Organized by
International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Economy & Society (RC02)
and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) at University of Duisburg-Essen:
Karen Shire and Sandhya A.S. – Administrative support: Dirk Bremann

Over the past few decades, the expansion of global (re)production networks, the partial liberalization of cross-border mobility, the rise of new sending states promoting migrant exports and the burgeoning of a migration industry with recruitment networks at the lead, presage fundamental changes in world society. A global summit focused on the political economy of migration answers the call to open the “black box” of labor migration to better understand the mechanisms making mobility possible in addition to identifying the factors driving migration and what happens at migrants’ destination. The conference highlights contributions in three cross-cutting themes that explore the relationship between states, markets, and migrants: Governance and the Making of Transnational Labor Mobilities and Labor Regimes; Transformation and Transnationalization of Social Reproductive Labor (e.g., care work, health, education); and Regulation and Resistance.  These subthemes offer fruitful avenues of inquiry drawing on a spectrum of alternative perspectives.

Program committee:
Heidi Gottfried (Wayne State University, USA)
Karen Shire (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Nicola Yeates (Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
Julie Greene (University of Maryland, USA)
Nadya Araujo Guimarães (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Ngai Pun (Lingnan University Hong Kong)
Jenny Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach (World Society Foundation, Switzerland)

Funding and logistics:
World Society Foundation, Critical Sociology, University of Maryland, Wayne State University and University of Duisburg-Essen

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