Migration and the (Inter-)National Order of Things

Monday 12 June
13:30 – 14:00 Course introduction
Maja Janmyr (UiB) + Marry-Anne Karlsen (Uni Rokkan Centre)

14:00 – 15:00 Lecture: Introduction to International Refugee Law
Jessica Schultz (CMI)

15:30 – 16:30 Role Play: Refugee Status Determination Process
Jessica Schultz (CMI)

Tuesday 13 June
09:00 – 10:30 Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Non-Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention
Maja Janmyr (UiB)

11:00 – 12:30 Lecture: A case apart. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian refugees
Kjersti G. Berg (UiB)

Wednesday 14 June
09:00 –10:30 Lecture: Normative Dimensions of Migration
Jesse Tomalty (UiB)

11:00 – 12:30 Presentations (MJ/MAK)

13:30 – 15:00 Lecture and film: Between “Victims” and “Criminals”: Trafficking, Smuggling, and Everyday Violence among Nigerian Women Migrants
Sine Plambech (Diis)

15:30 – 17:00 Visit to The Church City Mission’s "Project Free", a low threshold service for victims of trafficking

Thursday 15 June
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture: Irregular migrants and political mobilization
Synnøve Bendixsen (UiB)

11:00 – 12:30 Lecture: Waiting for an uncertain future: Gender, time and irregular migration
Christine Jacobsen (UiB)

13:30 – 15:00 Presentations (MJ/MAK)

15:30 – 17:00 Keynote: Alison Mountz  Discussant
Christine Jacobsen (UiB)

Friday 16 June
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture: Local responses to the “refugee crisis”: the case of Norway:
Susanne Bygnes (UiB)

11:00 – 12:30 Lecture: Camp, Ghetto, Zinco, Slum: Lebanon’s Transitional Zones of Emplacement
Are Knudsen (CMI)

13:30 – 15:00 Presentations (MJ)

Monday 19 June
9:00 – 12:30 Presentations (MAK)

Al Husseini J. and Bocco, R. “The Status of the Palestinian Refugees in the Near East: The right of return and UNRWA in perspective”, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 28, Nos 2 & 3 (2009), pp. 260-285.

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Bendixsen, S., “Voice Matters: Calling for Victimhood, Shared Humanity and Citizenry of Irregular Migrants in Norway”, in Gonzales R. & Sigona N. (eds.) Within and Beyond Citizenship. Borders, Membership and Belonging, (Routledge, 2017), pp. 185-207.

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Hinger, S., Schäfer, P., & Pott, A.,“The Local Production of Asylum”, Journal of Refugee Studies (2016) doi: 10.1093/jrs/few029.

Hyndman, J. & Giles, W., “Waiting for What? The Feminization of Asylum in Protracted Situations”, Gender, Place & Culture, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2011), pp. 361-379.

Janmyr, M., “No Country of Asylum: Legitimizing Lebanon’s Rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention” [forthcoming 2017]. 

Knudsen, A. J. “Camp, Ghetto, Zinco, Slum: Lebanon’s Transitional Zones of Emplacement”, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2016), pp. 443-457.

Plambech, S., “Sex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers” Feminist Economics (2016), pp. 1-26. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2016.1181272

Stevens D., “Shifting Conceptions of Refugee Identity and Protection: European and Middle Eastern Approaches”, in Kneebone S., Stevens, D., & Baldassar, L., Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: conflicting identities (Routledge, 2014), pp. 73-97.

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Andersson, R., “Time and The Migrant Other: European Border Controls and The Temporal Economics of Illegality”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 116 No. 4 (2014), pp. 795-809.

Feldman, I., “Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and Political Identification in Gaza” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 22 No. 1 (2007), pp. 129-169.

Hopkins, D. J., “Politicized places: Explaining where and when immigrants provoke local opposition”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 104 No. 01 (2010), pp. 40-60.

Janmyr, M. & Knudsen, A., Special Issue on Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps in Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2016).

Karlsen, M.A. “Migration Control and Migrant Children’s Access to Healthcare” in Thomas, F. (ed.) Handbook of Migration and Health (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016) pp. 134-157.

Martin, D., “From Spaces of Exception to ‘Campscapes’: Palestinian refugee camps and informal settlements in Beirut” Political Geography Vol. 44 (2015) 9-18.

McNevin, A., “Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The struggle of the sans-papiers” Citizenship Studies, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2006), pp. 135-151.

Noll, G. “Why Human Rights Fail to Protect Undocumented Migrants”, European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2010), pp. 241-272.

Nyer, P., “No one is Illegal between City and Nation”, Studies in Social Justice, Vol 4 No. 2 (2010) pp. 127-143.

Plambech, S., “Becky is Dead: The Death of a Migrant” (2016) https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/sine-plambech/becky-is-dead

Plambech, S., “The Art of the Possible: Making films on sex work migration and human trafficking” Anti-Trafficking Review (2016) DOI: 10.14197/atr.201217710

Stevens, D., “Rights, Needs or Assistance? The Role of the UNHCR in Refugee Protection in the Middle East”, International Journal of Human Rights Vol. 20 No. 2 (2016), pp. 264-283.

Zagor, M. “The Struggle of Autonomy and Authenticity: framing the savage refugee”, Social Identities, Vol. 21 No. 4 (2015), pp. 373-394.

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Refugee Law Reader, section II, pp. 47-136: http://refugeelawreader.org/images/Syllabus-2015-02-27-US-WEB.pdf

The 1951 Convention/1967 Protocol: http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.pdf