Mobilities and Transnational Iceland, is a three-year project of excellence that aims to bring together researchers studying recent changes in Iceland from the perspective on mobility and transnational connections. The project has been funded by Rannís, the Icelandic Centre for Research. It is located at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Iceland, but involves academic and non-academic partners in Iceland and abroad.
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An Afterlife of Crisis –
Crisis-talk has been a salient feature of a new millennium, often connected in one way or another to mobility or migration. The escalation of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe in 2015 – often referred to as “refugee crisis” – was heavily
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Racialization, whiteness and politics of othering in contemporary Europe
Interdisciplinary symposium organized by Nordic Summer University (NSU) and Mobilities and Transnational Iceland organize at University of Iceland, Reykjavik, November
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Temporary nature of migrant work: reality or myth?
Open lecture by Anna Wojtyńska organized by Stjórnvísi in cooperation with Mobilities and Transnational Iceland. Thursday, 21 November; Endurmenntun HÍ According to the latest information from the National Registry, the number of Polish cit
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Challenges of tourism vs migration: climate change perspective
Open lecture by Justas Kažys (Institute of Geosciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania) Monday, 4 November 2019 from 13:00-14:00 The tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change. Rising temperatures, h
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Migrant workers in Iceland: Cheap labour, economic saviours, or allies in the fight against exploitation?
As part of Þjóðarspegillinn, the annual conference at School of Social Sciences that takes place on November, 1st, Mobilities and Transnational Iceland organizes a keynote lecture by Hein de Haas that would be fol
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