GENERAL PROGRAM Venues: Louis De Geer Concert Hall (LDG) and Täppan University Building (T)

GENERAL PROGRAM Venues: Louis de Geer Concert Hall (LDG) and Täppan University Building (T) August 15 13:00 – 16:00 Pre-conference meetings 16:00 – 20:00 Pre-registration (LDG) 16:00 – 18:00 Civil Society Panel (LDG): Swedish migration and integration policies at the crossroad 18:00 – 20:00 Welcoming mingle (LDG) August 16 8.30-9.30 Registration (LDG) 9.30- 10.00 Welcome address (LDG) Professor Roger Klinth - Deputy Vice-Chancellor LiU Associate Professor Erica Righard - Chair person NMR Professor Anders Neergaard, Director REMESO 10.00-11.15 Keynote Address (LDG). Migration and Sedentarity: Towards a New Law of Population of Global capitalism Etienne Balibar, Professor Philosophy, Univ. of Paris I and X and Columbia University. 11.15- 11.45 Coffee 11.45-13.00 Keynote Address (LDG). Global Capitalism, White Supremacy, Patriarchy and Migration Studies Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced. 13.00-14.15 Lunch (LDG) 14.30-16.00 Parallel Workshops (T) 16.00-16.30 Coffee (T) 16.30-18.30 Parallel Workshops (T) 20.00 - Dinner (LDG) August 17 9.00-10.30 Parallel Workshops (T) 10.30-10.45 Coffee (T) 10.45-12.15 Parallel Workshops (T) 12.30-13.30 Lunch (LDG) 13.30-14.00 NMR General Assembly (LDG) 14.00-15.15 Keynote Address (LDG). In Limbo: Waiting and Agency among Irregular Migrants Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo. 15.15-15.45 Coffee (LDG) 15.45-17.00 Nordic Panel (LDG): The New Right and Populism in the Nordic Countries WORKSHOPS AND PAPERS 3. Strategies of transnational families – choice, control and resilience Family members and being together with the family are important for most people. However, family life can be enjoyed in many ways, also by living apart. People live apart for different reasons such as work, study or conflict. It is not always clear how much of a choice it is to live apart from the partner, children, grandparents or other close ones. It might be better economically to leave the family behind for long periods and send them money. However, this might have implications for example to children left behind. Immigration control and restrictions on family reunification might narrow the options for enjoying family life together in the host country. When the family is living apart against their own will due to strict immigration rules, families might turn to alternative and irregular ways for reunification. It thus seems that experiences around transnational family life differ a lot depending on the immigration status and the purpose of migration. Even when apart, families build different strategies to main- tain family life, which impacts both the people who stay behind as well as the mobile ones. For example, social relations are maintained and built through different communication media. Organizers: Keiu Telve, University of Tartu, Jaana Palander, University of Tampere & University of Eastern Finland, Saara Pellander, University Frankfurt & University of Helsinki SESSION 1 16/8, 14.30 – 16.00 ROOM: TP40 Chair: Jaana Palander Determinants of family immigration policy in EU member states Anton Ahlén, Uppsala University Family migration has gained more attention recently, both politically and in research. Drawing upon the recent spread and acclaimed diversity of various family immigration policies across European countries, the aim of this paper is to explore and analyse the mechanisms inferring with the develop- ment and diffusion of family immigration policies in order to increase our knowledge of why some countries have adopted certain policies and why others have not. The argumentation put forward is that although external factors, such as the influx and composition of immigration and international regulations, are influential for the evolution of state migration policy, the main determinants of policy output are national institutions, more specifically the welfare state and membership politics. The first segment of this institutional model, welfare state institutions, is informed by research that have highlighted the connection between inclusive welfare states and inclusive policies for immigrant ad- mission. The second segment, membership politics, builds upon previous research that has empha- sized the importance of membership politics (e.g. principles of social cohesion and citizenship) in forming migration policy. Using a mixed-methods design, the ambition is to contribute both theoreti- cally and empirically to the understanding of cross-country and longitudinal variations of migration policy in general as well as the determinants of family immigration polices in particular. Restricting family reunification – control or securitization? Jaana Palander, University of Tampere & University of Eastern Finland Various countries in Europe have changed their migration legislation due to the so-called migration crisis in 2015. Also the requirements for family reunification were tightened for example in Finland and in Sweden. In this presentation, I will analyse these legislative changes and the justifications given to them. By analysing the changes from a human rights point of view, I will evaluate the politi- cal frame in which these decisions were made. The level of respect for human rights standards shows, how exceptional and threatening the situation was considered to be. First I will introduce the standards of the European Court of Human Rights in regards family reunification and then apply them in the analysis of family reunification restrictions. The stated aim for the restriction and the ac- tual level of respect for human rights obligation will show, if the restriction were conducted within the frame of ”control”, typical for migration context, or within the frame of ”security”, allowing stricter limitations and more discretion to states. The impacts of U.S. deportation policy on Latino immigrant families in Los Angeles Beth Baker and Alejandra Marchevsky, California State University This paper will present findings from our study of the impacts of U.S. deportation policy on Latino immigrant families in Los Angeles, California. Since the early 1990s, the number of deportations from the United States has grown by almost 300%, totaling more than 3 million during Obama’s admin- istration alone. The majority of people deported from the interior of the country (rather than appre- hended at the border) are Latin American men who leave behind family members, including U.S. citi- zen children. Mass deportation policy has resulted in the explosion of what Cardoso et al. (2014) have termed ””involuntary transnational families” that span two or more countries. Deportation is indisputably a traumatic and disruptive process in the lives of immigrant families and communities. Our qualitative research in the greater Los Angeles region with over 130 ”involuntary transnational families,” where at least one family member was deported to Latin America, documented serious fi- nancial losses and strains set off by the deportation of a family member, negative impacts on family health and well-being, and emergent strategies for family maintenance and resilience across borders. Understanding deportation as a ”gendered racial removal regime” (Golash-Boza and Hondagneu- Sotelo, 2013), we pay close attention to how gender relations and expectations are negotiated and transformed within Latino families that have been separated by deportation. Social remittances into family life – case study of the return migrants and their families Marta Buler, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities The conceptual framework of this paper relies on: (1) uncovering of the “doing family” processes stems from D.H. Morgan’s works (1996,2011). (2) The realm of migration is framed through the con- cept of social remittances coined by Peggy Levitt (1998;with Lamba-Nieves 2010). (3) The model is expanded with the social remitting process framework by Grabowska et al. (2016). (4) This is the lens to take a closer look at transnational families (Bryceson, D. and Vuorela, 2002) (5) while acknowledg- ing the life-course perspective (Giele, Z.J. and Elder H.G., Jr., 1998) underscoring the differences between the kin members. The presentation will be focused on the data gathered in research conducted among chosen participants of QLS study on Cultural diffusion through social remittances between Poland and UK. Researcher decided to revisit five return migrant and their families to investi- gate the field of social remittances. The chosen method is IDIs with genogram visual presentation of family relations and life line of interviewee important life events.Social remittances play an important role for the process of “doing family”. They can change the track family members follow. Re- mittances may alter the practices of everyday family life, attitudes toward raising children or celebra- tions and traditions. On the level of ideas and norms, migration may introduce modifications to gender roles in the intimate relations, familial solidarity, and attitudes towards traditional institutions such as marriage. SESSION 3 17/8, 9.00 – 10.30 ROOM: TP32 Chair: Keiu Telve Should we stay or should we go? – transnational negotiation strategies among Polish families in New Immigrant Destinations in Norway Jakub Stachowski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology In recent years, rural areas in many European countries have become recipients of substantial number of international immigrants gaining considerable scholarly attention. Labeled as ‘New Immigrant Destinations’

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