E-BoP Journal Club #16 – Labour Migration Policies and Agriculture

On 19 December 2024, our monthly Journal Club discussed two documents dealing with migration policies and the exploitation of migrant workers in agriculture: a journal article entitled ‘The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden’ by Alessandra Corrado, Lucio Pisacane & Cristián Alarcón Ferrari (2024) and a report […]

E-BoP Journal Club #17 – Agriculture and Migration in Poland

On 16 January, we inaugurated our first 2025 Journal Club! For this session, we decided to follow up our discussion of temporary labour migration in agriculture with two articles: Górny and Kaczmarczyk (2020), ‘Temporary farmworkers and migration transition On a changing role of the agricultural sector in international labour migration to Poland’ and Matuszczyk (2024), […]

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 […]

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 #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 […]