Maja Janmyr

Maja Janmyr er professor i internasjonal migrasjonsrett ved Det juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo. Hennes forskning fokuserer særlig på flyktningers rettigheter og levekår i Midtøsten, og på FNs flyktningkonvensjon i land som ikke har ratifisert denne konvensjonen. Hun leder flere internasjonale forskningsprosjekt, se den engelske siden for mer informasjon om disse. Janmyr har sin doktorgrad i folkerett fra universitetet i Bergen (2012).

I 2020 ble Janmyr utnevnt til Research Associate ved Universitetet i Oxfords Refugee Studies Centre. Hun er også styremedlem av Centre on Law and Social Transformation, valgt medlem av Odysseus-nettverket og tidligere medlem av Akademiet for yngre forskere. Janmyr mottok UiOs pris for yngre forskere i 2021 og har tidligere mottatt Meltzerprisen for yngre forskere i 2014, og Chr. Michelsens pris for fremragende utviklingsforskning i 2018.

På UiO underviser Janmyr blant annet i utlendingsrett, flyktning- og asylrett og menneskerettigheter.

Se Janmyrs engelske side for mer informasjon.

Utvalgte publikasjoner

Peer-reviewed monographs and edited collections

Janmyr, Maja. "Non-signatory States and the International Refugee Regime" in Forced Migration Review 67 (2021).

Janmyr, Maja and Knudsen, Are. "Dossier on Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps" in 7 Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 3 (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. Protecting Civilians in Refugee Camps: Unwilling and Unable States, UNHCR and International Responsibility, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill (2014). 

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Janmyr, Maja. "Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut" Journal of Refugee Studies (forthcoming 2022).

Janmyr, Maja and Lysa, Charlotte. "UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC states: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-1993" Middle East Critique (forthcoming 2022).

Janmyr, Maja. "Non-signatory States and the International Refugee Regime" Forced Migration Review 67 (2021).

Janmyr, Maja. "The 1951 Refugee Convention and Non-Signatory States: Charting A Research Agenda" International Journal of Refugee Law (2021). 

Janmyr, Maja. "Sudanese refugees and the “Syrian refugee response” in Lebanon: Racialised hierarchies, processes of invisibilisation and resistance" Refugee Survey Quarterly (2021).

Janmyr, Maja and Skribeland, Özlem. "Human Rights References in Norway’s Readmission Agreements: (How) Do They Protect?" Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2020).

Janmyr, Maja and Mourad, Lama. "Modes of Ordering: Labelling, Classification and Categorization in Lebanon's Refugee Response" Journal of Refugee Studies (2018).

Janmyr, Maja. "UNHCR and the Syrian refugee response: negotiating status and registration in Lebanon" International Journal of Human Rights (2017).

Janmyr, Maja. "No Country of Asylum: 'Legitimizing' Lebanon’s Rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention" 29 International Journal of Refugee Law 3 (2017).

Janmyr, Maja and Knudsen, Are. "Introduction: Hybrid Spaces" 7 Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 3 (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. "Spaces of Legal Ambiguity: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Power" 7 Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 3 (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. "Precarity in Exile: The Legal Status of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon" 35 Refugee Survey Quarterly 4 (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. "Human Rights and Nubian Mobilisation in Egypt: towards recognition of indigeneity" Third World Quarterly (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. "Nubians in Contemporary Egypt: mobilizing return to ancestral lands" 25 Middle East Critique 2 (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. "The Effectiveness of Norway's Readmission Agreements with Iraq and Ethiopia" International Migration (2015).

Janmyr, Maja. "Att återvända till fäderneslandet - hur den nubiska drömmen kan bli en rättighet i det nya Egypten" Babylon: Nordic Journal of Middle East Studies 1-2 (2015). 

Janmyr, Maja. "Norway's Readmission Agreements: Spellbound by European Union Policies or Free Spirits on the International Field?” 16 European Journal of Migration and Law 2 (2014). 

Janmyr, Maja. "Recruiting Internally Displaced Persons into Civil Militias: the Case of Northern Uganda" 32 Nordic Journal of Human Rights 3 (2014). 

Janmyr, Maja. "Attributing Wrongful Conduct of Implementing Partners to UNHCR: International Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Refugee Camps" 5 Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 1 (2014).

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Janmyr, Maja. "Refugees, Peacemaking and Durable Solutions to Displacement" in Wanis-St. John A. & MacGinty R., Contemporary Peacemaking: Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict. Palgrave: Macmillan (2021).

Janmyr, Maja and Stevens, Dallal. "Regional Refugee Regimes: Middle East" in Costello C., Foster M. & McAdam J., Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law. Oxford University Press (2021).

Janmyr, Maja. "Indigeneity vs Development: Nubian rights mobilisation in Egypt" in Corradi G., De Feyter K., Desmet E. & Vanhees K., Critical indigenous rights studies: New directions in indigenous rights research. Routledge (2018).

Janmyr, Maja. "Military Recruitment of Sudanese Refugee Men in Uganda: a Tale of National Patronage and International Failure" in Buckley-Zistel S. & Krause U., Gender, Violence, Refugees. Berghahn Books (2017). 

Janmyr, Maja. "Advancing UNHCR Accountability through the Law of International Responsibility" in Sandvik K. & Jacobsen K., UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability: Technology, Law and Results-Based Management. Routledge (2016).

Janmyr, Maja. “Refugees and Peace” in Bailliet C. & Larsen K.M., Promoting Peace through International Law. Oxford University Press (2015).

Janmyr, Maja. “Revisiting the Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Refugee Camps" in Durieux J.F. & Cantor D., Refuge from Inhumanity: war refugees and international humanitarian law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Brill)(2014).