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), […]
Research Seminar: (Temporary) Labour Migration and Agriculture in the EU: Time, Borders, and Vulnerabilities
Happy new year from the E-BoP team! With the Winter break now behind us, we are happy to announce our next event. On 7 March (9AM – noon-ish, Paris time) we will host a seminar on “(Temporary) Labour Migration and Agriculture Work in the EU”. It will be held in Strasbourg at the Law Faculty […]
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 […]
E-BoP Journal Club #15 – Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers. The House, The Street, The Town (Barnard, Costello, and Fraser Butlin,
On 21 November, the EBoP team members and colleagues discussed ‘Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers. The House, The Street, The Town’ by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello and Sarah Fraser Butlin. The book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of the less visible – low-paid, remote – EU migrant workers, living and working in a small […]
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 14 ‘Meet the Author’ with Vera Pavlou
On 10 October 2024, our team had the pleasure to welcome Professor Vera Pavlou (University of Glasgow) in Strasbourg. We took the opportunity to change the format our monthly Journal Club to a “Meet the Author” session. Notably, we discussed Vera’s book, ‘Migrant domestic workers in the Europe: Law and the Construction of Vulnerability’ (Hart, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Research Seminar “(Temporary) Labour Migration and Domestic Work in the EU: Time, Borders, and Vulnerabilities”
The E-BoP team is busy organising our next event! On 10 October (4PM Paris time) we will host a seminar on Labour Migration and Domestic Work in the EU. It will be held in Strasbourg at the Law Faculty (details in the pdf below if you’re close enough to join us!) but it will also […]