[MGSA-L] Call for Applications: 2018 Migration Summer School (MIGSS) on Precarious Labour, Human Trafficking, & Social Exclusion in Europe (July 26-August 1, 2018) - EPLO Premises in Sounion, Greece
Theodoros Fouskas
theodoros.fouskas at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 02:53:05 PDT 2018
Dear
colleagues
,
P
lease find attached the information on the
*2018 Migration Summer School (MIGSS) on Precarious Labour, Human
Trafficking, & Social Exclusion* in Europeat the EPLO Premise
s
in Sounio
n
, Greece
**
* (July 26-August 1, 2018). *
*Deadline *for applications is
*June 15, 2018.*
The information is also available at:
<https://www.unioviedo.es/promebi/category/eventos/promebi-summer-school/>*http://www1.eplo.int/projects/35
<http://www1.eplo.int/projects/35>*
Please feel free to share the
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with anyone who might find it interesting.
Best regards,
Theodoros Fouskas
--
Theodoros Fouskas
Sociologist, PhD
email:
theodoros.fouskas at gmail.com
website: http://theodorosfouskas.com
**
*2018 MIGRATION SUMMER SCHOOL (MIGSS) on Precarious Labour, Human
Trafficking, & Social Exclusion in Europe*
A unique summer program with on-site visits in Greece
*26 July- 1 August 2018 EPLO premises in Sounion*
- Α 7-day program in English will offer a state-of-the-art overview of
the most important theoretical debates and research findings on migration,
precarious work, human trafficking and social exclusion.
- Open for Practitioners and Students of all disciplines (i.e.
Sociology, Social Policy, International Relations, Human Rights, Economics
et al.)
- *On-Site Visits to Reception Facilities & NGOs*
- Meet key academics and experts working in the field
- *Esp. for PhD s: *Get feedback on your work
**
*The context*
Over the past years, Europe and especially Southern European Countries have
faced the largest flow of refugees and immigrants in their recent history.
No one can ignore the social controversies, the policy inadequacies and the
tragedies that accompany migration as well as the precarious lives that
immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees of all ages and genders must
endure. They battle to survive in the social margins while their social and
human rights are encroached upon. According to the United Nations, it is
estimated that there are more than 244 million international migrants
living abroad worldwide and at least 21.3 million are refugees, 3.2 million
asylum seekers and 65.3 million individuals were forcibly displaced
worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or
human rights violations. Moreover, most of the international migrants are
employed, voluntarily or not, in precarious, low status/low-wage jobs and
personal services. These jobs are characterized by inequalities in survival
and everyday life, inequalities in income and social protection. Due to the
way of work and employment, the life of the workforce is at risk, as well
as its freedoms and potential for progress and social development. Of
these, approximately 45.8 million people are in some form of modern
slavery, according to the Walk Free Foundation. Immigrants and refugees
have become part of a cheap workforce reserve that is continually renewed
while the division of labour prompts and entraps migrants into wage labour
and low-status/low-wage jobs, distinguishing them by class, gender,
race-nationality and religion and way of entrance into a country. The
labour that migrants are exposed to is not only characterized by precarity,
low status and low wages, exploitation, flexibility and instability,
isolation and individualization, but also by decollectivization, or in
other words by alienation from family, community, collective, networks of
solidarity and labour rights. Precarious work is employment that lacks all
the standard forms of labour security and is characterized by low wages,
insecurity, exceptionally limited social benefits and legal rights, and
high risks of ill health and creates barriers to labour organization
strategies due to the isolated, atomized and non-unionized nature of
immigrant employment. The exploitation of the process of migration has
taken on the characteristics of forced labour of migrants and asylum
seekers, who are deprived of basic human rights and are subjected to social
exclusion. The key element inherent in the phenomenon of human trafficking,
is the vulnerability they are subject to. The multiple causes, economic,
political, social and cultural that activate human trafficking have their
roots in the present migration system and relations between the sending and
receiving countries. The prevailing restrictive European migration
policies, the expansion of the informal economy which affect now all of
Europe, the continuous rise of personal and care services and the sex
industry and the difficult economic conditions are encouraging phenomena of
social pathology such as that of human trafficking.
In this context, the course “*2nd Migration Summer School (MIGSS) *on
*Precarious
Labour, Human Trafficking, & Social Exclusion in Europe*” has been
carefully designed and developed to provide participants with a
comprehensive understanding of issues regarding precarious labour, human
trafficking, and social exclusion of immigrants and refugees and a
theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary migration in
Europe, with a particular focus on the current situation in Europe. This
will be achieved through lectures and discussions led by international
professors and experts, as well as through a day of site-visits to
facilities and organizations in Athens that support refugees, asylum
seekers, and immigrants. This program is organized by the European Law &
Governance School, and will operate out of the EPLO’s premises at Sounion,
Greece from the *26th of July to the 1st of August, 2018*.
**
*About the course*
The “2nd Migration Summer School (MIGSS) on Precarious Labour, Human
Trafficking & Social Exclusion in Europe” will be taught by academics and
practitioners from European and international universities, institutions
and research centers:
-
* Bridget Anderson, *Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship,
University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
-
* Giovanna Campani,* Professore ordinario, Dipartimento di Scienze
Formazione e Psicologia, Pedagogia generale e sociale, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (UniFI).(TBC)
-
* Gabriella Sanchez, *PhD, Research Fellow, Migration Policy Centre
European University Institute (EUI), Italy.
-
* Iraklis Moskoff, *PhD, Greek National Rapporteur on Trafficking in
Human Beings, Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
-
* Daniel Esdras, *Special Envoy of the DG of the IOM, Advisor to the
Regional Director for the Mediterranean.
-
* Theodoros Fouskas, *
Sociologist, PhD, Laboratory Associate (2016-2018), Department of Social
Work, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece.
-
* Lefteris Papagiannakis,* Dep. Mayor for Immigrants, Refugees and
Municipal Decentralization Municipality of Athens, Greece.
In conjunction with the seminars, the program includes a day of study
visits. Athens provides an ultimate setting for carrying out this program,
as Athens comprises the main city of temporary or permanent stay for
immigrants and refugees in the country and offers a unique environment that
facilitates participants’ deeper engagement.
Participants will be given the unique opportunity to interact with
immigrants, refugees and representatives of organizations that provide
support to them by conducting a study visit to key locations such as
(indicatively):
- Accommodation Center for Migrants and Refugees in Thiva, Central
Greece;
- Eleonas Open Reception Facility of Third-Country Nationals, Attica;
- Melissa Network: Network of Migrant Women in Greece, Promoting
Empowerment, Communication and Active Citizenship, Athens, Attica;
- G2RED – Accommodation Facility for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors,
Athens, Attica;
- Immigrant and Refugee Integration Center of the Municipality of
Athens, Athens, Attica.
**
*Certificate*
Participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance at the end of the
program, after demonstrating their full and active participation throughout
the *seven-day* course. The program does not require any written work to be
submitted, nor exams to be taken.
**
*Credits info*
8 ECTS: Participants who wish to obtain ECTS will have to submit an essay
after the end of the Summer School of approx. 5.000 words on a topic
related to the lectures of the MIGSS and supervised by a lecturer of their
choice. *Deadline for essay submission: 1st September 2018. *The best paper
wll have the opportunity to submit their paper for publishing in a
peer-reviewed journal of the EPLO *.*
**
*Practical Information:*
**
*Accomodation*
Students are invited to secure their own accommodation and transportation,
or may opt for an accommodation package that is provided through the EPLO.
Participants will be accommodated at the seaside premises of the EPLO at
Sounion, Greece or at a partner hotel. Accommodation is on a
first-come-first-serve basis and students interested in this package should
inquire at iskrapa at eplo.int.
**
*Facilities*
Classes will take place daily at the seaside premises of the EPLO at
Sounion, Greece, except for the day of site visits. Participants will have
access to the facilities of the EPLO which include a library, study room,
and sports facilities. Students are encouraged to bring a laptop and will
be sent relevant reference and reading material via digital means including
statistics, maps, reports, scientific articles on immigration and refugee
crisis and presentations used by the speakers.
**
*Addressed to:*
As this program is interdisciplinary in nature, it is open to all
disciplines (such as Sociology, Social Policy, International Relations,
Human Rights, Economics et al.) and applicants are welcome from the
postgraduate level and up, PhD candidates, researchers, NGOs professionals.
Doctoral students and researchers will have the opportunity to present
their PhD/research at the PhD Seminar, pending a minimum of five students
are enrolled in the seminar.
**
*Cost of the Program: **500€* which covers tuition, light working lunch on
a daily basis, and transportation on the day of the site visits.
*Applications until *
**
*June 15, 2018**.*
**
*How to apply:* Applicants should submit an updated CV and letter of
motivation to *info at eplo.int <info at eplo.int>**, *T: +30 211 311 0 671
*The program takes place at EPLO facilities in Sounion *one hour away from
Athens by car, overlook the Aegean Sea and are located by the bay of Cape
Sounion, where the ancient Temple of Poseidon rests.
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