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, […]
E-BoP Journal Club #13 – Global care chains and intermediaries in care labour market, by Parreñas et al. (2022) and Matuszcyk et al. (2019)
In September 2024, our monthly Journal Club discussed two pieces of research delving into debates regarding domestic and care work: ‘Global care chains’ by Gianne Sheena Sabio, Kritika Pandey and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (2022) and ‘Private Labor Market Intermediaries in the Europeanized Live-in Care Market between Germany and Poland: A Typology’ by Simone Leiber, Kamil […]
Research Seminar “(Temporary) Labour Migration and Domestic Work in the EU: Time, Borders, and Vulnerabilities”
The E-BoP team is busy organising our next event! On 10 October (4PM Paris time) we will host a seminar on Labour Migration and Domestic Work in the EU. It will be held in Strasbourg at the Law Faculty (details in the pdf below if you’re close enough to join us!) but it will also […]
Precariousness and migration
The two doctoral students from our team, Audrey Deverson and Catharina Lopes Scodro, are jointly developing a paper on the use of the concept of “precariousness” in relation with labour migration. They presented the first results of this research at the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies conference in Elche (June 2024) and the 22nd […]
Online Seminar on the Australian reform of temporary migration
On 12 September (10AM Paris Time) we will be (digitally) welcoming Kate Golebiowska to discuss the recent reform of temporary migration in Australia. Kate is a Senior Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University in Darwin (Australia), who has worked on the intersection of immigration policy, economics, and social structures and their influence on migrants’ economic […]
Back from our first Summer School
From 1 to 4 July 2024 we ran our first Summer School. 10 participants and 8 speakers got together at the Institut du Travail (Labour Institute) in Strasbourg, joined by several local researchers from the Labour Law team and beyond. The topic of our Summer School was “Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the legal […]
E-BoP workshop on qualitative research
On 26 June, the E-BoP team organised a workshop on Qualitative Research Methods, was presented by Catharina Lopes Scodro, one of our PhD researchers. Catharina has recently followed several trainings and worked on preparing her theoretical framework for her own fieldwork, comprising interviews, covering au pairs working in both France and Ireland. During her presentation, […]
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), […]