Preliminary Programme

Showing: Ethnicity and Migration (all days)
Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 13 April 2010 8.30
V-1 ETH01 Austrian Migration after 1945
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Karin Maria Schmidlechner
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Maria Schmidlechner
Isabel Schropper : The Blue Danube Scheme – ‘Woman’power for Britain’s economy
Ute Sonnleitner : "I Had Only Good Experiences - But I Never Would have Wanted to Stay": Research-Project "Female Styrian Emigrant Work 1945 - 1955"
Andrea Strutz : Return Migration from Canada: Migratory Experiences of Austrian Female and Male Labour Migrants in the Post-World War II Period
Astrid Tumpold-Juri : "Skim off the Cream"



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
K-2 ETH17 Changes in the Country of Origin, Development of Nation States and Cultural Proximity
Room D13, Pauli
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Colin Pooley
Organizers: - Discussant: Colin Pooley
Melodee Beals : Scottish Emigration and the Scottish Provincial Press, 1770-1850
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : In quest for welfare. The Labour Migrations of Yugoslav Citizens in Western European Countries 1960 – 1977
Per-Olof Grönberg : The Welcoming City? Immigrant Integration in Urban Sweden, 1860-1925
Johan Svanberg : Experiences and Social Memories, Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Swedes and Estonians in Olofström after 1945
Miika Tervonen : ’Gypsies’, ’Tatars’ and the peasants: ethnic boundary-drawing and the nation-state in Finland and Sweden, c.1865-1925


V-2 ETH02 Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States, New York - Oxford: Berghahn Books 2009
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Frank Caestecker
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Caestecker
Michal Frankl : Czechoslovakia, a better refuge?
Aviva Halamish : The Role of Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany: The British Perspective
Susanne Heim : The International Refugee Regime and the Jewish Emigration from Nazi Germany



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
K-3 ETH20 History, Memory and Migration I
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Culture , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irial Glynn
Organizers: Irial Glynn, J. Olaf Kleist Discussant: José Lingna Nafafé
Magdalena Elchinova : Imagining the ‘Homeland’: Memory and History in the Construction of a Transnational Community (The Case of the Macedonian Americans)
J. Olaf Kleist : Migrant Incorporation and Political Memories: The Role of the Past in Australian Social Inclusion
Hans Leaman : The Pilgrim to this Land: Religion, Conservatism and Immigration in America


V-3 ETH03 Historical Approaches to Transnational Ethnic Identities
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Nadia Bouras
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadia Bouras
Brigitte Cairus : The Testimony of a Gypsy Queen: immigration, identity politics and interculturality in contemporary Brazil
Eric Payseur : “Ethnic Identity can come in waves too”: Polish Canadian Leaders, Gender, Polishness and Canadianization
Christa Wirth : 'Americans don’t appreciate their country!' How Descendants of Italian Immigrants to the United States Construct Ethnic Identities in Migration Narratives



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
K-4 ETH21 History, Memory and Migration II
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Culture , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: J. Olaf Kleist
Organizers: Irial Glynn, J. Olaf Kleist Discussant: J. Olaf Kleist
Irial Glynn : What role has a country’s migration history in its migration present? Immigration debates in Ireland and Italy compared.
Mary Hickman : Past Immigrations, Contemporary Representations: in UK life narrative interviews
Christopher Kennedy : Death and Despair, Prosperity and Plenty: Irish Visions of America
José Lingna Nafafé : African Migrants: Past and Integration in Northern Europe
Kevin Myers : Cultures of history: minority histories and the politics of the past in post-war Britain


V-4 ETH04 Exclusion and Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Twentieth Century Britain
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Panikos Panayi
Organizer: Panikos Panayi Discussant: Panikos Panayi
David Dee : ‘I’m afraid we have a Jewish quota’ – Golf, Anti-Semitism and Anglo-Jewry 1900-1980
Gavin Schaffer : The Boundaries of Britishness: Jewish Refugees and the War Effort
Wendy Ugolini : Narratives of ‘Unbelonging’: Recovering Italian Scottish Experience
Quyen Vo : The reception of the Hungarian and British refugees in Britain, 1956-57



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
V-5 ETH05 Personal Narratives of Migration: Reading First Person Accounts and Family Correspondence
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leslie Page Moch
Organizer: Maria Bjerg Discussant: Leslie Page Moch
Jeremy Ball : Angolan Accounts of Forced Labor, 1900-1960
Maria Bjerg : The experience of Immigrant Children Through Personal Narratives. Argentina in the Second Postwar
Beatriz Padilla : Brazilian Narratives of Migration: Saudades, Gender Differences and Coping Strategies in Portugal of the XXI Century
Milena Vico : The construction of testimony: Exploring the preservation or loss of cultural identification within different post-war Lithuanian diaspora populations now settled outside their country of birth and nationality



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
S-6 AFR04 Digitising the Black Diaspora
M101, Marissal
Networks: Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Organizers: - Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Robert Aitken : Making an African Presence Visible: Cameroonians in Germany, 1884-1960
Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov : Invisibility and Visibility of the Black Diaspora: A Database Project on Blacks in Early Modern German-Speaking Countries
Laura Stapane, Dr. Martin Klimke : The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany: Digital Archive, Oral History Collection and Research Project


Y-6 ETH06 European Databases of Migrant Organisations
M212, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizer: Ulbe Bosma Discussant: Philippe Rygiel
Ulbe Bosma, Hanneke Verbeek : Migrant Organizations: Membership and Belonging
Piet Creve : Paving the way: collecting data on migrant organisations in Flanders
Corinne Torrekens : Muslim associations in Brussels : structures and clivages
Floris Vermeulen : Historical databases of immigrant organisations. The case of Amsterdam



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
E-7 ETH07 Assimilation of Jews
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Susan L. Tananbaum
Organizer: Peter Tammes Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Andrej Pančur : The Different Degrees of Assimilation of the Jews in Slovenia Prior to WWII
Jessica Roitman : What ever happened to the Sephardim? Assimilation and the Sephardim of the Netherlands in the 18th Century
Peter Tammes : Assimilation of Jews in prewar Amsterdam: losing faith



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
J-9 MID03 Multiple Images. National Identity in the Middle Ages and the Middle Ages used for Post-medieval Identity Construction I
Room D11, Pauli
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Middle Ages Chair: Robert Stein
Organizers: Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz Discussants: -
Peter Hoppenbrouwers : Ethnic identity and regional nationalism in the late Middle Ages. The cases of Wales and Westfriesland
Claire Weeda : Culture, Climate and Identity in Twelfth-Century Northern Europe
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz : Hollanders as ‘the Other’ through a Hanseatic lens. Late medieval and modern perceptions of identity


K-9 ETH22 Representations of Migration in Culture, Politics and Education
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Education and Childhood , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Stefan Nyzell
Organizer: Christiane Hintermann Discussant: Hester Dibbits
Christiane Hintermann : Immigration in Austrian Textbooks and Migration Exhibitions - Representations and Memory (Re)Production
Christina Johansson : Swedish Museums and Migration
Sonja Kmec : Staging Migration: Museographic Representations and Political Discourses in Luxembourg
Vanja Lozic : Objectifying Discourses in the Narratives about Swedish Immigration - "The Story about them"
Stefanie Mayer : Migration in Political Discourse – a cross-national and diachronic perspective


N-9 ETH08 Legality and Illegality: Discourse and Practice in Regulation of Migration
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Idesbald Goddeeris
Organizer: Corrie Van Eijl Discussant: Idesbald Goddeeris
Aitana Guia : Regularizing Undocumented Migrants and Building Community in Spain, 1985-2005
Hanan Sabea : Crossing the Sea: Discourses of Legality, Morality and Citizenship among Egyptian Migrants to Europe
Corrie Van Eijl : Unauthorized, irregular or undocumented immigrants: constructions of illegality in the Netherlands



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
B-10 ETH30 Meet the Author session on Adam McKeown's Melancholy Order
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leo Lucassen
Organizer: Leo Lucassen Discussants: Ulbe Bosma, Sebastian Conrad, Andreas Fahrmeir, Barbara Luethi, Adam Mckeown


J-10 MID04 Multiple Images. National Identity in the Middle Ages and the Middle Ages used for Post-medieval Identity Construction II
Room D11, Pauli
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Organizers: Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz Discussant: Peter Raedts
Bjørn Bandlien : Trading with heathens and heretics in medieval Norway
Peter Raedts : The English as a Race
Robert Stein : Identities in a changing world: the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages


K-10 ETH23 Cultural Transition through Migration and the Role of Education in Intercultural Identity Positioning
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Education and Childhood , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irina Schmitt
Organizers: - Discussant: Ning De Coninck-Smith
Sarah Hackett : Shadow of the Suitcase: The Education of Muslim Immigrant Children & Youth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bremen, c. 1960s- 1990s
Walter Kusters : Conceptions of Citizenship during the French Third Republic, the Rise of Popular Education, and its Identificational Consequences for Belgian Immigrants
Susan L. Tananbaum : ’Almost indistinguishable from English children’: Communal Politics and the Education of Jewish Immigrant Children, 1880-1920s


V-10 ETH09 Migrants' Social Networks and Social Capital
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Organizers: - Discussant: Alice B. Kasakoff
Maja Cederberg : Social networks, social capital and social support: exploring the complex functions of ethnic associations in the lives of migrants
Alessio D'angelo : Social Capital and Organisational Networks: the case of Kurdish Community Organisations in London
Louise Ryan : Social networks and social capital: the experiences of recent Polish migrants in London



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
V-11 ETH10 Migrants' Access to Poor Relief: Policies and Strategies, 1500-1900
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Steven King, Anne Winter Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Heidi Deneweth : Migration policies, social policies, and labour market regulation: the case of the textile industries in sixteenth-century Bruges
Steven King : I must be allowed to insist: negotiating poor relief in England 1800-1850
Thijs Lambrecht : Agrarian capitalism, poor relief and labour organisation in Flanders, ca. 1650-ca.1820
Anne Winter : Bargaining for relief: Migration, lifecycle and settlement in nineteenth-century Antwerp


Z-11 ETH26 Trans-Atlantic Anarchy: Re-Evaluating European Anarchist Experiences in North America, 1890s-1930s
M204, Marissal
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizer: Kirwin Shaffer Discussants: Steven Hirsch, Kirwin Shaffer
Andrej Grubacic : Industrial Workers of the World and Inter-Ethnic Self-Activity on Strike
Amparo Sanchez Cobos : Spanish Anarchists and the Dissemination of the Libertarian Ideal in Cuba after Independence
Travis Tomchuk : War Among the Italian Anarchists? Re-Appraising the Consequences of Factional Disputes in Canada and the United States, 1922-1940
Davide Turcato : The Hidden History of the Anarchist Atlantic: Malatesta in America, 1899-1900
Kenyon Zimmer : Yiddish- and Italian-Language Anarchism in America: Divergent Models of Diasporic Radicalism



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
K-12 ETH27 Settled Strangers: Why Trading Minorities cannot become Natives
Room D13, Pauli
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chairs: Steven King, Marlou Schrover
Organizer: Gijsbert Oonk Discussants: Steven King, Marlou Schrover
Mary Somers Heidhues : Chinese in Indonesia: Stranger than others
Rahul Oka : From "Need" to Hatred Turned: A Historical Look at Traders as Socio-Political Scapegoats and the Impossibility of Becoming "Native"
Gijsbert Oonk : Why trading minorities cannot become natives?
Veerle Vanden Daelen : Jews, Orthodoxy, and diamonds in Antwerp (late 19th century – present): discussing the concept of “integrated segregation”
Bruce Whitehouse : The Stranger’s Code: Explaining the Persistence of Distinct Identity among West African Traders in Brazzaville, Congo


S-12 SEX10 Sexing the Nation: Issues of Sexuality in Migration Societies
M101, Marissal
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Sexuality Chair: Eleonore Kofman
Organizer: Irina Schmitt Discussant: Eleonore Kofman
Isabel Crowhurst : Preserving ‘national identity’ and disciplining ‘dangerous sexuality’: the regulation of ‘foreign prostitution’ in contemporary Italy
Jana Häberlein : Culturalisations of gender and sexuality in the migration society of Switzerland
Irina Schmitt : Surprisingly exclusive? Non-heteronormativity in school policies in Sweden, Germany and Canada
Ilgin Yorukoglu : Out in Kreuzberg: Queer Turkish Immigrant Women in Germany


V-12 ETH11 Networking Newcomers. Formal and Informal Ties of Immigrants (1500-1945)
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Stéphane Kronenberger : The migration of swiss cheesemakers to Franche-Comté (1860-1920): an example of the importance of social networks
Nele Provoost : Between friends and family. Informal contacts of newcomers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Lier
Saartje Vanden Borre : Belgian migration in Northern France in the second half of the 19th century: the importance of cafés and associations in the social and cultural life of an immigrant community



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
K-13 ETH28 Gender, Migration and Transnationalism
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irina Schmitt
Organizers: - Discussant: Irina Schmitt
Nadia Bouras : Gender and Transnationalism: Moroccan migration to the Netherlands
Marina de Regt : Gendered Memories of Migration: The Narratives of Ethiopian Women Following their Yemeni Husbands to Yemen in the 1970s
Young-Sun Hong : Germany's Forgotten Guestworkers: Asian Nurses and the Transnational (Re)Production of the German Nursing Force
Yvonne Rieker : The migration of nurses from the Philippinies and Korea to Germany


V-13 ETH12 The Dynamics of the Creation of 'Enemies from Within' in Belligerent Societies: The Case of German Migrant Minorities and the First World War (1913-1920)
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Panikos Panayi
Organizers: Frank Caestecker, Antoon Vrints Discussant: Panikos Panayi
Frank Caestecker, Antoon Vrints : The clash of loyalty among German immigrants in Belgium during and after the First World War
Daniela Luigia Caglioti : Anti-Germanism and economic nationalism: the fate of German communities and German capital and enterprises in Italy during WWI
Tammy Proctor : “Technically” German: The Ambiguities of Nationality in World War I Civilian Internment Experiences



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
K-14 ETH32 Refugees and Survivors
Room D13, Pauli
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Wirginia Bogatic : Polish female survivors from Ravensbrück concentration camp and their memory of migration
Eric Limbach : Citizens and ‘Illegals’: Rejected East German Refugees in West Berlin, 1950-1956


N-14 LAB23 Mobility and the labour market: migration, ethnicity and labour relations 1750-2000
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Irina Schmitt
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jordi Ibarz : Skillness and geographical origin of the dockers of Barcelona during the early francoism
David Struthers : The World in a City: Mobility and Affinity in Los Angeles, 1900-1930


V-14 ETH13 Determinants of Movement: a Comparative Approach to Internal and International Migration
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Nelly De Freitas : Island’s Migration : Azores and Madeira Islands ‘s Case, 1850-1900
Christer Lundh : Internal migration and regional wages in Sweden, 1865-1945
Colin Pooley : Linking internal and international migration: a comparative study of the UK and Sweden in the nineteenth century



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
B-15 ETH31 Roundtable on The Mobility Transition Revisited
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leo Lucassen
Organizer: Leo Lucassen Discussants: Josef Ehmer, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Adam Mckeown, Leslie Page Moch, Jelle van Lottum


D-15 ETH16 Migration Regimes and the Social Reproduction of Families
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Colin Pooley
Organizer: Eleonore Kofman Discussant: Colin Pooley
Ludovica Banfi : The impact of migration on the families and the social security system of the country of origin. The Ukrainian case
Eleonore Kofman : Stratified Social Reproduction and Migrant Families
Albert Kraler : Together or apart? Family migration policies and patterns of family reunification in comparative and historical perspective
Trinidad L. Vicente, Luisa Setién : Ecuadorian families in Spain: a transnational experience?


V-15 ETH14 Macro-regions, Political and Cultural Borders and Identities
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dirk Hoerder : Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States
Frans Huijzendveld : Jack of all Trades: Greek Diaspora communities in East Africa
Bina Sengar : Dynamism in the Trans Himalayn Trade in the 18th Century
Jerome Teelucksingh : Mastering the Midas Touch: The Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in North America and England, 1967-2007



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
V-16 ETH15 State Action and Migrants Identities
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Frank Caestecker
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Caestecker
Arkady Levin : Russia's citizens of different formal ethnicity: Ethnic self-definition and desire to live in Another Country.
Leslie Page Moch : Eurasia on the Move: Migration in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet States
Philippe Rygiel : The "Institut de droit International" and the regulation of migration


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