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, […]
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 […]