Investigating Separated Families: Towards a Transnational Analysis of Policies, Bureaucracy and Everyday Life
Join us for two mornings filled with thought-provoking lectures and engaging discussions about family reunification policies, paperwork, and transnational families featuring experts from academia and civil society.
This event is organised in the framework of the FWO-Tournesol Exchange Programme and it is a collaboration of 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).
Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 September 2024
Place: University of Antwerp (room tbc), hybrid
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 [50 minutes]
- Griet Braeye (Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
- Grietje Cant (Adviescentrum Migratie CAW Antwerpen)
- Mieke Verrelst (Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp)
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 - 9:50 Lecture by Laura Odasso (Collège de France): “Intimacy as a Bureaucratic Competency?” [20 minutes + 10-minute Q&A]
- 9:50 - 10:20 Lecture by Mieke Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp): "Language in Family Reunification Processing" [20 minutes + 10-minute Q&A]
- 10:20 - 10:50 Lecture by Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp): "Transnational Administration and Family Migration" [20 minutes + 10-minute Q&A]
- 10:50 - 11:15 Coffee break [25 minutes]
- 11:15 - 12:30 Book presentation by Ellen Desmet, Milena Belloni, Ayse Güdük, Dirk Vanheule: “Family Reunification in Europe. Exposing Inequalities” [1h 5min + 10minute Q&A]