Program

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Meeting room: "Gamle Bybro". 

 

Monday 31st of October

12:00
Registration
 
13:00
Lunch
 
14:00
Welcome speech
 
14:15
Keynote lecture
Is mobility a useful concept in an anthropology of diasporic culture?
Ghassan Hage
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15:00
Session 1: Theorizing the migration industry and mobility: Empirical and ethnographic evidence
Chair: Carla Dahl-Jørgensen
 
15:10 From migrant identity to migration industry
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
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15:30 Discussion
15:40 Migration Industries and the State: Guestwork Programs in East Asia
Kristin Surak
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16:00 Discussion
 
16:10
Coffee break
 
16:30
Session 1 continued
16:30 Immigration Made Easy: The role of consultants in the migration industry in Canada
Turid Sætermo
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16:50 Discussion
17:00 Double Vision: The Roles of Migration Industry Actors, Language Policy and Mobility in Norway
Marietta L. Baba and Carla Dahl-Jørgensen
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17:20 Discussion
 
18:00
End of day 1
 

 

Tuesday 1st of November

 
Breakfast
 
10:00
Session 2: Trans/local families: Mobility, belonging and affective place-making
Chair: Øivind Fuglerud
 
10:10 Mobility, Movement and Affective Placemaking
Maruška Svašek
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10:30 Discussion
10:40 The pain over the divided “death-house”
Stine Bruland
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11:00 Discussion
 
11:10
Coffee break
 
11:30
Session 2 continued
11:30 Nepalese support networks in the UK
Florence Gurung
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11:50 Discussion
12:00 The intergenerational effects of free movement in ‘Brexit’ times: the children’s perspective
Elisabetta Zontini
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12:20 Discussion
 
13:00
Lunch
 
14:00
Session 3: Movement; Control and Subversion
Chairs: Jennifer Hays, Ada I. Engebrigtsen
 
14:10 Social, economic and geographic mobility among the Juǀ’hoansi of Namibia: Local strategies vs external priorities
Jennifer Hays
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14:30 Discussion
14:40 Move on, move on: Searching for a place to stay
Marie Louise Seeberg
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15:00 Discussion
 
15:10
Coffee break
 
15:30
Session 3 continued
15:30 Living landscapes – ecologic and social foundations of pastoral mobility
Marius Warg Næss
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15:50 Discussion
16:00 Coping with Everyday Bordering: Roma Migrants and gatekeepers in Helsinki
Anca Enache
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16:20 Discussion
 
17:00
End of day 2
 
19:00
Conference dinner at Havfruen Restaurant
Joint departure from the lobby at: 18:45
Havfruen Restaurant website
Address: Kjøpmannsgata 7
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Wednesday 2nd of November

 
Breakfast
 
09:00
Session 4: Theorizing mobility and ritual
Chair: Kjersti Larsen
 
09:10 Transnationalism without moving: Levantine migrants and their Argentine descendents
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
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09:30 Discussion
09:40 “The lucky among the unlucky ones”: Social navigation and mobility in a Tibetan exile
Inger Kristin Vasstveit
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10:00 Discussion
 
10:10
Coffee break
 
10:30
Session 4 continued
10:30 When the groom is gone: Marriage by proxy, migration and the productive potential of absence in urban Gambia
Tone Sommerfelt
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10:50 Discussion
11:00 Returns to the earth wombs: Notions of spatial and temporal movements in a cosmology of shifting cultivators
Jan Ketil Simonsen
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11:20 Discussion
 
12:00
End of conference summary speech
 
13:00
Lunch
 
14:00
Departure
 

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