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.
As the WAIT project at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) is in its final year, we marked the end of the project with a digital closing conference.
Reflections from researchers at the WAIT project on the complexity of waiting in pandemic times.
In this blog post, four researchers connected to the WAIT project reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting migrants with precarious legal status in Europe.
"Meeting the migrants have made a big impression on me, but as an anthropologist it is also through these meetings that I do my best thinking."
This talk explores islands as sites of detention and struggle over entry, exclusion, and asylum-seeking.
Read the WAIT project's first dispatch from the field from social anthropologist and project leader of WAIT, Christine M. Jacobsen.
Native/Immigrant/Refugee was financed by the Peder Sather Center at UC Berkeley and consisted of two phases: Crossings and Divides and Immobility and Movement Across Contested Grounds.
PROTECT - The Right to International Protection. A Pendulum between Globalization and Nativization? is an EU funded research project.
Migration is one of the major political issues in Europe today, challenging the cohesion of the European Union and affecting national elections. How should Europe handle the increasing immigration?
Symposium on UiB's migration research in six parts: politics, gender, culture, inequality, public spheres and global health.
In a new article in the journal Ethnos, Christine M. Jacobsen, Head of Centre at SKOK, explores the role French secularism plays in the state's regulation of religion.
