RC19 Open Session with a Special Focus on Migration and Social Policies

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE038 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC19 Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (host committee)

Language: English

This session welcomes research papers that deal with questions of social welfare and social policy. It particularily welcomes papers that address issues of migration and social policies.
Session Organizers:
Daniel KUENZLER, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Hildegard THEOBALD, University of Vechta, Germany
Chair:
Daniel KUENZLER, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Discussant:
Hildegard THEOBALD, University of Vechta, Germany
Oral Presentations
Hostile or Favourable? Public Attitudes Towards Migrants’ Social Policy in South Korea
Yoonkyung KWAK, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, South Korea
Gender Differences in Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Credentials
Andrey TIBAJEV, Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden
Inside out: Exploring the Constraints of Researcher Positionality in a Comparative Study Involving Marginalized Urban Migrants
Kamil MATUSZCZYK, Poland; Karolina ŁUKASIEWICZ, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland; Ewa CICHOCKA, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland
The Disappearance of Social Services and NGOs in Italy and Albania Treaties on Migration
Sheyla MORONI, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; Erika CELLINI, University of Florence, Italy, Italy; Visar DIZDARI, Universiteti i Shkodres, Albania
Facing Migration Policies: Challenges of NGOs in Social Work for Asylum Seekers in France
Lucie LEPOUTRE LEPOUTRE, EHESS / Centre Maurice Halbwachs, France
Distributed Papers
Navigating Local Welfare Systems. a Comparative Study of Marginalised Migrants Accessing Welfare Resources in Stockholm, Berlin, London, and NYC.
Karolina ŁUKASIEWICZ, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland; Kamil MATUSZCZYK, Poland; Ewa CICHOCKA, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland