CONTESTED MIGRATION REGIMES: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

CONTESTED MIGRATION REGIMES:
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES AND BEYOND
MID-TERM CONFERENCE of the ESA RESEARCH NETWORK 35
“Sociology of Migration”
13th and 14th November 2014, Frankfurt am Main
Location: Campus Westend, Grüneburgweg 1
Organiser: ESA Research Network 35 Sociology of Migration
Local Organiser: Anna Amelina, Goethe University Frankfurt,
Institute for Sociology
Thursday November 13th
until 9.30
Registration (PA Lobby)
9.30
Welcome (Karin Peters, Wageningen University and Anna Amelina,
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) (PA Lobby)
Keynote Lectures (Chair: Anna Amelina, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
(PA Lobby)
9. 30 – 10.15 Helma Lutz (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Care migration: a case study
for the intersection of migration-, gender- and care-regimes
10.15 – 11.00 Didier Bigo (Sciences Po Paris) - The three universes of EU border
controls and their assemblage
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.15 Parallel Sessions
A. Migration regimes: rationalities and power effects (Chair: Kenneth Horvath,
Karlsruhe University of Education) (PA Lobby)
 Suzanne Schultz (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - Migration and demographic
rationalities
 Elisabeth Badenhoop (University of Glasgow) - Re-producing the nation-state: a critical
comparison of current citizenship regimes in Britain and Germany
 Sara de Jong (University of Vienna) - Migrant cultural brokers in migration regimes and
integration orders
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 Olga Tkach (Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg) - "Turn to
integration" in Russian migration policies: institutional design and contradictory trends
 Erica Consterdine (University of Sufssex) - Interests, ideas, and institutions: explaining
immigration policy change in the UK 1997 - 2010
 Veit Schwab (University of Warwick) - Contested migration regimes, contested theory?
The neglected beginnings of a theoretical concept”
B. Migration regimes: technologies of (border) control (Chair: Kira Kosnick,
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) (PA P.20)
1. Steffen Mau, Fabian Gülzau and Natascha Zaun (University of Bremen) - Growing
together or falling apart? The convergence of visa policies in macro-territories
2. Stephan Scheel (The Open University London) - On the appropriation of mobility
within biometric border regimes: recoding the means and methods of mobility control
3. Francesca Zampagni (ICMPD, Vienna) - "Smart Borders" for a smarter control? The
European path towards automated border controls
4. Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - The German
Islam conference and the production of the German-Muslim. On racism, governmentality
and native informants
5. Annette Hilscher (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - French and German
antidiscriminatory practice policies: invisibility of black people
C. Migration regimes, worker rights, and the crisis (Chair: Karin Peters,
Wageningen University) (PA P. 22)
1. Helen Schwenken (University of Kassel)- What does "protecting migrant workers" mean
in contemporary migration regimes?
2. Tom Vickers (University of Northumbria)- Applying the Marxist theory of crisis to
understand increasing conditionality in the UK migration and welfare regimes
3. Sebastian Rinken (IESA, Madrid)- Betting on an exodus? The Spanish migration regime in
times of economic crisis
4. Sofia Boutsiouki (University of Macedonia)- The employment status of immigrants in
Greece: Developments at times of crisis
5. Lisa Bernsten (University of Jyväskylä) - Strategic acceptance and mobility: on the
agency of migrant construction workers
6. Monika Szulecka (University of Warsaw) - “What for and at what cost?” – economic
migrants’ from Ukraine in Poland and their perception of migration regimes
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch Break (self-paid)
14.15 – 16.15 Parallel Sessions
A. Regulations of migration: strategies of contestation (Chair: Elise Pape,
Université de Strasbourg) (PA Lobby)
 Federico Oliveri (University of Pisa) - The crisis of the European refugee regime: courts
and immigrant-led movements contesting EU asylum laws
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 David Lorenz & Maren Kirchoff (University of Kassel) - Protests, resistance and the
German deportation regime
 Moritz Baumgärtel (University of Bruxelles) - The European court of human rights and
migration regimes: toward a sociological impact assessment
 Maria Schwertl (University of Munich) - Negotiating, navigating and slowing down:
migrants and researchers as resisting parts of migration regimes
 Chloë Delcour (University of Ghent) - A sociological perspective on the human rights
discourse in the Conka v. Belgium case: dual strategies of the nation state in a
context of increasing East-European migration
 Nicholas DeMaria Harney (University of Western Australia) - Habitual activism and
the hope of the everyday
B. Beyond EU I: co-production of European migration regime(s) by the non-EU
political actors (Chair: Christian Ulbricht, Bielefeld University) (PA P.20)
1. Nannette Abrahams and Anna Krämer (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - Should I
stay or should I go? Questioning the impact of a European migration regime in Senegal
2. Inken Bartels (Humboldt University Berlin) - Understanding the European migration
regime from its margins. The contested everyday practices of the IOM’s migration
management in the Southern Mediterranean.
3. Antonella Ceccagno (University of Bologna) - Contested migrant entrepreneurship
4. Stefanie Kron (University of Vienna) - The regionalisation of migration regimes and
the criminalisation of irregular migration: The North and Central American case
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.30 Parallel Sessions
A. Intersection of migration and care regimes: theoretical and empirical
challenges (Chair: Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Goethe-University Frankfurt am
Main) (PA Lobby)
1. Almut Bachinger (University of Linz) - Intersectional regimes; A concept for analysing
migrant care work
2. Cindy De Clerck & Mark Leys (Free University of Bruxelles) - The relationship between
residence permits and mental health status of Chinese migrants
3. Mervi Leppakörpi (University of Helsinki) - Irregular migrants and health services
4. Saskia Bonjour (University of Amsterdam) - Courts in control? The impact of judicial and
moral norms on the making of family migration policies in France, Germany, and the
Netherlands
5. Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milano) - Managing the family: migration regimes and the
regulation of family migration in Italy
B. Transnational families: insights in ‘doing family’ across borders (Chair: Lena
Inowlocki, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences) (PA P.20)
 Ursula Apitzsch (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - Reversal of the gender order?
Male marriage migration to Germany by North African and Turkish Men: new forms of
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gendered transnationalization of migrant generations in Europe
 Laura Odasso & Catherine Delcroix (University of Strasbourg) - Social amalgam and legal
constraints in Arab-European couples' intimacy
 Magdalena Slusarczyk & Paula Pustulka (Jagiellonian University) - Negotiating the place
to live. Strategies of Polish migrant families in Norway.
 Anita Brzozuwska (University of Warsaw) - Migration regimes and mixed marriages of
Poles
 Anil Al-Rebholz (University of Istanbul) - Processes of negotiation on gender, work and
family in transnational marriages
20:00 Evening Dinner (self-paid) (Restaurant “Zu den Zwölf Aposteln“,
Rosenbergerstraße 1, Frankfurt am Main, www.12aposteln-frankfurt.de)
Friday November 14th
08.30–09.30 Business Meeting: ESA Research Network 35 „Sociology of Migration“ (PA
Lobby)
Keynote Lectures (Chair: Karin Peters, Wageningen University) (PA Lobby)
9.30 – 10.15 Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - The EU labour
mobility regime: differentiation, stratification and contradictions
10.15 – 11.00 Anna Korteweg (University of Toronto) - Immigrant integration policies
and debates: abuses of “culture” and the failure to address
intersectional exclusions, inequalities, and discrimination
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.15 Parallel Sessions
A. Migrants‘ strategies of spatialization: cities and beyond (Chair: Irina Isaakyan,
European University Institute, Florence) (PEG 1.G 135)
1. Nicolas Van Puymbroeck (University of Antwerp) - Migrant policy in Ghent and Antwerp:
the (ln)stability of urban integration regimes
2. Petr Vasat (University of Wroclaw) - Socio-spatial patterns of social support networks:
the case of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic
3. Anna Horolets, Karin Peters & Monika Stodolska (University of Gdansk) - Migrants' use
of natural environments and migration regimes: a comparative perspective
4. Marta Cordini (University of Milano) - Home in the migratory experience: individuals'
strategies and policies
5. Davide Donatiello (University of Torino) - Migration in small town and rural areas.
Integration in non urban contexts
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B. Beyond EU II: diaspora and identity formation (Chair: Basak Bilecen, Bielefeld
University) (PA Lobby)
1. Ingrida Geciene, Laima Nevinskaite (Vilnius University) - Involvement of diaspora
professionals in cooperation with the country of origin: a view from different sides
2. Carolin Fischer (University of Oxford) - Diaspora formation and diaspora engagement: a
multi-layered relationship between mobility and change
3. Laura Stielike (FU Berlin) - The ambivalence of migration and development: agency or
instrumentalisation?
4. Michelle Dromgold (Middle East Technical University, Ankara ) - The case of
transnational language learning among the Kurdish diaspora in Turkey and Europe
5. Vladimir Kmec (Karls University Tübingen) - Religion as a response to public discourses
and policies in the case of young eastern European immigrants in Ireland and young
people of Turkish migration background in Germany
6. Kaja Skowronska (University of London) - Europeanization through daily practices –
public administrations, civil society actors and the creation of a migration regime in
Poland
C. Asylum regimes (Kenneth Horvath, University of Education Karlsruhe)(IG 1.314)
 Stephanie Schneider (University of Siegen) - The professionalization of bureaucratic
practices in the context of Europeanization processes
 Lorenzo Vianelli (University of Warwick) - The impossible harmonization: contradictions
in the reception of asylum seekers in the European Union
 Julia Dahlvik (University of Vienna) - Social practices and processes of administering
asylum applications: an Austrian case study
 Tone Liodden (University of Oslo) - Managing uncertainty: credibility, expertise and tacit
knowledge in asylum decisions
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch Break (self-paid)
14.15 – 16.15 Parallel Sessions
A. Migration, exploitation and life opportunities (Chair: Irina Isaakyan, European
University Institute, Florence) (IG 1.314)
 Achon Rodrigez (University of Texas at Austin) - Political institutions and practices
involved in the regulation of migration
 Jan Jochmaring (TU of Dortmund) - Undocumented migrants and the agriculture
workforce in Spain: who is driving this business?
 Szilvia Altorjja (University of Debrecen) - Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK and
the US
 Kyoko Shinozaki (Ruhr University Bochum) - Which skilled migration, what diversity?
Interrogating internationalization and intersecting influence of gender, spatial mobility
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and social class on career progression among migrant academics in a German higher
education institution
 Diana Janusauskiene (Mykolas Romeris University) - Labour exploitation abroad:
experiences of Lithuanian migrants
B. Hierarchies of citizenship: stratifying effects of migration regulations (Chair:
Basak Bilecen, Bielefeld University) (PA Lobby)
1. Reinhard Schweitzer (University of Sussex) - A stratified right to family life? Patterns and
rationales behind differential access to family reunification for third-country nationals
living within the EU
2. Saara Koikkalainen (University of Lappland) - Citizenship as access, as identification and
as practice: intra-European migrants and the question of integration
3. Sarah Kunz (National Centre for Social Research in London, UK) - Postcolonial
approaches to the study of privileged migration: Expats in migration scholarship
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Malgorzata Irek (Oxford Brooks University) - Separate by law, together in life practices:
migration policies and trans-ethnic informal networks in the countries of Western
Europe.
5. Teresa Buczkowska (University College Dublin) - Daily life experiences of irregular
Georgian immigrants in Ireland in relation to the 'contract v charity' model of citizenship
6. Cristian Ulbricht (University of Bielefeld) - Welcome (back) to Germany! The return of
the guest worker regime and its implication
7. Costel Grigoras (University of Paris, Sorbonne) - Marginalization, stigmatization and
exclusion of the Roma Migrants
16.15 – 17.00 Final Notes (Chair: Anna Amelina, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
(PA Lobby)
Kira Kosnick (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
Kenneth Horvath (University of Higher Education Karlsruhe)
Please, find the map of Campus Westend with the indication of relevant buildings and building abbreviations (for
example,“PA”) in the map below.
Access by public transport: Campus Westend, From the Central Station take the S-Bahn lines 1/2/3/4//6/8/9 to
"Hauptwache", then take the metro, line 1/2/3/8 to "Holzhausenstraße" then 10 min. walk.
Postal address: Grüneburgplatz 1, 60322 Frankfurt am Main
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Goethe-University: Food and
Drinks
1: Café Rotunde
I.G. Hochhaus, Opening Hours: 07.30–
18.30
Snacks and Drinks
2a: Mensa Casino
Casinogebäude, Opening Hours:
11.30–15.00
Cooked Meal
2a: First Floor: Casino Cafeteria
Casinogebäude, Opening Hours:
11.30–17.00
Snacks and Drinks
2b: Mensa Anbau Casino
Casinogebäude, Opening Hours:
11.30–15.30
Cooked Meal
3: Café House of Finance,
House of Finance, Opening Hours:
8.00–19.00
Snacks and Drinks
4: Hörsaalzentrum, Kafeebar
Alfredo
Hörsaalgebäude, Opening Hours:
15.30–18.00
Snacks and Drinks
9: Caféteria Dasein, PEG
Opening Hours: 07.30–17.00
Snacks and Drinks
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