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Program

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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)
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)
Self-organization impossible? 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: Julia Teschlade (HU 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

Chair: Mike Laufenberg (TU 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

Chair: 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

Ira Raja (University of Delhi)
The Imagined Self: Migration, Care, and the Attachments to Objects

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 (HU Berlin)
Visuelle Verhandlungen von Care im Dokumentarfilm »Family Business«

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)
The Entanglement of Care Work with 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

 

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 Berlin (ASH), and the Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at Technische Universität Berlin[AM3]

Conceptionalized by Urmila Goel (Institute for European Ethnology 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, 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 HU, and the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH)