In this presentation, Marry-Anne Karlsen explores ambiguities in the Norwegian state’s response to irregular migration arising from the interaction and tension between welfare policy and entry control. Specifically, she investigates the role of discretionary decision-making in (re)producing or challenging state borders in the medical encounter. The ethnographic focus brings forth the multiple and dispersed, as well as negotiated quality, of the border in everyday practices and situations. 

About the speaker

Marry-Anne Karlsen holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen in 2015 and a major in human geography from the same place in 2006. Karlsen’s professional interests lie at the intersection of migration control and welfare policy, and in her PhD thesis Precarious Inclusion. Irregular migration, practices of care and state bordering in Norway, Karlsen explored, among other things, how the health system became increasingly involved in migration control. 

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