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Sixth European Social Science History Conference
22 - 25 March 2006
 
 
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All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
 
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Wednesday 22 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Thursday 23 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Friday 24 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Saturday 25 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30

All days


 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

U-1  -  ETH01: Children and migration: Imperial, National and Multicultural Contexts
Room U

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Brian Gratton
Discussant: Brian Gratton
Irina Schmitt 'I am who you think I am' ('Ich bin der der du denkst der ich bin') - Cultural self-positioning of young people with and without migration experiences in Germany and Canada
Dirk Hoerder Education for a Lifeworld or for an Imperial Construct: Schooling in the British Empire, 1930s to 1960s
Adam Walaszek Immigrant Children, Orphan Asylums and Social Control in the United States' Progressive Era
Jacqueline Knoerr When German Children Come "Home". Experiences of (Re-)migration and some Remarks about the "TCK"-Issue

 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

B-1  -  ETH20: Gender and Migration I
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Marlou Schrover
Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Deniz Ünsal The Multicultural Ordeal: Race, Nation and Sexuality in Dutch Postcoloniality
Donna Gabaccia Gender and Interdisciplinary Field-Building in
Eleonore Kofman Gendered Migrations, Social Reproduction and Welfare Regimes: new dialogues and directions
Betty De Hart Dual Citizenship and Identity

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

M-2  -  ETH03: Ethnic Elders, family, work and retirement
Room M

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Ulla Rosén
Discussant: Ulla Rosén
Anita Böcker Residence and social security strategies of former guest workers: The case of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands
S. J. Kleinberg European Women, Age and the U.S. Labor Market, 1880 – 1990
Brian Gratton, Myron P. Gutmann The Perils of Family Support: Aging Immigrants
Lisa Dillon, Jon Moen Nativity, ethnicity and men’s retirement in turn-of-the-century Canada and the United States

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

B-2  -  ETH21: Gender and migration II
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Eileen Yeo
Discussant: Eileen Yeo
Leslie Page Moch Women and Men in Paris, 1870-1939: Gender and Migration
Marlou Schrover Theories on gender and migration

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

J-2  -  ETH35: Integrating the Other in France: The Banlieues Riots in International Perspective
Room J

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Eric Kaufmann
Discussant: Eric Kaufmann
Discussant: Olivier Richomme
Discussant: Nancy Green
Discussant: Pontus Odmalm

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

B-3  -  ETH04: Immigrants and citizens: twentieth century Jewish migration and absorption in comparative perspective
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Tobias Brinkmann
Discussant: Stanley Nadel
Melanie Shell-Weiss Jews and Immigrants: The Miami Response to Post-1980 Refugees from the Soviet Union, Cuba and Haiti
Nora Faires Jewish Refugees in Autotown: Two Waves of Immigrants to Flint, Michigan
Fred Lazin American Quotas and Soviet Jews: The Case of Soviet Jewish Refugees in 1989
Marina Zeltser-Shorer Barter of Identities: Soviet Jews in Germany, U.S. and Israel

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

D-3  -  ETH22: Gender and migration III
Room D

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Sarah van Walsum
Leo Lucassen Mixed marriages and assimilation: Exogamy and the role of ethnicity, religion, class and gender among German migrants in the Netherlands (1870-1940)
Eileen Yeo Gender in Diaspora: Home and Homeland among the Irish and the Jews in Britain and America
Lynette Jackson From Kakuma to Rogers Park: Gendered Narratives of Displacement and Home
Bediz Yilmaz Women organize, children earn: Survival strategies of poor migrant households living in an Istanbul slum

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

C-4  -  ETH23: Gender and Migration IV
Room C

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Margo Anderson
Michelle Small The Feminization of Migration and Labour Market Segmentation
Lambrini Styliou The Albanian Family: Negotiating gendered ideologies and practices
Nikolina Sretenova Female Scientists on the Move: Catching up Societies in Transition

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

B-4  -  ETH33: Jewish migrants, refugees and survivors 1930-1950s
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Michael G. Esch
Discussant: Michael G. Esch
Gerben Zaagsma Eastern European Jewish communists in Paris in the 1930s.
Orly Caroline Meron Ethnic Economy and Niches: Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica (1922)
Yair Seltenreich Efforts of Jewish Immigration to Syria and Lebanon during the 1930s: Social Aspects

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

L-5  -  ETH05: Central European transatlantic migration in context
Room L

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Josef Ehmer
Chair: Josef Ehmer
Discussant: David Gerber
Dorota Praszalowicz Ethnic Mix of Overseas Migration Streams from Eastern Europe: Collective Memory and Facts
Hermann Zeitlhofer Vienna: Co-existing migration systems in Bohemia, 1870-1914
Zuzana Poláčková Between assimilation and integration; the struggle for the Czech-language school in Vienna. (1900-1920)
Annemarie Steidl Transatlantic, European, and Internal Migration in Late 19th Century Galicia

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

E-6  -  ETH06: Writing home
Room E

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Philippe Rygiel
Discussant: Philippe Rygiel
Machteld Venken Workshop: Communication between Sending and Host Countries.The impact of the Polish Communist Party on the Polish Organisations in Belgium, 1950-1990.
David Zwart Receiving the Homeland: Dutch-Americans and the Netherlands Information Bureau; 1940-1960
Mathieu Grenet Citizens from abroad. The reception by the Greek community of Marseilles of the political events in Greece during the first half of the 19th century
Ewa Ignaczak Between the church and the republic

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

B-6  -  ETH19: Labour migration and deportation in historical and contemporary perspectives
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Touraj Atabaki
Discussant: Touraj Atabaki
Ineke van Kessel The (forced?) migration of soldiers from West Africa to the Dutch East Indies
Cindy Hahamovitch Temporary Workers of the World: Guestworker Programs and the Making of Nationless Workers
Irina Mukhina “Masculinizing” their Bodies: German Women’s Perception of Labor in the Soviet Exile, 1941-1955
Pavel Markovich Polian Deportation and Ethnicity: the Case of the USSR

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

V-7  -  ETH07: Spanish bi-lateral labour treaties in the 1960s
Committee Room 1

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Axel Kreienbrink
Discussant: Axel Kreienbrink
Maria Jose Fernandez The Signing of the Spanish-French Immigration Treaty of 1961.
Luís Manuel Calvo Salgado The Bilateral Labour Treaty between Spain and Switzerland (1961)
Carlos Sanz The Labour Recruitment Agreement between Spain and the Federal Republic of Germany (1960)

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

A-7  -  ETH10: Meet the author panel on Migration in world history by Patrick Manning
Room A

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Discussant: Pat Manning
Discussant: Jan Lucassen

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

B-9  -  ETH12: Strangers in the eyes of Scandinavians
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Idesbald Goddeeris
Discussant: Idesbald Goddeeris
Mikael Byström The Nordic Privilege. Interpreting policy practice and public debate
Pär Frohnert Socialist refugees under Social Democratic control. The Labour Movement’s Refugee Committee and political refugees in Sweden, 1933-1945.
Christina Johansson Red Light? Swedish Refugee Policy Discourses of the late 1980s.

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

O-9  -  ETH17: Migration of domestic servants
Room O

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Marina de Regt "Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Sjoukje Botman The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Monica Smith Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

J-9  -  ETH27: Migration and Identity formation in Canada
Room J

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Nora Faires
Discussant: Nora Faires
Betsy Boer Identity and contacts of orthodox protestants Dutch emigrants in Canada
Amal Madibbo A socio-historical context of the immigration of Black French-speaking to Canada (1960-2000)

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

K-10  -  ETH08: Continuity and change of spatial mobility around World War I (1)
Room K

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Marlou Schrover
Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Tobias Brinkmann Germans and Transmigrants: The Impact of American Immigration Policies in Europe before and after the First World War
Elizabeth Bright Jones Mobilizing Veterans: The Resettlement of Disabled
Thomas Klug “Work or Fight”: Employers, the State, and Bureaucratic Methods of Controlling the Labor Market in the United States during World War I
Christiane Reinecke Governing the Alien: Administrative Techniques and Migration Control in Great Britain and Germany, 1905-1930

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

B-10  -  ETH31: Voices and narrators
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Brian Gratton
Discussant: Brian Gratton
Jutta Birmele Who is the Narrator? Voices of Emigrants in W.G.Sebald's Writing.
Lotta Weckström To whom are you talking?
Sirin Dilli New Sounds from Europe

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

B-11  -  ETH14: Roles of immigrant and minority organisations in European cities
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Floris Vermeulen
Discussant: Floris Vermeulen
Sanna Saksela Shifting between ethnic mobilization and mediation: Immigrant associations as bridge builders between local policy-makers and immigrants in Finland
Tiziana Caponio Policy Networks and Immigrants’ Associations in Italy: The Cases of Milan, Bologna and Naples
Pontus Odmalm Institutional effects on migrant voluntary organisations: a comparison between Sweden, France and the UK
Gamze Avci Does policy matter?: A study of Turkish migrant organizations in the Netherlands and Germany

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

L-11  -  ETH29: The management of migrants: Case studies from the US and Canandian Borders (1830-1930)
Room L

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Barbara Lüthi
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Barbara Lüthi “Invading bodies” and the construction of disease: Medical border control and Immigration in the USA, 1880-1920
Lisa Chilton Managing Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada
Dorothee Schneider Women Immigrants confront the Border

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

M-12  -  ETH28: Migration to and within the Americas
Room M

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Donna Gabaccia
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Jennifer Bickham Mendez Suburban Space Invaders: Globalization, Gender, and Latino/a Migration
Christopher Paetzold Cuba, Spain and transatlantic nationalisms, 1885-1930
Margo Anderson Race and Ethnic Classification and the McCarran Walter Act

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

K-13  -  ETH11: Jewish migrants, refugees and survivors 1930s-1950s II
Room K

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Michael G. Esch
Discussant: Michael G. Esch
Wirginia Bogatic The Swedish reception of Polish female survivors from Ravensbrück con-centration camp April – November 1945
Malin Thor Local and international Jewish refugee reception and activity in Sweden 1941-1956
Peter Tammes Dutch Jews or Jewish Dutch?

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

P-13  -  ETH24: Migration, marriage, family and home
Room P

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Colin Pooley
Discussant: Colin Pooley
Saskia Bonjour Family immigration in the 1980s: the discursive construction of a policy problem
Hanna Markusson Winkvist Defining a New Family - The Swedish Way of Foreign Adoption
Elisabeth Campagna-Paluch The myth of Isola delle Femmine: male and female identities in an immigrant Sicilian family in Tunisia
Ana Dragojlovic Negotiating desire and domesticity: Balinese - Dutch Intermarriages

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

T-13  -  ETH30: Remembering Japanese American Internment
Room T

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Judy Wu
Discussant: Karen Leong
Genna Duberstein. Translating Oral Histories into Visual Narratives
Annelieke Dirks Interpreting politicized memories of Japanese American Internment
Wan-Hui Su Healing traumatic memories: A stolen childhood behind barbed wire

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

A-14  -  ETH02: Author meets critics. The immigrant threat: the integration of old and new migrants in Western Europe, 1850-2002 (Leo Lucassen)
Room A

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Leslie Page Moch
Discussant: Joel Perlmann
Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Nancy Foner
Discussant: Ewa Morawska

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

K-14  -  ETH09: Continuity and change of spatial mobility around World War I (2)
Room K

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Josef Ehmer
Discussant: Josef Ehmer
Laurence Fontaine Print circulations and pedling
Sigrid Wadauer Vagrancy in Austria 1918-1938
Thimo De Nijs Trading with a handcart. Peddling in Dutch cities in the 1930s
Thomas Buchner Illicit work in early 20th century Central Europe

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

O-15  -  ETH15: Perspectives on short-range mobility
Room O

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Marlou Schrover
Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Pawel Kaczmarczyk Seasonal migration and other types of short-term mobility: the case of Poland
Paul Philip Thompson A micro-scale analysis of intra-urban mobility in nineteenth century lancaster, England
Dariusz Stola Sealing off and opening Poland: the disappearance and reemergence of short-term mobility from communist Poland
Colin Pooley Everyday mobility in the twentieth century: a global perspective

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

L-15  -  ETH18: Asian Labour Migration
Room L

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Judy Wu
Discussant: Judy Wu
T. V. Sekher History of Indian Labour Migration to Persian Gulf
Lars Amenda From Southern China to the North Sea. Chinese Migration and its Reception in Western European Port Cities, 1900-1950
Young-Sun Hong "Lotus Flowers from the Far East": Orientalism and Transnational Migrants in Germany

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

I-15  -  ETH32: Roundtable on Identity: concepts and case studies
Room A-2

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Chester Proshan Drawing Lines: The American Population Resident in the Yokohama Treaty Port, 1884, and the Question of Group Boundaries
Dimitrios Zachos Sedentary Rom (Gypsies): The case of Serres basin

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

L-16  -  ETH13: States of displacement: forced migration and the transformation of political space in post -1918 Eastern Europe
Room L

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Tomas Balkelis
Discussant: Tomas Balkelis
Jan Rychlik Migration from Czechoslovakia to the West in the Period of Communism (1948-1989)
Nick Baron Itineracy and Sedentarism: New Perspectives on Post-1918 Forced Migration and Territorial Politics in Eastern Europe
Peter Gatrell Refugees in the Russian Empire and its Successor States, 1914-23
Konrad Zielinski Migration, Ethnicity and Spatial Politics in the New Poland, 1918-24

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

M-16  -  ETH16: Roundtable Identity, practice and power
Room M

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Peter Tammes
Discussant: Peter Tammes
Heinrich Berger Jewish Immigrants in Vienna from the Mid-19th Century until the Nazi Era
Michael G. Esch Appropriation, Affiliation and Milieu: Overlapping Identities of Eastern European Immigrants in Paris
Idesbald Goddeeris Contacts and perceptions between Catholic and Jewish Poles in Belgium during the Cold War

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

A-16  -  ETH26: Migration to and within Europe
Room A

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Adam Walaszek
Discussant: Christiane Harzig
Guldem Baykal Buyuksarac Making up ethnicity: A case study on Iraqi Turcoman immigrants in Turkey
Jasmina Osmankovic, Jasminko Mulaomerović Migration in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elzbieta Kuzma Poles in Brussels. Analysis of the "non-existent" immigrants’ community.
Valeri Zlatanov Lichev, Lyubomir Dimitrov Vladimirov Migration, temporal strata and ethnic identity

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

Q-16  -  ETH34: Migration in Sweden
Room N1-O1

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Stanley Nadel
Discussant: Stanley Nadel
Jesper Johansson Integration Ideologies and Practices towards migrant and minority ethnic workers in the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) in the 1960s and the 1970s
Johan Svanberg Estonian and Hungarian refugees and the Swedish Metal Workes' Union - A local perspective on the first meeting between immigrated and indigenous workers at a car factory in Sweden in the post World War II period
Magnus Persson Back in Business?- Returning emigrants and entrepreneurship in rural Sweden 1880-1930