SCHEDULE.

8:30-8:50

Welcome Reception

 

 

​9:00-10:30

Session 1 

• An Appraisal of the Migration Industry in Migration Governance

• Mobility Strategies, Transnational Migration and Labour's Power

• Gendered and Racialized Bodies on the Move: South Korea's Experience with Transnational Labor Migration

• Regulating Race, Work, and Migration in the U.S. Empire

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10:45-12:15

Session 2 

• Radical Migrations: People and Ideas on the Move

• Identity Formation and Circuits of Mobility in the Age of Post-Slavery Indenture

• Global Migration Governance and Migrant Workers' Rights: Antecedents, Constraints, and Implications

• Managing Mobility: Labor Migration and the Military in Africa, the Philippines, and the Caribbean

13:30-15:00

Session 3 (PLENARY)

• Global Governance and Regulation

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​15:15-16:45

Session 4

• Global Migration and Labor Solidarity

• Regulating Labour Migration: Crossing Experiences in the French and British Empires, 1830s-1940s

• At the Nexus of Asylum and Labor Market Policies

• Chance or Choice? The Serendipities on Labour Migration

​17:00-18:30

Session 5 (KEYNOTE ADDRESSES)

• Global Labor Migration: Past and Present

​9:00-10:30

Session 4

• Inter-territorial Migrations and Mobilities in the Wider Caribbean and the North Atlantic

• Global Migration and State Regulation

• Rebuilding Working-Class Solidarity: The Power of Migrant Labor in Chinese Societies 

• Colonial Labor and Race/Ethnic Conflict

​10:45-13:15

Session 5

• (Dis)Empowerment, Gender and Entrepreneurship: A Critical Perspective on Researching Immigrant Women

• Work and Migration: The Legal Construction of Exploitation

• Deportees and Refugees: Regimes of Power, Inequalities and Resistance in Contemporary Latin American Transnational Migration

• Colonial Labor II

13:30-15:00

Session 6

• Regulatory Strategies for Ensuring Decent Work for Migrant Workers in the Asia-Pacific: The Value and Limitations of Sectoral Approaches

• Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Military Labor

• Citizen Work: Gender and the Making of Migrant Social Rights

15:15-16:45

Session 7

• Sex Work, Border Work, Migration, and Crime in the Modern Americas

• Gender, Deskilling and Migrant and Refugee Skills

• Labour Circulation and Precarity in the Long Term: Perspectives from India

• The Limits of Protections for Migrant Workers Across Australia, Asia and the Pacific

17:00-18:30

Session 8 (PLENARY)

• Global Labor Activism

​9:00-10:30

Session 9

• Doing Family in Transnational Labor Migration? 

• Regulatory Strategies for Ensuring Decent Work for Migrant Workers

• The Care-Migration Nexus: A Global and Comparative Perspective

• Framing and Impact of Migrant Labor

​10:45-12:15

Session 10

• Low-Wage Migrant Workers' Access to Workplace Rights: A Remedy for Labour Abuse and Exploitation

• Unraveling Cuba: Rethinking Race, Gender, Labor, Sexuality, and Cuban Migration Histories and Experience

• Posted Workers in Europe

• Transnational Placement Agencies for Migrant Care-Workers - Actors in a Global Market

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12:30-13:30

Session 11 (PLENARY)

• Global Labor Migration: Prospects for the Future

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