E-BoP’s Catharina Lopes Scodro successfully defended her PhD thesis

One of the members of the E-BoP team, Catharina Lopes Scodro, successfully defended her PhD thesis on 29 October 2026. Her PhD thesis is titled “Ain’t I a Domestic Worker? The Role of Law and Au Pairs’ Experiences in France and Ireland” and the manuscript will be available in open access soon. The jury was […]
Recording available – E-BoP Research Seminar “Shaping the Regulation of Domestic Work”

For those who missed it, and for those who want to listen to it again, the recording of our latest E-BoP seminar “Shaping the Regulation of Domestic Work: A Conversation on Freedom of Association and Supranational Legislation” is now available. Many thanks once again to our speakers, Adelle Blackett and Vera Pavlou for their presentations, […]
E-BoP Seminar: Shaping the Regulation of Domestic Work

The E-BoP team is pleased to announce our next hybrid research seminar, “Shaping the Regulation of Domestic Work: A Conversation on Freedom of Association and Supranational Legislation”. The event will take place in Strasbourg and online (Zoom) on 30 October 2026, from 10AM to 11:30AM (CET). For this seminar, we are happy to welcome Adelle Blackett (McGill University) and Vera […]
Our PI discusses Leah Vosko’s book ‘Migrant Work by Another Name’

On 10 September, Marco, our PI, will participate in the CRIMT Webinar “Author Meets Readers” to discuss Leah Vosko’s book “Migrant Work by Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity under Canada’s International Mobility Program”. Apart from all its qualities, the book is particularly interesting from the perspective of the research carried out in our project. […]
Back from our Second Summer School (and from the holidays)

From 6 to 9 July 2026 the E-BoP team ran our second Summer School. We’re posting about it only now as Marco, our PI and the one in charge of posting these updates, went straight into his annual leave after the Summer School. For our second edition we followed the same structure as the first […]
One of our researchers at the EUI Migration Working Group

On 13 May 2026, our postdoctoral researcher Justyna Hejman-Mancewicz presented her working paper at the Migration Working Group hosted by the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). The session, dedicated to labour mobility and migrant integration in Europe, brought together researchers studying contemporary transformations in migration and labour markets across Europe. […]
Recording available – Research Seminar “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation”

For those who missed it, and for those who want to listen to it again, the recording of our latest E-BoP seminar “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation” is now available. Many thanks once again to our speakers, Judy Fudge, Mireia Llobera Vila and Catharina Lopes Scodro for their presentations, as well as […]
Research Seminar “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation” – 17 March 2026

The E-BoP team is pleased to announce our next hybrid research seminar, “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation.” The event will take place in Strasbourg and online (Zoom) on 17 March 2026, from 10AM to noon (CET). This seminar brings together leading scholars to reflect on how European legal frameworks define the line […]
(Video) The E-BoP team at the ILO: Temporary Labour Migration in Europe seminar

On 28 October 2025 the E-BoP team was at the International Labor Organization in Geneva to present our preliminary findings in a hybrid seminar entitled Temporary Labour Migration in Europe. We presented four contributions which drew on the mix of empirical legal, comparative, and economic perspectives, which characterises our project: The full recording of the […]
Upcoming E-BoP Research Seminar at ILO Geneva: Temporary Labour Migration in Europe

We are happy to announce that the European Birds of Passage team will be hosted by the International Labour Organization in Geneva on 28 October 2025 (1PM – 3PM CEST) for a hybrid seminar on the theme Temporary Labour Migration in Europe The seminar will present the preliminary findings of our project and engage with […]