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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below a call for abstracts/papers for the Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) to be held in Athens between 26-28 July 2007. Geraldine Healy and I are co-chairing a track on Gender, Migration and Equality. Further particulars of the conference and the track are are available at:
Abstract and paper submission deadlines will be extended. Please contact me or Geraldine if you have paper ideas that you wish to discuss.
I look forward to seeing some of you in Athens.
Best regards
Mustafa Ozbilgin
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Dr Mustafa F. Ozbilgin
Editor, Equal Opportunities International
Professor of Human Resource Management
University of East Anglia
Norwich Business School
Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Mobile: +447967105959
Gender, Migration and Equality
Stream Convenors
Professor Geraldine Healy and Professor Mustafa Özbilgin
email:
g.m.healy@qmul.ac.uk email:
mustafa@ozbilgin.netThis is the year of equal opportunities in Europe and our stream welcomes papers on this timely theme. We call for papers that seek to explore or explain equality across fault lines of a range of equality strands, with a particular focus on gender and ethnicity in the context of migration and industrial relations. We invite papers that examine equality and migration in a way which helps us develop fresh insights into theory and practice in contemporary employment and industrial relations.
Contributions are particularly welcome in, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Analyses of strands of equality and inequality at work as they are acted out in employment relations from multiple disciplinary perspectives
Comparative and multiple perspectives that focus on the interplay between work and migration of minds and bodies across time and space
Exposition of inequalities at the intersection of multiple strands of fault lines at work
The politics of equality and migration from comparative, historical and other situated perspectives
The interplay between employer and trade union policy, practice and discourses of gender and equality in the context of migrant labour
The regulation and management of migration and equality in Europe at different levels: control, victimisation, marginalisation, celebration, and fetishisation of migrants and migration in Europe and the impact of changing regulation non-EU nationals;
Sex segregation and migration in the context of high and low skilled work
Comparative papers addressing cross-sectoral and cross-national analyses of equalities and/or migration in Europe.
We welcome papers which draw on data from a range of European countries, examine general European trends in industrial relations and are set in a wider international context, or provide single country studies from Europe. We would welcome papers from Europe and communities, which are underrepresented in academic writing and policy making.