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Tuesday 13 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 14 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 15 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 16 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

All days


 Tuesday 13 April 8.30 

V-1  -  ETH01:Austrian Migration after 1945
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Karin Schmidlechner
Discussant: Karin 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 10.45 

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
Discussant: Frank Caestecker
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
Michal Frankl Czechoslovakia, a better refuge?

 Tuesday 13 April 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
Discussant: Colin Pooley
Per-Olof Grönberg The Welcoming City? Immigrant Integration in Urban Sweden, 1860-1925
Ivana Dobrivojevic In quest for welfare. The Labour Migrations of Yugoslav Citizens in Western European Countries 1960 – 1977
Melodee Beals Scottish Emigration and the Scottish Provincial Press, 1770-1850
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

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

V-3  -  ETH03: Historical Approaches to Transnational Ethnic Identities
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Nadia Bouras
Discussant: Nadia Bouras
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
Brigitte Cairus The Testimony of a Gypsy Queen: immigration, identity politics and interculturality in contemporary Brazil

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

K-3  -  ETH20: History, Memory and Migration I
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Irial Glynn
Organiser: J. Olaf Kleist
Chair: Irial Glynn
Discussant: José Lingna Nafafé
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
Magdalena Elchinova Imagining the ‘Homeland’: Memory and History in the Construction of a Transnational Community (The Case of the Macedonian Americans)

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

V-4  -  ETH04: Exclusion and Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Twentieth Century Britain
M209, Marissal

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

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

K-4  -  ETH21: History, Memory and Migration II
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: J. Olaf Kleist
Organiser: Irial Glynn
Chair: 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
José Lingna Nafafé African Migrants: Past and Integration in Northern Europe
Christopher Kennedy Death and Despair, Prosperity and Plenty: Irish Visions of America
Kevin Myers Cultures of history: minority histories and the politics of the past in post-war Britain

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

V-5  -  ETH05: Personal Narratives of Migration: Reading First Person Accounts and Family Correspondence
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Maria Bjerg
Chair: Leslie Page Moch
Discussant: Leslie Page Moch
Maria Bjerg The experience of Immigrant Children Through Personal Narratives. Argentina in the Second Postwar
Jeremy Ball Angolan Accounts of Forced Labor, 1900-1960
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 10.45 

S-6  -  AFR04: Digitising the Black Diaspora
M101, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov Invisibility and Visibility of the Black Diaspora: A Database Project on Blacks in Early Modern German-Speaking Countries
Robert Aitken Making an African Presence Visible: Cameroonians in Germany, 1884-1960
Laura Stapane, Martin Klimke The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany: Digital Archive, Oral History Collection and Research Project

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

Y-6  -  ETH06: European Databases of Migrant Organisations
M212, Marissal

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

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

E-7  -  ETH07: Assimilation of Jews
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Peter Tammes
Chair: Susan L. Tananbaum
Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Peter Tammes Assimilation of Jews in prewar Amsterdam: losing faith
Jessica Roitman What ever happened to the Sephardim? Assimilation and the Sephardim of the Netherlands in the 18th Century
Andrej Pančur The Different Degrees of Assimilation of the Jews in Slovenia Prior to WWII

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

N-9  -  ETH08: Legality and Illegality: Discourse and Practice in Regulation of Migration
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Corrie Van Eijl
Chair: Idesbald Goddeeris
Discussant: Idesbald Goddeeris
Corrie Van Eijl Unauthorized, irregular or undocumented immigrants: constructions of illegality in the Netherlands
Hanan Sabea Crossing the Sea: Discourses of Legality, Morality and Citizenship among Egyptian Migrants to Europe
Aitana Guia Regularizing Undocumented Migrants and Building Community in Spain, 1985-2005

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

K-9  -  ETH22: Representations of Migration in Culture, Politics and Education
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Christiane Hintermann
Chair: Stefan Nyzell
Discussant: Hester Dibbits
Christiane Hintermann Immigration in Austrian Textbooks and Migration Exhibitions - Representations and Memory (Re)Production
Stefanie Mayer Migration in Political Discourse – a cross-national and diachronic perspective
Christina Johansson Swedish Museums and Migration
Vanja Lozic Objectifying Discourses in the Narratives about Swedish Immigration - "The Story about them"
Sonja Kmec Staging Migration: Museographic Representations and Political Discourses in Luxembourg

 Thursday 15 April 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

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Organiser: Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Chair: Robert Stein
Peter Hoppenbrouwers Ethnic identity and regional nationalism in the late Middle Ages. The cases of Wales and Westfriesland
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz Hollanders as ‘the Other’ through a Hanseatic lens. Late medieval and modern perceptions of identity
Claire Weeda Culture, Climate and Identity in Twelfth-Century Northern Europe

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

V-10  -  ETH09: Migrants' Social Networks and Social Capital
M209, Marissal

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

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

K-10  -  ETH23: Cultural Transition through Migration and the Role of Education in Intercultural Identity Positioning
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Irina Schmitt
Discussant: Ning De Coninck-Smith
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
Sarah Hackett Shadow of the Suitcase: The Education of Muslim Immigrant Children & Youth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bremen, c. 1960s- 1990s

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

B-10  -  ETH30: Meet the Author session on Adam McKeown's Melancholy Order
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Leo Lucassen
Chair: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Adam Mckeown
Discussant: Ulbe Bosma
Discussant: Sebastian Conrad
Discussant: Andreas Fahrmeir
Discussant: Barbara Luethi

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

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

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Organiser: Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Chair: Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Discussant: Peter Raedts
Peter Raedts The English as a Race
Robert Stein Identities in a changing world: the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages
Bjørn Bandlien Trading with heathens and heretics in medieval Norway

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

V-11  -  ETH10: Migrants' Access to Poor Relief: Policies and Strategies, 1500-1900
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Anne Winter
Organiser: Steven King
Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Anne Winter Bargaining for relief: Migration, lifecycle and settlement in nineteenth-century Antwerp
Steven King I must be allowed to insist: negotiating poor relief in England 1800-1850
Heidi Deneweth Migration policies, social policies, and labour market regulation: the case of the textile industries in sixteenth-century Bruges
Thijs Lambrecht Agrarian capitalism, poor relief and labour organisation in Flanders, ca. 1650-ca.1820

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

Z-11  -  ETH26: Trans-Atlantic Anarchy: Re-Evaluating European Anarchist Experiences in North America, 1890s-1930s
M204, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Kirwin Shaffer
Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Discussant: Kirwin Shaffer
Discussant: Steven Hirsch
Kenyon Zimmer Yiddish- and Italian-Language Anarchism in America: Divergent Models of Diasporic Radicalism
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
Amparo Sanchez Cobos Spanish Anarchists and the Dissemination of the Libertarian Ideal in Cuba after Independence
Andrej Grubacic Industrial Workers of the World and Inter-Ethnic Self-Activity on Strike

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

V-12  -  ETH11: Networking Newcomers. Formal and Informal Ties of Immigrants (1500-1945)
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
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
Stéphane Kronenberger The migration of swiss cheesemakers to Franche-Comté (1860-1920): an example of the importance of social networks

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

K-12  -  ETH27: Settled Strangers: Why Trading Minorities cannot become Natives
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Gijsbert Oonk
Chair: Steven King
Discussant: Steven King
Chair: Marlou Schrover
Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Gijsbert Oonk Why trading minorities cannot become natives?
Bruce Whitehouse The Stranger’s Code: Explaining the Persistence of Distinct Identity among West African Traders in Brazzaville, Congo
Rahul Oka From "Need" to Hatred Turned: A Historical Look at Traders as Socio-Political Scapegoats and the Impossibility of Becoming "Native"
Mary Somers Heidhues Chinese in Indonesia: Stranger than others
Veerle Vanden Daelen Jews, Orthodoxy, and diamonds in Antwerp (late 19th century – present): discussing the concept of “integrated segregation”

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

S-12  -  SEX10: Sexing the Nation: Issues of Sexuality in Migration Societies
M101, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Irina Schmitt
Chair: Eleonore Kofman
Discussant: Eleonore Kofman
Irina Schmitt Surprisingly exclusive? Non-heteronormativity in school policies in Sweden, Germany and Canada
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
Ilgin Yorukoglu Out in Kreuzberg: Queer Turkish Immigrant Women in Germany

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

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
Organiser: Frank Caestecker
Organiser: Antoon Vrints
Chair: Panikos Panayi
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 8.30 

K-13  -  ETH28: Gender, Migration and Transnationalism
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Irina Schmitt
Discussant: Irina Schmitt
Yvonne Rieker The migration of nurses from the Philippinies and Korea to Germany
Young-Sun Hong Germany's Forgotten Guestworkers: Asian Nurses and the Transnational (Re)Production of the German Nursing Force
Marina de Regt Gendered Memories of Migration: The Narratives of Ethiopian Women Following their Yemeni Husbands to Yemen in the 1970s
Nadia Bouras Gender and Transnationalism: Moroccan migration to the Netherlands

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

V-14  -  ETH13: Determinants of Movement: a Comparative Approach to Internal and International Migration
M209, Marissal

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

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

K-14  -  ETH32: Refugees and Survivors
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Marlou Schrover
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

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

N-14  -  LAB23: Mobility and the labour market: migration, ethnicity and labour relations 1750-2000
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Irina Schmitt
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

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

V-15  -  ETH14: Macro-regions, Political and Cultural Borders and Identities
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov
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
Jerome Teelucksingh Mastering the Midas Touch: The Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in North America and England, 1967-2007
Bina Sengar Dynamism in the Trans Himalayn Trade in the 18th Century

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

D-15  -  ETH16: Migration Regimes and the Social Reproduction of Families
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Eleonore Kofman
Chair: Colin Pooley
Discussant: Colin Pooley
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
Ludovica Banfi The impact of migration on the families and the social security system of the country of origin. The Ukrainian case
Trinidad L. Vicente, Luisa Setién Ecuadorian families in Spain: a transnational experience?

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

B-15  -  ETH31: Roundtable on The Mobility Transition Revisited
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Leo Lucassen
Chair: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Discussant: Leslie Page Moch
Discussant: Adam Mckeown
Discussant: Josef Ehmer

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

V-16  -  ETH15: State Action and Migrants Identities
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Frank Caestecker
Discussant: Frank Caestecker
Leslie Page Moch Eurasia on the Move: Migration in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet States
Arkady Levin Russia's citizens of different formal ethnicity: Ethnic self-definition and desire to live in Another Country.
Philippe Rygiel The "Institut de droit International" and the regulation of migration