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We would like to invite you to submit proposals for papers to 2018 ESPAnet Conference
“Transformation of European welfare systems: challenges, problems and future prospects”
30 August – 1 September 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania
Stream No. 5 : Migrant and transnational families’ access to formal and informal welfare
The European Union’s support of spatial mobility, motivated by specific needs of European labour markets, has resulted in an increase of migrant inflows. Currently, most migrants in the European Union (EU) are non-EU nationals (Eurostat 2017). Members of this group of migrants often work in low-skill jobs, face unfavourable working conditions and have limited access to social welfare (OECD 2015). Besides the working conditions of migrants, international or transnational migration poses questions about family life and social cohesion in local contexts. In the context of migrant families, a growing number of researchers conceptualize migrants and their kin as transnational families (Baldassar, Merla 2014). A series of recent studies has focused on the role that state policies and international regulations play in facilitating or hindering family solidarity across borders (Kilkey, Merla 2013).
The access to family policies however represents largely neglected phenomena in the social policy research (Williams 2012). Feminist literature, which locates social rights at the intersection of welfare regime, labour market and gender (Daly, 2011), applies this framework to the study of migrants’ care arrangements, adding the dimension of migration regimes (Lutz, Palenga-Möllenbeck 2012).
This stream encourages case studies and international comparisons, which explore the access to formal welfare same as informal care and protection practices of migrant and transnational families. In particular, we would welcome papers that would fit in any of the following topics:
· Access to social rights of the migrant populations;
· Work-life balance practices in the migrant and transnational families;
· Differences in access to social citizenship among the migrants with various ethnic and national backgrounds;
· Family formation and possibly shifting gender relations among the migrants;
· Transnational families, transnational parenthood/motherhood/fatherhood;
· Characteristics of migrants’ labour market participation;
· Care-workers, migration regimes and migration chains.
The deadline for abstract submission is 19 March 2018.
Abstracts should be about 500 words and be submitted only to one conference stream.
The online submission form can be found at: http://www.espanetvilnius2018.fsf.vu.lt/conference/submit-abstract
The online submission system will guide you through the submission process.
Successful authors will be informed by 16 April 2018.
Best regards,
Stream convenors:
Lenka
Formankova (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences),
Dorota Szelewa (School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin),
Guðný Björk Eydal (Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland)
-- Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D. Gender & sociologie/ Gender & Sociology Department Sociologický ústav Akademie věd ČR/Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Jilská 1, 11000 Prague 1 Czech Republic Mobil: 00420 603382246 [log in to unmask]">E-mail:[log in to unmask]