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), […]

Exploring the experiences of au pairs in France and Ireland

In the scope of the E-BoP project, our PhD candidate Catharina Lopes Scodro explores the experiences of au pairs in France and Ireland. Despite both countries being Member States of the European Union and members of the Council of Europe, France and Ireland are not subjected to the same common instruments – the Researchers’ Directive […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]