Immigration Policies, Global Inequalities, and Knowing (in)Justice As Biographical Knowledge

Monday, 7 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: ASJE031 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC38 Biography and Society (host committee)

Language: English

While immigration to Europe from third countries is highly restrictive and almost generally prohibited, qualified personnel is encouraged to immigrate. In Germany, for example, special immigration policies have recently been introduced for professionals, especially in the health care sector, to simplify their employment or search for employment. How do individuals experience and reflect on their immigration process under these conditions? What kinds of transnational networks are created between countries of origin and receiving countries? We would like to invite papers that address the effects of specific immigration policies on (groups of) individuals, by reconstructing their biographical experience, evaluation, and knowledge. Also invited are papers that address possible consequences of specific immigration policies for countries of origin as well as for receiving countries, based on the reconstruction of biographical evaluation of knowing (in)justice.

Regular session
Session Organizers:
Ursula APITZSCH, Goethe University, Germany and Lena INOWLOCKI, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Chair:
Lena INOWLOCKI, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Co-Chair:
Ursula APITZSCH, Goethe University, Germany
Oral Presentations
Life Course, Biography, Career. the Migrant Musicians of the Orchestra Orpheus XXI (Jordi Savall)
Vogt ALICIA, EHESS & Goethe Universität Frankfurt / Main, France
Angolan Immigrant Women in Southern Brazil: A Biographical-Theoretical Perspective on the Construction of Belonging
Nathalia LOURUZ DE MELLO, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Theaterpractices for Traumaprocessing & Strengthening the Narratives of Migrantized Women in Belgium
Havva AKÇAOĞLU, Belgium; Hanane EL FIKRI, Empact, Belgium; Latifa EL MORABIT, Empact, Belgium