Anti-immigration Activism and the Far-Right in Europe: An Interview with Kristian Berg Harpviken

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https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2023.212428

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Migration, Anti-immigration, Transnationalization, Far-Right, Xenophobia

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Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken is a sociologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He served as the director of the institute from 2009 to 2017 and currently leads the PRIO Middle East Centre. Harpviken's research interests include peace processes, peacebuilding, dynamics of civil war, migration and transnational communities, and methodology in challenging contexts. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University and is an associate at the University of York, the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and the Institute for National Security Studies Sri Lanka. Harpviken is well-known for his expertise in Afghanistan and surrounding areas, but he has also worked in several other countries, including Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Mozambique, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey. He is a frequent media commentator and regularly gives lectures to academic and general audiences. He is the author of Social Networks and Migration in Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and co-author (with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh) of A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena for Regional  Insecurity (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2016).

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  • Lucas Arantes Zanetti, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

    Jornalista, mestre em Comunicação e doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Unesp – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Bolsista da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. Membro do grupo de pesquisa Deslocar – Interculturalidade, cidadania, comunicação e consumo (ESPM) e Comunicação Midiática e Movimentos Sociais (ComMOV).

  • Thaís França da Silva, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

    Investigadora integrada do CIES-Iscte. Sua prática acadêmica é feminista, antirracista e descolonial. Possui doutoramento pela Universidade de Coimbra, onde escreveu sua tese sobre imigração de mulheres brasileiras para Portugal. Trabalha sobretudo com temas ligados à migração, gênero, raça/racismos, desigualdades sociais e estudos descoloniais. É membro da coordenação da rede
    Imiscoe (International Migration Research Network) e da Rede Enis (European Network on  International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice). Atualmente coordena o projeto “Mapping Out: Portugal on the European anti-immigrant movements map” em parceria com o Prio da Noruega, financiado pelo esquema EEA Grants Portugal.

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2023-12-15

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Vol. 35 No. 3 (2023)

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Zanetti, L. A., & Silva, T. . F. da. (2023). Anti-immigration Activism and the Far-Right in Europe: An Interview with Kristian Berg Harpviken. Tempo Social, 35(3), 215-226. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2023.212428