Past events

The MiTSoPro attended the 2018 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Barcelona, Spain (July 2-4) During the 2018 IMISCOE Annual Conference, Jean-Michel Lafleur and Daniela Vintila chaired a panel and workshop on «Protecting diasporas: immigrant social protection and the sending state»: https://www.imiscoe.org/2018-imiscoe-annual-conference/program Our team members also participated in the workshops “Social protection through mobility? A dialogue across [...]

The MiTSoPro team attended the 2018 ECPR SGEU Conference in Paris, France (June 13-15) During the 2018 ECPR SGEU Conference, Jean-Michel Lafleur and Daniela Vintila chaired the panel «Migration and transnational social protection: policy changes and migrants’ access to welfare across European democracies» https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx?PanelID=7597&EventID=124. Jean-Michel Lafleur, Daniela Vintila and Angeliki Konstantinidou also presented the paper [...]

Lafleur J-M and Mescoli E (2018) Creating Undocumented EU Migrants through Welfare: A Conceptualization of Undeserving and Precarious Citizenship, Sociology, Vol 52, Issue 3, pp. 480 – 496. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038518764615 Lafleur J-M and Vivas-Romero M (2018) Combining transnational and intersectional approaches to immigrants’ social protection: The case of Andean families’ access to health. Comparative Migration Studies 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-018-0073-7

Jean-Michel Lafleur, « Immigrant access to social protection after Brexit and Trump”, Panel chaired at the Latin Amercian Studies Association Congress, 24 May 2018

Applications are invited for scholarships to work at doctoral and post-doctoral level on migrants’ social protection strategies from a qualitative perspective. These positions are advertised in the framework of the ERC project Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-)crisis Europe  (MiTSoPro) led by Dr. Jean-Michel Lafleur at the University of Liège. Application deadline: 4 June 2018. Extended [...]

Our MiTSoPro team members Daniela Vintila and Angeliki Konstantinidou attended the International Conference “Political parties abroad: a new arena for citizenship?” held in Louvain la Neuve (April 26-27).

Our MiTSoPro member Daniela Vintila presented the study “The electoral rights of mobile EU citizens: the case of Belgium” (collaborative research with Jean-Michel Lafleur and Louise Nikolic) at the event “Democratic participation and electoral matters” organized by the European Commission (Unit D.3- Union Citizenship Rights and Free Movement) in Brussels, April 25-26. The study is [...]

Jean-Michel Lafleur participated in the jury of the doctoral thesis of Fabianna Minecci (U Lisboa) on “Academic mobility within Europe: evidence on the mobility of Italian academics to Lisbon and London”

On 1st of December 2017, the team of the MiTSoPro project organized a meeting in Brussels with international experts in field of social protection. The aim of the event was to discuss theoretical and methodological challenges in data collection on migrants’ access to unemployment benefits, pensions and guaranteed minimum resources. Participants: MiTSoPro team: Dr Jean-Michel [...]