RDV Seminar
Health care providers as petty sovereigns? Migration control and access to welfare
Join us for the first RDV seminar of the semester where Marry-Anne Karlsen will examine how medical encounters shape Norway's borders through welfare and migration policies.

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Health care providers as petty sovereigns? Migration control and access to welfareSpeaker: Marry-Anne Karlsen
In this presentation, Marry-Anne Karlsen explores ambiguities in the Norwegian state’s response to irregular migration arising from the interaction and tension between welfare policy and entry control. Specifically, she investigates the role of discretionary decision-making in (re)producing or challenging state borders in the medical encounter. The ethnographic focus brings forth the multiple and dispersed, as well as negotiated quality, of the border in everyday practices and situations.
18.12.2024