[URBANTH-L]CFP: Undocumented and documented migration within Europe

[Angela Jancius]

Call for Papers

UNDOCUMENTED AND DOCUMENTED MIGRATION WITHIN EUROPE

financed by Volkswagen Foundation taking place at the University of Dortmund from Friday the 13th to Sunday the 15th of January 2006.

Particular reference is given to migration between eastern European and western European countries regarding the occupation areas of reproductive work, agricultural work and the service sector. 

Please feel free to pass on the 'Call for Papers' to colleges working in the field of migration studies (sociology, history, social anthropology, demographic studies, economy). 

With best regards

Dr. A. S. Münst    Prof. Dr. S. Metz-Göckel                                                             

 
Dr. A. S. Münst 
Universität Dortmund 
Interdisziplinärer Forschungsschwerpunkt: 
Dynamik der Geschlechterkonstellationen 
Emil-Figge-Str. 50 (Raum 0.110) 

44227 Dortmund 

Tel.: (0049) 0231 - 755 45 92  

SMuenst at fb12.uni-dortmund.de 

Volkswagen Foundation

Project: Borders - Leeways. Migration of Polish Women to the Ruhr Area
Call for Papers for the Conference on

UNDOCUMENTED AND DOCUMENTED MIGRATION WITHIN EUROPE
Friday the 13th to Sunday the 15th of January 2006

The conference is aimed to look at undocumented and documented migration within
Europe. Particular reference is given to migration between eastern European and
western European countries and the occupation areas of reproductive work,
agricultural work and service sector.

We like to consider three perspectives and their interrelatedness:
The perspective on the micro level concerns the migrant's household unit, its
relevance in decision making processes, the changes it goes through e.g. number of
household locations and people involved, changes in role performances, duties and
status; economic and living conditions of the pluri-local household unit.

The perspective on the meso level concerns the migrant's (transnational) network its
qualitative and functional aspects in different stages of migration, e.g. spatial extend,
number and ethnical background of people involved, frequency and quality of (exchange)
relations; tasks performed by network members; changing status positions
in the network. We also like to include here informal organisations, which compensate
the lack of (personal) networks by offering jobs and housing in return to payment
and therefore establish shadow-economy-structures.

The perspective on the macro level concerns structures of societies of countries
involved, how do they provoke and are effected by (documented and undocumented)
migration. This includes processes in regard to economy (e.g. international division of
labour, globalisation, income differences), welfare systems, social mobility.
Finally we also invite papers dealing with particular methodological and
epistemological issues of migration studies e.g. multi sited research, intercultural
research and research with people living partially clandestine lives.
Abstract submission: Electronic abstracts of between 400-500 words should be
submitted by the 1st of October 2005 to:

SMuenst at fb12.uni-dortmund.de Sigrid.Metz-Goeckel at uni-dortmund.de

doszka at argo.hist.uj.edu.pl

Abstract authors will be notified of paper acceptance by the 21st of November 2005.
The conference is organised by a joint research project of the University of Dortmund
and the Jagiellonian University Kraków (Dr. Dobrochna Kalwa) and part of the
Interdisciplinary Research Program at the University of Dortmund: Dynamics of

Gender Configuration.

Speakers will be offered free accommodation and travel expenses.
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Metz-Göckel Dr. A. Senganata Münst Dr. Dobrochna Kalwa