Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 18/July/2024
9:00am Arrivals and Registration
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
9:15am
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9:30am
Welcome and introductions
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Discussant: Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
Discussant: Karen A Shire, University Duisburg Essen
9:30am
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10:45am
Plenary I: Migration Politics
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Discussant: Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
Discussant: Karen A Shire, University Duisburg Essen
 

Keynote

Eleonore Kofman



Keynote

Rina Agarwala

10:45am
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11:15am
Tea/Coffee Break
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
11:15am
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12:45pm
Session 1: Book Salon 'Homecare for Sale' by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz and Ewa Panlenga-Möllenbeck
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Karin Gottschall, University of Bremen
Critic: Sabrina Marchetti, Ca' Foscari University
Critic: Attila Melegh, Corvinus University of Budapest
Critic: Isabel Shutes, London School of Economics
 

Aulenbacher, Brigitte/Lutz, Helma/ Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa/ Schwiter, Karin (Eds.), 2024, „Home Care for Sale, The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe“, SAGE

Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Sabrina Marchetti, Attila Melegh, Isabel Shutes

Session 2: High Skilled Mobility I
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Steve Richard Entrich, University of Duisburg-Essen
 

Chinese education migrants “at home”, “abroad” and “returned”

Feng Xu



Feeling at Home in the Global City: The Distinct Appeal of Dubai for Non-Western Expatriates

Anju Mary Paul, Mustafa Yavas, Sejin Park



Social construction of skill in international migration from the Global South perspectives

Gracia Liu-Farrer

Session 3: Navigating Control
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Ardita OSMANI, University of Duisburg Essen
 

Cooperation or Control?: Dissecting Market Perspective in the Migrant Labor Recruitment Industry

Sandhya As



Cheap Labour, (Un)Organised Workers: The Superexploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry

Janina Puder



Socially constructed labels as control of facilitating factors? Study on the labour mobility of Vietnamese IT professionals in Japan

Aimi Muranaka

12:45pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Session 4: Spatial Politics of Migration
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
 

Amending the geopolitical framing of care-worker migration

Helma Lutz



Essential Work, Migrant Labour: What Explains Migrant Employment in European Key Sectors?

Friedrich Poeschel, Nikolaj Broberg, Jerome Gonnot, Martin Ruhs



Transnational labour supermobility in a multinational company: The Fincantieri/Vard case

Ines Alisa Wagner, Devi Sachetto

Session 5: Hierarchies of Labor Regulation
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Colin Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham
 

Strategizing the Future of Migration Studies: Conceptual Gambits from the Cambridge History of Global Migrations Vol II (CHGM)

Madeline Y Hsu



Transnational Family Dynamics: Professional Migrants, Enclaves, and Transnational Lives

Shenglin Elijah Chang



Exploring the Roots of Today’s Global Competition for Skilled Migrants

Monique Laney

Session 6: Migration Governance
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Duaa Kattana, University of Duisburg-Essen
 

Do collective agreements and works councils narrow immigrant-native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Florian Zimmermann, Tobias Wolbring, Eric Fong



Place-Based and Transnational Strategies for Advancing Rights: A Case Study of Syrians Under Temporary Protection in Turkey

Candost Aydın, Nur Sultan Cirakman



“If you lose your job, you lose your papers”. Interconnects between labour and the border regime in comparative perspective

Margit Fauser

3:30pm
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4:00pm
Tea/Coffee Break
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Session 7: Social Reproduction
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt
 

Moving to Stay in Place

Penelope Ciancanelli



Women migrants domestic work: comparing institutions and experiences across four Global South countries.

Eleonore Kofman, Runa Lazzarino, Jiyar Aghapouri, Zeynep Ceren Eren

Session 8: Book Salon 'Trafficking Chains' by Sylvia Walby & Karen Shire
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
Critic: Eileen C. Boris, UC Santa Barbara
Critic: Miriam Rehm, University of Duisburg-Essen
 

Sylvia Walby and Karen Shire (2024), Trafficking Chains: Modern Slavery in Society, Bristol University Press

Karen A Shire, Sylvia Walby

Session 9: Recruitment
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Aimi Muranaka, University of Duisburg-Essen
 

A Neocolonial and Political Economy optic into recruitment policies and practices governing Teacher Migration from South Africa

Sadhana Manik



Institutional Embeddedness of Migration Brokerage: The case of run-away migrants in Nepal-Malaysia corridor

Sandhya As



Quality Control, Mediation and Management: Recruitment Agencies and Domestic Worker Migration in Southeast Asia

Liberty Chee

5:45pm
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7:00pm
Plenary II: Migration, Dissent and Dialogue
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Polina Manolova, University of Tübingen
 

Panelist

Angie Garcia



Panelist

Khadija Najlaoui



Panelist

Szabolcs Sepsi

7:00pm
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9:00pm
Reception Dinner
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer

 
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