3-0870 WORK AND MIGRATION: GLOBAL BORDERS AS BARRIERS AND BRIDGES

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Emil A Rųyrvik (NTNU)

Chairs: Carla Dahl-Jorgensen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Discussants: Nigel Rapport (University of St-Andrews) and Marietta L Baba (Michigan State University)

13:45

Transients, Shadow Workers, and Other Miscreants: Demarcating the Borders of Community in a Boomtown

Nelson Ferguson (York University)

14:00

Approaching the Border: Perceptions and Strategies In the Migration Process

Turid F Saetermo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

14:15

Polak Potrafi – the Polish Can: Migrant Workers Negotiating Identity

Linda Marie Dyrlid (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

14:30

Airport Detention, Border Zones and Marginal Spaces of Circulation

Chowra Makaremi (EHESS)

14:45

Dick Marty and the “Polluted Border”- Organ Trafficking and Sovereignty In the Periphery of the European Union

Ajkuna Hoppe (City University of New York)

15:00

Labor Migration and Language Policy In Practice: A Process of Re-Bordering

Carla Dahl-Jorgensen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Marietta L Baba (Michigan State University)

15:15

Discussant

Nigel Rapport (University of St-Andrews)

15:30

Discussion

15:45

Break

16:00

Educating Entrepreneurs — On the Social Consequences of ‘Innovation’ In Public Sector Institutions

Jakob Krause-Jensen (University of Aarhus)

16:15

Connectivity – Globally Configured Work

Kirsti Sarheim Anthun (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

16:30

The Mimetic World of Nomadic Managers In a Global Corporation

Hugo Gaggiotti (University of West of England - Bristol)

16:45

Remittances, Crossing and Reifying Borders

Olav Eggebų (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

17:00

Discussant

Marietta L Baba (Michigan State University)

17:15

Discussion

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