This workshop is the last of four workshops in the Comparative Ethics of War project, funded by the Free Humanities Program in the RCN.

 

How do people in Senegal, Morocco, Turkey and Ukraine imagine Europe and the prospect of migrating there? And what role no perceptions about democracy and human rights play in the process? These questions are addresses in a new FP7 project in which PRIO is a core partner. PRIO will work on project-wide methodology and be directly involved in the Senegalese study.

 

The presentation will be by Jørgen Carling and María Hernández Carretero.

Marta Bivand Erdal will chair the seminar.

Please register with seminar@prio.no if you want to take part in this seminar.

 

Coffee/ tea and fruit will be provided at the seminar.

 

Under what conditions do initial moves by pioneer migrants to Europe result in rapidly expanding network migration and the formation of migration systems? Presentation of the THEMIS project, where this question will be addressed theoretically, based on an empirical study of different migrant groups in Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. THEMIS is funded by the NORFACE research program on Migration in Europe, and coordinated by the University of Oxford.

This course is about the application of qualitative methods to the study of civil war. It begins with an overview of the cutting edge in qualitative methods, intentionally casting its epistemological net broadly. We thus assess methods inspired by positivism (case studies, process tracing, counterfactual analysis) and those more interpretative in nature (discourse analysis, ethnography, textual analysis) - the goal being to provide students with a robust set of tools for explaining and understanding the dynamics of civil war. The course also reviews the promise (and pitfalls) of methodological pluralism or so-called mixed methods.

More information about this seminar will follow.

Please register with seminar@prio.no if you want to take part in this event.

 

In this presentation, Giuseppe Scotto will speak about his PhD work on the old and new Italian immigration to the UK, focusing on the Italian presence in London today. In particular, he will present the main characteristics of the group and discuss their associational life, social integration and political involvement.

 

Exiled populations hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In an increasingly interconnected world, these diasporic groups engage in 'long-distance politics' towards their homelands, send financial remittances and support social development in their communities of origin. Transnational networks have thus become global forces shaping the relationship between countries, regions and continents. The DIASPEACE project explores the political role diaspora groups can play in their countries of origin, focusing on populations from the Horn of Africa.