Migration and the (Inter-)National Order of Things
Law, State Practices and Resistance
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Course leaders: Maja Janmyr, Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, 幸运飞艇计划, and , Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), 幸运飞艇计划
This interdisciplinary course aims to deepen the understanding of the politics of protection and control of contemporary migration. It asks:听How are migrants given different bureaucratic and legal identities (e.g. refugees, stateless persons, irregular migrants) and what are the consequences of such distinctions and labels? What protection does international law and humanitarian institutions offer to different categories of people? What are the spatial, temporal and gendered implications of the protection and control practices aimed at migrants? 听And, how are the legal and bureaucratic identities, and institutions of migration control, challenged by migrants themselves?听
This course introduces PhD candidates to key concepts, cross-cutting research and analysis in the fields of law, anthropology, human geography and political science. It offers lectures by leading migration scholars, student presentations, role plays, film screenings and a possibility of writing an academic paper, enabling the participant to earn 10 credits.
Please refer to the BSRS programme for common BSRS sessions
Course programme
Monday 12 June
13:30 鈥� 14:00 Course introduction
Maja Janmyr (幸运飞艇计划) + (Uni Rokkan Centre)
14:00 鈥� 15:00 Lecture: Introduction to International Refugee Law
(CMI)
15:30 鈥� 16:30 Role Play: Refugee Status Determination Process
(CMI)
Tuesday 13 June
09:00 鈥� 10:30 Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Non-Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention
Maja Janmyr (幸运飞艇计划)
11:00 鈥� 12:30 Lecture: A case apart. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian refugees
Kjersti G. Berg (幸运飞艇计划)
Wednesday 14 June
09:00 鈥�10:30 Lecture: Normative Dimensions of Migration
Jesse Tomalty (幸运飞艇计划)
11:00 鈥� 12:30 Presentations (MJ/MAK)
13:30 鈥� 15:00 Lecture and film: Between 鈥淰ictims鈥� and 鈥淐riminals鈥�: Trafficking, Smuggling, and Everyday Violence among Nigerian Women Migrants
(Diis)
15:30 鈥� 17:00 Visit to The Church City Mission鈥檚 "Project Free", a low threshold service for victims of trafficking
Thursday 15 June
9:00 鈥� 10:30 Lecture: Irregular migrants and political mobilization
(幸运飞艇计划)
11:00 鈥� 12:30 Lecture: Waiting for an uncertain future: Gender, time and irregular migration
Christine Jacobsen (幸运飞艇计划)
13:30 鈥� 15:00 Presentations (MJ/MAK)
15:30 鈥� 17:00 Keynote: Alison Mountz 听Discussant
Christine Jacobsen (幸运飞艇计划)
Friday 16 June
9:00 鈥� 10:30 Lecture: Local responses to the 鈥渞efugee crisis鈥�: the case of Norway:
Susanne Bygnes (幸运飞艇计划)
11:00 鈥� 12:30 Lecture: Camp, Ghetto, Zinco, Slum: Lebanon鈥檚 Transitional Zones of Emplacement
(CMI)
13:30 鈥� 15:00 Presentations (MJ)
Monday 19 June
9:00 鈥� 12:30 Presentations (MAK)
听
Course literature
Al Husseini J. and Bocco, R. 鈥淭he Status of the Palestinian Refugees in the Near East: The right of return and UNRWA in perspective鈥�, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 28, Nos 2 & 3 (2009), pp. 260-285.
Arendt, H. 鈥淭he Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man鈥�, Ch 9 in Arendt, H., The Origins of Totalitarianism (1966), pp.267-302.
Bendixsen, S., 鈥淰oice Matters: Calling for Victimhood, Shared Humanity and Citizenry of Irregular Migrants in Norway鈥�, in Gonzales R. & Sigona N. (eds.) Within and Beyond Citizenship. Borders, Membership and Belonging, (Routledge, 2017), pp. 185-207.
Carens, J. H. 鈥淎liens and Citizens: the case for open borders鈥� The Review of Politics, Vol 49, No. 2 (1987), pp. 251-273.
Goodwin-Gill, G. 鈥淭he International Law of Refugee Protection鈥�, in Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Loescher, G., Long, K., & Sigona, N. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Oxford University Press, 2014) pp. 1-16.
Hinger, S., Sch盲fer, P., & Pott, A.,鈥淭he Local Production of Asylum鈥�, Journal of Refugee Studies (2016) doi: 10.1093/jrs/few029.
Hyndman, J. & Giles, W., 鈥淲aiting for What? The Feminization of Asylum in Protracted Situations鈥�, Gender, Place & Culture, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2011), pp. 361-379.
Janmyr, M., 鈥淣o Country of Asylum: Legitimizing Lebanon鈥檚 Rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention鈥� [forthcoming 2017].听
Knudsen, A. J. 鈥淐amp, Ghetto, Zinco, Slum: Lebanon鈥檚 Transitional Zones of Emplacement鈥�, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2016), pp. 443-457.
Plambech, S., 鈥淪ex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers鈥� Feminist Economics (2016), pp. 1-26.
Stevens D., 鈥淪hifting Conceptions of Refugee Identity and Protection: European and Middle Eastern Approaches鈥�, in Kneebone S., Stevens, D., & Baldassar, L., Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: conflicting identities (Routledge, 2014), pp. 73-97.
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Recommended literature
Agamben, G. 鈥淲e refugees鈥�, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Vol. 49 No. 2 (1995) pp. 114-119.
Andersson, R., 鈥淭ime and The Migrant Other: European Border Controls and The Temporal Economics of Illegality鈥�, American Anthropologist, Vol. 116 No. 4 (2014), pp. 795-809.
Feldman, I., 鈥淒ifficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and Political Identification in Gaza鈥� Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 22 No. 1 (2007), pp. 129-169.
Hopkins, D. J., 鈥淧oliticized places: Explaining where and when immigrants provoke local opposition鈥�, American Political Science Review, Vol. 104 No. 01 (2010), pp. 40-60.
Janmyr, M. & Knudsen, A., Special Issue on Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps in Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2016).
Karlsen, M.A. 鈥淢igration Control and Migrant Children鈥檚 Access to Healthcare鈥� in Thomas, F. (ed.) Handbook of Migration and Health (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016) pp. 134-157.
Martin, D., 鈥淔rom Spaces of Exception to 鈥楥ampscapes鈥�: Palestinian refugee camps and informal settlements in Beirut鈥� Political Geography Vol. 44 (2015) 9-18.
McNevin, A., 鈥淧olitical Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The struggle of the sans-papiers鈥� Citizenship Studies, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2006), pp. 135-151.
Noll, G. 鈥淲hy Human Rights Fail to Protect Undocumented Migrants鈥�, European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2010), pp. 241-272.
Nyer, P., 鈥淣o one is Illegal between City and Nation鈥�, Studies in Social Justice, Vol 4 No. 2 (2010) pp. 127-143.
Plambech, S., 鈥淏ecky is Dead: The Death of a Migrant鈥� (2016)
Plambech, S., 鈥淭he Art of the Possible: Making films on sex work migration and human trafficking鈥� Anti-Trafficking Review (2016) DOI: 10.14197/atr.201217710
Stevens, D., 鈥淩ights, Needs or Assistance? The Role of the UNHCR in Refugee Protection in the Middle East鈥�, International Journal of Human Rights Vol. 20 No. 2 (2016), pp. 264-283.
Zagor, M. 鈥淭he Struggle of Autonomy and Authenticity: framing the savage refugee鈥�, Social Identities, Vol. 21 No. 4 (2015), pp. 373-394.
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Refugee Law Reader, section II, pp. 47-136:
The 1951 Convention/1967 Protocol:
