The influence of the law on seasonal migrant women’s experience of reproductive injustice in Huelva (Spain)
by Audrey Deverson The agricultural sector is often characterised by the temporality and seasonality of its production, its significant need for labour during production peaks and the high degree of precariousness of working conditions. It employs an increasing number of temporary migrant workers, and temporary labour migration is constantly expanding (also) within the European Union. […]
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), […]
One of our PhD Students at the conference “(In)justice reproductive”
Our PhD student Audrey Deverson recently presented her paper Droit et injustice reproductive: le cas des migrantes saisonnières (Law and reproductive injustice: the case of seasonal migrant women) during the Conference (In)justice reproductive, hosted at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord (Paris, France) on 28 and 29 November 2024. During her presentation, Audrey […]
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 […]
One of our PhD students at the conference “Étranger et droit”
On 27 September 2024, our PhD student Audrey Deverson presented her paper Une analyse critique du droit européen de la migration de travail (A critical analysis of the EU legeal framework for labour migration) during the conference Étranger et droit, organised at the University of Reims (France). In her presentation, she focused on the differences […]
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 […]
Archival Legal Research (and au pairs)
Author: Catharina Lopes Scodro Since decades, legal research has been changing. From looking to instruments to embracing people’s perceptions, it is increasingly incorporating social sciences methods to unpack interactions between law and society. With this post I wish to share my own experience of the, small but surprising, impact of bringing these methods to legal […]
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, […]
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), […]