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IMER (International Migration and Ethnic Relations) is an interdisciplinary research network associated with the University of Bergen, Chr Michelsen Institute and NORCE Research AS.

International symposium
Migrant at the border

How global shifts reshape migration and refugee regimes

How are geopolitical change, new technologies, and shifting norms transforming migration and asylum regimes? These questions will be at the centre of a symposium, co-organised by UiB, held in Tijuana, Mexico, on 22 April 2026.

Migration conference
Synnøve Bendixsen and Kari Hagatun

The Politics of Mobility and Precarity – and the Alternatives

More than 250 migration scholars from around the world are gathered for the 22nd Nordic Migration Research (NMR) conference, taking place at the University of Bergen, 14-16 August.

NEW PHD
Andrea

PHD Candidate Andrea Vige Grønningsæter to defend her thesis

On Tuesday 6 June, Andrea Vige Grønningsæter former IMER Junior coordinator will defend her dissertation “Concealment, Credibility and the Construction of the Sexual Minority Refugee” for the degree of Ph.D at the University in Bergen.