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
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«?
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
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)