Intermediation in Cross-Border Migrant Labor Markets
Thu 22 Feb
|Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University
In this talk, Professor Shire shifts the focus from intermediaries in operating mobility to intermediation in the operation of labor markets across borders.
Date and Venue
22 Feb 2024, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9
Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Karen Shire holds the Chair in Comparative Sociology and Japanese Society at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she is also Pro-Rector for University Culture, Diversity, and International Affairs. She is currently Guest Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, The University of Tokyo, and recently Scholar-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and faculty member in the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy. Shire is co-speaker of the German Research Foundation funded Research Training Group on Cross-Border Labor Markets at the Universities of Bielefeld and Duisburg-Essen, President of RC02 Economy & Society, International Sociological Association, and Co-Coordinator of Network G, Labor Markets, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Her most recent publication is Trafficking Chains: Modern Slavery in Society (with Sylvia Walby), Bristol University Press (2024). She is a member…