Ageing at the Margins: Violence and Vulnerability among Older Migrants in Norway

Precarity, i.e. insecurity and uncertainty in life, is structural, situational and, for many, especially for migrants and racialised minorities, an enduring condition of life. Sociologists and social scientists have for long acknowledged that time, temporalities and rhythms are simultaneously central to the organisation of the society and everyday lives yet commonly taken for granted. For migration scholars time has become an important perspective for the analysis of power dynamics, governance structures, individual experiences and forms of agency and asymmetric relations as well as experiences of precarity. 

This two-day symposium brings together scholars who research different aspects of precarities and temporalities in migration contexts, paying attention to how they shape migrants’ and racialised minorities’ life circumstances and experiences.