Convener: Hatla Thelle, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow
MAPPING THE FIELD
First section will provide an overall picture of migration flows globally and a human rights perspective on migration.
Tuesday 16th February, 10-12 hrs.
Anja Wiesbrock: The EU legislation on legal migration: a human rights perspective.
Tuesday 23rd February, 10-12 hrs.
Rainer Münz: Global migration in an age of mobility. Challenges and opportunities for sending and receiving countries.
MIGRATION
Second section will address the situation of leaving or fleeing one’s place of origin. Different reasons for leaving are: war and catastrophes, economic hardship, social exclusion, coercion or trafficking; etc.
Tuesday 2nd March, 10-12 hrs.
Finn Stepputat: Forced migration: Between legal categories and everyday life.
Tuesday 9th March, 10-12 hrs.
Hatla Thelle: Crossing internal borders: Peasant-workers in China.
Tuesday 16th March, 10-12 hrs.
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen: Outsourcing migration control and the right to seek asylum in the European Union.
INTEGRATION
Third section will sketch different problems related to integration in the receiving country.
Tuesday 13th April, 10-12 hrs.
Eva Ersbøll: A re-definition of belonging: language and integration tests in Europe.
Tuesday 20th April, 10-12 hrs. This Seminar is cancelled
Stéphanie Lagoutte: Room for diversity: What do European laws say to immigrants’ import of foreign family traditions and rules?
Thursday 22nd April, 10-12 hrs.
Morten Kjærum: Migration and human rights.
Tuesday 27th April, 10-12 hrs.
Nauja Kleist: Diasporic and transnational communities – integration or marginalization?