Where do posted workers come from and move to?
by Daniel. J Elanga Mendogo Definition Based on the 2023 data from Portable Documents A1 (PDs A1), this diagram illustrates the movement of posted workers between EU/EFTA countries and the UK. A PD A1 establishes that the holder is registered with the social security system of the issuing country and exempts them and/or their employer […]
The E-BoP mid-project conference
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 […]
E-BoP in Maynooth
On 9 April 2025, Marco Rocca, Audrey Deverson, and Catharina Lopes Scodro participated in the seminar “On the Borders of Migration and Labour Regimes” at Maynooth University (Ireland). The seminar was hosted by the School of Law and Criminology and organised by Professor Clíodhna Murphy (Maynooth University) and Catharina Lopes Scodro, who was hosted by […]
Save the date! E-BoP mid-project conference
The E-BoP team is busy organising our mid-project conference (time does fly!). This will take place on 30 June 2025 a it will be held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and will also be streamed online. French/English translation will also be provided. All the member of the E-BoP team will present the initial results […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chasing the border of the labour market
…and anyway, what is a national labour market, once you start thinking about it? — Bridget Anderson, Who is a migrant?, “Who Do We Think We Are?” Podcast Author: Marco Rocca In our recent article, Audrey Deverson and I explore the legal meaning of the concepts of “temporariness” and “labour market” in the context of […]
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 […]