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Overview of sessions plus (tab 2) index of persons
session 01, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Young Migrants in European Cities (1)
Chair: Aija Lulle (University of Susse, UK and University of Eastern Finland)
Discussant: Hania Janta (University of Surrey)
Papers:
Henrik Emilsson and Katarina Mozetic (Malmo University, Sweden), 'Dreaming of Sweden – Lifestyle
migration among young Latvians and Romanians'
Barbara Staniscia (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), 'Italian youth mobility torn between quest for
opportunities and family ties'
Hania Janta, Calvin Jephcote, Gang Li and Allan Williams (University of Surrey, UK), 'Upwards,
downwards or sideways: a comparative study of the human capital, employment and occupational
mobility of young Europeans'
Li Hanwei (University of Tampere, Finland), 'Towards a New Socio-cultural Integration Model: the
Case of Mainland Chinese Students in Germany'
session 02, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: International migration, transnational living and welfare (states) (1)
Chairs: Jørgen Carling (PRIO, Oslo, Norway) and Erik Snel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The
Netherlands)
Papers:
Dominique Jolivet (International Migration Institute - University of Oxford, UK) and Sonia Pereira
(Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), 'Examining the
role of welfare and migration: the perspective of Brazilian migrants in Barcelona and Lisbon'
Godfried Engbersen, Erik Snel en Marije Faber (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands),
'Bureaucratic encounters of transnational migrants'
Cathrine Talleraas (PRIO, Oslo, Norway), 'Heroes or villains? The discourse on transnationals in the
welfare state bureaucracy'
Petra de Jong, Christof van Mol and Helga de Valk (NIDI, The hague, The Netherlands), 'Received
Welfare and Migration: a Study on Differences between Migrant Life Stages across Europe'
session 03, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: A minority elite in the making? The second generation’s pathways to success (1)
Chair: Arnfinn H. Midtbøen (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway)
Discussant: Maurice Crul (Free University in Amsterdam/Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands)
Papers:
Robin Stünzi and Rosita Fibbi (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of
Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Mainstream in the remaking? Children of immigrants moving into
mainstream institutions in Switzerland'
Christine Lang, Jens Schneider and Andreas Pott (IMIS, University of Osnabrück), 'Overcoming the
ethnic lens: The social class component in the pathways of children of immigrants'
Jorge Ballinas (Temple University, USA), 'Educational mobility in context: Mexican college students In
the Northeast United States'
Mirjam Nadim (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway), 'Pathways to success in an egalitarian
institutional context'
session 04, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Multi-level governance session (1)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Claudia Wilopo (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Basel,
Switserland), 'Contested irregularity in the city of Zurich: Irregular migrants’ acts of citizenship'
Ilke Adam and Florian Trauner (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Institute for European Studies) Belgium,
'Outsourced sovereignty? EU cooperation and immigration policy development in Ghana'
Angelo Scotto (University of Pavia, Italy), 'Models of Pluralism and Multilevel immigration
Governance: Empirical Evidences from Italian Municipalities'
Pasi Tapani Saukkonen (City of Helsinki Urban Facts, Finland), 'Interplay and co-operation between
national and local levels in integration policy: case Helsinki, Finland'
session 05, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Refugee integration in Germany and the Netherlands: Evidence from the past and present
Chairs: Jörg Hartmann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) and Diana Schacht (DIW
Berlin, Germany)
Discussant: Jörg Hartmann
Papers:
Mieke Maliepaard and Djamila Schans (WODC -Ministry of Security and Justice, the Netherlands),
'The integration of refugees in the Netherlands: lessons from the 1990s cohort'
Antje Röder (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany), 'Studying newly arrived refugees in Germany:
challenges and first findings from a pilot study in Saxony'
Diana Schacht and Jörg Hartmann, 'The long-term consequences of refugees’ initial residential
allocation in Germany'
Arjen Leerkes (WODC -Ministry of Security and Justice, The Netherlands), ' '‘Integration’ of asylum
migrants versus migration control: a conundrum? '
session 06, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Younger and older migrants' forms of political engagement
Chair: Angeles Escrivá (University of Huelva, Spain)
Discussant: Jean-Michel Lafleur (University of Liège, Belgium)
Papers:
Angeles Escrivá, Anastasia Bermúdez (University of Seville, Spain) and Paula Andrea Salazar
(University of Liège, Belgium),'Political continuity and change among Peruvian and Colombian
migrants in Europe: a transnational and generational perspective'
Claudio Bolzman (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HES-SO, Geneva),
'Younger and older migrant´s forms of political engagement: the example of Chileans exiles in
Switzerland'
Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu (University of Geneva, Switserland) and Mihaela Nedelcu (University of
Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Between exile and mobility: contrasted logics and practices of ageing
transnationally. The case of Romanian aged migrants in Switzerland'
Rafael Durán Muñoz (University of Malaga), 'Foreign EU elderly citizens before the Polls: The 2015
local elections in Spain'
session 07, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Migration and crisis: when migrants are caught in crisis
Chair: Albert Kraler (ICMPD, Austria)
Discussants: tbd
Papers:
Maegan Hendow (ICMPD, Austria), 'Crisis as a Catalyst for Change'
Katharina Schaur and Albert Kraler (ICMPD, Austria), 'Mobility and Immobility of Migrants in Crisis
Situations'
Robtel Neajai Pailey and Oliver Bakewell (International Migration Institute, UK), 'Return and
Reintegration in ‘Post-Crisis’ Contexts'
Bernhard Perchinig and Alessandra Bravi (ICMPD, Austria), 'Policy Concepts in Disaster Management'
session 08, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Refugees and cities (1)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Sammie Ibrahim and Pablo Bose (University of Vermont, USA), 'Camps and Cities: Refugees and
Urbanization in the Contemporary Refugee Crisis'
Marloes de Hoon, Maarten Vink and Hans Schmeets (Maastricht University, The Nederlands), 'On the
Move Again? Residential trajectories of asylum migrants in the Netherlands'
Sabine Meier (University Siegen, Germany), 'New neighbours: Refugees´place attachment to small
and medium sized towns of South Westphalia, German'
Susanne Becker, Annett Fleischer and Shahd Wari (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and
Ethnic Diversity, Germany), 'Local practices of in- and exclusion in the trajectories of refugees'
session 09, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Refugee Migration and Urban Studies – Theoretical Challenges and New Approaches
Chairs: René Kreichauf (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Birgit Glorius
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany)
Discussant: Jonathan Darling (The University of Manchester, UK)
Papers:
Somayeh Chitchian (Harvard University, USA), '(Re)Spatializing Migration Analysis - Migration
Question as an Urban Question'
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA), 'From “Model Immigrants” to
“Undesireable Refugees”: Ethiopian Immigrants in Washington, D. C. and Rome'
Michela Semprebon (University of Bologna, Italy), Dispersal policy, the rescaling of welfare and the
impact on asylum seekers and refugees'
Nihad El-Kayed and Ulrike Hamann (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany), 'Rethinking Urban
Conviviality - Refugees in the middle of the rescaling process'
session 10, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Highly skilled migrants and brain waste in the labour market
Chairs: Marco Pecoraro (University of Neuchâtel, Switserland) and Didier Ruedin (University of
Neuchâtel & University of the Witwatersrand)
Discussants: Marco Pecoraro (University of Neuchâtel) and Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchâtel &
University of the Witwatersrand)
Papers:
Max Tani (UNSW Canberra & IZA, Australia), 'Top education but not-so-top jobs: an assessment of the
native-foreign wage gap among PhDs holders in Australia'
Tijan L. Bah (Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Paris School of Economics, Portugal), 'Occupation-Skill
Mismatch and Selection of Immigrants: Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market'
Emanuele Grassi (University of Salento, Italy), 'Over-education in the early careers of Ph.D. graduates:
Does migration reduce the mismatches in the labour market?'
Elise Brezis (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), 'Is Brain Drain Optimal? Brain waste and mismatch costs in a
unified model of migration'
session 11, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Gendered perspectives
Chair: tba
Papers:
Tara McGuinness (University College Dublin, Ireland), 'An examination of the gendered and racialised
hierarchies in migration to the global south- a focus on Sao Paulo, Brazil'
Almudena Cortes (Universidad Complutense de madrid, Spain) and Laura Oso (Universidade da
Coruña, Spain), 'Gendered Mobility Strategies of Transnational Families: Rethinking the 'return' of
Ecuadorian Migration'
Chiara Giordano (University of Milan (Università Statale di Milano) / University of Brussels (Université
Libre de Bruxelles), 'The impact of care, migration and gender regimes on domestic work in Europe:
the case of Italy and Belgium'
Mehmet Korkmaz and İlknur Aydın Avcı (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey), 'Change in health
perceptions during immigration process a group of Syrian refugee woman living Nothern Turkey:
analysus within the framework of transition'
session 12, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Migration policy
Chair: tba
Papers:
Ana López-Sala (Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Dirk Godenau (University of La
Laguna, Spain), 'The invisible turn. Private actors, outsourcing and the markets for irregular migration
control. Insights from Spain'
Katarina Natter (University of Amsterdam), 'Immigration policy theories: Thinking outside the
‘Western liberal-democratic’ box'
Dusan Drbohlav (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czechia) and Marta Jaroszewicz (Centre for
Eastern Studies – OSW, Warsaw, Poland), 'Ukrainian Migration in Times of Crisis: Forced and Labour
Mobility'
Fred Paxton (University of Vienna, Austria), 'The Impact of Populist Radical Right Local Governments
on Migration and Security Policies'
session 13, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Young Migrants in European Cities (2)
Chair: Aija Lulle (University of Sussex, UK and University of Eastern Finland)
Discussant: Hania Janta (University of Surrey, UK)
Papers:
Eveliina Lyytinen and Maili Malin (Migration Institute of Finland, Turku), 'The success stories of labour
market integration by youth with a refugee background in Finland – Emerging findings from the CAGE
project'
Volha Vysotskaya (University of Luxembourg), 'Is Luxembourg an attractive destination for European
young workers for boosting their careers? The activation of young workers’ skills in entering job
markets abroad'
Daria Krivonos and Lena Näre (University of Helsinki, Finland), 'Migrancy and everyday borders in the
lives of young Russians in Helsinki'
Ya-Han Chuang (Paris-IV Sorbonne University, France), 'Making Paris home: the effect of
transnational mobility and human capital in Chinese youth’s anti-discrimination actions in France
session 14, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: International migration, transnational living and welfare (states) (2)
Chairs: Jørgen Carling (PRIO, Olo, Norway) and Erik Snel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The
Netherlands)
Discussants: Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) and Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University
Rotterdam)
Papers:
Katarzyna Andrejuk ((Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland),
Marie Godin and Dominique Jolivet (IMI, University of Oxford, UK), Sonia Pereira (Universidade de
Lisboa, Portugal) and Christof Van Mol (NIDI, The Netherlands), 'Disentangling the links between
welfare perceptions, experiences and migration decisions: The case of Spanish migrants across
Europe'
Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO, Oslo, Norway), 'Unpacking rationales for transnational living: The roles of
social protection needs and wellbeing aims'
Bruno Machado, Jennifer McGarrigle, Alina Esteves and Lucinda Fonseca (IGOT, Universidade de
Lisboa, Portugal), 'Migration and welfare strategies between Portugal and the UK: Incorporating
settlement, return and non-migrant perspectives'
session 15, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: A minority elite in the making? The second generation’s pathways to success (2)
Chair: Marjan Nadim (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway)
Discussant: Elif Keskiner (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Rosa Aparicio (Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset, Spain), 'The Second
Generation in Madrid: Pathways To Success'
Robin Stünzi (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel,
Switserland), 'Navigating their way in the financial professional field: Social mobility trajectories of
children of immigrants in Swiss urban contexts'
Alireza Behtoui (Stockholm University, Sweden), ' The “stranger” among Swedish “Homo
Academicvs” '.
session 16, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Hierarchies of polity membership: The Muddled Politics of Citizenship Access and Exclusion
Chairs: Pieter Bevelander (Malmö University, Sweden) and Per Mouritsen (University of Århus,
Denmark)
Discussants: Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) and Christian Fernandez
(Malmö University, Sweden)
Papers:
Kristian Jensen and Per Mouritsen (University of Århus, Denmark), 'The Politics of Dual Citizenship:
Civic Integration or Civic Selection'
Emily Cochran Bech, Kristian Jensen, Per Mouritsen and Tore Vincents Olsen (University of Århus,
Denmark), 'Who Could become a Citizen? An Empirical Comparison and Normative Discussion of
Refugees’ and the Majority Population’s Ability to Meet Naturalisation Criteria in Denmark'
Pieter Bevelander and Jason Tucker (Malmö University, Sweden), 'On statelessness status and
economic integration in Sweden'
Maarten Vink, Hans Schmeets (Statistics Netherlands/Maastricht University, The netherlands) and
Hester Mennes (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Double standards? Electoral acceptance
of immigrant and emigrant dual citizenship in the Netherlands'
session 17, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
workshop: Open Meeting of the Standing Committee Education & Social Mobility
Organizers: Jens Schneider (IMIS Osnabrück, Germany)
Participants:
session 18, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: The politics of local asylum and migration policies: German municipalities in the so-called
“refugee crisis”.
Chair: Miriam Schader (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)
Discussant: Christian Jacobs (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity,
Germany)
Papers:
Hannes Schammann (University of Hildesheim, Germany), 'From Agents to Principals? The
Multifaceted Self-Concept of Local Administration in German Immigration Politics'
Felix Maas (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), 'The Distinctiveness of Cities and Room for
Manoeuvre in the Field of Local Refugee Policy'
Sybille Münch (Leuphana University Lueneburg), 'Deportation Federalism – City Policies and
Discourses on the Removal of Irregular Migrants in Germany and the United State'
Aladin El-Mafaalani (University of Applied Sciences Muenster, Germany), 'Educational opportunities
for refugee children in Germany'
session 19, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Refugee crisis (2)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford, Uk), 'Being in the wrong place at the wrong time: the impacts
of the forced return of international migrants caught in crisis-affected countries'
Katharine Jones (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK), 'Finding a
good smuggler: the relationships between refugees /migrants who crossed the Mediterranean and
those who facilitated their journeys'
Amanda Garrett (Georgetown University Qatar), 'Refugees, Political Opportunism, and the Evolving
Anti-Immigration Debate in Europe'
Feriha Nazda Güngördü (Çankaya University, Turkey), 'Rethinking the use and role of public spaces in
low-income neighborhoods after immigrant influx: Case of Beyoğlu, Istanbul'
session 20, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: European Cultures of Migration between Urban and Transnational Scales
Chairs: Anna Amelina (Institute for Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and
Karolina Barglowski (Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany)
Discussant: Mihaela Nedelcu -tba- (Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Switserland)
Papers:
Anna Amelina( Institute for Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)'‚Making it
Abroad‘ as a Culture of Migration: Ukrainian Care Workers’ between the Temporality of Urban
Settings and Dramatization of Transnationalized Care Commitments'
Eveline Ammann Dula (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Department for Social Work,
Switserland), 'Intergenerational Transmission of Migration Experiences in a Transnational Field and
the Importance of Urban Space– a Case Study of one Family from Former Yugoslavia'
Karolina Barglowski, 'Space, Culture and Inequalities: Migration Pressures and Opportunities in the
European Unions’ Mobility Regime'
Michał P. Garapich (Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK), 'Of Rats and Men -
Spatial and Social mobility in a Homeless Transnational Field'
session 21, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Attitudes
Chair: tba
Papers:
Aneta Piekut (Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield, UK), 'No-opinions or non-attitudes?
Exploring the lack of attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities in Europe'
Muhammad Waqas (The University of Sheffield, UK), 'The labour market and attitudes towards
immigration'
Olivia de Dreuzy (Centre for International Heritage Activities, Leiden, The Netherland), 'Cultural
Heritage as a Human Right: Cultural Production in Greece’s Solidarity Refugee Squats'
Michaela Sedovicova (European Doctoral School of Demography, Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research), 'Change in Time and Space: Intergroup contact and Attitudes towards
immigrants in European countries'
session 22, Thursday June 29 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Migration and the City: Internal and International Dynamics in China
Chair: Yang Hu (Lancaster University, UK)
Discussant: Jieyu Liu (University of London, UK)
Papers:
Mengyao Zhao (Bielefeld University, Germany) and Yang Hu, 'Mobility Premium? Student Mobility
and its Impact on Starting Salary in China'
Shen Yang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), 'Refuse to Smile: A Study of Interactions between
Restaurant Management and Migrant Employees'
Zhitian Guo (Central China Normal University, China), 'Tales of the City: A Case Study of Ethnic
Migrants in a Chinese City'
Daniel Nehring (University of Worcester, Uk) and Xiying Wang (Beijing Normal University, China), 'A
Home Away from Home? Experiences of Belonging and Displacement among Chinese-Western
Transnational Couples'
session 23, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Methodological considerations in digital migration studies (1)
Chair: Maren Borkert (Technical University Berlin, Germany) and Koen Leurs (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands)
Discussant: Koen Leurs (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Maren Borkert,' Digital Migration Studies: Towards a Fourth Research Paradigm?'
Sandra Ponzanesi, Donya Alinejad, Laura Candidatu and Melis Mevsimler (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands), 'Mapping Digital Diaspora: Legacies and Challenges'
Madhuri Prabhakar (Utrecht University, The netherlands), 'Segregation in assimilation: assessing the
social impacts of big data classification in the dutch urban context'
session 24, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Migration diversity and space
Chair: tba
Papers:
Zana Vathi (Edge Hill University, UK), 'Aesthetics of the physical environment: locals’ and migrants’
experience with urban space in Toxteth, Liverpool'
Byeongsun Ahn (Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria), 'From Strangers to
Strangers: (Non)Migrant Encounters with Difference in Micro-Public Spaces'
Charles Dube (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), 'Migration and the ambivalence of belonging
in urban spaces: The everyday life of Zimbabweans in Cape Town'
Shannon Damery (Université de Liège, Belgium), 'Personal places in public spaces: Migrant
experiences of home at the street level'
session 25, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: EU Youth Mobility in a Time of Crisis: Causes, Contexts and Consequences
Chairs: Sandra Silva and João Sardinha (IGOT-Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Discussant: Panos Hatziprokopiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Papers:
Pablo Pumares and Beatriz González-Martín (University of Almería, Spain), 'Returning home: decision
making and labour insertion back home of young Spaniards'
Agnieszka Weinar (European University Institute/Carleton University, Canada), 'How much Europe
outside Europe? EU citizenship and identification among EU emigrants'
Russell King (University of Sussex, UK), Manolis Pratsinakis (University of Macedonia, Greece and
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Carmen Leon Himmelstine and Caterina Mazzilli
(University of Sussex, UK), 'A Crisis-driven migration? Aspirations and experiences of the post-2008
South-European migrants in London'
Joana Sousa Ribeiro (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal), 'The exit of the
Portuguese `most qualified generation`: blurring voluntary migration versus forced migration
dichotomy'
session 26, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Education and Social Mobility 2
Chair: tba
Papers:
Carmen Draghici (University Paris 13, France) and Brecht Peleman (Ghent University, Belgium), 'Visual
methods and everyday experiences in preschool. Giving voice to children from migrant and low socio-
economic backgrounds in Flanders and France'
Rut Van Caudenberg, Lore Van Praag, Noel Clycq and Christiane Timmerman (Centre for Migration
and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), University of Antwerp, Belgium), 'Exploring the complexity and
heterogeneity of the narratives of young people who left school early in Antwerp, Flanders'
Zeynep Kaşlı (University of Washington, Seattle), 'Social and spatial mobility of students along the
Greek-Turkish borderland'
Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento, Italy), '(Re)Placing home among international students: views,
feelings and practices in everyday life “away” and “from within”
session 27, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Visualizing immigration in the city: production, reproduction and contestation of the urban
space
Chair: Lucinda Fonseca (IGOT, University of Lisboa, Portugal)
Discussants: Marco Martiniello (CEDEM, University of Liège, Belgium) and Lars Frers (University
College of Southeast Norway)
Papers:
Karolina Nikielska-Sekula (University College of Southeast Norway), 'Visualizing heterotopias. A case
of Norwegian-Turkish clubs in Drammen'
Franz Buhr (University of Lisbon, Portugal), 'A city (is) to be used: practical knowledges and migrant
urbanisms in Lisbon, Portugal'
Davide Gnes (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), ' ’Nothing about us without us’. How
immigrant rights organizations build moral power in Los Angeles through audio-visual strategies'
Amandine Desille (University of Poitiers and Tel Aviv University, Israel), 'Immigration and the city:
between state planning and residents’ practices and representations. The case of Kiryat Shmona in
Israel'
session 28, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
workshop: Beyond compatibility: Interactions of migrant transnationalism and integration
Organizers: Özge Bilgili (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) and Marta Bivand Erdal (Peace
Research Institute Oslo, Norway)
Participants:
Erik Snel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Valentina Mazzucato (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Peter Kivisto (Augustana University, South Dakota, USA)
Liza Mügge (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Ali Chaudhary (Rutgers University, USA)
Ceri Oeppen (Sussex University, UK)
Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway)
Janine Dahinden (Neuchâtel University, Switserland)
session 29, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Hear me out! Political Participation of Diasporas beyond the Vote
Chair: Pau Palop (German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany) and Rilke Mahieu
(University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Discussants: Luicy Pedroza (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) and Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Papers:
Rilke Mahieu, 'How to build and maintain a diaspora? The Moroccan State’s identity politics for the
diaspora and critical agency of expatriate citizens in the Moroccan Summer Universities'
Pau Palop and Luicy Pedroza (German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany),
'Beyond voting: The consultation of emigrants as a mechanism of political incorporation from abroad
Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Evren Yalaz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Seda Aydinand and Joan
Coma i Roura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), 'Political mobilization towards home: A
cross-movement and cross-context comparison of Catalan and Spanish emigrants'
Uwe Hunger (Muenster University, Germany), 'Political Participation of Diasporas Online. From
Community Building to Transnational Public Spaces'
session 30, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
workshop: Participation and Participatory methods in Migration Research
Organizers: Diana Mata-Codesal (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) and Concha Maiztegui-Oñate
(University of Deusto, Spain)
Participants:
Yvone Riaño (University of Neuchatel)
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak (Central European University & Georgetown University)
Erica Righard (Malmö University, Sweden)
Sónia Pereira (University of Lisbon)
Sheena Keller (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)
session 31, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
workshop: Policy workshop: Mainstreaming and the refugee crisis
Organizers: Ilona van Breugel and Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Participants:
Liz Collett (Migration Policy Institute, Brusseles)
Ronald Derks (Municipality of Rotterdam)
Arjen Verweij (Ministery of Social Affairs, The Netherlands)
Ilke Adam (Institute For European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Dvora Yanow (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)tbc: European Comission
tbc: Task Force of the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration
tbc: Eurocities
session 32, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Pathways of civic, political and social integration of minority youth in the UK: what helps (or
not)?
Chair: Aneta Piekut (University of Sheffield, UK)
Discussant: Ben Gidley (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Papers:
Matthew Bennett (University of Birmingham, UK), 'Civic Engagement Among Youths in the UK:
Individual, Household and Community-level Differences in Immigrant Minority and Non-Immigrant
Majority Participation'
Daniel Nilsson DeHanas (King’s College London, UK), 'Losing Faith in the State?: Religion and the
Political Integration of London’s Second-Generation Youth'
James Laurence (University of Manchester, UK), 'Sites of (Dis)Integration: A Quasi-Experimental Test
of Youth Social Mixing Programs for Integration and Social Cohesion amongst Majority and Minority
Youth in the UK'
Silvia Galandini (University of Manchester, UK) and Laurence Lessard-Phillips (University of
Birmingham, UK), 'Family Capital and Civic-Political Inclusion: A Longitudinal Study of Ethnic
Minorities in Britain'
session 33, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Inside the Deportation Gap: Social Membership for Non-Removed Migrants
Chairs: Sieglinde Rosenberger and Ilker Ataç (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna,
Austria)
Discussant: Jeroen Doomernik (University of Amsterdam. IMES, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Anda Barak-Bianco and Rebeca Raijman (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Haifa, Israel), 'Daily lives of Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel in shade of 'liminal-legality'
Tobias Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli and Annika Lindberg (University of Bern, Switserland), 'The Rejected
and the Time Thieves: Irregularised Migrants in Permanent Temporariness'
Reinhard Schweitzer (University of Sussex, UK), 'Public service providers and immigration
enforcement in London and Barcelona: Negotiating the effective limits of entitlement, access,
necessity and internalised control'
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg (Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Canada), 'Claiming The Right to be
Present: Serving Migrants with Precarious Legal Status in the Sanctuary City of Hamilton, Ontario
Canada'
Ilker Ataç and Sieglinde Rosenberger, Varieties of decision making process: access to social services
for persons waiting return'
session 34, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: The production and negotiation of religion in post-migrant cities
Chair: Ali Konyali (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück, Germany)
Discussants: Andreas Pott (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück,
Germany) and Georg Glasze (Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Papers:
Claire Dwyer (University College London, UK), 'Constructing religious spaces in the suburbs: Urban
planning and post-multicultural governmentality in West London'
Claire Hancock and Muriel Froment-Meurice (Université Paris-Est-Créteil, France), 'Place-making for
post-migrant Muslim communities in Paris'
Patricia Ehrkamp (University of Kentucky, USA), 'The cosmopolitics of proximity: Islamophobia,
mosques, and neighbourliness'
Julia Martínez-Ariño (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen,
Germany), Cities and the regulation of religious diversity in Europe'
session 35, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Popular Art, Diversity and Cultural Policies in Post-Migration Urban Settings
Chair: tba
Papers:
Melissa Chaplin (Durham University, UK), 'Performance and refugee poetry'
Amanda Carolina Silva CEDEM, (Liège University, Belgium) , 'The art to talk on immigration: a state of
emergency'
Martijn Brünger ( University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Effects of cultural diversity policy on
immigrant theater organizations in Amsterdam: a case study of De Nieuw Amsterdam and Cosmic
Illusion'
session 36, Thursday 29 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Local integration policies
Chair: tba
Papers:
Patrick R. Ireland (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), 'Integrating Migrants in Times of Economic
Change'
Romana Careja (Southern Denmark University), 'Making the Good Citizens: Local Authorities‘
Integration Measures Between National Policies and Local Realities'
Stiene Ravn and Rilke Mahieu (CeMIS (University of Antwerp, Belgium), 'Innovative urban policies for
young unaccompanied refugees: the potentials of “buddy” systems and co-housing as leverage for
social integration'
Jessica Tollette (Harvard University, USA), 'Integration (Policies) in Crisis: A Case Study from Madrid'
Marieke van Houte (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK), 'Contained: exploring
out-of-the box tools to build resilience in refugee-receiving communities'
session 37, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: Love, Sexuality and Partnership – A different perspective on old age mobilities
Chair: Cornelia Schweppe (University of Mainz, Germany)
Discussant: Aija Lulle (University of Sussex, UK and University of Eastern Finland)
Papers:
Désirée Bender and Sonja Großmann (University of Mainz, Germany), 'More sex, more love, more
women – Old age migration of elderly men to Thailand'
Njeri Chege (University of Lausanne, Switserland), 'Elderly European women and the search for sex –
Tourism in Kenia'
Aija Lulle (University of Eastern Finland and University of Sussex, UK), ‘Am I worth of love here?’
Intimate relationships and self-worth of ageing Latvian women in Europe'
session 38, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
workshop: Migration and the Search for Home: a Symposium
Organizers: Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento, Italy)
Participants:
Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Marco Martiniello (FNRS - CEDEM - Université de Liège, Belgium)
Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO, Oslo, Norway)
Maja Frykman (MIM, Malmö University, Sweden)
Alistair Hunter (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Yvonne Riaño (Université de Neuchatel, Switserland)
Dirk Geldof (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
session 39, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
workshop: Ethno-specific, Diversity-sensitive or Equitable: Researching Care Services for Migrant
Elders in North-Western European Cities
Organizers: Eva Soom Ammann (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Health Division, Switserland)
and Roos Pijpers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen School of Management, The Netherlands)
Participants:
Katharina Schaur (International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Austria
Bernhard Perchinig (International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Austria
Elisabeth Strasser (International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD, Austria
Monique Kremer (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Karin van Holten (Careum Research, Research Institute of the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences
in Health)
session 40, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: Education and Social Mobility 1
Chair: tba
Papers:
Òscar Prieto-Flores and Xavier Casademont (University of Girona, Spain), “I had him in my head
reminding me to persist”: The role of youth mentoring in shaping immigrant educational and
occupational expectations in the transition to adulthood'
Eleonora Vlach (University of Trento, Italy), 'How the features of the Educational System shape Ethnic
Minority’s claims of Empowerment? Educational Aspiration and Intentions in four western European
Countries'
Albert F. Arcarons (European University Institute (EUI), Italy), and Jacobo Muñoz-Comet (Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain), 'The occupational attainment and mobility of 1.5-
generation immigrants in Spain'
Flavio Antonio Ceravolo (University of Pavia, Italy) and Michael Eve (University of Eastern Piedmont,
Italy), 'Neighbourhood effects on the educational achievement: an empirical study'
session 41, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
workshop: Enacting Europe: EU Migration and Its Consequences
Organizers: Nevena Nancheva and Ronald Ranta (both Kingston University London, UK)
Participants:
Agnieszka Rydzik (University of Lincoln, UK)
Roxana Barbulescu (University of Leeds, UK)
Emilia Piętka-Nykaza (University of West Scotland, UK)
Elleanor Knott (London School of Economics, UK)
Chris Moreh (University of Southampton, UK)
Laura Moroşanu (University of Sussex, UK)
Paulina Trevena (University of Glasgow, UK)
Taulant Guma (Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK)
Giuseppe Scotto (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Aleksandra Galasinska (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
session 42, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: The view from outside: third country perspectives on EU actorness and influence
Chair: Maarten Vink (Maastricht University, The Netherland)
Discussant: Natasja Reslow (Law faculty, Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Leonhard den Hertog (Justice and Home Affairs Section, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS),
Brussels, Belgium), 'Policy incoherence: the case of EU external migration policy'
Fanny Tittel-Mosser (Law School, University of Minho (Portugal), 'The Legal and Practical Relevance
of EU Mobility Partnerships: A comparative study of Morocco and Cape Verde'
Zvezda Vankova (Law faculty, Maastricht University, The Netherlands), 'EU's circular migration
approach: the Eastern partnership perspective'
Pauline Melin (Law faculty, Maastricht University, The Netherlands), 'Social security coordination
between the EU and third countries: the case of India, USA and Turkey'
session 43, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
workshop: Farsi-speaking refugees in Berlin: construals and constructs
Organizers: Firoozeh Farvardin and Hoda Aminian (Berlin Institute for Migration and Integration
Research (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Participants:
Nader Talebi (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin,Germany)
Raana Ghazanfarpour ( (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin) and social worker for refugees in Berlin,
Germany
Saeed Habibi (Programmer and refugee activist)
Ali Kalanaki (Social worker and refugee activist
Nima Zakerameli (Social worker for refugees)
room
session 44, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: Transforming childhood and youth: increasing diversity in European cities (1)
Chair: Rashmi Singla (Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark)
Discussant: Marie Louise Seeberg (NOVA, Oslo, Norway)
Papers:
Izabella Main (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), 'Contested understanding of childhood
among Polish migrants in Norway'
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak (Georgetown University, USA), 'Keleti Pályaudvar: Past and Present Child
Refugee Crises in Hungary'
Carmen Draghici University Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cite, France), 'Transforming childhood and
youth: increasing diversity in European cities'
Tracey Reynolds (University of Greenwich , UK) and Elisabetta Zontini (University of Nottingham, UK),
'Increasing diversity in European cities: mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives
of young people and children'
session 45, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: What does access do to knowledge? Challenges, consequences, and opportunities of
entering the migration apparatus (1)
Chair: Christin Achermann and Damian Rosset (University of Neuchatel, Switserland)
Discussant: Barak Kalir (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Julia Dahlvik (Vienna
University of Applied Sciences, Austria)
Papers:
Ilan Amit (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), ''For the Europeans, this is a prison’’ –
accessing Israel’s asylum seekers detention centre and refugee status determination unit'
Livia Johannesson (University of Stockholm, Sweden), 'The Symbolic Meaning of Inaccessible Judicial
Talk at the Swedish Migration Courts'
Damian Rosset and Christin Achermann, 'Negotiating research at the margins of the migration
apparatus'
Ioana Vrabiescu (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Perspective taking: Positionality
challenge of ethnographic research within the French deportation apparatus'
session 46, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: Exploring experiences of inequality in European Urban Centers: Towards An Intersectional
and Transnational Approach
Chairs: Maria Vivas-Romero (Université de Liège, CEDEM, Belgium) and Cristina Ramos (University of
Florida, Department of Sociology, USA)
Discussant: Laura Oso (Facultade de Socioloxía, Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
Papers:
Cristina Ramos, 'Dual Citizenship as a Strategy against inequalities: Colombians and Ecuadorians
Migrating Onward from Spain to London'
Cecilia Nessi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Urbeur / Université de Liège, CEDEM, Belgium), 'Creating
Space for Queer Migrant Women: Intersectional and Diverse Places in the European City'
Jean-Michel Lafleur and Maria Vivas-Romero (Université de Liège, CEDEM, Belgium), 'Tracing
Transnational and intersectional inequalities in immigrants families’ access to social protection: The
case of Andean families’ in Brussels'
Anna Amelina (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 'Disclosing Frankfurt’s Policies of
‘Superdiversity’: Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Urban Inequalities'
session 47, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: Migration & the city
Chair: tba
Papers:
Dita Čermáková and Přemysl Štych (GEOMIGRACE, Prague, Czechia), 'Everyday spatial mobility and
life of Ukrainian immigrants in Prague'
Diana D Schacht (German Institute for Economic Research Berlin, Germany), 'Does urban place of
residence affect refugees’ integration process? A study of recently arrived refugees in Germany'
Paula Pustulka, Marta Buler, Justyna Sarnowska and Natalia Juchniewicz (SWPS University of Social
Sciences and Humanities, Poland), 'Young people leaving Polish middle-towns: A multi-sited urban
ethnography of migration causes'
Nilgün Daglar-Sezer (Dortmund University, Germany), 'Benefits of Research on Nonprofit
Organizations (NPO) concerning intersectional theories of social differences'
session 48, Thursday 29 June 10.50 - 12.20 room
Panel: Migrants´ access to local housing markets: Past experiences, new challenges (1)
Chairs: Christine Barwick (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin / Sciences Po Paris) and Heike Hanhörster (Institut
für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung Dortmund, Germany)
Discussant: Gideon Bolt (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Francois Bonnet (CNRS, Pacte, France) and Julie Pollard (Universite de Lausanne, IPHIS, switserland),
'What is a good tenant? Comparing discourses of real-estate agents about private rental market
discrimination in France and Switzerland'
Luciana Lang (Manchester University, UK) and Melanie Lombard (Sheffield University, UK), 'The
experience of precarity: Housing needs and aspirations among low-paid migrant workers in
Manchester'
Dimitris Balampanidis (National Center for Social Research Athens, Greece), 'Access of immigrants to
the housing market of Athens before and after the crisis: local context and human strategies'
Heike Hanhörster and Christine Barwick, 'Access of ethnic minorities to the housing market: Housing
allocation systems and the role of gatekeepers in Germany and France'
session 49, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Youth mobility in the EU: Factors involved in migration intentions and migration decision
making in a changing economic and political context (1)
Chairs: Pablo Pumares and Beatriz González-Martín (CEMyRI, University of Almeria, Spain)
Discussants: Mustafa Aksakal (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Papers:
Aija Lulle, Laura Moroşanu and Russell King (University of Sussex, UK), 'And Then Came Brexit:
Experiences and Future Plans of Young EU Migrants in the London Region'
Dumitru Sandu (University of Bucharest (Roemania), 'The nexus of migration-culture for the European
youth'
Marta Buler, Natalia Juchniewicz, Paula Pustułka and Justyna Sarnowska (SWPS University of Social
Sciences and Humanities, Poland), 'Young people leaving Polish middle-towns: A multi-sited urban
ethnography of migration causes'
Liam Coakley and Piaras Mac Éinrí (University College Cork,UK), 'Youth mobilities and migration:
case studies from Ireland'
Armando Montanari, Luca Deravignone, Alessandro Londei and Barbara Staniscia (Sapienza University
of Rome, Italy), 'Young Italians on the move: intentions and decision-making'
session 50, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Discrimination in Labour Markets (1)
Chair: Arnfinn H. Midtbøen (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway)
Discussant: Didier Ruedin (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel)
Papers:
Lincoln Quillian and Ole Hexel (Northwestern University, Illinois, USA), Devah Pager (Harvard
University, USA) and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, 'Discrimination in American and European Labor Markets:
An International Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments'
Lex Thijssen and Marcel Coenders (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Bram Lancee (University
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Labour market discrimination of immigrants in the Netherlands:
group differences and the role of the economic and cultural context'
Edvard Nergård Larsen (University of Oslo, Norway) and Valentina Di Stasio (Nuffield College,
University of Oxford, UK), 'Same ethnic group, different penalties? Discrimination towards Pakistani
in Norway and the UK'
David Neumark (UCI, NBER, and IZA) and Judith Rich (University of Portsmouth and IZA), 'Do Field
Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the
Evidence'
session 51, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: The gender gap in international student mobility (1)
Chairs: Christof Van Mol (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) The Hague, The
Netherlands) and Yvonne Riaño (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM), Université
de Neuchâtel, Switserland)
Discussant: Parvati Raghuram (Open University London, UK)
Papers:
Annique Lombard and Yvonne Riaño (University of Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Gendered Mobilities:
Apprehending Differences in the Trajectories of Female and Male International Students in
Switzerland'
Jasmine Trang Ha (University of Minnesota, USA), 'More of the Same? Gender and Race Differences in
International Students' Choice of U.S. Enrollment Location'
Christof Van Mol and Kim Caarls (NIDI, The Hague, The Netherlands), 'Gendered labour market
outcomes of study and internships abroad. A case-study of the Netherlands'
Paula Mählck (Stockholm University, Sweden), 'Academics on the move? Gender, race and place in
transnational academic mobility'
session 52, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Grandparents to the test of migration: patterns, routes and constraints of transnational
grandparenting
Chair: Mihaela Nedelcu (University of Neuchâtel, Switserland)
Discussant: Ruxandra-Oana Ciobanu (University of Geneva, Switserland)
Papers:
Ute Karl, Heidi Rodrigues Martins and Anne Carolina Ramos (University of Luxembourg),
'Grandparents on the move: Transnational grandparenting practices of first generation migrant's'
Eralba Cela (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy),Tineke Fokkema (NIDI-KNAW, University of
Groningen; Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Giovanni Lamura (I.N.R.C.A. – Italian National
Institute of Health and Science on Ageing), 'Intergenerational solidarity in migrant families in Italy'
Viorela Ducu and Áron Telegdi-Csetri (Centre for Population Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-
Napoca (Romania), 'Transnational relationships between grandparents and grandchildren within
Romanian families'
Malika Wyss and Mihaela Nedelcu (Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Switserland),
'Childcare arrangements and the role of Zero Generation grandparents as care givers within
transnational family configurations'
session 53, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Immigrant legal status, political participation and socio-econonomic integration
Chair: tba
Papers:
Leah Bassel (University of Leicester, UK), 'Gender and the Politics of Naturalisation: Women’s
Experiences of the UK Citizenship Test Process'
David Bartram (University of Leicester, UK), 'Citizenship tests and political participation in the UK:
integration or marginalization?'
Floris Peters and Hans Schmeets (Statistics Netherlands / Maastricht University, The netherlands) and
Maarten Vink (Maastricht University / European University Institute, The Netherlands),
'Naturalization and immigrant earnings: why, how and for whom does citizenship matter?'
Sarah Linn (University of Sheffield, UK), 'Public space, politics and police: Syrian refugee women's
experiences and strategies in the cities of Beirut & Amman'
session 54, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: The Refugees’ Right to Housing: Refugee Housing Commons vs. State-run Camps
Chair: Charalampos Tsavdaroglou and Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou (School of Spatial Planning &
Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Discussant: Vasiliki Makrygianni (School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Papers:
Nicola Montagna (School of Law, Middlesex University, London, UK), 'Urban commons and freedom
of movement: The housing struggles of recently arrived migrants and refugees in Rome'
Hala El Moussawi (Department of Geography,Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium), 'Refugees’
housing trajectories: Mapping the mobility patterns of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Belgium'
Deanna Dadusc (School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton), 'Refugees Social
Movements and Solidarity Networks across Europe'
Maja Momic (Department of Urban Design, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany), '(Im)mobilities
in Everyday Life: Different Patterns of Refugees’ Dwelling Practices in Hamburg'
session 55, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Settling Into Motion in Localities: Urban Space, Incorporation, Identity
Chairs: Anna Hofmann (Zeit Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Germany) and Jens Schneider
(Osnabrück University, Germany)
Discussants: Başak Bilecen (Bielefeld University, Germany) and Joaquín Arango (Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain)
Papers:
Aysen Ustubici (Koc University), 'Incorporation at District Level and the Role of Municipalities:
Preliminary findings from two districts in Istanbul'
Marianne van Bochove (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), 'Managing Precariousness:
Local Incorporation of Live-In Migrant Care Workers in the Netherland'
Stephen Ruszczyk (Montclair State University, USA), 'City-based Organizational Fields and Immigrant
Incorporation: the Cases of Undocumented Youth in New York City and Paris'
Neepa Acharya (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), 'Relational Infrastructures of Circulating
Entrepreneurs: Interfacing Networks, Trade Agencies, and Ecosystems in the City'
Christina Dragomir (State University of New York, USA), 'At the Margins of the Cities: settlements of
the unsettled'
session 56, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Transforming childhood and youth: increasing diversity in European cities (2)
Chair: Rashmi Singla (Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark)
Discussant: Marie Louise Seeberg (NOVA)
Papers:
Vera Peshkova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), 'Transnational Migration and Childhood: On
children of migrants from the Central Asia in Russia'
Eva Janska, Zdeněk Čermák and Andrea Svobodova (Charles University, Prague, Czechia), 'Migration
to Cities: decision making process and identity changes of young Vietnamese in Czechia'
Mari Rysst (Inland University College/SIFO, Norway), 'Minority boys in Lillehammer: the importance
of participation in football'
Emma Stinne Engstrøm and Weibke Sandermann (Roskilde University, Denmark), 'International
students’ experiences and challenges in Denmark'
session 57, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Transnationality as a resource for local social inclusions
Chair: Maja Povrzanovic Frykman (MIM/GPS, Malmö University, Sweden)
Discussant: Maja Povrzanovic Frykman
Papers:
Carolin Fischer and Joëlle Moret (Laboratory for the study of transnational and social processes,
University of Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Transnationality as reactive social positioning? Examining
response strategies of second-generation adults to stigmatizing discourses in Switzerland'
Östen Wahlbeck, Peter Holley and Sanna Saksela-Bergholm (SSKH, University of Helsinki, Finland) and
Mari Toivanen (Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku, Finland),
'Transnationalism as a social resource among diaspora communities'
Snježana Gregurović (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb (Croatia), 'Does the EU
membership matter? The challenges of integration of South-East European professionals in Brussels'
Kristýna Janurová (GEOMIGRACE, Charles University, Prague, Czechia), 'The unbearable lightness of
moving: Czech migrants making a home in the UK'
session 58, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Approaches to the City of God: Migration, Diversity and religion
Chair: René Dausner (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Discussant:
Papers:
René Dausner (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany), 'The Cities of Refuge and the
City of God. Theology in the urban era'
Isabella Guanzini (University of Graz, Austria), 'The Ethics of Translation and the Spirit of Metropolis'
Regina Polak (University of Vienna, Austria), 'Diversity and Conviviality: Learning to live together in
diversity, justice and peace'
Hans Joachim Sander (University of Salzburg, Austria), 'God’s heterotopic nature in arrival cities. A
case of pastoral power'
session 59, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Methodological considerations in digital migration studies (2)
Chair: Koen Leurs (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Maren Borkert (Technical University
Berlin, Germany)
Discussant: Maren Borkert
Papers:
Koen Leurs (Utrecht Unuversity, The netherlands), 'Connected migrants questioning Europe in 4D:
Digitization, Data, Discrimination & Diversity'
Judith Zijlstra (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht Universit, The
netherlandsy), 'Smart(phone) travelling: understanding the use and impact of mobile technology on
irregular migration journeys'
Sara Miellet (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), 'From Refugee to Resident: studying ‘place-
making’ by exploring digital practices and digital traces of settled refugees in Utrecht'
session 60, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Migrants´ access to local housing markets: Past experiences, new challenges (2)
Chairs: Christine Barwick (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin / Sciences Po Paris) and Heike Hanhörster (Institut
für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung Dortmund, Germany)
Discussant: Virginie Guiraudon (Sciences Po Paris, France)
Papers:
Magda Bolzoni (University of Turin, Italy) and Enrico Gargiulo (Eastern Piedmont University, Italy),
'Access to housing, civic stratification and socio-spatial exclusion. The case of refugees in Turin, Italy'
Nihad El-Kayed and Ulrike Hamann (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany), '„Oh, if I could find a flat
here!“ – Legal, administrative, discriminatory and market barriers to entering the housing market for
refugees in Berlin and Dresden'
Nicolas Van Puymbroeck (University of Antwerp, Belgium), 'Title of Paper:
In Between National Desires and Local Realities: Delays in the Housing Career of Refugees in Belgium'
Mikaela Herbert (Malmö University, Sweden), 'Still on the Move : Reconstructing Refugees’ Housing
Trajectories in Sweden'
session 61, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Youth mobility in the EU: Factors involved in migration intentions and migration decision
making in a changing economic and political context (2)
Chair: Pablo Pumares and Beatriz González-Martín (CEMyRI, University of Almeria, Spain)
Discussants: Mustafa Aksakal (University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Papers:
Mustafa Aksakal, 'Failure in labour market integration and migration decision processes among young
migrants from Romania and Spain in Germany'
Manolis Pratsinakis (University of Macedonia and University of Amsterdam), 'Social and discursive
constraints and the decision to leave: emigration from Greece at times of crisis'
Isabel Cuadrado, Andreea Constantin, Marisol Navas and Jorge L. Ordóñez Carrasco
(CEMyRI, University of Almería, Spain), 'Gender differences in the reasons to migrate and to return
between young Spanish returnees'
Zaiga Krisjane. Guido Sechi, Elina Apsite-Berina and Maris Berzins (Latvia University), 'Settling back or
circulate: migration strategies of Latvian youth'
Nilay Kilinc (University of Surrey, UK), ' (Re-)inventing ‘home’ under the Sun?: Euro-Turks’ Translocal
Space in the Mediterranean Tourism Hub of Turkey'
session 62, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Singing diversity: on how minority musical expressions affect identity and politics in the city.
Chair: Wiebke Sievers (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Jean-Michel Lafleur (CEDEM-Ulg, Belgium)
Papers:
Monika Salzbrunn (Université de Lausanne, Switserland), 'An ode to difference: How Sufis negotiate
their place in metropolitan Geneva through singing'
Alessaandro Mazzola (CEDEM-Ulg, Belgium), 'Welcome Refugees Napoli is Your Home On how
cultural experiences can structure collective solidarity and inclusion'
Jo Haynes (University of Bristol, UK) and Pauwker Berkers (Erasmus University, The Netherlands),
'Bristol and Rotterdam: the cultural politics of port cities Rotterdam'
Marco Martiniello (CEDEM-Ulg, Belgium), 'Music and the Political Expression and Mobilization of
Second-Generation Immigrants in Urban Europe: insights from Brussels and Liège'
session 63, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Discrimination in Labour Markets (2)
Chair: Rosita Fibbi (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel,
Switserland)
Discussant: Arnfinn H. Midtbøen (ISF, Oslo, Norway)
Papers:
Rosita Fibbi and Didier Ruedin (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of
Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Sticky floors in Swiss social institutions?'
Stijn Baert (Ghent University, Belgium), Ann-Sophie De Pauw (IÉSEG School of Management, France)
and Nick Deschacht (KU Leuven, Campus Brussels, Belgium), 'Do Employer Preferences Contribute to
Sticky Floors?'
Valentina Di Stasio and Anthony Heath (Nuffield College and Centre for Social Investigation,
University of Oxford, UK), 'How organizations can mitigate biases during the hiring process: Evidence
from a field experiment and in-depth interviews with employers in the UK'
Stijn Baert (Ghent University, Belgium), Andrea Albanese (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic
Research (LISER), Ghent University Belgium), Sofie du Gardein and Jolien Ovaere (Ghent University,
Belgium), 'Does Work Experience Mitigate Discrimination?'
session 64, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: The gender gap in international student mobility (2)
Chairs: Christof Van Mol (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Parvati
Raghuram (Open University London, UK)
Discussants: Yvonne Riaño (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM), Université de
Neuchâtel, Switserland)
Papers:
Maggi Leung (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), 'Social mobility via academic mobility:
Reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the Global North'
Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences) and Elisabeth
Hovdhaugen (Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), 'Motivation
for international student mobility, variations by gender and social origin'
Mariam Al Hasbani (Lebanese University, Institute of Social Sciences, Libanon) and Lama Kabbanji
(Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) France), 'Exploring the gendered dynamics of
Lebanese academics educational mobility'
Gunjan Sondhi (Open University London, UK), 'International Student Mobility: reproducing gender
and class (dis)advantages'
session 65, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Social networks in the study of mobility and urban diversity
Chairs: Andreas Herz (University of Marburg & University of Hildesheim, Germany) and Maria Schiller
(Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)
Discussant: Floris Vermeulen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Janine Dahinden (University of Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Social network analysis as a way to ‘de-
naturalise’ research on migration'
Fran Meissner (University of Kassel, Germany), 'Why we always ask migrants whether they know
other migrants? Moving towards relational diversity'
Mireia Bolibar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Julia Martinez-Ariño and Maria Schiller (Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany), 'Included or excluded? Immigrant
actors in the local governance networks of European cities'
Alice Altissimo (University of Hildeseim, Germany) and Andreas Herz (University of Marburg &
University of Hildesheim, Germany), 'Studying diverse structures of mobility using qualitative network
analysis'
session 66, Thursday 29 June 16.40 -18.10 room
workshop: Future Migration Scenarios: Supporting forward-looking policy-making on migration and
integration in Europe
Organizers : Alice Szczepanikova and Tine Van Criekinge (both European Commission, DG Joint
Research Centre)
Discussant: Simona Vezzoli (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam)
session 67, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Media Representations at the Intersection of International Migration and Population Aging
Chair: Sandra Torres (Uppsala University,Sweden) and Karin von Holten (Kalaidos University of
Applied Science. Switserland)
Discussant: Eva Soom Ammann (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Papers:
Anne Leonora Blaakilde (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), 'Ethnicity challenged in media and
policy papers concerning a Danish multicultural nursing home'
Katharina Pelzelmayer, Karin Schwiter and Isabelle Thurnherr (University of Zurich, Switerland), '‘Care-
Migration’: Discussions of circular migration and 24-hour elder care in the Swiss media'
Karin van Holten (Kalaidos University of Applied Science. Switserland), “Gerontological colonialism”
or “Affordable quality care in paradise”? – A media analysis
Sandra Torres and Jonas Lindblom (Malardalen University), 'Migrants care workers in Swedish elderly
care: an ethics of care-informed study of media representations'
session 68, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: The politics of migration, citizenship and civic integration
Chair: Per Mouritsen (tbc)
Papers:
Noor Jdid (PRIO, Oslo, Norway), 'A value- and motivation driven approach to civic participation:
questioning dominant perceptions of immigrants as ‘passive citizens’
Peter Doerschler (Bloomsburg University, USA), 'The Political Integration of Immigrants Across the
German Länder: The Curious Case of Lower Saxony'
Samuel David Schmid (European University Institute, Italy), 'Territorial Admission, Immigrant Rights,
and Access to Citizenship across Socio-Economic Institutions in Democracies'
Michael David Nicholson (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Karl-Oskar Lindgren (Uppsala
University, Sweden) and Sven Oskarsson (University of Uppsala, Sweden), 'The Effect of Ethnic
Enclaves on Immigrants' Elite Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden
session 69, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: What does access do to knowledge? Challenges, consequences, and opportunities of
entering the migration apparatus (2)
Chair: Christin Achermann and Damian Rosset (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Discussant: Christin Achermann and Julia Dahlvik (Vienna University of Applied Sciences)
Papers:
Barak Kalir (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'The State of Fear: reflections on
ethnographically studying deportation practices in Spain'
Annika Lindberg and Lisa Marie Borrelli (University of Bern, Switserland), 'Let the Right One In – On
Government Authorities’ Resistance to Research'
Laura Rezzonico (University of Neuchatel, Switserland), 'Entering immigration detention centres:
reflections on the influence of negotiating access on data collection and positionality'
Katerina Rozakou (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Ethical dilemmas during fieldwork on
migration governance'
session70, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Politics regarding refugee migration
Chair: tba
Papers:
Simon McMahon (Coventry University, UK) and Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham, UK), 'The
politics of death and rescue in Europe’s refugee crisis'
Andrea Kölbel (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), 'Between humanitarian migrants and bogus
asylum seekers: imaginative geographies of forced migration and practices of refugee administration
in Germany'
Roberto Cortinovis (Catholic University of Milan, Italy), 'Forced displacement and EU’s external action'
Jussi Tervola (The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), 'Evidence on the selection of
humanitarian migrants by admission category'
session 71, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Increasing diversity in intra-European mobilities in a new political context
Chairs: Laura Oso (Universidade da Coruña, Spain) and Anastasia Bermúdez (Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain)
Discussant: Beatriz Padilla (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal)
Papers:
Laura Oso (Universidade da Coruña, Spain) and Anastasia Bermúdez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain),
'Patterns of intra-EU mobility among Latin American nationals: family stories of Colombians,
Ecuadoreans and Brazilians migrants in Spain'
Eleonore Kofman and Alessio D'Angelo (Middlesex University, London, UK), 'Brexit before Brexit: the
changing relationships between the UK and the EU one year after the referendum'
Pedro Gois and José Carlos Marques (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), 'Brain Mobility and recent
Portuguese emigration. Nor brain drain nor brain gain (yet) just a regular EU labour market'
Maria Vivas (Université de Liège, Belgium) and Cristina Ramos (University of Florida, USA), 'Beyond
the 2008 Crisis? Recent Changes in Andean Families’ Access to Global Social Protection Arrangements'
session 72, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Transnationalism
Chair: tba
Papers:
Agnes Simic (Middlesex University, London, UK), 'Role of home country cities and their inherent
urbanism in shaping understandings of integration of migrants in host country cities'
Milena Belloni (CeMIS, Antwerpen, Belgium), 'When the phone stops ringing: on the meanings and
causes of disruptions in transnational communication between Eritrean refugees and their families
back home'
Ludek Jirka (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), 'Children´s voices in
Transnational Family: Children´s capability and decision-making'
Joëlle Moret (University of Neuchâtel, Switserland), 'Transnational marriages in context: marrying
across borders as part of gendered strategies of (transnational) social positioning?'
session 73, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: New frontiers for International Retirement Migration (1)
Chair: Tineke Fokkema (NIDI-KNAW, University of Groningen; Erasmus University Rotterdam, The
Netherlands)
Discussants: Claudio Bolzman (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SO, Geneva,
Switserland)
Papers:
Liesl L. Gambold (Dalhousie University, Canada), 'Outliers Aging Abroad'
Mika Toyota (College of Tourism, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan), 'Searching for Care: Japanese
Retirees in Southeast Asia'
Eralba Cela (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy), Tineke Fokkema and Gabriele Morettini
(Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy), 'Italy’s new frontiers for International Retirement
Migration'
session 74, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
workshop: Qualitative Research in Migration Studies
Organizers: Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Yalaz Evren (GRITIM-University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Participants:
Annalisa Frisina (University of Padova, Italy)
Koen Leurs (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Theodoros Iosifides (University of the Aegean, Greece)
session 75, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
workshop: Rap, slam and spoken word: the migration, post-migration and super-diversity
experiences in sounds, words and images (1)
Organizers: Marco Martiniello (CEDEM, Liège, Belgium),Wiebke Sievers (ISR, Vienna, Austria) and
Ricard Zapata-Barrero (Gritim, Spain)
Participants:
session 76, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Discrimination in Labour Markets (3)
Chair: Rosita Fibbi (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel,
Switserland) and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway)
Discussant: Rosita Fibbi
Papers:
Iris Andriessen (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research), 'Explaining the increase of perceived
discrimination among Surinamese Dutch
Eva Zschirnt (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel,
Switserland), 'Obstacles to immigrant integration in the labour market – ethnic and racial
discrimination in the US and Europe'
Daniel Auer and Flavia Fossati (University of Lausanne, Switserland), 'Efficiency or Equality:
Immigrants’ Access Bias to Active Labour Market Policies'
Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (The New School for Social Research, USA), 'Fördern und Fordern? Changing
perspectives on Germany’s 2016 integration law'
session 77, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Workshop: Trade Unions and Migrant Workers: the state-of-the-art book and the next steps (1)
Organizers: Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Discussant: John Wrench (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim,
Norway)
Introduction of the book and workshop by Stefania Marino (EWERC, University of Manchester, UK)
and Judith Roosblad (IMES, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Rolle Alho (CEREN, University of Helsinki, Finland), 'Trade Unions and Migrant Workers in Finland
1995-2005'
Nouria Ouali (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), 'Trade Unions and Migrant Workers in Belgium
1995-2005'
Lisa Berntsen (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands), 'Cross-national comparison: Trade Unions and
migrant workers in the construction sector'
session 78, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Multi-level governance session (2)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Katarzyna Andrejuk (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences), 'Migrant
entrepreneurship in the bazaars of Warsaw: how do the relations between migrants and the host
society influence the development of ethnic firms?'
Rutger Birnie (European University Institute, Italy), 'Localities of belonging: subnational government
and the politics of deportation'
Sebastian Rinken (Institutefor Advanced Social Studies (IESA), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Dirk
Godenau (University of La Laguna, Italy) and Antidio Martínez de Lizarrondo (Public University of
Navarre, Spain), 'Regional patterns of immigrant integration and their evolution amidst economic
crisis: evidence from Spain'
Zeynep Ulker Kaşlı (University of Washington, Seattle), 'From militarizing to securitizing the Greek-
Turkish Border: The impact of Europeanization on governance of the space and the people'
session 79, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Family
Chair: tba
Papers:
Hiu Yan Yu (The University of Edinburgh, UK), 'Permanence Pending: How Chinese Temporary
Migrants Hope to Stay in the UK through Relationships '
Florian Tissot (Swiss Forum for Migration and Populations studies (SFM, Switserland), 'Highly-Skilled
Migration: Professional Careers and Family Strategies'
João Sardinha (IGOT - CEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), 'To return to Portugal and back? The
role of the family in the mobility strategies of Portuguese migrant descendant returnees in Portugal'
Ilka Steiner (University of Geneva, Switserland), 'Does childbirth trigger re-migration? The case of the
foreign-born in Switzerland'
session 80, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Migrant Temporalities & the situatedness of everyday multiculturalism, urban belonging,
and exclusion.
Chair: Amanda Wise (Macquarie University, Australia)
Discussant: Susanne Wessendorf (University of Birmingham, Uk)
Papers:
Amanda Wise, 'Migrant Temporalities and Differentiated Accommodation: Situated contours of
everyday multiculturalism among hospital workers in two global cities'
Kristine Aquino (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), 'Negotiating sociality, mobility and
sustainability in encounters between long-established residents and temporary mobile Others in the
community gardens of suburban Sydney'
Laavanya Kathiravelu (Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 'Seeing the city through
intersecting temporalities, access to power and shifting subjectivities'
session 81, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
panel: IMITE
Chair : tba
Papers:
Steffen Poetzschke (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), 'Transnationalism and
Integration: A comparison of Romanian and Turkish Migrants in three European Countries'
Özge Bilgili (Maastricht University, the netherlands) and Sonja Fransen (Amsterdam University, The
Netherlands), 'Attitudinal Transnationalism: Exploring the links between acculturation orientations
and transnationalism among migrants in the Netherlands'
Helen McCarthy (Middlesex University, London, UK) and Cristina Ramos (University of Florida,
Department of Sociology, USA), 'Dual citizenship and strategies of belonging and inclusion among
European Latin Americans in London'
session 82, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Return migration of foreign doctorate holders: drivers and consequences
Chairs: Etienne Gérard (IRD-CEPED, France) and Sorana Toma (ENSAE, INED, France)
Discussant: Antonina Levatino (INED, France)
Papers:
Sorana Toma, 'Return academic mobility in a changing higher education landscape. The case of India'
Lama Kabbanji (IRD-CEPED/INED, France) and Hala Awada (Lebanese University, Lebanon), 'Studying
abroad: A path towards a successful academic career in Lebanon?'
Etienne Gérard (IRD-CEPED< France), 'Return of Mexicans trained abroad'
session 83, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Spaces of diversity in a city in crisis: migration, inequalities and everyday life in Athens
Chair : Eva Papatzani (Department of Urban & Regional Planning, School of Architecture, National
Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Discussant: Panos Hatziprokopiou (School of Spatial Planning & Development, Faculty of Engineering,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Papers:
Nicolas Souliotis and Dimitris Balampanidis (National Centre for Social Research, Greece), 'Challenges
of interethnic coexistence in Athens before and after the crisis'
Manolis Pratsinakis (University of Macedonia & University of Amsterdam) and Flip Lindo (Institute of
Ethnic & Migration Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Still a Square of Amity? An
ethnography of an apartment block in central Athens'
Eva Papatzani (School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece), 'Negotiations
of everyday cohabitation at the time of crisis: encounters and conflicts at the center of Athens'
Vasiliki Makrygianni (School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), 'Feminist
geographies of resistance and emancipation: migrant women in the Athenian territory during a crisis
era'
session 84, Friday 30 June 09.00 - 10.30 room
Panel: Refugee integration
Chair: tba
Papers:
Annika Kaabe (University of Kiel, Germany), 'Losing human(itarian) capital: Analysis of labour
potential of refugees arriving to Germany'
Maria Perino and Michael Eve (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy), 'The gap between rhetoric and
reality in Italian programs for refugees'
Ioana Bunescu (Malmö Institute of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) Sweden), 'Access to Legal
and Procedural Information for Asylum Seekers in Sweden'
Mercedes Fernandez, Juan Iglesias Martínez, Cecilia Estrada Villaseñor (Instituto Universitario de
Estudios sobre Migraciones. Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain), 'Social and labour
incorporation of asylum seekers and refugees in the Spanish context'
session 85, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: New frontiers for International Retirement Migration (2)
Chair: Eralba Cela (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
Discussant: Russell King (University of Sussex, UK)
Papers:
Dora Sampaio (University of Sussex, UK), 'Relativising privilege, mobility and wellbeing in later-life: a
critical exploration of international retirement migration to the Azores'
Claudio Bolzman and Ibrahima Guisse (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SO,
Geneva, Switserland), 'Starting a new life in the South? Swiss retired in Morocco'
Désirée Bender, Cornelia Schweppe, Sonja Großmann and Vincent Horn (Institute of Education,
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany), 'German Retirees in Thailand: Towards a
transnational space of risk and opportunity in old age'
Raúl Lardiés-Bosque (Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA),
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), 'International retirement migration in northwestern Mexico: drivers
of migration and local impact'
session 86, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
workshop: Rap, slam and spoken word: the migration, post-migration and super-diversity
experiences in sounds, words and images (2)
Organizers: Marco Martiniello (CEDEM, Liège, Belgium), Wiebke Sievers (ISR, Vienna, Austria) and
Ricard Zapata-Barrero (Gritim, Spain)
Participants:
session 87, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.10 room
Panel: Knowledge and skills in migration: Rethinking ‘brain waste’, ‘brain gain’ and ‘brain
circulation’ (2)
Chairs: Nanneke Winters (University of Antwerp and Utrecht University) and Gery Nijenhuis (Utrecht
University, The Netherlands)
Discussant: Gery Nijenhuis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Papers:
Yvonne Riaño (University of Neuchatel, Switserland), 'Studying the 'fates' of migrants’ skills from a life
course perspective. How does household decision-making affect the development of migrant
women's skills?'
Dorina Dedgjoni (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany), 'Exploring Career Paths and
Professional Integration of Highly Skilled Albanian Migrants in Italy: Dealing with ‘Brain Waste’ or
‘Brain Gain’?'
Birgit Glorius (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany), 'Devaluation and resilience: Evidence on
the performance of refugee youth in the German educational system'
session 88, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Welfare and Culture: Attitudes to Immigration, Party Political Transmutations and Civil
Society Engagement
Chair: Ov Cristian Norocel (CEREN, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Discussant: Martin Bak Jørgensen (CGS, Aalborg University, Denmark)
Papers:
Anders Hellström (MIM, Malmö University, Sweden) and Susi Meret (CGS, Aalborg University,
Denmark), '‘Trouble in the Homeland’. Rightwing Populism in research and practice. Experiences from
the Nordic Countries'
Radu Cinpoes (SSBS, Kingston University London, UK) and Ov Cristian Norocel, 'Right-wing Populist
Parties as Agents of National Culture and Welfare Chauvinism in the Post-Communist Context'
Katarina Pettersson (University of Helsinki, Finland), 'Constructions of the nation in the Finnish
political blogosphere'
Karin Zelano (University of Gothenburg), 'Begging through the eyes of a Swedish democrat - A
quantitative text analysis of open-ended survey responses in Sweden'
session 89, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Multi-level governance session (3)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Anton Steen (Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway), 'Who shall decide refugee
settlement? Decision-making and public opinion in Norway 2010 – 2016'
Lorenzo Piccoli (European University Institute, Italy), 'How and why regional policies regulate the
rights of undocumented migrants'
Yassine Khoudja and Fenella Fleischmann (ERCOMER, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), 'The
welfare state and immigrant women's labor force participation: Comparing Germany, the
Netherlands, and the United Kingdom'
Simon McMahon (Coventry University, UK), 'From rescue to reception: the local governance of
irregular migration'
session 90, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Ethnographies of urban diversity and inequality
Chair: Adele Galipo (Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London, UK)
Discussant: Sarah Neal (University of Sheffield, UK)
Papers:
Mette Louise Berg (Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London, UK), 'Welfare,
neighbourhood and new geographies of difference: re-conceptualising urban diversity'
Adele Galipo (Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London, UK), 'Migrant everyday
encounters and transnational practices: reflections from a “super-diverse” neighbourhood'
Rachel Humphris (School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK), 'Private encounters and
diverse publics: the ‘home encounter’ as methodology in a diversifying UK urban neighbourhood'
Benjamin Gidley (Birbeck, University of London, UK), 'What migration studies can learn from urban
ethnography'
session 91, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Refugee crisis (1)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Sanjana Rastogi (Kolping Berufsbildungswerk), 'The Role of Twitter in Syrian Refugee Crisis'
Esther Romeyn (University of Florida), “The boat is full”: The genealogy and policy consequences of
the integralist paradigm
Susanne Schultz (Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University),
'(Re-)makings of failed migratory ‚adventures‘? Experiences and spaces of post deportation in the
Malian capital'
session 92, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Diversity and the city
Chair: tba
Papers:
Zeynep Ulker Kaşlı (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), 'New configurations of diversity in an old
border city: Edirne as the center of cross-border mobilities'
Adrian Favell (University of Leeds, UK), 'Hideous Towns? Brexit’s Challenge to the Post-War
Immigration/Race Settlement in the North of England'
Ya-Han Chuang (Paris IV Sorbonne - GEMASS, France), 'The reconfiguration of urban diversity faced
with global capital: Aubervilliers, or the metamorphosis of Chinatowns'
Nick Dines (Middlesex University, Londo, UK), 'Historicizing the perpetual present of Italian
immigration: the everyday urban politics of migration heritage in the city of Naples'
session 93, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Aspirations within the context of the changing refugee migration dynamics
Chair: Christiane Timmerman (CeMIS, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Discussant: Sónia Pereira (IGOT- U Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Papers:
Milena Belloni (American Academy in Rome, Italy), 'Constructing the ideal destination”: Welfare-
related rumours, expectations and representations among Eritrean refugees on their way to Northern
Europe'
Robin Vandevoordt (OASeS, University of Antwerp, Belgium), 'Moral cosmopolitanism and the
everyday life'
Lore Van Praag (CeMIS, University of Antwerp, Belgium), 'Gendered Migration Aspirations in Turkey:
The importance of the ‘Culture of Migration'
session 94, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Transnational Friendships
Chair: Başak Bilecen (Bielefeld University, Germany) and Louise Ryan (University of Sheffield, UK)
Discussants: Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University, London, UK) and Laura Morosanu (Sussex
University, UK)
Papers:
Louise Ryan (University of Sheffield, UK), 'Differentiated embedding: analysing dynamic friendship
ties through space and time'
Matthew Stephens (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), 'Becoming European in Cork? The role of
strong horizontal bridging ties on Polish migrants’ European identity formation'
Gil Viry (University of Edinburgh, UK), Jacques-Antoine Gauthier (University of Lausanne, Switserland),
Olga Ganjour and Eric Widmer (University of Geneva, Switserland), 'Are friendship networks
increasingly fragmented? Learning from migration histories in Switserland.
Başak Bilecen (Bielefeld University, Germany), 'A Structural Analysis of Chinese International
Students’ Local and Transnational Friendships'
session 95, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Social cohesion revisited – community cohesion and ethnic diversity
Chair: Aneta Piekut (Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield, UK)
Discussant: James Laurence (Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research and the Department of
Sociology, University of Manchester, UK)
Papers:
Conrad Ziller and Hans-Jürgen Andreß (University of Cologne, Gemany), 'Ethnic diversity, institutional
capacity, and social cohesion in European cities'
David Bartram (University of Leicester, UK), ' Social cohesion and natives’ happiness: What is the real
“threat” posed by immigration?'
Costel Grigoras (Paris-Sorbonne University, France), 'The Roma immigrant children’s identity shifts
process within the French education system and impact on social cohesiveness'
Monique Borsenberger (University College London and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic
Research), 'Values of social cohesion and their evolution in a multicultural society. The case of
Luxembourg, 1999-2008'
session 96, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Diversity governance, co-optation and resistance: exploring interactions of state and non-
state actors at the local level
Chair: Maria Schiller (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)
Discussant: Antonie Schmiz (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
Papers:
Linda van de Kamp (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Diversity management in an
Amsterdam post-industrial area: interactions between state and non-state actors'
Bob White (Université de Montréal, Canada), 'Pluralist Thinking in Cities: Intercultural Action in
Montréal'
Anick Vollebergh (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), 'Circuits of disappointment: the
fractured impact of diversity policy, governance efficiency and citizen participation ideals in Antwerp'
Christine Lang (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of
Osnabrück, Germany), 'Diversity governance within local administrations: The co-production of the
access of people of migrant descent to city employment'
session 97, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Knowledge and skills in migration: Rethinking ‘brain waste’, ‘brain gain’ and ‘brain
circulation’ (1)
Chairs: Maggi Leung and Marcel Coenders (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Discussant: Parvati Raghuram (Open University London, UK)
Papers:
Laura Morosanu, Russell King (University of Sussex, UK) and Manolis Pratsinakis (University of
Macedonia and University of Amsterdam), 'Migrating to learn: Occupational trajectories and skills
development amongst lower-skilled European migrants in London'
Metka Hercog (University of Basel, Switserland), 'Fluidity of “skills” in Switzerland'
Karen Valentin and Ashika Niraula (Aarhus University, Denmark), ' ‘Brains’ on the move: Rethinking
about the ‘deskilling’ debate among the highly educated migrants in Denmark'
session 98, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Gendered spatial and temporal negotiations of everyday life in cities
Chair: Marta Bivand Erdal (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway)
Discussant: Izabela Grabowska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Papers:
Marek Pawlak (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Jagiellonian University
Cracow, Poland), 'Between Continuity and Change: Gender Relations and Identities among Polish
Migrants in Norway'
Markieta Domecka (University of Southampton, Geography and Environment, UK) and Justyna Bell
(Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) Norway), 'The Transformative Potential of Migration: Polish
Migrants’- Everyday Life Experiences in Belfast, Northern Ireland'
Louise Ryan (University of Sheffield, UK), '‘I feel I am a Londoner’: Polish migrants negotiating the
temporal, relational and spatial processes of embedding in London'
Alina Rzepnikowska Phillips (University College London, UK), 'Polish migrant women’s encounters
with difference in various city spaces: the case of Barcelona'
session 99, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Precarious Migrants and Digital Technologies: Between Surveillance and Empowerment
Chairs: Mihaela Nedelcu and Ibrahim Soysüren (Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel,
Switserland)
Discussant: Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Papers:
Simon Sontowski (Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switserland), 'How to cross the
Aegean Sea? Smartphones, transnational activism and viapolitical struggles for freedom of movement
in contested maritime borderzones'
Laure Kloetzer and Gail Womersley (Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Neuchâtel,
Switserland), 'A qualitative and dynamic exploration of multiple vital uses of ICTs among refugee'
Morgane Dujmovic (TELEMMe Institute, University Aix-Marseille, France), "Human after all". A
participative web-project as resistance to migration control'
Ibrahim Soysüren and Mihaela Nedelcu, 'European technological instruments for the deportation of
foreigners and their use by France and Switzerland'
Rianne Dekker (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands), Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Jeanine Klaver and Hanna Vonk (Regioplan, The Netherlands) , 'Smart
Refugees: How Syrian Asylum Migrants use Social Media Information in Migration Decision-making'
session100, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Ageing migrants
Chair: tba
Discussants:
Papers:
Marion Valérie Repetti (University of Lausanne & University of Manchester) and Toni Calasanti
(Virginia Tech, USA), 'Giving care despite distance: post-retirement migration and transnational
grandparentality'
Sanjana Arora and Jonas Debesay (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences), '
Facilitators and Barriers to using healthcare services by older Pakistani immigrant women in Norway'
Daniela Paredes (University of Vienna-Transnational Studies Initiative) and Veronica Redroban
Herrera (Office of the Ombudsman of Ecuador), 'Retirement here or there? Ageing-migrants'
transnational social protection strategies'
Kasia Karpinska and Pearl Dykstra (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands),
'Intergenerational ties across borders: a typology of the relationships between Polish migrants in the
Netherlands and their ageing parents'
session 101, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
workshop: Comparing Local Migration Regimes
Organizers: Antonie Schmiz (IMIS, Osnabrueck University, Germany) and Charlotte Räuchle
(Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Participants:
Sara Al-Nassir (Dresden Leibniz Graduate School, Germany)
Dipannita Maria Bagh (independent researcher and Member of SRC on International Law &
Government of IAPSS)
Lisa Marie Borrelli (University of Bern, Switserland)
Simone Buckel (University of Kassel, Germany)
Vera Buttmann
Meghan Casey (University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies)
Rica Agnes Castaneda- Panelo (University of Makati, Philippines)
Frederica Cristani (World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switserland)
Elisa Fornalé (World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switserland)
Stella Gianfreda (School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy)
session 102, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
workshop: Book panel ‘Oxford Handbook of Citizenship’
Organizers: Maarten Vink (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Participants:
Ayelet Shachar (tbc) (Max Planck Society & University of Toronto)
Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute, Italy)
Gianni D’Amato (University of Neuchatel, Switserland)
Virginie Guiraudon (tbc) (CNRS Paris, France)
Pieter Bevelander (MIM, Malmö University, Sweden)
Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
session 103, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Participation
Chair: tba
Papers:
Anda Barak-Bianco and Rebeca Raijman (University of Haifa, Israël), 'Social participation and
involvement within and outside the ethnic enclave - Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel as a case study'
Mariña Fernández Reino (Universidad Carlos III, Spain), Javier Polavieja (Instituto Carlos III-Juan
March, Spain) and María Ramos (Universidad Carlos III, Spain), 'Country of origin or phenotype?
Unpacking discrimination in the Spanish labour market'
Jane Helleiner (Brock University, Canada), 'Irish Working Holiday Migrants in Toronto: Privileged
Precarity?'
Debora Pricila Birgier (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) and Erik Elldér (University of Gothenburg,
Denmark), 'Economic assimilation of immigrants in the US and Sweden: A comparison between
individual immigrants and immigrant households'
Herbert Brücker, Yuliya Kosyakova and Agnese Romiti (Institute for Employment Research), 'Do
Institutional Entry Conditions Matter for Migrants’ Labor Market Integration?'
session 104, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Diversity & Identification 2
Chair: tba
Papers:
Valerie Stam (Carleton University, Canada), "This is not all that I am": Visualizing Identity and
Belonging Among First- and Second-Generation Youth'
Dirk Geldof (University of Antwerp / Odisee University College / Karel de Grote University College),
'The demographic transition of the city of Antwerp: superdiversity as a lens to analyse the urban
context at the tipping point towards a majority minority city'
Talitha Stam (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), ‘I feel like a peppermint in a jar of
liquorice’ An ethnography study on the aspirations of minority white Dutch girls in a multiracial
school'
session 105, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
workshop: Critically exploring conceptualizations of ‘the family’ and recruitment methodologies in
research with migrant/transnational families
Organizers: Joaquin Eguren (IEM Comillas Pontifical University, Spain) and Martha Montero-Sieburth
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Participants:
Noemi Garcia Arjona (Université Franche-Comté, France)
Rosa Mas Giralt (University of Leeds, UK)
João Sardinha (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Carmen Draghici (University Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cite, France)
Pedro Gois (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Maria João Hortas (Centre of Geographical Studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Laura Oso (ESOMI, University of A Coruña, Spain)
Sandra Sofia Brito Da Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Dana Rem (ERIMIS, The Netherlands and Romania)
Joana Ribeiro (Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
session 106, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Methodological Challenges of Migration Research
Chair: Steffen Pötzschke (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)
Discussant: Steffen Pötzschke (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)
Papers:
Dorothée Behr (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), 'Ensuring participation in a
study: Translating and adapting questionnaires into migrant languages'
Silke Martin and Débora Maehler (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany),
'Methodological Challenges of Migration Research: Sampling & Coverage'
Amanda Whittal (Jacobs University Bremen, Department of Psychology & Methods, Health
Psychology, Germany), Katja Hanke (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Science, Germanys) and
Sonia Lippke (Jacobs University Bremen, Department of Psychology & Methods, Health Psychology,
Germany), 'Investigating acculturation orientations of patients with an immigration background and
doctors in Canada: implications for medical advice adherence'
session 107, Friday 30 june 10.35 -12.05 room
Panel: The Consequences of Migration in the Global South
Chair: Craig Loschmann (Maastricht Graduate School of Governance | UNU-MERIT, Maastricht
University)
Discussants: Sonja Fransen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Özge Bilgili (Maastricht
Graduate School of Governance | UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University)
Papers:
Craig Loschmann, 'The Economic Impact of Hosting Congolese Refugees in Rwanda'
Sonja Fransen, 'Repatriation and Social Cohesion in Burundi'
Özge Bilgili, 'Exploring the Effects of Refugees on Social Infrastructure Change in Rwanda'
Jesse Mertens and Theo Sparreboom (International Labour Organzation), 'Assessing the Labour
Market Impact of Migration in Destination Countries'
session 108, Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Panel: Diversity & identification 1
Chair: tba
Papers:
Patrick Simon (INED, Paris, France), 'National identities in Crisis: Europe and its ethnic diversity'
Lisa Reber (Arizona State University, School of Social Transformation, USA), 'Zones of marginalization:
The boundaries and borders migrants encounter'
Ruth Wauters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), 'Mobile practices of home-making: the role of
everyday mobile practices for migrant belonging (Brussels, Belgium)'
Christoph Novak (Austrian Academy of the Sciences at the Institute of Political Science, University of
Vienna, Austria), 'Politics of Belonging in Diverse Space. Examples from Muslim Populations in Zurich
and Vienna'
session 109, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
Panel: Social work with asylum seekers and other mobile clients: practices, dilemmas, ways ahead
Chair: Erica Righard (Malmö University, Sweden)
Discussant: Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento, Italy)
Papers:
Mieke Schrooten (Odisee University College Brussels, Belgium) and Sophie Withaeckx (Free University
of Brussels, Belgium), 'Informal welfare: Immigrant associations as arrival infrastructure for mobile
people'
Maria Charlotte Rast and Halleh Ghorashi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
'Participatory spaces around the reception of refugees in Amsterdam East'
Dirk Geldof (Odisee University College Brussels, Belgium) and Patrick Meurs (University of Leuven,
Belgium), 'From asylum crisis to a strength based approach of refugee families: Social work with
refugees in Belgium'
Thomas Geisen (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland) 'Social work and
migrant workers: New challenges? '
session 110, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: De-naturalizing belonging: Exploring everyday participation in cities from a gender
perspective
Chair: Janine Dahinden and Carolin Fischer (Université de Neuchâtel, Switserland)
Discussants: Fran Meissner (Universität Kassel, Germany) and Janine Dahinden
Papers:
Alistair Hunter (University of Edinburgh, Uk), 'Gendered tensions between ‘good death’ and ‘good
grief’ among Muslim communities in Britain and France'
Anne Kristol (Université de Neuchâtel, Switserland),'Citizenship and the gendered boundary of the
nation. Conditions of belonging in the Swiss naturalization procedure'
Jens Schneider (Universität Osnabrück, Germany), 'Gendered Perceptions of Belonging and “Ethnic”
Discrimination? Turkish-German Self-Positioning Strategies in a Dichotomised Discursive Space'
Susanne Wessendorf (University of Birmingham, Uk), 'Patterns of belonging among pioneer migrants
in a super-diverse context'
session 111, Thursday 29 june 10.50 -12.20 room
workshop: Using Bourdieu’s forms of capital in studying second generation; a theoretical discussion
Organizer: Elif Keskiner (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Participants:
Maurice Crul (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Sara Rezai (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Ali Konyali (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Christine Lang (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Zeynep Kaşlı (University of Washington Seattl, USA)
session 112, Thursday 09.00 -10.30 room
Panel: Transnational political mobilisation, diaspora politics and dual citizenship
Chair: Jean-Michel Lafleur (tbc)
Papers:
Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels (University of Kent, Brussels, Belgium), 'Loss of Citizenship in
Immigrant Integration: A Case Study of US Citizen Migrants'
Yossi Harpaz (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), 'Compensatory Citizenship: Dual Citizenship as a Strategy of
Resource Accumulation'
Stefanie Yapo (University of Trento, School of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Italy),
'Peruvians and Dual Citizenship in Italy and Spain: Identifications, Rights and Strategies'
Mari Toivanen (Academy of Finland), '(Political) mobilisation and transnational participation to the
sending region among Kurdish diaspora members in Finland and France'
session 113,Thursday 29 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Beyond Refugee Reception: A Multi-Level Perspective on Practices of Inclusion and
Exclusion of Asylum-Seekers in Europe
Chair: Birgit Glorius (TU Chemnitz, Germany) and Jeroen Doomernik (University of Amsterdam, IMES,
The Netherlands)
Discussant: Jeroen Doomernik
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Durham University, UK), 'When solidarity turns to xenophobia: the post-crisis
politics of refugee inclusion and exclusion in Modern Greek society'
Annika Zeddel (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), 'Conflicting experiences
in local voluntary refugee relief: Practices of volunteering within a highly politicized field'
Mouna Maaroufi (Free University, Berlin, Germany), 'Regulating integration: Refugees‘ labour market
integration in Germany as a state project for labour regulation'
Tobias Weidinger and Stefan Kordel (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany),
'Manifestations of exclusion and inclusion in terms of housing: refugee’s individual residential
preferences and the role of local structures in rural areas'
session 114, Friday 30 June 09.00 -10.30 room
Panel: Religious diversity
Chair: tba
Papers:
Selen Artan-Bayhan (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA), 'Praying God Abroad: Effects of the Religious
Boundary on the Incorporation of Turkish Immigrants in the U.S. and Germany'
Hülya Altinyelken (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Mosque Education: Does it Promote
or Undermine Social Integration in the Netherlands?'
Barbara Dellwo (Middlesex University London/Université de Lausanne), 'Transnational Muslim elites
in a “global city”: when professional position prevails over religious belonging'
Semiha Sozeri (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Training Imams in the Netherlands: The
Failure of a Post-secular Endeavor'
session 115, Thursday 30 June 09.00 -10.30 room
Panel: Temporary Migration and Social Inequalities
Chair: Mustafa Aksakal (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Discussants: Anna Amelina (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Amparo Gonzalez-Ferrer
(Spanish National Research Council)
Papers:
İlke Şanlıer Yüksel, Evin Millet and Ahmet İçduygu (Koç University, Turkey), 'The dynamics of
temporary migration and permanency of inequality: experiences from Turkey'
Igor Markov (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), 'Social inequalities between temporary
migrants in Ukraine: the role of access to migrant networks'
Tomoko Hayakawa (University of Tampere (Finland)), 'Skill levels and Inequality in Migration – UK
case study'
Kerstin Schmidt (Bielefeld University, Germany), 'The impact of categorisations of temporary
migrants: Evidence from research into highly educated Asians in Germany'
session 116, Friday 30 June 10.50 -12.20 room
Panel: Experiencing diversity: Comparing institutional and non-institutional spaces of encounter
Chair: Ursula Reeger (Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Austria)
Discussant: Yvonne Franz (Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Austria)
Papers:
Julia Dahlvik and Yvonne Franz (Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Austria), 'Does a ‘living lab’ change it all? About interethnic encounters in super-diverse
neighbourhoods in Vienna'
Myrte Hoekstra (Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Creating
good citizens? Emotional geographies of encounter and engagement in a diverse and deprived
neighbourhood'
Nesrin El Ayadi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 'Experiencing the city through language:
making sense of social diversity in the inner city of Amsterdam through individual linguistic skills'
session 117, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Methodological Panel: Researching Young Migrant Lives in Urban Settings
Chair: Izabela Grabowska (Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland) and Paula
Pustulka (Univeristy of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
Discussant: Izabela Grabowska
Papers:
Bren Neale (TBC) University of Leeds, 'University of Leeds
Paula Pustulk, Justyna Sarnowska, Marta Buler and Natalia Juchniewicz (University of Social Sciences
and Humanities, Poland), 'Researching peer-groups and migration from middle town: methodological
challenges of a complex QLS study'
Louise Ryan (University of Sheffield, UK), 'Researching Muslim Youth in London; the advantages and
challenges of working with peer researchers'
session 118, Friday 30 June 13.40 - 15.10 room
Panel: The local turn in immigration studies: bridging politics and policies in small and large-scale
cities
Chair: Ilona van Breugel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and Juan Triviño-Salazar
(Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and GRITIM-UPF, Spain)
Discussant: Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas (CIDOB, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain)
Warda Belabas (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), 'How City Branding Impacts Urban
Identity of Migrants'
Ilona van Breugel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), 'Local Dimension of Dutch
Immigrant Integration Governance'
Juan Triviño-Salazar (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and GRITIM-UPF, Spain) and Teresa
Cappiali (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy), 'Theorizing Immigrant Political Participation in European cities:
Lessons from small-scale cities in Italy and Spain'
Maria Schiller (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany),
'Immigrant councils in German cities: Towards a differentiated view of the institutionalized
involvement of immigrants in local policy-making'
session 119, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Urban segregation
Chair: tba
Papers:
Ad Coenen, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe and Bart van de Putte (University Ghent, Belgium), 'Ethnic
residential segregation: a family matter? An Integration of Household Composition Characteristics
and White Avoidance'
Timo M Kauppinen (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland), 'Assessment of Policy
Implications of Ethnic Segregation through a Socio-Demographic Decomposition of its Dynamics'
Christian Jacobs (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany),
'Planning diversity – Housing policies and spatial planning in German cities'
Tatjana Ibraimovic and Stephane Hess (Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK), 'A
Latent Class Model of Residential Choice Behaviour and Ethnic Segregation Preferences'
session 120, Thursday 29 June 17.20 -18.50 room
Panel: Minorities
Papers:
Roberta Medda-Windischer (European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC), Institute for Minority
Rights (Italy), 'Illegal occupations and forced evictions: limits and obligations. The case of Roma and
Travellers migrants'
Jonah Steinberg and Emily Manetta (University of Vermont, USA), 'Complex Marginality: Roma,
Muslims, and Fluid Deployments of Embodied Identity in Migrant Landscapes'
Fabrizio Natale and Alfredo Alessandrini (European Commission - Joint Research Centre), 'Mapping
migrant communities in cities in the EU'
Carolina Ramirez (Universidad Alberto Hurtado(Chili)) and Carol Chan (Observatorio Regional de Paz y
Seguridad, Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins, Chili), “Taking care” of violence and insecurity: Chinese
migrants’ practices of community and surveillance in a multicultural barrio of Santiago, Chile'
session 121, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Governance
Chair: tba
Papers:
Ursula Reeger (Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) and
Karin Zelano (Department of political science, University of Gothenburg, Denmark), 'Migration-
related diversity at the very bottom: Governance of homeless EU citizens in Stockholm and Vienna'
Rachel Humphris and Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham, UK), 'Outsourcing the ‘best interests’
of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in UK cities'
Ingrid Ramsøy (Malmö University, Sweden), 'Between Bolivia and Bilbao: Transacting and Exchanging
Care'
Mark van Ostaijen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), 'Making up migrants. The
politics of migration discourses'
session 122, Thursday June 29 09.00 -10.30 room
Panel: Skilled migration to (Global) Cities in Northern Europe, China and Sub-Saharan Africa:
Exploring Privilege and Processes of Incorporation
Chair: Brigitte Suter (Malmö University Sweden and Fudan University China)
Discussant: Helene Oberle (University of Basel, Switserland)
Papers:
Seraina Müller (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Basel,
Switserland), 'Processes of belonging and the pursuit of happiness in the Global City: Exploring the
mobile life-courses of Swiss migrants in Stockholm'
Khadeeja Sarr (Centre for African Studies and European Ethnology, University of Basel, Switserland),
'Exploring “privileged” skilled migration in (Global) Cities: Senegalese migrants in Switzerland and
Swiss Migrants in Senegal'
Aldina Camenisch (University of Basel and NCCR-on-the-move, Switserland), 'Self-initiated Swiss
migrants in Chinese Global Cities'
Brigitte Suter, 'Networking the Global City: European migrants and processes of incorporation in
Shanghai'
session 123, Thursday 29 June 15.30 -17.00 room
workshop: Policy Workshop on Neighbourchange: discussing the need of a more socially oriented
neighbourhood development policy approach in hyperdiverse local societies
Organizers: Elena Ostanel (University Iuav of Venice, Italy)
Participants:
Marcello Balbo (Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants Unesco Chair
David Hulchanski (University of Toronto, Canada)
Fran Meissner (Deprivedhoods research project, TUDelft, The Netherlands)
Antonella Valmorbida (Association for Local Democracy)
Bas Ernst (The Netherlands Embassy in Italy)
Tiit Tammaru (University of Tartu, Finland)
Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Ronald Derks (municipality of Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
session 124, Wednesday 28 June 14.50 -16.20 room
Panel: Integration policies
Chair: tba
Papers:
Salomon Bennour (Université Neuchâtel - SFM, Switserland), 'Do integration policies matter? An
exploratory study on foreigners’ mobility and cantonal attractiveness in Switzerland'
Fabio Introini and Giulia Mezzetti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy), 'An ecological
perspective for exploring the integration-radicalization nexus'
Natia Mestvirishvili (International Center for Migration Policy Developmen, Austria) and Maia
Mestvirishvili (Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Georgia), 'Georgia’s Integration Policy:
Prospects for the Future'
Evgeni Varshaver, Anna Rocheva and Nataliya Ivanova (RANEPA, Moscow, Russia), 'Does “civic
integration” work? Comparing lawmakers’ goals and real effects of the Russian exam for work permit'
Jeremy Jesse Kuhnle (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES); University of
Mannheim, Germany), 'Entrepreneurship among immigrants in Germany: the 2004 reform of the
German Trade and Crafts Code as a natural experiment'
session 125, Wednesday 28 June 13.00 -14.30 room
Panel: Refugees and Cities (2)
Chair: tba
Papers:
Jennifer Smith (Newcastle University, UK), 'Encountering (Non-)Citizenship: Destitute Asylum Seekers
in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK'
Lucas Oesch (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE), 'Temporary accommodation facilities for refugees
in European cities: between exclusion and inclusion'
Shahd Wari (Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany),
“Permanent Temporariness” and Place-making Processes of Asylum-seekers'
Paola Proietti (GSSI, USA), 'The spatiality of hosting centres for asylum seekers and refugees in Italy
An interregional and intra-urban analysis'
session 126 Friday 30 June 13.40 -15.10 room
Workshop Trade Unions and Migrant Workers: the state-of-the-art book and the next steps (2)
Organizers: Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
John Wrench (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway): Comments on the
presentations by Rolle Alho, Nouria Ouali and Lisa Berntsen
(of Workshop I) and introduction of the general discussion of the book
Discussion introduced by Stefania Marino (University of Manchester, UK) and Judith Roosblad
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)regarding 'Next IITUE topics for research: broadening the
domain of study to “Migrant Workers and the regulation of their position on the labour market”?
session 127 Thursday 29 June 19.00 - 19.45
MEET THE AUTHORS: Panel with Authors of the Springer-IMISCOE Research Series
followed by wine reception
session 128: Thursday 29 june 19.00 -19.45
Presentation of COST (European Cooparation in Science and Technology) actions
Presentation by Laura Morales (University of Leicester, UK)