Save the date! E-BoP mid-project conference
The E-BoP team is busy organising our mid-project conference (time does fly!). This will take place on 30 June 2025 a it will be held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and will also be streamed online. French/English translation will also be provided. All the member of the E-BoP team will present the initial results […]
Exploring the experiences of au pairs in Ireland
In the scope of the E-BoP project, our PhD candidate Catharina Lopes Scodro explores the experiences of au pairs in France and Ireland. Despite both countries being Member States of the European Union and members of the Council of Europe, France and Ireland are not subjected to the same common instruments – the Researchers’ Directive […]
E-BoP Journal Club #16 – Labour Migration Policies and Agriculture
On 19 December 2024, our monthly Journal Club discussed two documents dealing with migration policies and the exploitation of migrant workers in agriculture: a journal article entitled ‘The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden’ by Alessandra Corrado, Lucio Pisacane & Cristián Alarcón Ferrari (2024) and a report […]
The influence of the law on seasonal migrant women’s experience of reproductive injustice in Huelva (Spain)
by Audrey Deverson The agricultural sector is often characterised by the temporality and seasonality of its production, its significant need for labour during production peaks and the high degree of precariousness of working conditions. It employs an increasing number of temporary migrant workers, and temporary labour migration is constantly expanding (also) within the European Union. […]
E-BoP Journal Club #17 – Agriculture and Migration in Poland
On 16 January, we inaugurated our first 2025 Journal Club! For this session, we decided to follow up our discussion of temporary labour migration in agriculture with two articles: Górny and Kaczmarczyk (2020), ‘Temporary farmworkers and migration transition On a changing role of the agricultural sector in international labour migration to Poland’ and Matuszczyk (2024), […]
Research Seminar: (Temporary) Labour Migration and Agriculture in the EU: Time, Borders, and Vulnerabilities
Happy new year from the E-BoP team! With the Winter break now behind us, we are happy to announce our next event. On 7 March (9AM – noon-ish, Paris time) we will host a seminar on “(Temporary) Labour Migration and Agriculture Work in the EU”. It will be held in Strasbourg at the Law Faculty […]
One of our PhD Students at the conference “(In)justice reproductive”
Our PhD student Audrey Deverson recently presented her paper Droit et injustice reproductive: le cas des migrantes saisonnières (Law and reproductive injustice: the case of seasonal migrant women) during the Conference (In)justice reproductive, hosted at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord (Paris, France) on 28 and 29 November 2024. During her presentation, Audrey […]
E-BoP Journal Club #15 – Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers. The House, The Street, The Town (Barnard, Costello, and Fraser Butlin,
On 21 November, the EBoP team members and colleagues discussed ‘Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers. The House, The Street, The Town’ by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello and Sarah Fraser Butlin. The book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of the less visible – low-paid, remote – EU migrant workers, living and working in a small […]
Exploring the experiences of au pairs in France and Ireland
In the scope of the E-BoP project, our PhD candidate Catharina Lopes Scodro explores the experiences of au pairs in France and Ireland. Despite both countries being Member States of the European Union and members of the Council of Europe, France and Ireland are not subjected to the same common instruments – the Researchers’ Directive […]
E-BoP Journal Club 14 ‘Meet the Author’ with Vera Pavlou
On 10 October 2024, our team had the pleasure to welcome Professor Vera Pavlou (University of Glasgow) in Strasbourg. We took the opportunity to change the format our monthly Journal Club to a “Meet the Author” session. Notably, we discussed Vera’s book, ‘Migrant domestic workers in the Europe: Law and the Construction of Vulnerability’ (Hart, […]