PhD Blog
GenSeM is organising an online writing retreat day on Thursday 20 August to support PhD researchers and Early Career Researchers particularly, although scholars at any level are welcome to attend. In this blog post, our GenSeM PhD/ECR representatives...
Change of Plans: Participatory Migration Research during a Global Crisis I planned to start recruiting participants for my dissertation research, a critical ethnography (Carspecken, 1996) of Syrian refugees’ experiences pursing higher education during...
Could Covid-19 lead to increased access to healthcare for irregular migrants in Norway? With the outbreak of the pandemic, health workers in Norway have seen slight changes in the authorities’ willingness to provide access to healthcare for irregular...
The IMISCOE PhD Network is pleased to invite you to the PhD Activities of the 17th IMISCOE Annual Conference. As this year the 17 th IMISCOE Annual Conference will take place online, the IMISCOE PhD Network has organised a series of online activities...
Brazil and Europe’s control of refugee’s family migration
Studying nationalism and national identity has become an academic discipline in its own right. That is no surprise. Nationalism and national identity remain among the most relevant categories for organising daily life and therefore lend themselves to...
I found out about the IMISCOE PhD Network during the 15th annual IMISCOE conference in Barcelona. It wasn’t really clear to me what it was about.
This month we had the pleasure of talking to Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield about her new book ‘Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence’ and the importance of history in contemporary...
It is hard to avoid the temptation of writing a balance of the previous decade when you are given the opportunity of being the author of the first blog post of 2020, and I will indeed not be able to escape it.
Young Afghans who have had their asylum claim rejected in Norway, have been disappearing from reception centres and absconding from Norwegian authorities in large numbers in recent years.