The Migration Initiative - fall semester 2010

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Previous seminars, 2010

December 

8-9 december, CSS, lokale 16.1.62
Interpreting Women's Right of Divorce in Present day Islamic Family Laws: Trans-national and cross-cultural developments in the Law of Divorce in Europe and the Muslim World
Research workshop arrangereb by Rubya Mehdi, ToRS, KU, in cooperation with Centre for European Islamic Thought, and the Migration Initiative.
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December 3-4, Department of Sports, University of Copenhagen
Sports as a Global Labour Market; Female athletes as migrants
Research worskhops arranged by Sine Agergaard, associate professor, Department of Excercise and Sport Sciences. 
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November

November 19-20
Transnational lives: Education, Mobility and Citizenship
Conference organised in cooperation with Karen Valentin, associate professor, DPU. The conference is part of the new research project "Education, Mobility and Citizenship. An Anthropological Study of Educational Migration to Denmark", which has been granted support from the Danish Research Council.
More information and registration

October

October 26 at 13:15-17:00, CSS, room 16.1.62
Transnational Migration and the Quest for Wellbeing
Research seminar with Marita Eastmond, University of Gothenburg; Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, Lillehammer; Henrik Vigh and Mikkel Rytter, both Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, and more
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October 28, CSS, room 16.1.62
Figuring out Migrants and making research count: On the uses and
abuses of quantitative methods in migration research
Research workshop with Allan Krasnik; Margit Warburg; Zachary Whyte, all University of Copenhagen and more, on the use of quantitative data in migration research
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September

30. september at 14:15-16:00, CSS, room 15.3.01
Health and Human Rights: The perspective of migrants
Seminar with Mandana Zarrehparvar and Brigit Toebes, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Marie Nørredam, University of Copenhagen
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21. september at 14:15-16:00, CSS, room 18.1.08
Making space for Islam in the legal sphere in Europe, with special reference to the UK. Seminar with Ralph Grillo, arrangered in cooperation with SOCED (the new research project on Social Cohesion and Ethnic Diversity: National Values, Local Implications).
More information and registration

June 

9. juni, room 16.2.55 13:15-16:00
New Research on Migration
Seminar with MA students, presenting their master thesises on migration.
4 presentations, followed by discussion. 
Please note that this seminar is in Danish, for more information, please click here for the Danish version
Registration

May 

May 26 2010 at 14:15-16:00, room 18.1.08
Immigrant Incorporation and Identity Formation: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe
Research seminar with Daniel Fass, lecturer of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin.
Discussant: Bolette Moldenhawer, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
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May 12 at 14:15-16:00, room 18.1.08
Media, Migration, and the Moral Economy of Lond-distance Communication
Research seminar with Ulla Berg, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Discussant: Nauja Kleist, project senior researcher, DIIS, University of Copenhagen 
More information and registration 

April

April 12-14
International Conference on Climate Change and Human Mobility
For more information and registration, please see http://www.climatemobility.ku.dk/
Download programme and abstracts 

March 2010

March 11, 9:30-15:45 (14:15-15:45).
Migration and the rise of nationalist right-wing parties: Confrontation, isolation or engagement?
Seminar with Policy Network and Barrow Cadbury Trust, UK about migration and the rise of right-wing parties across Europe. More information
In the afternoon, a public lecture by Tariq Ramadan, professor of Contemporary Islam at the University of Oxford will take place: "Multiculturalism and the politics of intolerance". More information about the guest lecture can be found here

February 2010

February 16 at 13:15-15:00, room 18.01.11
Social Cohesion, Social Inequality and the Cosmopolitan City
Seminar with Nina Glick-Schiller, arranged by SOCED and The Migration Initiative.
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February 11 at 9:15-15:45
Migration for Domestic Care Work
Research seminar. The seminar starts with a keynote by Helma Lutz, professor of Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, followed by papers on European and Nordic perspectives on domestic care work migration and the au-pair scheme.
More information and program

Previous seminars, 2008 and 2009

December 2009

December 1
Migrationsunge - deltagelse og demokrati (Ethnic Minority Youth - participation and democracy)
One-day conference for researchers and practitioners, presenting results from development and research projects for youth with ethnic minority background. Arrangered by af Mariane Hedegaard, professor og Sven Mørch, lektor dr. phil, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, in cooperation with Søren Frost, Hed of Decelopment, Social Services Department, Århus.

November 2009

November  23
The Map is not the Territory, seminar arranged by the MA forum, please sign up by Camilla Fruelund from the MA forum at camillahulten@hotmail.com 

November 3 at 13:15-15:00
Skolemodeller i København. Spredning af etniske minoritetsbørn? (Dispersion of ethnic minority children in the public schools of Copenhagen).
Seminar and debate with Jacob Hougaard, Mayor of Employment and Integration, Municipality of Copenhagen; Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard, Mayor of Children and Youth, Municipality of Copenhagen, Geert Laier Christensen, Head of research, CEPOS, and Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen, Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism, University of Copenhagen.
Moderator: Nils Holtug, Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism, University of Copenhagen. In Danish.  

November 6 at 13:15-16:00. 
Professional Migration. Research seminar with  Professor Vered Amit from Concordia University, Canada on "Career Choices and Constraints among Travelling Consultants" and lector Anne-Meike Fechter from Sussex University on "Unlikely Migrants? Euro-American Expatriates in Indonesia". Rikke Hoelgard Andersen will contribute with a Danish perspective from her MA thesis on Danes working in India. 

October 2009

October 27 at 13:15-15:30
Religion i Udlændinghed (Religion in foreign settings). At this seminar Margit Warburg, ToRS, University of Copenhagen, and Marianne Holm Pedersen, the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, will discuss the importance of religion for Iraqis in Denmark and Danes abroad. Discussant: Peter Gundelach, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. In Danish

October 21-23
Trans-national and cross-cultural understanding of the legal culture and legal pluralism in the West: the example of Mahr
Research workshop arranged by Rubya Mehdi, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen and Jørgen S. Nielsen, Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen.
International participants include Mairead Einright, University College, Cork; Susan Rutten, Maastricht University; Nadjma Yassari, Max-Planck-Institut, Hamburg; Katja Jansen Fredriksen, University of Bergen.
In English. Limited number of participants, please contact the Line Stæhr for more information and registration.

October 6 at 13:15-15:30.
Care Work Migration. Linda McDowell from University of Oxford will discuss her research on Care Migration, focusing especially on nurses. The title of her presentation is "The legacies of inequality in the National Health Service in Britain: migrant nurses 1945-1980". Discussant: Myra Lewinter, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen and Allan Krasnik, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

September 2009

September 22 at 13:15-16:00. New Landscapes of Labour Migrations. Pauline Gardine Barber from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, will present a paper on "The Good Migrant? Neoliberal Subordinations and New Economic Subjectivites in Global Migration". Nana Wesley Hansen from Sociology, University of Copenhagen, will present a paper on Polish Migrant Workers in Denmark at the same seminar: "New trends of intra-European Mobility". Discussant: Ulla Berg, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey 

August 2009

August 27-28: Migration, State and Pedagogy. Exploring a new research area of pedagogy. Research workshop arranged by the priority area Migration, State and Education, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

June 2009

June 18-19: "Fra integration til religion? Relationer mellem Danmarks minoriteter og
majoriteter i det nye årtusind". Forskerworkshop med Mikkel Rytter, ph.d. studerende, Institut for Antropologi og Marianne Holm Pedersen, ekstern lektor, Institut for Antropologi. Limited number of participants. Please contact Kirsten Gelting for registration.

June 11: Globale klimaforandringer - lokal mobilitet. Forskningsseminar med Frida Hastrup, post doc, Institut for Antropologi, Københavns Universitet, Frank Sejersen, Lektor, ToRs, Københavns Universitet, og Jonas Østergaard, ph.d. studerende, Institut for Geografi og Geologi, Københavns Universitet. In Danish.

June 4: "Lines in the Sand. Spaces of Security in a Critical Border Studies?". A one-day international inter-disciplinary workshop. Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

May 2009

May 19: Creating Global Citizens: National Museums in Sweden and Denmark. Research seminar with Peggy Levitt, Associate Professor, Wellesley College and Harvard University. Discussant: Vered Amit, Professor, Concordia University, Montreal and Tine Damsholt, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen 

May 5-6: Migrationer og individuel mobilitet i forhistorien. 2 days research seminar by lector Erik Brinch Petersen, KUA. Registration is not necessary.

April 2009

April 27-28: Global Families and Religious Practices. Internationalt forskningsseminar. Begrænset deltagerantal. Kontakt Kirsten Gelting, hvis du ønsker at tilmelde dig.

April 22: Asylbørn i Danmark. Research seminar with Ph.d. stipendiat Signe Schmidt Nielsen, Lector Peter Berliner and Researcher Kathrine Vitus, SFI. Commentator: Edith Montgomery, head of research, RCT and Lisbeth Garly Andersen, Programme Manager, DIHR.

April 27: Questioning identity: Paradigms for understanding migrant belongings and the second generation. Forskningsseminar med Professor Floya Anthias, Roehampton University.

March 2009

6 March: The Transnational Social Question: From Transnational Social Protection to Social Inequalities. Guest Lecture by Professor Thomas Faist, University of Bielefeld. 

10 March: Collaborative Research and Community Involvement: Working with marginalised communities in welfare research and development. Seminar with Professor Mark R D Johnson, De Montfort University, Leicester.

24 March: Key Issues in Global Migration. Guest Lecture by Professor Stephen Castles, University of Oxford.

February 2009

5 February 09: Children on the Move - Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Children's Mobility in Africa. Neil Howard, Cecilie Juel Lanken and Lorenzo Bordonaro. Discussant Henrik Vigh. 

December 2008

16 December: "Hjem" i en transnational tilværelse", v. Mark Vacher, Kristine Juul og Helle Nysted Andersen. 

November 2008

6 November: 'Marriage Migration: Gender, Mobility and Identity'. Sine Plambech, Steen Baagøe Nielsen, Georg Strøm

11 November: 'Immigrants, Nations and Citizenship'. Guest lecture by David Miller. 

October 2008

30 October: 'Migration and Integration- the case of Turkish families and family life in Germany'. Research Seminar by Dr. Rene Bendit

3 October: Dansk indvandringspolitik og EU's indre marked: en uforenelig modsætning? Offentlig paneldebat om dansk migrationspolitik i EU-sammenhæng med Hans Kornø Rasmussen, Marlene Wind, Ejvind Vesselbo og Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen 

September 2008

24 September: 'The Old and New Question of Locality: Theorizing Transnational Migration in a Neo-liberalizing World'. Research Seminar by Professor Nina Glick Shiller.

11 September: 'Control and Consequences: EU and Illegal Immigration from Africa'. 

Juni 2008

12 June: Meet the authors seminar: Forskel og Fællesskab. Minoritetsbørn i daginstitutioner  

April 2008

29 April: Research seminar: Conceptualizing 'Mobility' in Contemporary Migration Research

23 April: Seminar: Why Democracies Don't Have the Right to Unilaterally Control Their Own Borders