Session 1 - Panel I - Changes in the Welfare State - Changes in Care Regimes

This introductory panel brings together research perspectives on migration, gender and the welfare state. We focus on the question of the effects of changes in welfare state structures on gender orders, care work, and care deficits in the family and in society, and ask which migration processes are set in motion or maintained in this way. Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger, University of Hamburg The role of migrants' care work in different types of gender arrangement. Prof. Dr. Fiona Williams, University of Leeds Intersectionality and geo-politics in the analysis of migrant care and domestic labour in Europe Prof. Dr. Sonya Michel, Woodrow Wilson Internat. Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. State Compliance and Complicity? A Liberal Care Regime and Anti-Immigration Forces in the United States Chair: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher, Cornelia Goethe Centre Discussant: Dr. Majella Kilkey, University of Sheffield

Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

19.01.2012 08:50:00