Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland

Thor Brødreskift

Kari Anne Klovholt

Drangsland

Researcher

Institutt for sosialantropologi

Department of Social Anthropology Centre for Women's and Gender Research

Visit Address

Fosswinckels gate 6

Lauritz Meltzers hus

5007 Bergen

Postal Address

Postboks 7802

5020 Bergen

Phone

+47 55 58 25 73

0047 97978783

E-mail:

kari.drangsland@uib.no

The paradigm shift in Danish asylum policy and Norwegian experiences

Welcome to the launch of the book Paradigmeskiftets konsekvenser and to a panel conversation about the 'return turn' in Norwegian asylum policy.

What can we learn from getting lost in translation?

What follows are mid-term reflections from a human geographer and a legal researcher about their experience working together on the interdisciplinary project TemPro.

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Listening to Papenreye – the soundscape of an urban asylum camp

In this essay published by Global Research Programme on Inequality - GRIP, SKOK's postdoctoral fellow Kari Anne Drangsland focuses on the soundscape of urban asylum camps in Germany.

Refugee Law and Refugee Lives

A podcast series of the TemPro research project, where we explore the increasingly temporary terms of asylum in Europe and globally.

Photos of Kari Anne Drangland and Anders Rubing over a text excerpt from Margarite Duras

To write a room - to write about a room

Together with architect Julie Barfod, Kari Anne K. Drangsland and Anders Rubing from SKOK are hosting a three-day course on writing at Bergen School of Architecture (BAS).

RE:MIGRATION - New perspectives on movement, research, and society

Researchers from the CMI and UiB TemPro project are organizing a panel during the 21st Nordic Migration Research Conference in Copenhagen from 17 to 19 August 2022.

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Socio-Legal Perspectives in Migration Research: Potentials and Challenges

This workshop is a cross-disciplinary coming together of legal and anthropological perspectives.

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What happens if the refugees cannot return quickly?

In this opinion piece in Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende, TemPro researchers Drangsland, Karlsen and Schultz ask: What happens if the Ukrainian refugees cannot return within a short time?

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Collective protection as a short-term solution: European responses to the protection needs of refugees from the war in Ukraine

In this blog post, TemPro researchers including SKOK researchers Drangsland and Karlsen provide important reflections on temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine.

To menn i mørke klær, en åsside og et tre med gule blader i bakgrunnen

Regjeringen åpner for å innskrenke retten til flyktningstatus. Det er urovekkende.

In this op-ed, Jessica Schultz at CMI and Kari Anne Drangsland at SKOK/UiB criticize the Norwegian government's refugee policy for creating a B team of refugees.

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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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Interdisciplinarity in Migration Research: Combining law and anthropology

These pages present a selection of resources and reflections about the application of interdisciplinary research, mainly focusing on legal analysis and ethnography. It was initiated by researchers at the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsens Institute.

8th EMN Educational Seminar on Migration: “Migration in a Multilateral World”

Postdoctoral fellow at SKOK, Kari Anne Drangsland, presents at the European Migration Network's 2021 conference on migration.

Kvinne i raud jakke, svart genser, dongeribukse og fargerikt sjal sitter på en grønn benk med rosa rhododenron-busker i bakgrunnen

Exploring the “return turn” in Germany

Kari Anne Drangsland, postdoctoral researcher in the TemPro project, explores how the turn towards temporary protection materialises in Germany and Norway.

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.

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Interdisciplinary Methods in Migration Research

This two-day workshop explores how interdisciplinary methods drawing on the disciplines of law and anthropology can be productively applied to research questions in the field of migration.

How might irregular migrants «wait well”?

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

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.

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.

IMER Bergen

IMER Bergen started as a unit at the University of Bergen in 1996, and has since then been an important contributor to knowledge about migration and ethnic relations, both in Norway and internationally. IMER is made up of scholars from different departments at the University in Bergen, Chr Michelsen...

Waiting for uncertain futures: Time and migration

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.

Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times

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

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

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.

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Kari Anne Drangsland published in the journal Time and Society

Ph.D candidate Kari Anne Drangsland has been published in acclaimed journal Time and Society.

Places of silence at the edge of comfort

Read Kari Anne Drangsland's reflections on how silence is telling of the normative structures that shape irregular migrants' experience of waiting.

WAIT researcher Kari Anne Drangsland

PhD candidate Kari Anne Drangsland has contributed to the WAIT project with ethnographic field research in Hamburg, Germany.

Human geography perspectives on time

Doctoral candiate Kari Anne Drangsland is the last addition to the research stab at SKOK.

Native/Immigrant/Refugee

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.