Invitation – Webinar: Practices of migrant commoning in Trondheim

The Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań invites you to this month’s webinar given by Agata Kochaniewicz titled ‘Practices of migrant commoning in Trondheim’. The webinar is organised in cooperation with the Committee on Migration Research, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Date: 29th of May 2025, Thursday, from 13.00 to 14.30 (CET), online (zoom).
Everyone is welcome and you can register here:https://forms.gle/5Hj1SfZwpqi8dp1U8
Abstract:
In this talk, I will share insights from my PhD research on practices of migrant networking and resistance across minority groups in Trondheim, Norway. The presentation explores how migrants create spaces of solidarity and belonging through grassroots initiatives, ranging from community-based debates and digital platforms to multilingual literature events within public institutions. These practices emerge in response to dominant ideas of sameness in Norway and various exclusions from city spaces.
Rather than organising around “fixed identities”, the migrants in my research built transethnic alliances that challenge those exclusions and generate new forms of political and social presence. I understand these efforts as commoning practices, collective actions that reclaim space, forge connections across difference, and build shared infrastructures of care, counternarratives, and belonging in the city. These processes may be short-lived or sustained, harmonious or conflictual, but are always embedded in unequal relations. My interest lies less in acts of sharing per se than in the processes of creating common ground, forms of infrastructure that enable negotiation, recognition, and care across lines of difference.
Bio:
Agata Kochaniewicz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), a member of the research group Temporalities of Mobility and Migration (NTNU) and collaborator at the Center for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her main anthropological interests are critical migration studies, engaged anthropology, and feminist theory.
Facebook page for the event: https://fb.me/e/2HIdh0Nxt
The meeting will be led in English and will be recorded. By participating in this webinar hosted by the Centre for Migration Studies, you automatically agree to authorize recording of audio and visual content presented during the live event and consent to subsequent use of the recording in the public domain.
This webinar is a part of the CeBaM webinar series, where every month we invite you to a meeting with migration scholars from Poland and abroad.