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, […]
E-BoP Journal Club #11 – Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime, JEMS 49(16) 2023
On 23 April 2024 we had another session of our (more or less) monthly journal club. In this occasion we discussed the special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies “Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime“, coordinated by Jens Arnholtz and Janine Leschke. We also had the pleasure to welcome professor Daniela Urse […]
E-BoP Journal Club #10 – Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway (Karlsen, 2021)
On 19 March 2024, our team got together for our tenth journal club dedicated to the book “Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway”, by Mary-Anne Karlsen (2021). Through an ethnographic exploration, the author investigated the dynamics between the Norwegian welfare state, immigration policies, and irregularised migrants. Within […]
E-BoP Journal Club #9 – Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law (Ryan and Zahn eds.)
On 23 February 2024, our team collectively read and discussed a selection of chapters from the book “Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law”, edited by Bernard Ryan and Rebecca Zahn (2023). This book is composed of fourteen chapters, presenting different national frameworks and paradoxes between labour and migration law. For the Journal Club, […]
E-BoP Journal Club #8 – Workers without Borders – posted work and precarity in the EU (Wagner, 2018)
On 30 January 2024 the EBoP team came together to discuss “Workers without Borders – posted work and precarity in the EU” (2018) by Ines Wagner – a book touching on the very essence of what lies at the heart of the EBoP project, namely the unequal treatment of distinct categories of labour migrants in the […]
E-BoP Journal Club #7 – Gender, Temporary Work, and Migration Management (Zeneidi, 2017)
We had our 7th book club on 28 November 2023, where we discussed the book written by Zeneidi (2017) “Gender, Temporary Work, and Migration Management Global Food and Utilitarian Migration in Huelva, Spain”. As a geographer, the author is interested in the margins and the migration of women. This case study of Moroccan seasonal migrant […]
E-BoP Journal Club #5 – Law, Precarious Labour, and Posted Workers (Lasek-Markey, 2023)
On 14 September 2023, we had our 5th Journal Club, discussing the book of Marta Lasek-Markey (2023) “Law, Precarious Labour, and Posted Workers: a sociolegal study on posted work in the EU”. This book examines the role of the law and its impact on the experiences of posted workers in Europe, both for those considered […]
E-BoP Journal Club #4 – Labor movement, (Bauder, 2006)
On 13 June 2023, our monthly Journal Club debated the book “Labor movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets”, written by Harald Bauder (2006). The book is divided into two parts: the first presented the main theories to explain the how migration regulates labour markets, while the second brought an overview of the labour migration contexts […]
E-BoP Journal Club #3 – The Right Not to Stay. Justice in Migration, the Liberal Democratic State, and the Case of Temporary Migration Projects (Ottonelli and Torresi, 2022)
On 11 May 2023, the EBoP team dove deep into some of the key questions surrounding the debates on justice and migration, namely immigrants’ right to stay and the concept of migration temporariness more broadly. Centered on the notion of immigrants’ agency, The Right Not to Stay offers a new perspective by arguing that not […]
E-BoP Journal Club #2 – Managing the Margins (Vosko, 2010)
On 12 April 2023, our monthly Journal Club discussed the book “Managing the margins: gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment”, written by Leah Vosko (2010). The book investigates the precarious margins of labour markets, with a multi-method and interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, we collectively picked this book for the proximity of the explored […]