About

This webpage is developed and maintained by researchers at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and University of Bergen.

Four women working behind desks with a trees, grass and a lake seen through the window behind them

During the spring of 2021, contributors to the webpage participated in a writing seminar in Skomakerstuen at Fløyen, Bergen.

Photo:

Jessica Schultz

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We started this initiative to take stock of lessons learned through interdisciplinary collaboration – particularly between legal scholars and ethnographers – in a number of recent and ongoing projects: PROVIR, WAIT, TEMPRO and VULNER.

On this webpage, we collect our own reflections and the resources from others that we have found useful.

We are grateful to TEMPRO colleagues and advisory board members Mikkel Rytter, Christine Jacobsen, Cathryn Costello and Henriette Sinding Aasen for their help in launching this project.

Provision of welfare to 'irregular migrants'

The project investigated the Norwegian welfare system's assessment of irregular migrant's rights and their actual social and health situation from a combined legal and social science approach.

WAIT

The WAIT project uses theories of temporality and the concept of 'waitinghood' as tools for producing new and critical insights into the cultural conditions and implications of migration.

Temporary protection as a durable solution? (TemPro)

TemPro is a collaboration between anthropologists and legal scholars in Norway, UK and Denmark that explores the effects of temporary protection in the current asylum and refugee systems.

The text VULNER in orange letter, where the L is tilted downwards

VULNER - Vulnerability under the global protection regime

How does the law assess, address, shape and produce the vulnerabilities of the protection seekers?

01.11.2021