The deadline for the upcoming ISA RC02 conference on The International Political Economy of Labor Migration: The Next Great Transformation?, to be held between July 18–20, 2024 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, has been extended to 15th September 2023.

Over the past few decades, the expansion of global (re)production networks, the partial liberalization of cross-border mobility, the rise of new sending states promoting migrant exports and the burgeoning of a migration industry with recruitment networks at the lead, presage fundamental changes in world society. A global summit focused on the political economy of migration answers the call to open the “black box” of labor migration to better understand the mechanisms making mobility possible in addition to identifying the factors driving migration and what happens at migrants’ destination.

This RC02 conference highlights contributions in three cross-cutting themes (for details, see the Call for papers) that explore the relationship between states, markets, and migrants: Governance and the Making of Transnational Labor Mobilities and Labor Regimes; Transformation and Transnationalization of Social Reproductive Labor (e.g., care work, health, education); and Regulation and Resistance. These subthemes offer fruitful avenues of inquiry drawing on a spectrum of alternative perspectives.

Programme committee:

Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University, USA
Karen Shire, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Nicola Yeates, Open University, UK
Julie Greene, University of Maryland, USA
Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Ngai Pun,  Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Jenny Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach, World Society Foundation, Switzerland

Relevant dates:
Submission of abstracts: September 15, 2023
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2023
Submission of full papers: June 1, 2024 (February 1, 2024 for consideration for travel grants)

For more information, visit: https://ipelm2024.info/

E-mail: ipelm@uni-due.de