News archive for Centre for Women's and Gender Research

How might irregular migrants «wait well”? (15.01.2021)

On 21 January 2021, Kari Anne Drangsland will defend her PhD thesis at the University of Bergen. Her thesis is called “Working to ‘Wait Well’. Exploring the temporalities of irregular migration in Germany."

Bokframside Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration

Waiting as analytical perspective provides new insight (06.11.2020)

Researchers from UiB’s WAIT project have published a new book about waiting as both a social phenomenon in migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes.

Politics as profession (01.10.2020)

Professor Ragnhild Muriaas at the University of Bergen started her working career as a DJ. Now she investigates what strings must be played in politics to make a footprint.

Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)

We now welcome applications for six parallel courses with cross-cutting keynotes and virtual social events. BSRS 2021 will be a fully digital PhD research school.

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Neurodiversity and gender (19.08.2020)

PhD candidate at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), Emily Violet Maddox, writes about neurological conditions and how they interact with gender.

Philosophical questions at the core of feminist theory (14.07.2020)

In a recent blog post, Claus Halberg summarizes his project’s starting point in feminist theory and posits that philosophical questions are at the core of feminist theory.

Queer perspectives at SKOK (29.05.2020)

Pride 2020 is upon us, and in the Centre for Women's and Gender Research's (SKOK) research and teaching, you can find many exciting perspectives related to this year’s programme.

Shahram Khosravi, On Pandemic and Borders, Four Rooms

Shahram Khosravi on the pandemic and borders (18.05.2020)

In April, WAIT researcher Shahram Khosravi was interviewed about the pandemic and borders as part of a series of conversations called Four Rooms.

Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)

Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.

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How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting migrants with precarious legal status? (15.04.2020)

In this blog we reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting migrants with precarious legal status in Europe, with a particular focus on Norway, Germany and France - countries in which we have been doing long term ethnographic fieldwork in the WAIT-project.

Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times (15.04.2020)

Reflections from researchers at the WAIT project on the complexity of waiting in pandemic times.

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Ph.D Kari Anne Drangsland published in the journal Time and Society (10.01.2020)

Ph.D candidate Kari Anne Drangsland has published the article "Waiting as a redemptive state: The ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ and the offer from the Hamburg government" in acclaimed journal Time and Society.

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"On the Deliberate Traumatization of Migrants’ Children” (11.12.2019)

In Israel, as in the United States, children have become pawns in government efforts to expel migrants -- despite clear evidence that arresting, detaining, and deporting children violates their human rights and has long-term traumatic effects. Policies like these demand our swift, strong, and emphatic condemnation.