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ISLAMIC TRADITIONS AND MUSLIM YOUTH IN NORWAY
A major question regarding Islam in Europe concerns the religiosity of “Muslim youth” – a category currently epitomizing both the fears and hopes of multicultural Europe. How are Islamic traditions engaged and reworked by young people, born and educated in European societies, and which modes of religiosity will they shape in the future? Providing an in-depth ethnographic account from Norway, this book engages comparative research on Islam and young Muslims from across Europe, focusing on Islamic revitalization, Muslim identity politics, changing configurations of religious authority, and the formation of gendered religious subjectivities. The author discusses anthropological and other social science theorizing in order to examine religious continuities and discontinuities in a context of international migration, globalization, and secular modernity.
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2 NYE PROSJEKTER INNENFOR INNVANDRING OG INTERNASJONAL MIGRASJON INNVILGET
Norges Forskningsråd har gjennom Program for velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon (VAM) bevilget 23 millioner kroner til 2 nye forskningsprosjekter:
* “Provision of welfare to ‘irregular migrants’”
Christine M. Jacobsen, IMER Bergen og Uni Research Rokkansenteret (i samarbeid med Det Juridiske Fakultet, UiB).
* “Migration to Norway – Flows and Regulations”
Jan Paul Brekke, Institutt for Samfunnsforskning (ISF).
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MOBILITY, MARKETS AND INDIGENOUS SOCIALITIES
Contemporary migration in the Peruvian Andes
Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ødegaard demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and ritual in an urban context. Through a focus on people´s involvement in land occupations and local associations, labour and trade, Ødegaard examines the dialectics between popular practices and neoliberal state policies in processes of urbanization. The making and un-making of notions of the Indigenous, communal work, and gender is central in this analysis, and is discussed against the historical backdrop of the land occupations in Peruvian cities since the 1930s.
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MULTICULTURALISM AND NORDIC WELFARE STATES
– welfare state principles, democracy and gender equality
Ph.D. course
Aalborg University, 21-23 March, 2011
Speakers
Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Kingston
Karin Borevi, Uppsala University
Per Mourtizen, Aarhus University
Anette Borchorst, Aalborg University
Birte Siim, Aalborg University
Deadline for registration and abstract: 17 January 2011.
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IRREGULAR MIGRATION IN A SCANDINAVIAN PERSPECTIVE
Av: Jørgensen, M. B., T. L. Thomsen, S. Meret, K. Hviid og H. Stenum (eds.)
The Scandinavian countries have for long been portrayed as rather untouched by irregular migration due to highly regularized labour markets and strict internal and external control. However, irregular migration is a Scandinavian phenomenon. Yet there is a profound lack of knowledge. This volume asks what is similar or special to the Scandinavian countries and what distinguishes them? What is the status of research within this field? How is it possible to maintain restrictive policies that encourage irregular migration? The collection presents both conceptual and empirical studies on irregular migration in a Scandinavian context.
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MULTICULTURAL DIALOGUE
Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts
As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing cultural differences through planned pluralism.
This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicts that emerge when differences are managed within this conceptual framework. After a critical investigation of the perceived logic of identity, indicative of Western nation-states and at the root of their pluralistic intentions, the author takes issue with both universalist notions of equality and cultural relativist notions of distinctiveness. However, without identity is it possible to participate in dialogue and form communities? Is there a way out of this impasse? The book argues in favor of communities based on nonidentitarian difference, developed and maintained through open and critical dialogue.
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YEARBOOK OF MUSLIMS IN EUROPE
Edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibaic, Brigitte Maréchal, Christian Moe
Researchers, students, journalists, government and NGO officials, and
officials of international organizations working with minorities,
migration and Muslim communities inside and outside Europe.
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe will provide an up-to-date account of the situation of Muslims in Europe. Covering 37 countries of western, central and south-eastern Europe, the Yearbook will consist of three sections and will be supported by additional material on a website. The first section presents a country-by-country summary of essential data with basic statistics with evaluations of their reliability, surveys of legal status and arrangements, organizations, etc. providing an annually up-dated reference resource. The second section will contain analysis and research articles on issues and themes of current relevance written by experts in the field. The final section will provide reviews of recently published books of significance.
The Yearbook will be an important source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, and policy makers as well as researchers.
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"På kronglete veier. Barns transkulturelle erfaring ved innvandring til Europa på 2000-tallet"
av Rosella Ragazzi
Hva kan vi lære fra barn som krysser migrasjonens flytende grenseland i tid og rom? Hvordan håndterer innvandrerbarn og deres foresatte utdanningssystemene i Europa i dag? Hvordan er det å være fanget i et klasserom i storbyens fattigkvarter? Hvordan blir slike barn bindeledd mellom sine familier og utdanningsinstitusjonene? Dette antropologiske studiet, som er basert på en kulturelt refleksiv tilnærning til bruk av media i forskning og omfatter utsnitt fra etnografiske filmopptak, belyser de transkulturelle erfaringer til innvandrerbarn mellom 6 og 13 år ved en detaljert analyse av koder, rytmer og praksiser i utdanningssystemene i Irland og Frankrike. Barnas erfaringer er representert både gjennom film sekvenser (vedlagt DVD) og den skrevne teksten som beskriver deres syn på kulturelt mangfold, deres selvbiografiske beretninger og sosiale praksiser i familien og på skolen. Dette er erfaringer de har arbeidet seg gjennom, fra tiden før innvandring til dagens situasjon. Filmen framhever innvandrerbarns følelsesliv og inviterer leseren/seeren til å engasjere seg i reisen på disse kronglete veiene.
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Eksil og Livsløp
av Berit Berg og Kirsten Lauritsen
Boka handler om eksilets mange stoppesteder: Forfølgelsen, flukten, asylsøknaden og eksilet. Hva skjer når eksilet går over fra å være noe midlertidig til noe permanent? Hvor lenge er man flyktning, og hvordan definerer neste generasjon sin situasjon? Er de første generasjons nordmenn, eller tenker de på seg selv som etterkommere av flyktninger? Er kategoriene for trange til å gi rom for bindestreksnordmenn? Og hva vil det egentlig si å være norsk? [ Les mer ]
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Social Networks and Migration in Wartime Afghanistan
av Kristian Berg Harpviken
Med utganspunkt i feltarbeid fra Heart-området i Afganistan, tar denne boken for seg migrasjonsmønstre i krigstid. Harpviken introduserer et analytisk rammeverk for å forstå hvilken rolle sosiale nettverk spiller i måten mennesker forholder seg til krig og katastrofer, ved mobilisering og opprettholdelse av materielle ressurser, i sikkerhetsspørsmål og for å skaffe seg informasjon.
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