International Workshop, Bielefeld University
Venue: Bielefeld University
April 12-13, 2012
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12 April, first day, Arrival by 12.45
13.00 – 13.15
Welcome and Introductory Remarks (Anna Amelina, Andreas Vasilache and Tatjana Zimenkova, Bielefeld University)
13.15-15.15
I Session: Transformation of Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries in Europe
Chair: Jan Fuhse (Bielefeld University)
• The Freedom to Travel? Visa Regime Changes in Europe between 1970 and 2010 (Steffen Mau and Lena Laube, Bremen University)
• EU Migration Governance: Co-Producing Inequalities, Hierarchies and Exclusion (Emma Carmel, University of Bath)
• Ethnic Minorities on Europe’s Borderlands (Clair Wallace, University of Aberdeen)
• The European Border Regime and its Inequality Effects (Sabine Hess, Göttingen University)
15.15-15.30 - Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.30
II Session: Transnational Labor Markets in the Enlarged Europe
Chair: Tatjana Zimenkova (Bielefeld University)
• Transnational Labor Markets in Europe and Social Inequality (Roland Verwiebe, University of Vienna)
• New Elites in Europe: Careers and Recruitment Strategies (Katharina Bluhm, Fee University Berlin)
• Unmaking Citizenship, Managing Migration: New Types of Labour Migration in Central Europe and the Transformation of Citizenship in the Enlarged EU (Ken Horvath, University of Vienna)
• Labouring Bodies on the Move: Transnational Worker Mobility and Changing Market Structures in the Construction Industry (Lisa Bernsten, University of Groningen)
19.00 Workshop Dinner
13 April, second day
08.45 – 10.45
III Session: Migration, Families and Care in Europe: Intersection of Oppressions?
Chair: Anna Amelina (Bielefeld University)
• Stratified Reproduction and Intersections between Family and Labour Migrations (Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University)
• Migrating Carer - Caring Migrant: The Socio-Political Construction of Migrant Care Workers (Bernard Weicht, Utrecht University)
• Transnationalization of Care and Polish Handymen in Germany (Ewa Palengia-Möllenbeck, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
• Dimensions of Precariousness in Transnational Care Work Arrangements: The Case of Central European Care Workers in Austria (Gudrun Bauer, University of Vienna)
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00
IV Session: Mobile Talents: New Elites or the New Exploited?
Chair: Andreas Vasilache (Bielefeld University)
• How Relevant is Return Migration for the Europeanization of Elites in Central and Eastern Europe? (Martin Heidenreich and Boriana Gebova, Oldenburg University)
• Deskilling in Migration in Transnational Perspective. The Case of Recent Polish Migration to the UK (Magdalena Novicka, Max-Planck Institute Göttingen)
• Polish Doctors in Sweden – Exploited and Privileged (Magnus Öhlander, Södertörn University)
• Migration of Health Professionals – The Formation of the Transnational Professional Spaces? (Joana Sousa Ribeiro, University of Coimbra)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
V Session: Migration and Transformation of Welfare: The European Dimension
Chair: N.N.
• Post-Communist Welfare after Multiple Waves of Migration (Noemi Lendvai, University of Bristol)
• Openness vs. Closeness: The Interplay between International Migration and the Welfare State in the Context of the Ageing of the Migrant Population (Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, New University of Lisbon)
• Welfare Provisioning Through Migrant Labour in the Unequally Developing European Union: What if the ‘Safety Valve’ Closes? (Bruno Meeus, Leuven University)
15.30-16.00
VI Session: Concluding Remarks (Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University)
End of Workshop
Workshop Organization:
Dr. Anna Amelina (e-mail: anna.amelina@uni-bielefeld.de),
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vasilache (e-mail: andreas.vasilache@uni-bielefeld.de) and
Dr. Tatjana Zimenkova (e-mail: tatjana.zimenkova@uni-bielefeld.de).
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