Motivations for, and modes of migration are diverse and often overlapping: from voluntary labor migration to family migration to forced migration due to climate change, lack of food security, war, or ethnic and religious conflict. Common to all forms of migration, though, is that the economic, social and cultural relations in both sending and destination countries are altered as a result. How does this happen, and what is the impact for both the individuals involved and society at large? A transnational lens on migration means that we are sensitive to how transnational flows of money, culture and social relations influence migrants’ adaptation and imagination as well as states’ and regions’ political regulation of migration across the South-North divide.
The conference focuses on four interdisciplinary themes that may be reached from a range of different disciplines and geographical departures.
1. Political Mobilization and Collective Action.
2. Segregated Zones of Living: Refugee Camps, Asylum Centers, Ghettos.
3. Rhetoric of Exclusion.
4. Precarious Lives: The Law of States Versus the Law of Peoples.
In addition to these four themes, which will organize presentations and discussions of papers throughout the conference, there will be open plenary lectures and public meetings/roundtables.
November 2011: Open call for applications
February 15, 2012: Application deadline
For more information please visit our website
http://bsrs.no/program/2012/index.htm
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
* Philippe Bourgois, Ricard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine, Departments of Anthropology and Family Medicine and Community Practice, University of Pennsylvania.
* Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
* Laleh Khalili, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Mission and definition: Global Development Challenges
The Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) is an initiative of the Bergen academic milieu’s commitment to produce and disseminate research-based education related to some key global challenges posed by an increasingly knowledge-based, complex, multicultural, religiously diverse, and unequal society.
The BSRS has completed its first phase of four years dedicated to the following themes.
2008: Global Poverty
2009: Climate, Environment, and Energy
2010: Global Health in Bio-medical, Social and Cultural Perspectives
2011 – Norms, values, language, culture
These four broad areas of research are intrinsically interrelated, but they have also been identified as dominant themes in separate BSRS editions.
Please follow the links for further information.
www.bsrs.no
www.uib.no/rs/bsrs
gdc@uib.no
BSRS is arranged by the University of Bergen in collaboration with Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen University College and UniResearch.