with Prof. Nicole Constable, University of Pittsburgh & Prof. Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University London

TUESDAY 18th DECEMBER

9:40 – 10:40 Keynote lecture

"Intimate words and [im]possible futures: ethnography of temporary families" Nicole Constable, Professor of Anthropology & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies University of Pittsburgh (USA)

11:00 – 12:30 Panel 1: International unions and sexualities

Chair and discussant: Amandine Lauro, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• Married migrant women’s sexuality and its violation by Korea’s kinship system, Hyun Mee Kim, Yonsei University (South Korea)
• Thailand and the global intimate: transnational marriages, health tourism and retirement migration, Sirijit Sunanta, Mahidol University (Thailand)
• Intimate encounters with socio-legal norms ‘here’ and ‘there’: divorce experiences of Filipino migrant women in Belgium and in The Netherlands, Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

14:00 – 16:00 Panel 2: Transnational families and their challenges

Chair and discussant: Laura Merla, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)

• Intimacy, power, and emotions in evolving transnational families: the case of Japanese- Pakistani couples and their children, Masako Kudo, Kyoto Women’s University (Japan)
• Fragmented intimacies: transnational family experiences and relationships of Japanese-Filipino children, Jocelyn O. Celero, University of the Philippines (Philippines)
• "My mom always says life is better here": Young Japanese-Filipino migrants' experiences in Japan, Fiona Seiger, University of Anvers (Belgium)
• To migrate for the child" How children legitimate and give consistency to migration projects: experiences and discourses of Chinese women migrants in France and Japan, Florence Lévy, CERI Sciences Po Paris (France), Hélène Le Bail, CNRS, CERI Sciences Po Paris (France)

WEDNESDAY 19th DECEMBER

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote lecture

"Global mobility and intimate and familial relationships", Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship Middlesex University London (UK)

10:50 – 12:50 Panel 3: Intimate relationships and labour mobility

Chair and discussant: Hyun Mee Kim, Yonsei University (South Korea)

• Looking for the right place: emotions and intimacies in the mobility decision making among highly skilled migrants in Japan and Germany, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Waseda University (Japan)
• Intimacy despite and through distance: dual-career couples in Asian- European transnational social spaces, Helena Hof, Waseda University (Japan)
• Migration and algorithms of love arranged marriages among educated Indian women, Nilanjan Raghunath, University of Oxford (UK) & Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore)
• Last rites of passage? Transnational mobility of elderly Chinese migrants in Africa and Europe, Solange Chatelard, Sciences Po Paris (France) & Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

14:30 – 16:00 Panel 4: Sexual identity and hierarchy in migration

Chair and discussant: Sirijit Sunanta, Mahidol University (Thailand)

• Negotiating sexuality - negotiating identity: homosexual migrants in Japan, An Huy Tran, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
• Click like to subscribe - problematic expressions of the male European migrant experience in Philippine-based Youtube content, Aaron Ponce, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Catherine Lourdes Dy, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
• Rethinking gender in migration: heteronormativity and female subjectivity within Chinese female migration in Switzerland, Yali Chen, University of Oxford (UK) & University of Geneva (Switzerland)

16:00-16:30 Critical remarks about the workshop by Maïté Maskens, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

16:30-17:15 Round table discussion: future projects and publication

17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks

Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th December, 9am - 5.30pm

Salle Duvigneaud (UC.2.236) Bâtiment U - Porte C - 2e Niveau

19 Dec. 2.30 - 5.30pm => Salle Brien (UC.2.155) Bâtiment U - Porte C - 2e niveau

Free Entrance with registration: Asuncion.Fresnoza@ulb.ac.be

More informations: lamc@ulb.ac.be

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