Amount Awarded: $24,800
Globalization, labor market needs, armed conflict and deteriorating socioeconomic situations have resulted in increased transnational migration globally. This mobility as well as varying legal definitions and transnational migration management policies have resulted in many people fluctuating between regular and irregular migrant status with variable entitlement to welfare, residency and work. They live temporarily in any one location, serially crossing national borders and moving in and out of multiple geographies and sociocultural communities, hence the concept trans-migration. The objective of this proposed project is to initiate a cooperation between research groups at the UC Berkeley, the University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology that are engaged in research on transnational migration and health, combining approaches from social sciences, in particular ethnographic methods, with social medicine and public health. The proposed project has three main aims: 1) to join analytical forces from social anthropology, sociology, public health, education, and social welfare on the issues of transmigration and health, 2) to produce new knowledge in comparative perspective in Europe and the U.S. regarding emerging social organizations among transmigrants, and 3) to develop a significant external funding research proposal focused on transmigration, health and exclusion.