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Session Overview
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Date: Thursday, 18/July/2024
11:15am
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12:45pm
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

2:00pm
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3:30pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

Date: Friday, 19/July/2024
9:30am
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11:00am
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

11:30am
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1:00pm
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

Date: Saturday, 20/July/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

11:00am
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12:30pm
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


 
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