Network on Migration and Global Mobility

18th and 19th September, 2024 – FWO-Tournesol Exchange Programme workshop

FWO-Tournesol Exchange Programme workshop

18th and 19th September, 2024 – FWO-Tournesol Exchange Programme workshop

Title: 18th and 19th September, 2024 – FWO-Tournesol Exchange Programme workshop

On September 18 and 19, 2024, we had two mornings filled with thought-provoking lectures and engaging discussions on family reunification policies, paperwork, and transnational families, featuring experts from academia and civil society.

This event was organized within the framework of the FWO-Tournesol Exchange Programme and was a collaboration between MIGLOBA (the Network on Migration and Global Mobility of the University of Antwerp), the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Department of Linguistics of the University of Antwerp, and the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) action TraFaDy (Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe).


Programme

Day 1: Wednesday, 18 September 

9:00 - 12:30 Morning session: “Families and Migration Bureaucracy” 

  • 9:00 - 9:15 Arrival and participant registration [15 minutes] 
  • 9:15 - 9:45 Book presentation by Pascal Debruyne (Odisee University of Applied Sciences) Family Reunification Under Pressure: Transnational Social Work [30 minutes] 
  • 9:45 - 9:55 Q&A [10 minutes] 
  • 9:55 - 10:25 Lecture by Hilde Greefs (University of Antwerp): "Paperwork and Migration: A Historical Perspective" [30 minutes] 
  • 10:25 - 10:35 Q&A [10 minutes] 
  • 10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break [25 minutes] 
  • 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture by Marzia Masjidi (Humanitarian Welfare Association VZW, Antwerp) [30 minutes]: "Bridging World: Empowering Migrant Families Through Family Reunification" 
  • 11:30 - 11:40 Q&A [10 minutes] 
  • 11:40 - 12:30 Roundtable "Shifting the Narrative: Family Reunification Beyond the Headlines" moderated by Giovanni Penna (University of Antwerp) [50 minutes] 

12:30 Networking lunch 

​Day 2: Thursday, 19 September ​

9:00 - 12:30 Morning session: “Ethnographies of Migration”. Discussant: Mieke Schrooten (University of Antwerp and Odisee University of Applied Sciences, tbc) ​

  • 9:00 - 9:10 Arrival and participant registration [10 minutes] 
  • 9:10 - 9:20 Introduction by Milena Belloni and Mieke Vandenbroucke, MIGLOBA [10 minutes] 
  • 9:20 - 9:40 Lecture by Laura Odasso (Collège de France): "Intimacy as a Bureaucratic Competency?" [20 minutes] 
  • 9:40 - 9:50 Q&A [10 minutes] 
  • 9:50 - 10:10 Lecture by Mieke Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp): "Language in Family Reunification Processing" [20 minutes] 
  • 10:10 - 10:20 Q&A [10 minutes] 
  • 10:20 - 10:40 Lecture by Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp): "Transnational Administration and Family Migration" [20 minutes] 
  • 10:40 -10:50 Q&A [10 minutes] 
  • 10:50 - 11:15 Coffee break [25 minutes] 
  • 11:15 - 12:30 Book presentation Family Reunification in Europe. Exposing Inequalities moderated by Dirk Vanheule (University of Antwerp) [1h 15minutes]
    • 11:15 - 11:30 Ellen Desmet (Ghent University) and Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp): "Exploring Inequalities in Family Reunification in Europe: Perspectives From Legal and Social Sciences" [15 minutes]
    • 11:30 - 11:40 Betty de Hart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): "How Race and Gender Function in European Family Migration Law" [10 minutes]
    • 11:40 - 11:50 Leontine Bruijnen (University of Antwerp, Ghent University): "The Recognition of Child and Polygamous Marriages in Belgium: Alignment Between Private International Law and Migration Law? [10 minutes]
    • 11:50 - 12:00 Giacomo Orsini (Ghent University): "Domestic Violence Within the Securitisation of (Family and Love) Migration" [10 minutes]
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Q&A [30 minutes].