The Poland-Belarus Border: A Conversation with Marta Bivand Erdal in the Public Anthropologist
In this conversation with Public Anthropologist's Saumya Pandey (Doctoral Researcher at Christian Michelsen's Institute) PRIO Research Professor Marta Bivand Erdal reflects on the continuing Poland-Belarus crisis. To what extent and in what ways is this a crisis? And what are the research ethics of examining this situation - including dilemmas of distance and proximity, in the face of migration management at the border.
The 2021 EU-Belarus border crisis was preceded by a rapid deterioration of the already strained European Union (EU)-Belarus relations, in most part due to the Ryanair 4978 incident and the concomitant wide-ranging sanctions imposed by the EU on the authoritarian government of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has often been referred by the media as "Europe's last dictator."
New article in the journal Migration Studies analyses why migrants vote from abroad in elections in countries of origin, based on 80 interviews with Polish and Romanian migrants in Barcelona and Oslo. Whereas analyses of external voting patterns offer insights into the results of external voting compared to origin populations, there is a lacuna of knowledge about why migrants choose to vote, or not, when they have the right to do so.
Kelly Fisher has successfully defended his thesis "Moving masculinities: Polish men's migration experiences in Oslo".
Congratulations Kelly!
In a recent episode of the PRIO Peace in a pod, Marta Bivand Erdal and Lubomiła Korzeniewska share insight from their research with nurse migrants in Norway. They also reflect on how the experience of the pandemic sheds new light on their previous analysis of deskilling in the context of nurse migration.
Why do migrants vote? How do they compare countries of origin and residence? This new PRIO paper summarizes findings from 80 semi-structured interviews and offers insights from Polish and Romanian migrants living in Barcelona and Oslo. These interviews
were conducted as part of
the DIASPOlitic project
“Understanding the Political
Dynamics of Émigré
Communities in an Era
of European Democratic
Backsliding”. The project
is funded by the Research
Council of Norway and led
by the University of Oslo,
in collaboration with SWPS
University in Warsaw and the
Peace Research Institute Oslo
(PRIO).
Why do migrants want vote in country of origin elections? Do they seek to drive change? And what are the reasons why some migrants also feel they ought not to have the right to vote in their origin contexts? Through 80 semi-structured interviews with Polish and Romanian migrants in Barcelona and Oslo the DIASPOLitic team sought to find out.
It is a paradox that anti-immigration movements, whose key concern is opposing mobility across borders and who advocate isolationism, nationalism and cultural traditionalism, often work transnationally.
The project Reaching Out to Close the Border: The Transnationalization of Anti-Immigration Movements in Europe (Anti-Mig) has today been granted 4-year funding from the VAM programme of the Research Council of Norway.
Congratulations to project leader Kristian Berg Harpviken and his researcher colleague at PRIO, Marta Bivand Erdal. In addition, the project has three external members (see below).
On Wednesday May 22 Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka and Magdalena Żadkowska, together with
Anna Fedas, Jarosław Józefczyk and Ewa Patyk promoted a review report
'Zaufanie Ponad Granicami: Przegląd Literatury Badawczej Dotyczącej Kwestii
Zaufania Społecznego, Migracji, Oraz Instytucji Pomocy Społecznej i Ochrony
Praw Dziecka' [a Polish language version of 'Trust across Borders: A Review of
the Literature on Trust, Migration and Child Welfare Services'] at the VIII
Integration and Migration Forum in Gdańsk, Poland.
Journal Article in NORMA International Journal for Masculinity Studies
Monograph
Journal Article in Central and Eastern European Migration Review
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Book Chapter in Lives in Peace Research: the Oslo Stories
Book Chapter in Lives in Peace Research: the Oslo Stories
Book Chapter in Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism Complex Trajectories, Practices and Ties (IMISCOE Research Series)
Master Thesis
Journal Article in Migration Studies
PRIO Paper
PRIO Paper
Report - Other
Report - Other
Report - Other
Journal Article in Migration Studies
Book Chapter in Return Migration and Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and Their Families
Journal Article in Gender, Place and Culture
Book Chapter in Timespace and International Migration
Book Chapter in Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies