The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a Migration Seminar on:
Moral Economy and Flexible Citizens in Au Pair Migration
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 14.00-16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
Philippine au pair migration to Denmark and Norway has increased considerably during the last decade, in spite of the Philippine ban on au pairing to Europe. Au pairs have left the Philippines as illegal emigrants, paying bribes to exit the country and migrating without the rights and entitlements of a Filipino OFW – an Overseas Foreign Worker. However, au pair migration between the Philippines and Denmark has now taken a new step into a managed, legal system of migration on the basis of a bilateral agreement adopted in 2010, and Filipino au pairs are now leaving the Philippines legally.
On the basis of her PhD dissertation and new research conducted in Manila in February 2011, Helle Stenum’s presentation will focus on the governmentality of this new legal space of managed au pair migration, a space where gender, family, sexuality and nation are given the outmost importance.
Speaker
Helle Stenum recently finished her PhD thesis at the University of Aalborg with the title “Migration Management at the Margins. Transnationalized and localized government of marginalized migrants in Denmark: Au pairs and destitute EU citizens”. She holds an MA in social science from Roskilde University where she is now doing a postdoc on abused domestic workers focusing on au pairs in Europe. In her earlier research, Stenum has been focusing on ethnic minorities and integration in Denmark as well as international migration issues.
Programme
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Simon Turner, Senior Researcher, DIIS
14.10-15.00 Moral Economy and Flexible Citizens in Au Pair Migration
Helle Stenum, Postdoc., Roskilde University
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-15.30 Discussant
Nauja Kleist, Project Senior Researcher, DIIS
15.30-16.00 Open Discussion
Chair: Simon Turner, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Monday, 20 June 2011 at 12.00 noon. |
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