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Changing Patterns of Migration – Changing Patterns of Social Inequalities?

Borders and Boundaries in the Enlarged Europe Zeit: 12.04.201213.04.2012
Veranstaltungsort: Room A3-126, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Workshop Schedule

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 Session I: 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 Session II: 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 Session III: 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 Session IV: 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 Session V: 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 Session VI: Concluding Remarks (Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University)

End of Workshop

Workshop Organization:

Dr. Anna Amelina, Prof. Dr. Andreas Vasilache, and Dr. Tatjana Zimenkova.