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
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
Session 2: High Skilled Mobility I
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Steve Richard Entrich, University of Duisburg-Essen
Session 3: Navigating Control
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Ardita OSMANI, University of Duisburg Essen
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
Session 5: Hierarchies of Labor Regulation
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Colin Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Session 6: Migration Governance
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Duaa Kattana, University of Duisburg-Essen
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
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
Session 9: Recruitment
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Aimi Muranaka, University of Duisburg-Essen
5:45pm
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7:00pm
Plenary II: Migration, Dissent and Dialogue
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer
Chair: Polina Manolova, University of Tübingen
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Reception Dinner
Location: InHause, Frauenhofer

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"
Session 11: India's Migration- Development Regime
Location: Mercator Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University
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
Session 13: Composition, Sectors and Technologies
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Ursula Mense-Petermann, Bielefeld University
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
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
Session 16: Labor and Mobility Regimes
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Thorsten Schlee, University Duisburg-Essen; DIFIS; IAQ
Session 17: Deskilling
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Ursula Mense-Petermann, Bielefeld University
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
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.

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
Session 19: Mobility, Bureaucracy & Legal Regimes
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Sandhya As, Bielefeld University
Session 20: High Skilled Mobility II
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Steve Richard Entrich, University of Duisburg-Essen
Session 21: Agency
Location: Preussag-Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Aamir Ali, Bielefeld University
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
Session 23: Care Work
Location: Senat Saal, Gerhard Mercator Haus (GMH)
Chair: Eileen C. Boris, UC Santa Barbara
Session 24: Violence
Location: LF 156 – Sociology Institute Building
Chair: Sandhya As, Bielefeld University
 
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.