2nd AMIS-MIM Masters Conference on Migration Studies

This annual masters conference is organized by AMIS and MIM (Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, University of Malmö). It provides an opportunity for master's students in Advanced Migration Studies in Copenhagen and International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Malmö to meet and exchange experiences and ideas and to get an impression of the research going on at AMIS and MIM. 

Programme

10.00-10.15 Welcome/ Pieter Bevelander and Nils Holtug

10.15-10.45 Birgitte Romme Larsen (AMIS), Migratory trajectories in the outskirts of Denmark: The everyday encounter between refugees and local inhabitants in small rural communities

10.45-11.15 Anders Hellström (MIM), Trust us: Reproducing the nation and the Scandinavian nationalist populist parties

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-12.00 Marlene Paulin Kristensen (AMIS), Good Borders? An ethnographic study of European border management

12.00-12.50 Lunch

12.50-13.50 Roundtable on the refugee crisis/ Daniela Debono (MIM), Anders Hellström (MIM), Nils Holtug (AMIS) and Simon Turner (AMIS)

13.50-14.20 Erica Righard (MIM), Towards a mobility–welfare regime, at least for some. The case of the Swedish old-age pension

14.20-14.30 Break

14.30-15.00 Birgitte Schepelern Johansen (AMIS), Xenophobia: Now you see it – now you don’t!

15.00-15.30 Ioanna Tsoni (MIM), Affective Borderscapes: The hidden geographies of irregular border-crossings to Europe

Everyone is welcome!