Seminar of Young Researchers on Global Migration Governance and Territories

This seminar is held within the framework of the Franco-Swiss Scientific Cooperation Project on "Migration Agreements, Associative Practices and Transnational Communication for Global Migration Governance" between the NCCR Trade Regulation / World Trade Institute (WTI) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Montpellier, co-funded by the Germaine-de-Staël programme for the advancement of Swiss-French research.

Description

In the course of globalisation, migrants stay less permanently abroad and more frequently act as a "go-between" the "here" of the host country and "there" of the source country. Whereas sociology studied this concept of migrant transnationalism, legal studies have so far failed to comprehensively approach the relationship, which a migrant develops towards the destination state and the market. Rather, law has treated these two relationships as separate and distinct legal problems, one being integration and the other being labour market admission. This seminar will "talk across the disciplines" by combining the legal perspective with the sociological analysis, which focuses on migrants as actors and on the impact of their actions on mobility and development.

The seminar will cover topics on the global governance of migration, migrant networks, trade and migration agreements from a cross-disciplinary perspective, notably involving the fields of law and sociology.
 
Goal

Senior and young researchers (post-doctoral, doctoral and master students) from France and Switzerland will contribute to this seminar with the aim to understand the different frameworks in which migration governance (written or experienced) takes place. By analysing the links between the state, the market and the diaspora in the context of transnational migrations, this seminar highlights the necessity to develop coherent and sustainable instruments for migration governance. The following three approaches will be further developed in the seminar: juridical-political, social-geographic and historical.

Beneficiaries

On the Swiss side, 10 young researchers (post-doctoral, doctoral and future doctoral students) in migration studies affiliated with the law, economics and social sciences faculties of the University of Bern, the BENEFRI Center for Migration Law (CDM) and the Swiss Forum for Migration Studies (SFM) will be given the opportunity to discuss the various transnational frameworks of global migration governance. They will be asked to identify to what extent their research project, focus or methodology is innovative and adds value to migration studies within the framework of the seminar’s topic. It is designed for students to frame their research questions and to develop a clear research focus and methodology for their work.

Besides, 5 Master students from the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel and Basel will be able to attend the conference. They will contribute to the same issue by writing a seminar paper on selected aspects of migration studies with a focus on governance. It is for them an opportunity to attend a high-level workshop and meet with researchers in migration studies as preparation for their own seminar-paper.

Presentations

Session 1 “International Labour Mobility”

• Labour migration in trade and investment law (Charlotte Sieber-Gasser)
• Ouverture du marché du travail et partenariats migratoires: le cas de la France (Lisa Salcedo Pfeiffer)
• Nouvelles trajectoires migratoires et changements de modèles. Amérique Andine-Espagne (Geneviève Cortès)
• La gestion de la migration de travail à la lumière de l’analyse économique du droit (Stefan Schlegel)
• Temporary labour migration: the case of Hungarian sex-workers in Zürich (Sascha Finger)
• Where’s the movement ? Challenges and features of migration and trade policies towards Latin America, (Elisa Fornalé and Cesla Amarelle)
• L’immigration latino-américaine en Espagne : politiques migratoires de l’échelle européenne à celle des communautés autonomes (Lucile Medina)

Session 2 “Transnational Governance”

• L'insertion résidentielle des Sénégalais et des Gambiens à Barcelone (Marème Niang)
• Les accords de gestion des flux migratoires signés par le Sénégal avec l’Espagne et la France : Mise en œuvre et impact sur la politique migratoire du Sénégal (Rougui Ndiaye-Coïc)
• Associations de migrants hautement qualifiés latino-américains et incidence sur le développement à distance (Caroline Caplan)
• Les migrants hautement qualifiés, entre agency et instrumentalisation (Jean-Baptiste Meyer)

Session 3 “Identities and Territories”

• Souveraineté étatique et mobilité internationale : des principes, des frontières, des enjeux (Hocine Zeghbib)
• L'immigration irrégulière, une menace? Analyse des justifications politiques de la détention administrative (Clément de Sénarclens)
• Nationality Regulation in State succession: the case of South Sudan (Barbara von Rütte)
• Réseaux sociaux et nouvelles technologies dans les mobilités et l’associativité étudiantes entre Maghreb et Europe (Maroc-France) (Sabrina Marchandise)
• Identité nationale et immigration : les « modèles nationaux d’intégration » ont-ils (encore) un sens ? (Hubert Peres)
• Diasporas as a “Best Practice”: Bureaucratic Redefinitions of the Term and of Development Policies (Stéphane Dufoix)