Invitation/Einladung
International Conference
CARE, MIGRATION, GENDER
Ambivalent Interdependencies
January 30 – February 1, 2019
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
https://hu.berlin/caremigrationgender
Registration: https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/care-migration-gender/anmeldung
Care, migration, and gender are interwoven in obvious and not so obvious ways. Bridget Anderson shows how the ›dirty work‹ within care is delegated to marginalized subject positions. The concept of the care chain, developed by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, highlights the fact that care workers themselves leave behind reproductive tasks, which in turn have to be carried out by others when they migrate. Queer theorist Martin F. Manalansan questions the implicitly assumed heterosexuality of care migrants. Further research illustrates that care workers are not just victims of social structures but themselves actively make decisions – which opens up debates about agency. Following significant publications by Rajni Palriwala and Helma Lutz, questions have arisen about who has agency and the way care, migration, and gender regimes impact it. Additionally, care migration is an effect of global inequalities while simultaneously allowing for both exploitation and empowerment. The dominant narrative consists of care workers that migrate from the Global South and post-socialist societies to the Global North. But this is not the whole story: Care migration also takes place within the Global South and among post-socialist societies themselves. Moreover, the relationship between care workers and care receivers is anything but straightforward. The structures (and hierarchies) of dependence and power hinge on the respective social positions as well as the access to rights and recognition. Additionally, while migrants can also be care receivers, some care receivers may need to migrate in order to get access to care.
Our conference »Care – Migration – Gender. Ambivalent Interdependencies« offers a space to collectively investigate these interdependencies in their complexities and aims to initiate a discussion of such ambivalences. In particular we will discuss the following:
– What forms do the interdependencies of care-migration-gender take in different places, in different fields, and with different stakeholders?
– How are the interdependencies of care-migration-gender shaped through different incentives, interests, and representations?
– How are the interdependencies of care-migration-gender regulated politically, legally, and socially?
– How and with which aims and effects have care workers organized?
We invite you to join in the discussion.
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Program
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
18:00 Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. iur. Eva Inés Obergfell, Vice President for Academic Affairs
18:15 Keynote
Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
Elder Care, Disability, Care, and Justice: Some Theoretical Reflections
Chair: Christine Bauhardt (HU Berlin)
Thursday, January 31, 2019
10:15 Welcome Address and Introduction
Urmila Goel (HU Berlin), Gabriele Jähnert (HU Berlin)
10:45 Keynote
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (University of Southern California)
Unfree Laborers – A Global Overview of Migrant Domestic Work
Chair: Gökçe Yurdakul (HU Berlin)
11:45 Coffee Break
12:00 Keynote
Martin F. Manalansan IV (University of Minnesota)
Feeling Filipinos: Global Care, Affective Circuits, Queer Trajectories
Chair: Mike Laufenberg (TU Berlin)
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Parallel Panels
Panel 1 From Religion to ICTs – Anthropological Approaches to Christian Care Migration
Ester Gallo (University of Trento) and Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow)
Conceptualizing the Nexus between Gender and Religion in Paid Care Work. The Experience of Migrant Workers and Their Employers
Antony Pattathu (Universität Tübingen)
A Religious Perspective on Care – Migration – Gender. Interdependencies Among Nurses from Kerala in Germany
Tanja Ahlin (University of Amsterdam)
Enacting Gendered Elder Care in Transnational Families of Nurses from India
Chair: Urmila Goel (HU Berlin)
Panel 2 Gerechtigkeit und Recht – Betrachtungen osteuropäischer Care-Migration
Nausikaa Schirilla (Katholische Hochschule Freiburg)
Ungerechtigkeit und Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen in Arbeitsverhältnissen von Care-Workerinnen
Birgit Dahlke (HU Berlin)
Verflechtungen zwischen Pflege, Migration und Geschlecht, verhandelt auf einer Berliner Theaterbühne: Zur Inszenierung von Pflege im Stück »Land der ersten Dinge/Bludicky/Fen Fires« von Nino Haratischwili (DT Berlin 2014/2015)
Vinzent Vogt (Lund University/Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Pflegearbeiterinnen aus Osteuropa in deutschen Privathaushalten. Grenzen der Rechtsdurchsetzung und Regulierungsdilemmata
Moderation: Gabriele Jähnert (HU Berlin)
Panel 3 Agency of Transnational Care Workers
Christiane Bomert (Universität Tübingen)
Impossible Self-Organization ? Ambivalent Spaces of Opportunity for Transnational Care Workers‘ Agency
Raquel Rojas Scheffer (FU Berlin)
Network Building and Ethnic Divides. Paid Domestic Workers and Their Struggle for Labor Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay
Janina Glaeser (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Migrant Childminders in Germany and France: An Opportunity for Female Occupation ?
Chair: Gülay Ça˘glar (FU Berlin)
Panel 4 Care Gaps
Miriam Tariba Richter (HAW Hamburg)
»Who cares ?« Neglection in Current Care Situations of Elderly Migrants in Germany
Fumilayo Showers (Central Connecticut State University)
»When I think of where I was, I weep like a baby«: Pre-Migration Class Status and Post-Migration Class Ambivalence among African Immigrant Care Workers in the USA
Ira Raja (University of Delhi)
The Imagined Self: Migration, Care, and the Attachment to Objects
Chair: Manuela Bojadˇzijev (BIM at HU Berlin)
16:45 Coffee Break
17:00 Panel discussion
Taking Care of Care Workers
Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol), Iweng Karsiwen (Association of Families of Indonesian Migrant Workers, Jakarta), Yolanda Richter (Representative of a Filipina community in Berlin), Kook-Nam Cho-Ruwwe (Korean Women’s Group in Germany)
Chair: Nivedita Prasad (ASH Berlin)
18:45 Reception
Friday, February 1, 2019
10:00 Keynote
Rajni Palriwala (University of Delhi)
Socialities of Care and Labor: Migration, Gender, and Agency
Chair: Urmila Goel (HU Berlin)
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Parallel Panels
Panel 5 »Gute Sorge« ohne »Gute Arbeit«?
Fishbowl-Diskussion zur 24-Stunden-Betreuung von Senior_innen in Privathaushalten in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
mit Brigitte Aulenbacher (Universität Linz), Karin Schwiter (Universität Zürich), Aranka Vanessa Benazha (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Michael Leiblfinger (Universität Linz), Veronika Prieler (Universität Linz) und Jenny Steiner (Universität Zürich)
Panel 6 Structural Frame of Care
Friederike Beier (FU Berlin)
Nobody Cares – Intersectional Perspectives on the Biopolitical Governmentality of Social Reproduction
Nina Sahraoui (European University Institute, Florence)
Thinking the Care-Migration-Gender Nexus from the Perspective of a Feminist Ethics of Care: Implications for Justice, Citizenship, and Democracy
Chair: Mona Motakef (HU Berlin)
Panel 7 Ambivalenzen in den Verflechtungen von Migration, Gender und Care
Eine Präsentation von Studierenden des MA‑Studienprojekts »Migration, Gender und Care«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Moderation: Urmila Goel (HU Berlin)
12:45 Lunch Break
14:15 Parallel Panels
Panel 8 Transnationalization of Care
Sirijit Sunanta (Mahidol University, Bangkok)
The Role of Private Care Brokers in the Diversification and Transnationalization of Paid Care Work: Experiences from Thailand
Antía Pérez-Caramés (University of A Coruña)
The Reorganization of Care and Migratory Projects in Romanian Transnational Families
Anja Michaelsen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The Queerness of Adoption
Chair: Julia Teschlade (HU Berlin)
Panel 9 Visuelle Verhandlungen von Care
Vina Yun (Wien)
Homestories. Eine Comiclesung
Brigitta Kuster (HU Berlin)
»I care because you do«: Spekulative Notizen zu einem »Sorge tragenden Kino«. Kommentierte Filmausschnitte
Judith von Plato and Johannes von Plato (HU Berlin)
Verflechtungen von Care, Migration und Gender im Dokumentarfilm »Family Business« und im Spielfilm »Die Schwarze aus Dakar«
Moderation: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin)
Panel 10 Vergeschlechtlichung von Care-Arbeit im Kontext von »Flucht«
Caterina Rohde-Abuba (Universität Bielefeld)
Die Arbeitsmarktintegration männlicher Geflüchteter über Care-Berufe
Michael Tunç (Hochschule Darmstadt)
Väterlichkeiten und Care-Verantwortung von Männern mit Fluchtmigrationserfahrungen
Sophia Schmid (HU Berlin)
Antirassistische Care-Arbeit ? Die Vergeschlechtlichung und Positionierung der Geflüchtetenarbeit in Deutschland
Moderation: Almut Peukert (Universität Hamburg)
16:30 Coffee Break
16:50 Keynote
Helma Lutz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Care Work in the Reticule of Migration, Gender, and Labor Market Regimes
Chair: Nivedita Prasad (ASH Berlin)
18:00 Closing Discussion with Conference Observers
Urmila Goel, Christine Bauhardt, and Mike Laufenberg
19:00 End of the Conference
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International Conference
Organized by the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) and the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
In cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (ASH) Berlinw, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at Technische Universität Berlin
Conceptionalized by Urmila Goel (IfEE at HU), Christine Bauhardt (Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute at HU), Gabriele Jähnert (ZtG at HU), Mike Laufenberg (ZIFG at TU), Almut Peukert and Julia Teschlade (Department for Social Sciences at HU), Nivedita Prasad (ASH Berlin), Sophia Schmid (BIM at HU), and Gökçe Yurdakul (Department for Social Sciences/BIM at HU)
Supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (ASH) Berlin
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Information
Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Contact
Gabriele Jähnert, Urmila Goel
Phone +49 (0)30 2093-46200
zentrum@gender.hu-berlin.de
Date
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Friday, February 1, 2019
Venue
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10117 Berlin, Unter den Linden 6
Senatssaal | Room 2070 a / 2249 a / 1066 e
Conference Languages
English, German
How to Get There
S1, S2, S5, S7
U6 (Friedrichstraße)
Bus 100, 200, TXL (Staatsoper)
Tram M1, 12 (Universitätsstraße or Am Kupfergraben)
Registration
https://hu.berlin/caremigrationgender
Conference fee
Grouped according to income and registration:
Early Bird (Registration by January 2, 2019)/Normal (Registration after January 2, 2019)
Students/Unemployed: F 25.00/F 35.00
PhD students with funding (scholarship) and comparable income: F 45.00/F 55.00
Employees with reduced position (university and external); Self-employed according to self-assessment: F 60.00/F 70.00
Assistant Professors; full-time employees (university and external); Self-employed according to self-assessment: F 80.00/F 95.00
Professors: F 100.00/F 115.00
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Kerstin Rosenbusch
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien
Sitz: Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin
Email: ztg-sekretariat@gender.hu-berlin.de
http://www.gender.hu-berlin.de
Tel.: 030 2093-46200
Fax: 030 2093-46215
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