E-BoP seminar on statistics and data analysis
On 20 February 2024, our colleague Justyna Hejman-Mancewicz presented the Seminar “Statistics crash course: Introduction to data analysis” at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA). In the two-parts seminar, she presented the main introductory concepts to data analysis – related to types of statistical data, relationships between data, key statistical concepts […]
The E-BoP Summer School call opens today!
The whole E-BoP team is thrilled to announce the opening of the call for participants for our first Summer School! During the last couple of months we have been working hard to gather a great lineup of speakers and to find the perfect venue for our event, which will focus on Interdisciplinary approaches to the […]
E-BoP Journal Club #8 – Workers without Borders – posted work and precarity in the EU (Wagner, 2018)
On 30 January 2024 the EBoP team came together to discuss “Workers without Borders – posted work and precarity in the EU” (2018) by Ines Wagner – a book touching on the very essence of what lies at the heart of the EBoP project, namely the unequal treatment of distinct categories of labour migrants in the […]
EBoP poster presentation during the IRVAPP Advanced School on Methods for Impact Evaluation
Our postdoctoral researecher, Justyna Hejman-Mancewicz, presented her research at the “Advanced School on Methods for Impact Evaluation” event organised by the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP) at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, in Venice (Italy), between 22 and 24 January 2024. The event gathered graduate students and researchers in applied […]
Working in agriculture: between seasonal and displaced labour
Audrey Deverson, presented her paper “Trabajar en la agricultura: entre trabajo estacional y trabajo desplazado” during the II Congress of AIDAM at the University of Girona, Spain on 14 and 15 December. Her presentation focused on the influence, both positive and negative, of European Directives on seasonal work and posting of workers on the precariousness […]
E-BoP Journal Club #7 – Gender, Temporary Work, and Migration Management (Zeneidi, 2017)
We had our 7th book club on 28 November 2023, where we discussed the book written by Zeneidi (2017) “Gender, Temporary Work, and Migration Management Global Food and Utilitarian Migration in Huelva, Spain”. As a geographer, the author is interested in the margins and the migration of women. This case study of Moroccan seasonal migrant […]
Subcontracting in the agricultural sector
On 23 and 24 November 2023, Marco Rocca, our PI, participated to the international conference “Externalisation de l’activité dans l’agriculture” (Subcontracting in the agricultural sector) organised in Bordeaux by the COMPTRASEC research centre. He presented some reflections on the EU legal framework for posting of workers in light of some recent cases of widespread violations […]
(In)visibility of women migrants and the EU Directive on Seasonal Workers
On 20 October 2023 Audrey Deverson presented her paper “Perspectiva de género y migración temporal de trabajo: el caso de la Directiva 2014/36/UE” at the 1ª Sesión del Grupo Permanente de Género y Política (Universidad de Deusto) in Bilbao. In her presentation, Audrey focused on the application of an intersectional gender perspective to the European […]
Visit of Professor Tonia Novitz
On 13 October 2023, our team had the pleasure to welcome Professor Tonia Novitz (University of Bristol) in Strasbourg. On top of her own outstanding qualities as a researcher, Professor Novitz is part of the Advisory Board of European Birds of Passage. Her visit provided a great opportunity to discuss the results of the first […]
Cultural exchange, employment, migration strategy, or live-in care: exploring the “au pairing galaxy”
On 12-13 October 2023, Catharina Lopes Scodro had the opportunity to present her PhD work in the 2023 Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour, organised by the Global Labour Research Centre at York University (Canada). The Symposium was held online and included researchers coming from different backgrounds, thus promoting an interdisciplinary discussion. […]