On 26 and 27 August 2025 our PI, Marco Rocca, participated to the Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts. The Symposium was organised at the University of Helsinki by the Tackling precarious and informal work in the Nordic countries research project and the Migration, care and ageing –research group of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care. It was a great opportunity to engage with a number of interesting topics which are relevant for the E-BoP project, including the role of definitions of migrants for data collection purposes, the impact of temporariness on the sense of an “arc” of life for migrantised people, and the way in which temporal restrictions bring the border inside a given country.
In this occasion, Marco presented his recent work on the definition of “temporariness” in EU law, which is based on a systematic document analysis of the use of this concept (extended to the one of “limited duration”) by EU law binding instruments in contexts of transnational movements of either persons or business. In his presentation Marco discussed his conclusions concerning the use of “thin” and “thick” time to regulate respectively the free movement of services and international migration. He also argued that EU labour and social security law could provide an inspiration for a “legal rescaling” of our approach to temporary labour migration. The Corpus and Codebook developed for this research are already available here and the accompanying paper is currently undergoing peer review.
