol.lu.se

 

 

 

Velferd, arbeidsliv, migrasjon: Programplan og utlysning

 

200 millioner kroner til forskerprosjekter innenfor velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon (VAM) Forskning om velferdssamfunnets økonomiske, sosiale og normative bærekraft, med inklusjon og eksklusjon som sentrale perspektiver.

Søknadsfrist: 17. februar 2010 13:00 CET

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International Conference on Climate Change and Human Mobility

Time: 12-14 April 2010
Venue: University of Copenhagen

With the current trends of climate change, new patterns of regional migration emerge in terms of a forced flight from flooded or dried up environments, and in terms of active, adaptive strategies. Clearly, whatever the cause of global climate change, the balance between the regions of the world, and between different groups of people within regions becomes destabilised. It is thus expedient to investigate the practices and wider implications of human mobility in recognition of the fact that environmental change has become a truly global issue. On the whole, the human and social sciences face a major conceptual challenge in scaling their object of study.

Papers that address one of the following session themes are invited:

- Environmental change and human migration: Conceptual and political
challenges. Keynote speaker: James Morrissey

- Social and environmental histories: Lessons of intertwinement.
Keynote speaker: Carole Crumley

- Societies on the move: Responses to new waterscapes.
Keynote speaker: Jon Barnett

- Representations of movements: Near or distant sites of attraction.
Keynote speaker: Ben Orlove

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