Concepts: Blogs

In the below blog posts, our collaborators and contributors reflect on their use of key concepts in migration research.

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Attachments and the arc of refugee protection: A legal perspective - by Jessica Schultz, senior researcher at Chr. Michelsens Institute
Home and belonging: An ethnographic perspective - by Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid, Associate Professor at the Department of Health Promotion and Development, UiB
Addressing the co-production of law and time in regularisation processes: legal and ethnographic lines of enquiry - by Marry-Anne Karlsen and Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland, researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK)
Multiple, uneven and relational time in ethnographic research - by Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland and Marry-Anne Karlsen

Attachments and the arc of refugee protection: a legal perspective

What does it mean to have ‘attachments’ to a country or a community?

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Home and Belonging: An Ethnographic Perspective

What and where is home? The answer to this question is far more complex than the quotidian use of the word suggests.

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Addressing the co-production of law and time in regularisation processes: legal and ethnographic lines of enquiry

The significance of time and temporality for migration processes and governance has received increasing attention within migration research in recent years.

Multiple, uneven and relational time in ethnographic research

In the following, we want to reflect on what it means for interdisciplinary studies of migration to understand time as multiple, uneven, and relational.

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Concepts

In interdisciplinary research, shared concepts are ways to establish a common ground and advance knowledge. However, they can also be a source of misunderstandings.

16.11.2021