16-20 September 2013 Norrköping, Sweden

Provisional Programme

Monday, 16th September 2013

17:00 onwards Registration

19:00 Welcome Drink

19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 17th September 2013

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome AddressProf. Mikael Heimann, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Linköping University

09:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Keynote Addresses

Prof. Loretta Baldassar (Australia)Mobilities as a new paradigm for understanding family life: issues and challenges

Prof. Bengt Sandin (Sweden)comment to Loretta Baldassar

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

Panel I Multi-local family lives in national and transnational contexts

11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: Occupational mobility and work-life balance in national and transnational perspectives

Prof. Norbert Schneider (Germany)Job-Related Spatial Mobility Across Europe. Individual and Social Consequences of Increased Mobility

Dr. Laura Merla (Belgium)The role of networks in transnational care-giving: the case of Latin Americans in Belgium and Australia

Dr. Mirca Madianou (United Kingdom)Family life at a distance: migrant transnationalism in a polymedia environment

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Poster Session

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 18:15 Session 3: Perspectives of sending countries: care drain and transforming gender roles?

Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck/Prof. Helma Lutz (Germany)Landscapes of Care chain: the missing male perspective.

Prof. Russell King/Julie Vullnetari (United Kingdom)Interrelationships between gender, care drain and migration: Albania during and after communism

Prof. Valentina Mazzucato (The Netherlands)Children’s experiences of living in transnational families: A view from African countries

19:00 Dinner

20:00 - 21:15 Presentation of ‘Best Poster’ PrizeAfter Dinner Lecture

Prof. Arlie Hochschild (USA)The Outsourced Self

Wednesday, 18th September 2013

Panel II Family and globalised (social) reproduction across the life cycle

09:00 - 10:45 Session 4: Family and globalised (social) reproduction across the life cycle

Prof. Stefan Beck (Germany)Transnational/international adoption and reproductive medicine: Germany, Turkey and Great Britain

Prof. Lise Widding Isaksen (Norway)Strangers in Paradise? Images of Care among Norwegians in Italy and Italians in Norway

Dr. Anna Gavanas (Sweden)Dr. Ines Calzada (Spain)Aging in a Transnational Era

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Short Talks 1Prof. Hanelle Forsberg (Finland)Children, mobility and multi-local housing

Dr. Michaela Schier (Germany)Doing family under the condition of spatial separation: The conduct of everyday life of transnational, transregional and intra-community multi-local families

Dr. Cédric Duchene-Lacroix (Switzerland)National and transnational Multi-local Family lives: empirical comparisons from the survey „multilocal living in Switzerland“

12:30 Lunch and Group Photo

14:00 - 15:30 Short Talks 2Dr. Maria de Guzman (USA)„Yaya“: Philippine domestic workers, the children they care for, and the children they leave behind

Lynnette Arnold (USA)Torquing Gender and Generational Hierarchy:Communicative Mobility in Transnational Salvadoran Families

Gregory Dallemagne (Spain)Transnational Families and Social Reproduction of a Peri-Urban Community of Quito: Kinship, Belonging and Gender

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Short Talks 3Saara Pellander (Finland)Troubling Transnational Family Ties: Marriage Migration in Court Decisions in Finland

Prof. Sara Fürstenau (Germany)Educational Careers in the Context of Transnational Family Organisation

Caroline Zickgraf (Belgium)Managing family from afar: Transnational practices within Moroccan family networks

17:30 - 19:00 Short Talks 4Laurie Berg (Australia)Au pairs in Australia: The divisions of labour achieved by temporary immigration to Australia

Alexandra König (Austria)Family migration and integration: Looking at the contradictions of immigration and integration policy

Dr. Marlene Spanger (Denmark)The Role of the State in Global Care Chains

19:00 Reception Dinner at the Norrköping Town Hall

20:15 - 21:15 Meet the researchers: Speed Research-Dating

Thursday, 19th September 2013

Panel III Family life in an age of migration and mobility: challenges for policy

09:00 - 10:30 Session 5: Roundtable - Family life, migration and mobility: policy challenges

Prof. Barbara Waldis (Switzerland)Bi-national partnerships under pressure. Between migration regulations and family law.

Dr. Majella Kilkey (United Kingdom)Migration and (Social) Reproduction: the stratification effects of developments in migration policies in Europe

Paola Panzeri (COFACE, Belgium)Transnational Families: A review of EU Policies

Prof. Sarah von Walsum (The Netherlands)The Contested Meaning of Care in Migration Law

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Short Talks 5Ioanna Tsoni (Sweden)Acculturation from below: Immigrant children brokering culture in two contrasted neighbourhoods in Athen

Gudrun Bauer (Austria)Migrant Care Workers in Austria: Balancing Formal and Informal Care Across Borders

Dr. Helle Stenum (Denmark)Managed mothers, fluid families and precarious pregnants in the Filipino Diaspora

12:30 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Networking Session

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 18:30 Session 6: Forward Look Plenary Discussion: Medium to long-term views regarding future research and policy developments relating to the families-migration-mobilities nexus

Prof. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (USA)Aging migrants and transnational mothers: disrupting the nuclear family in our study of migration

Prof. Michael Keith (United Kingdom)Rethinking Migrant Integration: Between Individual Rights, Collective Belonging & Family Life in Policy Thinking

19:00 Reception and Conference DinnerAfter Dinner Party

Location

Contact

Friday, 20th September 2013

Breakfast and Departure

The conference will be held at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping.

Campus NorrköpingKåkenhus buildingRooms K2, K4 - “Turbinen”Bredgatan 33602 21 NorrköpingSweden

Chair Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz

Co-Chairs Dr. Majella Kilkey, Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

Assistant Marija Grujic

E-Mail familymobilitymigration@gmail.com

Website www.familymobility.de