PhD-relay 2nd November 2022
The IMER Junior Network PhD relay is organized as a seminar where each candidate presents their work, followed by feedback from senior scholar commentators. It is a great opportunity for PhD candidates to establish useful connections across disciplinary boundaries and get feedback on their work from senior scholars within the field of migration and ethnic relations.
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Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen
9.15-10.00: Registration/Coffee
10.00-10.15: Preparation/Settling in
10.15-11.20: Session 1: Migration and Minors in the Welfare State
Commentators: Astrid Sundsbø (1) and Cathrine Talleraas(2,3). Chair: Joanna Spyra
1. Frederikke Jarlby: Home and (Dis)continuity: Foster Care for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (HoMi).
2. Eirinn Hesvik Ljones: Contact and Continuity for Children with Migration Background in Foster Care. A Study of Children and Parents' Experiences
3. Nawar Sayyad: How can Improved After Care in the Child Welfare Services Function as a Gate Opener to Active Citizenship for Cross Cultural Youth in the Child Welfare Services?
11.20-11.30: Break
11.30-12.50: Session 2: Policy, Borders, and Work
Commentators: Mette Andersson (1,2) and Cathrine Talleraas (2,3). Chair: Amanda Tallis
1. Irma Olofsson: Migrant Workers in Rural Areas: Seasonal Labour Migration to Sweden’s Green Industries
2. Mathias Tjønn: Migrant Returns from Italy, Norway and Sweden: How have Central Actors Understood, Disputed and Applied Norms from 1990 until the Present?
3. Sarah-Louise Mortensen: Intensities of Exhaustion: A Study of Syrian Refugees Living with Temporary Protection in Denmark
4. Khalil Hammoudi: Submerged and Emerging Transnational Narratives of Migration
12.50-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: Session 3: Ethnic Relations and Education
Commentators: Astrid Sundsbø (1,2)and Mette Andersson (3). Chair: Joanna Spyra
1. Tommaso Rompianesi: Narratives on Inclusion. A Comparative Analysis of Italian and Norwegian Educational Policy Documents
2. Ivy Estrella Gutierrez: Teaching Mathematics in a Second Language: Workings of Coloniality and Globalization in the Philippine and Swedish Education Systems
3. Gabriela Wale Soto: Knowledge, ‘Competence’ and Bodies: Exploring Circulating Meanings of Diversity in Norwegian Higher Education
15.00-15.10: Break
15.10-16.30: Session 4: Migrant Women in Norway
Commentators: Marry-Anne Karlsen (1,2) and Randi Gressgård (3,4). Chair: Gabriela Wale Soto
1. Amanda Tallis: Migrant Women and their Aspirations in the Norwegian Welfare State
2. Hilde Asbjørnsen: Critical Reflections on Maternal Health Services in Norway: Experiences of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women
3. Malin Kleppe: When a Sacred Body Gets Sick: An Ethnographic Exploration of Health Practices Amongst Muslim Immigrant Women in Urban Norway
4. Annam Azeem: Freedoms and Constraints: Muslim Women’s Narratives of (Be)Longing and Religious Identity in Western Norway under Forced and Voluntary Migratory Contexts
19.00: Social Gathering (Salong bar, Kong Oscars gate 5)
