15th Nordic Migration Research Conference
GLOBAL CHALLENGES - LOCAL RESPONSES
Malmö, 25-27th August, 2010
Organised by Nordic Migration Research (NMR), Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), and the Department of IMER , Malmö University
Conference venue: Orkanen, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, Malmö
Room D138 – 1st floor (= ground floor)
Rooms C231 and D 222 – 2nd floor, in parts C and D of the building
Rooms D 328 and D 337 – 3rd floor, part D of the building
Orkanen library – 5th floor
(All rooms are accessible by elevator)
PROGRAMME
Please observe that the final version of the programme will be printed in the BOOK OF PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS and included in the conference material available to the registered participants.
Wednesday, 25th August, 2010
8.30-18.00 Registration and information (Orkanen, ground floor)
10.00-10.20 (room D138)
Welcome on behalf of the local organisers MIM and IMER:
Prof. Lennart Olausson, Vice-Chancellor, Malmö University
Prof. Hans Lindquist, Dean, Culture and Society, Malmö University
Opening of the conference:
Prof. Ulf Hedetoft, Chairperson of NMR
10.25-10.50 (room D138)E
Experiences of the common Nordic labour market
Keynote speech by Prof. ESKIL WADENSJÖ, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
10.50-11.00 questions from the audience
11.05-11.30 (room D138)
Diasporic cosmopolitanism: a research paradigm beyond methodological nationalism
Keynote speech by Prof. NINA GLICK SCHILLER, Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), The University of Manchester
11.30-11.40 questions from the audience
11.50-13.20 lunch (Orkanen, ground floor)
13.20-15.00 (D337)
Workshop 1 – Methodologies of IMER studies
Convenor: IMER-förbundet (Swedish IMER Association)
Chair: Orlando Mella, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University (S)
Participants: Serine Haghverdian (S), Lisa Salmonsson (S), Turid Sætermo (N), Selma Porobić (S), Orlando Mella (S)
13.20-15.20 (D328)
Workshop 2 – State and civil society: regulating immigrant integration
Chair: Mikael Spång, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University (S)
Participants:Ruth Emerek (DK), Martin Bak Jørgensen (DK), Anton Steen (N), Ariana Fernandes Guilherme (N/S), Roberto Scaramuzzino (S), Jenny Kiiskinen (S), Sigrid Saveljeff (S)
Discussant: Mikael Spång (S)
13.20-15.30 (D222)
Workshop 3 – Urban environments, immigrant incorporation – beyond a national perspective?
Convenor and chair: Garbi Schmidt, SFI – Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen (DK)
Participants: Maja Povrzanović Frykman (S), Randi Gressgård (N), Garbi Schmidt (DK), Tina G. Jensen (DK), Berndt Clavier (S), Simone Scarpa (I), Alberto Violante (I), Tapio Salonen (S)
Discussant: Nina Glick Schiller (UK)
15.30-16.00 coffee/tea break (Orkanen, ground floor)
16.00-17.40 (D222)
Workshop 4 – Transnational family practices and nation state regulation
Convenor and chair: Anika Liversage, SFI - Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen (DK)
Participants: Helga Eggebø (N), Hilde Lidén (N), Kristin Henriksen (N), Anika Liversage (DK), Annika Rabo (S)
16.00-18.00 (D337)
Workshop 5 – Media, migration, minorities and majorities in the Nordic countries
Convenor and chair: Rikke Andreassen, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University; National coordinator for MigraNord (Nordic research network for media, migration and society) (S/DK)
Participants: Karina Horsti (F), Asta Smedegaard Nielsen (DK), Rikke Andreassen (S/DK), Suvi Keskinen (F), Magnus Andersson (S), Camilla Haavisto (F)
16.00-17.50 (D328)
Workshop 6 – Finding a language of our own: a critique of migration research
Convenor and chair: Ronald Stade, Department of IMER, Malmö University (S)
Participants: Mette Andersson (N), Jon Rogstad (N), Birgitte Suter (S), Jens Røyrvik (N), Ronald Stade (S), Dimosthenis Chatzoglakis (S)
Discussant: Thomas Faist (D)
18.00-19.00 (Orkanen, ground floor)
Welcome-drink and snacks hosted by the IMER-förbundet (Swedish IMER Association), MIM and IMER, Malmö University.
Greetings by Prof. Björn Fryklund, on behalf of MIM, Malmö University, and Prof. Yngve Lithman, on behalf of IMER-förbundet (Swedish IMER Association).
Thursday, 26th August, 2010
8.30-16.30 Registration and information (Orkanen, ground floor)
9.00-9.25 (room D138)
The ‘Mobility Turn’: An analytical balancing act
Keynote speech by Prof. VERED AMIT, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
9.25-9.35 questions from the audience
9.40-10.05 (room D138)
Cultural diversity and social inequalities: a social mechanismic account
Keynote speech by Prof. THOMAS FAIST, Director of the Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD), Bielefeld University
10.05-10.15 questions from the audience
10.15-10.40 coffee/tea break (Orkanen, ground floor)
10.40-12.00 (D337)
Workshop 7 – Irregular migration in Scandinavia and beyond (first 4 papers)
Convenors: Trine Lund Thomsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Susi Meret, Institute of History and International Social Studies, Aalborg University (DK)
Chair(s): tba
Participants: Trine Lund Thomsen (DK), Martin Bak Jørgensen (DK), Susi Meret (DK), Helle Stenum (DK), Kirsten Hviid (DK), Sara Kalm (S), Caroline Bækkelund Ellingsen (N), Halvar Andreassen Kjærre (N), Karin Harsløf Hjelde (N), Mónica Amador (Colombia)
10.40-12.20 (D222)
Workshop 8 – Transnational practices in migration (first 5 papers)
Convenor: Forskarnätverket om transnationalism och diaspora (The Research-network on Transnationalism and Diaspora) (S)
Chair: Ali Osman, Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO), Stockholm University (S)
Participants: Erica Righard (S), Norma Montesino (S), Jaana Schütze (D), Charlotte Melander (S), Lisa Åkesson (S), Bojana Babić (BiH), Olav Eggebø (N), Charlotta Hedberg (S), Khalid Khayati (S), Catrin Lundström (S), Ingemar Grandin (S)
10.40-12.20 (D328)
Workshop 9 – Childhood and migration (first 5 papers)
Convenor: IMER-förbundet (Swedish IMER Association)
Chairs: Maren Bak, Department of Social Work, and Kerstin von Brömssen, Department of Religious Studies and Theology Göteborg University (S)
Participants: Ulrika Wernesjö (S), Live Stretmo (S), Kristina Gustafsson (S), Ingrid Fioretos (S), Olga Keselman (S), Anna Lundberg (S), Lisa Dahlquist (S), Berit Berg (N), Kirsten Lauritsen (N), Layal Wiltgren (S), Eva Skowronski (S)
10.40-12.00 (C231)
Workshop 10 – Locating religion in multicultural societies (first 4 papers)
Convenors and chairs: Magdalena Nordin and Jonas Alwall, Department of IMER, Malmö University
Participants: Fredrik Gergorius (S), Magdalena Nordin (S), Tobias Schölin (S), Ulla Lyndby Christensen (DK), Ida Marie Vammen (DK), Jonas Otterbeck (S), Anders Lundberg (S), Simon Stjernholm (S), Ali Aslan Yildiz (NL), Maykel Verkuyten (NL), Rickard Lagervall (S)
12.00-13.30 lunch (Orkanen, ground floor)
13.30-15.10 (D337)
Workshop 7 (cont.) – Irregular migration in Scandinavia and beyond (remaining 4 papers)
Kalm, Bækkelund Ellingsen, Andreassen Kjærre, Harsløf Hjelde, Amador
13.30-15.10 (D222)
Workshop 8 (cont.) – Transnational practices in migration (remaining 5 papers)
Eggebø, Hedberg, Khayati, Lundström, Grandin
13.30-14.50 (D328)
Workshop 9 (cont.) – Childhood and migration (remaining 4 papers)
Berg, Lauritsen, Wiltgren, Skowronski
13.30-14.50 (C231)
Workshop 10 (cont.) – Locating religion in multicultural societies (remaining 4 papers)
Lundberg, Stjernholm, Yildiz and Verkuyten, Lagervall
15.00-16.30 coffee/tea, exhibitions, information (Orkanen library, 5th floor)
Conference participants are welcome to visit the book exhibition presenting migration-related research at Malmö University, poster presentations prepared by the undergraduate students at IMER and GPS, and a number of information points organised by Malmö University faculties and The City of Malmö.
14.45-16.30 (D222)
NMF (Network for Migration Research Norway) General Assembly (for NMF members)
16.30-18.00 (D138)
NMR (Nordic Migration Research) General Assembly (for NMR members).
For Assembly agenda see http://nordicmigration.saxo.ku.dk/.
The General Assembly is for NMR members only, i.e. those that have signed up and paid fees for 2010, including all full conference participants (since the fee includes membership of NMR for 2011). The conference badge for full participants guarantees admission to the Assembly. (Day-card registration does NOT cover membership and therefore day-card participants can only take part in the General Assembly if they have previously signed up for membership or do so separately prior to the Assembly. Names of day-card participants who are NMR members will show up on the secretariat’s official list of members.)
19.30 Conference dinner (Rådhuset - Malmö City Hall, Stortorget)
The dinner is hosted and sponsored by The City of Malmö.
Greetings by Kent Andersson, Vice-mayor, The City of Malmö, and Jonas Alwall, Head of the Department IMER, Culture and Society, Malmö University.
Friday, 27th August, 2010
8.30-11.00 Registration and information (Orkanen, ground floor)
9.00-9.25 (room D138)
The magical cultural construction of a contested diasporic nation
Keynote speech by Prof. ALEX STEPICK, Director of Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, Florida International University, Miami
9.25-9.35 questions from the audience
9.40-10.05 (room D138)
A right to a past? Migration, remembrance and history
Keynote speech by Prof. KNUT KJELDSTADLI , Professor at the Department of History, University of Oslo
10.05-10.15 questions from the audience
10.15-10.30 coffee/tea break (Orkanen, ground floor)
10.30-12.40 (D337)
Workshop 11 – Comparative migration and integration studies
Convenors and chairs: Pieter Bevelander and Anders Hellström, MIM - Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University (S)
Participants: Kikuko Nagayoshi (Japan), Lydia L. Lundgren (USA) Anders Hellström (S), Constanza Vera Larrucea (S), Pieter Bevelander (S), Kristi Anniste (EST)
Discussant: Eskil Wadensjö (S)
10.30-12.30 (D328)
Workshop 12 – Intermarriage and children of mixed parentage: new paradigms?
Convenors and chairs: Rashmi Singla, Department of Psychology, Roskilde University (DK) and Sayaka Osanami Törngren, IMER/MIM, Malmö University and REMESO, Linköping University (S)
Participants: Kaisa Nissi (F), Mustafa Topal (DK), Rashmi Singla (DK), Ditte Wenzel Pedersen (D), Angelika Kaffrell-Lindahl (S), Sayaka Osanami Törngren (S)
10.30-12.30 (D222)
Workshop 13 – Beyond the suitcase: representations of migration and Europe and the role of museums
Convenors and chairs: Sabine Hess, Institut für Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Kerstin Poehls, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin (D)
Participants: Sabine Hess (D), Leen Beyers (NL), Jan Parmentier (NL), Bram Beelaert (NL), Klas Grinell (S), Kerstin Poehls (D)
Discussant: Knut Kjelstadli (N)
12.20-13.30 lunch (Orkanen, ground floor)
13.30-15.10 (D337)
Workshop 14 – Families in change: discourses and practices
Chair: Annika Rabo, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University (S)
Participants: Monica Five Aarset (N), Marjan Nadim (N), Marianne Tveit (N), Dorte Caswell (DK), Kræn Blume Jensen (DK), Anja Bredal (N), Minoo Alinia (S)
13.30-15.30 (D328)
Workshop 15 – Migrants’ perceptions of exclusion and inclusion
Chair: Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Iceland (ISL)
Participants: Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir (ISL), Jonathan Ngeh (S), Linda Dyrlid (N), Anna Wojtynska (ISL), Katrine Fangen (N), Susanne Urban (S)
13.30-15.30 (D222)
Workshop 16 – Time, history, and processes of migration
Convenor and chair: Ella Johansson, IMER-förbundet (Swedish IMER Association) (S)
Participants: Ella Johansson (S), Orlando Mella (S), Ulla Rosén (S), Pauline Stoltz (S), Malin Thor (S), Despina Tzimoula (tbc)
15.30-15.45 (room D138)
Closing of the conference:
Prof. Ulf Hedetoft on behalf of NMR, and Associate Prof. Maja Povrzanović Frykman, on behalf of the local organisers