(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. […]
Dynamics of au pairing: presenting a literature review
On 21-22 September of 2023, Catharina Lopes Scodro participated to the II Annual Scientific Conference (ASCEA) of the Central European Academy, in Budapest (Hungary). She joined the panel “Discrimination of Workers and Protection of Worker’s Rights in Cross-Border Employment within the EU”, where she presented a paper focused on the investigation of the dynamics of […]
E-BoP Journal Club #5 – Law, Precarious Labour, and Posted Workers (Lasek-Markey, 2023)
On 14 September 2023, we had our 5th Journal Club, discussing the book of Marta Lasek-Markey (2023) “Law, Precarious Labour, and Posted Workers: a sociolegal study on posted work in the EU”. This book examines the role of the law and its impact on the experiences of posted workers in Europe, both for those considered […]
Our team landed in the LLRN6
25 June 2023, Warsaw From 25 to 27 June 2023 our team participated of the Biennial Conference of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN6) in Warsaw, Poland. The Conference reunited labour law scholars from different countries, and was a joint organisational effort of the Law Faculties of Warsaw and Łódź. Our principal investigator, Marco Rocca, […]
E-BoP Journal Club #4 – Labor movement, (Bauder, 2006)
On 13 June 2023, our monthly Journal Club debated the book “Labor movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets”, written by Harald Bauder (2006). The book is divided into two parts: the first presented the main theories to explain the how migration regulates labour markets, while the second brought an overview of the labour migration contexts […]
E-BoP Journal Club #3 – The Right Not to Stay. Justice in Migration, the Liberal Democratic State, and the Case of Temporary Migration Projects (Ottonelli and Torresi, 2022)
On 11 May 2023, the EBoP team dove deep into some of the key questions surrounding the debates on justice and migration, namely immigrants’ right to stay and the concept of migration temporariness more broadly. Centered on the notion of immigrants’ agency, The Right Not to Stay offers a new perspective by arguing that not […]
E-BoP Journal Club #2 – Managing the Margins (Vosko, 2010)
On 12 April 2023, our monthly Journal Club discussed the book “Managing the margins: gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment”, written by Leah Vosko (2010). The book investigates the precarious margins of labour markets, with a multi-method and interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, we collectively picked this book for the proximity of the explored […]
E-BoP journal club #1 – Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor (Mezzadra and Neilson, 2013)
We inaugurated our monthly journal club on 6 March 2023, with a discussion of the book “Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor” by Sandra Mezzadra and Brett Neilson (2013). With this book, the authors aim to provide a social theory of borders. They offer a new understanding of widely studied concepts such as […]