Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 19/July/2024
9:30am
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11:00am
Session 10: Intersections Among Gender, Race and Class
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Alessandra Gissi, university of Naples "L'Orientale"
 

Trafficking in Immigrant Women’s Labor: Visas for Live-in Maids and the Crisis of Social Reproduction, 1965-1970

Eileen C. Boris



Migrant Women Between Sex Work and Domestic Work in the First Half of the 20th Century

Laura Schettini



Victimhood, Age, and Consent: Transatlantic Migrations for Sexual Labor in the Early Twentieth Century

Elisa Camiscioli



Policing Trans-Border Sex Markets: US-Canadian Sexual Laborer Mobilities

Jessica Pliley

Session 11: India's Migration- Development Regime
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University
 

An Imperial Migration­–Development Regime? The Infrastructure of Migration Management under the British Empire in South Asia

Nandini Dey



Tracing the Evolution of India’s Emigration Governance Institutions: A Historical-Institutionalist Approach

Ashwin Kumar



Migration, Pandemic and the Remittances in India and South Asia: Beyond the Migration-Development Nexus

Binod Khadria, Ratnam Mishra

Session 12: Migrants Confront the Socio-Political Realities of the US (1850-1910)
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Mischa Honeck, University of Kassel
 

Navigating Child Institutionalization: Family crisis among Scandinavian immigrant laborers in late nineteenth-century Chicago

Tina Langholm Larsen



The Social Democratic Workers: Myths and Method in the Transnational Making of an American Socialist Party

Mark Alan Lause



The Legacy of 48ers within Texas Political Culture, 1850-1917

Thomas Edgar Alter

Session 13: Composition, Sectors and Technologies
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Ursula Mense-Petermann, Bielefeld University
 

The U.S.-Latin America Migration Pattern in Crisis: An Analysis from Marxist Dependency Theory

Hilary Catherine Goodfriend



Entangled Platforms: migration and food delivery in the UK, Brazil and United States

Mateus Mendonça



Towards a Critical Digital Migration Studies: Digital Nomads, Remote Work, and Privileged Migration to Guatemala

Alexandra Eleazar

11:00am
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11:30am
Tea/Coffee Break
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
11:30am
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1:00pm
Session 14: Care Workers
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University
 

Care workers’ mobility and policy discourse in Central and Eastern Europe: Interpreting omnipresent silences

Petra Ezzeddine, Dóra Gábriel, Franca van Hooren, Noémi Katona, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck



The Transnational Recruitment of Care Workers and Ethical Practice

Isabel Shutes



The latitude of domestic service brokerage in the global migration industry: the Sri Lankan and Austrian case of brokered live-in work and care

Brigitte Aulenbacher, Wasana Handapangoda

Session 15: Who Makes Decisions?: Mechanisms that Shape Indonesian International Migrants’ Mobility Trajectories
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Gracia Liu-Farrer, Waseda University
 

Determinants of Regional Patterns in International Labor Migration from Indonesia

Kiyoko Saito



Different routes, different roles: exploring the relationships of migrants and sending companies in Indonesia's international labor migration

Firman Budianto, Gracia Liu-Farrer



The power of proximity: A qualitative study of Indonesian workers’ choices of overseas destinations

Akiko Asai

Session 16: Labor and Mobility Regimes
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Thorsten Schlee, University Duisburg-Essen; DIFIS; IAQ
 

Managing the undesirables: conditions of life, labour and death in German urban zones of exception

Polina Mihaylova Manolova



Disposable labour? Social reproductive struggles of precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimes of mobility, work and welfare

Anna Simola



The plantation labour regime beyond the plantation? Nicaraguan labor migration in northern Costa Rica

Ott Marlen



Science in or about local labor control regimes? On the role of community-based research approaches in studying localized labour control regimes.

Thorsten Schlee

Session 17: Deskilling
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Ursula Mense-Petermann, Bielefeld University
 

‘Trust My Competency’: A Study on Deskilling of Overseas Nurses from Kerala, India in Britain

Amratha Lekshmi A J



Labor Incorporation of South-South Migrants and their Children in Argentina: Intersections among Gender, Generations and Occupation.

Pablo Sebastián Gómez



Sifting Through the Surplus: the “Refugee Crisis” and Precarious Migrant Labor

David B Feldman

1:00pm
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2:15pm
Lunch
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
2:15pm
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3:30pm
Plenary III: Labor Migration and the Making of a US Empire
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
Discussant: Tom Menger, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
 

Keynote

Julie Greene



Keynote

Justin F. Jackson



Keynote

Madeline Y Hsu

3:30pm
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4:00pm
Tea/Coffee Break
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
5:00pm Excursion I: Landschaftspark
Departure at 17:00 from outside Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH) and return trip back to hotels at 21:00.

 
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