[english below]
Einladung zum kleinen, internationalen Workshop zu Infrastrukturen der Solidarität im Kontext von Arbeitsmigration. Wer vor Ort in Osnabrück ist, ist herzlich eingeladen, im IMIS-Meeting-Room vorbeizukommen. Wer online teilnehmen möchte, kann dies über den untenstehenden Link tun. Die Veranstaltung wird auf englisch stattfinden.
Die Flyer zur Veranstaltung findet sich unten zum downloaden.
Invitation to a small, international workshop on infrastructures of solidarity in the context of labour migration. If you are in Osnabrück, you are cordially invited to come to the IMIS meeting room. If you would like to participate virtually, please find the link below. The language of the event is English.
You can find the flyer for the event below to download.
Hybrid Workshop within the research-practitioner network Soli*City
Migrant Workers’ Resistance and Infrastructures of Solidarity
Monday, 26 February 2024, 2-6pm
Online & Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück/Germany
Migrants are often among the most vulnerable workers due to their often insecure legal status. This precarity notwithstanding, migrant workers have been engaging in labor struggles all over the globe. Highly visible as well as more tacit and invisible forms of resistance rely on infrastructural practices. These include solidarity work, providing safe spaces, distributing counter-knowledge and establishing different social and affective relations. We invite to a hybrid workshop at which we ask conceptually whether the concept of “infrastructures of solidarity” captures aspects that a more common understanding of “solidarity” does not. Who is (not) part of these infrastructures of solidarity? How formal or informal, how ad-hoc or sustainable are they?
Keynote speaker is Dr. Sarah Schilliger (Switzerland) on “Infrastructures of Solidarity”.
The workshop can be accessed online via https://webconf.uni-osnabrueck.de/b/phi-wup-jhu-fzo
Convenors and contact: Philipp Ratfisch & Helen Schwenken
Program:
- 14:00 Welcome
- 14:15 Sarah Schilliger (University of Bern, Switzerland): Infrastructures of solidarity: Analyzing the emergence of solidarity relations in the field of migration
- 15:15 Isabel Gutiérrez Sanchéz (Spanish National Research Council, Spain): Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship: Care commons and struggles
- 15:55 Short break
- 16:10 Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven, Belgium): Eradicating agricultural labour exploitation: Provisional reflections on the structural limits of solidarity and humanitarian initiatives
- 16:50 Philipp Ratfisch (University of Osnabrück, Germany): Infrastructure of Solidarity meets Infrastructure of Transit: Afghan*Pakistani recycling workers in Istanbul
- 17:30 Final discussion
