E-BoP Journal Club #12 – The Expanding Spaces of Law (Braverman, Blomley, Delaney, Kedar eds., 2014)

On 30 of May 2024 the whole E-BoP team got together for our monthly journal club. We were also joined by several PhD students from Strasbourg University. For this month we wanted to explore the topic of Legal Geography, so we picked the collective book “The Expanding Spaces of Law. A Timely Legal Geography“. In […]
Our PI at the Conference “EU Cross-Border Service Provides In Harmony with the Law”

On 20 May Marco Rocca, our PI, took part to the conference EU Cross-Border Service Provides In Harmony with the Law, organised by the European Mobility Institute. Marco was one of the speakers in the session discussing posting by temporary work agencies and transnational hiring out of workers. While the conference focuses on the practices […]
One of our researchers at the workshop “Digital Intermediaries in Domestic and Care Work”

From 02 to 03 May 2024, our PhD Student Catharina Lopes Scodro attended the workshop “Digital Intermediaries in Domestic and Care Work” organised by Eva Kocher (Europa-Universität Viadrina) and Lorena Poblete (CONICET – Universidad Nacional de San Martín). The workshop took place at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Basque Country/Spain), […]
E-BoP Journal Club #11 – Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime, JEMS 49(16) 2023

On 23 April 2024 we had another session of our (more or less) monthly journal club. In this occasion we discussed the special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies “Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime“, coordinated by Jens Arnholtz and Janine Leschke. We also had the pleasure to welcome professor Daniela Urse […]
One of our researchers at the Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

Between 08 and 12 of March 2024, one of our PhD Students, Catharina Lopes Scodro, attended the Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2024, in the course Qualitative Methods 1 – Interviews & Fieldwork. Organised by the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford, the Spring School was an excellent […]
An EBoP researcher at the Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA)

Between 26 and 28 of March 2024, one of our PhD Students, Catharina Lopes Scodro, participated of the Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), organised at the University of Portsmouth (UK). She presented her research “Disputes on the discourse of labour migration in au pairs’ European legal documents”, investigating the use of a […]
E-BoP Journal Club #10 – Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway (Karlsen, 2021)

On 19 March 2024, our team got together for our tenth journal club dedicated to the book “Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway”, by Mary-Anne Karlsen (2021). Through an ethnographic exploration, the author investigated the dynamics between the Norwegian welfare state, immigration policies, and irregularised migrants. Within […]
Conference “Justice(s) sociale(s)”

On 15 March, the team took part to the conference organised by our research centre’s social law* team and shared their thoughts on the multifaceted meaning(s) of “social justice” in our respective fields of reserach. In the morning, Catharina Lopes-Scodro presented the evolution of awareness of care work in the international context and the specitifities […]
PhD Opportunities in European Labour Law

We welcome expressions of interest from potential PhD students with an interest in the broader research area of European Birds of Passage. We are happy to support suitable applications for the ITI MAKErS PhD Contracts. The deadline of this year’s call is 14 June 2024. The 3 year award will commence on 1 October 2024. […]
E-BoP Journal Club #9 – Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law (Ryan and Zahn eds.)

On 23 February 2024, our team collectively read and discussed a selection of chapters from the book “Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law”, edited by Bernard Ryan and Rebecca Zahn (2023). This book is composed of fourteen chapters, presenting different national frameworks and paradoxes between labour and migration law. For the Journal Club, […]