After much organisation, on 30 June 2025 we held our mid-project conference, titled “Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU” (but also: “Le cadre juridique de la migration temporaire de travail dans l’UE. Perspectives empiriques” since the conference was bilingual EN/FR).
The conference was organised into 5 sessions, with each of those having the same structure: 20 minutes of presentation by one of the E-BoP researchers, 20 minutes of reaction by a discussant, and 20 further minutes for the discussion with the public (in-person or online) and the reaction of the speaker.
So, the sessions went as follows (link to the slides at the bottom of this post):
- Spatiotemporal scales of the EU legal framework for temporary labour migration (Marco Rocca), discussed with Sophie Robin-Olivier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
- Migrant domestic work in France and Ireland: legal pathways, gaps and everyday lives of au pairs (Catharina Lopes Scodro), discussed with Vera Pavlou (University of Glasgow)
- Legal (Un)Protections of Migrant Agricultural Workers: A Comparative Empirical Study from Spain and France (Audrey Deverson) discussed with Béatrice Mesini (CNRS – Aix Marseille Université)
- Workers at your service: sources of data on posting of workers in Poland. Emerging trends, gaps and promising avenues for research (Justyna Hejman-Mancewicz), discussed with Sonila Danaj (European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research)
- Bridging EU’s Economic and Social Pillars: Lessons from the European Job Posting Policy (Daniel Elanga Mendogo), discussed with Laetitia Hauret (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)
The conference was opened by a speech from Frederic De Wispelaere (HIVA – KU Leuven) and closed by our PI, Marco Rocca. We wish to thank the discussants, speakers, and the public (whether in person or online), as well as the European Parliament in Strasbourg for hosting us, and, of course, our funders, the European Research Council for allowing us to organise this event.
We were particularly inspired by debates around the interest of adopting our heterodox scope (covering both intra- and extra-EU temporary labour migrants at the same time), the role of intermediaries in shaping the border of the labour market, and the legal role of the ‘systematic’ use of a temporary situation. The discussions and feedback received during the event will feed into our future publications and other outputs, so keep an eye on our website !
