Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Saturday, 20/July/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Session 18: Transitions and Tensions: Migrant labour, Digital Nomadism, and Global Education in Asia
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Anita Koo, Hong Kong Baptist University
 

Mortgaged Futures: How Debt Obligations Turn Migrant Workers into Citybound Labour

Xinmiao Song



China’s Transnational Capital in Vietnam and Cambodia and their Impact on Industrial Relations Systems and Labour Standards

Kaxton Siu



The Emergence of Young and Mobile Labour Subjects among the Increasing Flows of Transnational Students in Asia

Anita Koo



China’s Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Migrant Labour

Ngai PUN

Session 19: Mobility, Bureaucracy & Legal Regimes
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Sandhya As, Bielefeld University
 

Mobile Workers and Immobile Laws: Low-Wage Labor in the Post-WWII Pacific

Colleen woods



National and transnational labor Migration and the early twentieth century Philippines

Karen Renee Miller

Session 20: High Skilled Mobility II
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Steve Richard Entrich, University of Duisburg-Essen
 

Boys from well-off family backgrounds benefit most from studying abroad? About the heterogenous effects of studying abroad on labor market outcomes in culturally diverse contexts (Japan and the United States)

Steve Richard Entrich



Is Germany missing out or catching up? Gender inequality and the 2020 German Skilled Immigration Act

Magali N. Alloatti, Tanja Fendel



Place of education and immigrant’s wage in Japan: The role of field of study

Hirohisa Takenoshita

Session 21: Agency
Location: Preussag-Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Aamir Ali, Bielefeld University
 

"Lakay se Lakay" information solidarity between Haitians in Brazil during the covid-19 pandemic

Ethol Exime



Strategic Pathways of Senegalese Street Vendors in Barcelona, Spain: Migrants’ Agency in Processes of Regularization

Neelanjana Parker Talwar



Gender and Tibetan Migrants in India: A Life Discourse Analysis

Rashmi Pal, Sunita Singh

10:30am
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11:00am
Tea/Coffee Break
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
11:00am
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12:30pm
Session 22: Race and Empire
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Julie Greene, University of Maryland
Discussant: Colleen woods, University of Maryland
 

Agents of Empire: White Merchant Sailors and U.S. Imperial Expansion

Will Riddell



Working on the Peninsula and Orient Line: Empire and Race on British Ocean Liners.

Colin Davis

Session 23: Care Work
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Eileen C. Boris, UC Santa Barbara
 

Reframing care work and migration: an analysis of Venezuelan women's south-south migration to Colombia

Javier Pineda Duque, Carolina Moreno Velásquez, Suelen Castiblanco, María Camila Vega



Towards a view of care migration beyond nation-centric borders

Lynn Yu Ling Ng, Yunhui Ye



Dis/locating into the Urban: An Ethnography of Migrant Domestic Workers in India

Nargis Vasundhara

Session 24: Violence
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Sandhya As, Bielefeld University
 

Central American migrants: Gender violence and capitalism

Sibyl Pineda



Race, gender and mobility: Re-framing trafficking from “White Slavery” to “Sexual Slavery” (1960s - 1980s)

Sonja Dolinsek



Syrian Women as Home-based Pieceworkers in Suburban Gaziantep: Labor, Forced Migration and Violence

Canan Uçar



Modern-Day Slavery? Case of Forced Hysterectomies among Female Sugarcane Workers in Maharashtra

Kritika Gosain

 
1:00pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
3:00pm Excursion II: Duisport
Departure at 15:00 from in front of the InterCity Hotel, Duisburg. Return trip timings to the hotels will be communicated during the trip.

 
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