Termine und Veranstaltungen

Emigration and the state. The impact of worker and person mobility on countries of origin in the EU and beyond

Funded by the German Research Council as part of the project ‘Paradoxes of Freedom of Movement of Persons: Preference formation in favour or against EU integration?’ (2021-2024)

This conference is interested in institutional and political responses to emigration at the level of state and society, collective and corporate actors, political and social systems. The three-day conference at Europa-University Flensburg from 7-9 February 2024 aims at a systematic understanding of the ‘emigration state’. It will bring together latest empirical research by scholars working on the EU, migration, and political economy to develop three distinct analytical-theoretical avenues to understand the effects of emigration on the state:

1) Freedom of movement of persons and EU migration: How do the liberal tenets of the freedom of movement of persons undermine or transform notions of community, state, and nation in and beyond the EU?

2) Politicization of emigration: Is there a link between emigration (rates and/or attitudes) and patterns of electoral participation?

3) Emigration, the welfare state, and the economy: How do governments manage and recalibrate benefits and labour markets in light of a shrinking resource base?

The conference is convened by Christof Roos (Europa-Universität Flensburg), Anna Kyriazi (University of Milan), and Martin Seeliger (Bremen University, Institut für Arbeit und Wirtschaft).

The conference will take place in hybridformat:

https://uni-flensburg.webex.com/meet/senatsraum