Programme

You can find the detailed programme for the Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts below. The symposium will be held in the Main Building of the University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 33 Helsinki. Further information on the rooms will be provided later.
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Schedule

10.00-11.00 Opening  & Keynote by Bridget Anderson  

11.15-12.45 Parallel workshops (Age & Aging; Social reproduction; Inclusion & Migrantisaton)

13.00-14.00 Lunch 

14.00-15.00 Keynote by Cathrine Degnen 

15.00-15.30 Coffee break 

15.45-17.15 Parallel workshops (Belonging; Time; Different Precarities)

17.30-18.30 Reception 

19.00 Dinner

Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Schedule

9.30-10.30 Keynote by Vanessa May  

10.45-12.15 Parallel workshops (Labour 1; Home & Hospitality; Care)

12.30-13.30 Lunch 

13.45-15.15 Parallel workshops (Regulation/Governance; Integration; Labour 2)

15.15-15.45 Panel discussion with coffee 

16.00-16.30 Closing  

Workshops Tuesday 26th August

The time assumed for each presentation is 15 minutes, followed by a 7-minute discussion.

 11.15-12.45

 

Workshop 1 Age & Aging (Chair Laura Kemppainen) 
 

Anne Kouvonen et.al: Informal caregiving and health among older Russian speaking migrants in Finland 

Yan Zhao: Ambivalences and uncertainties of old age care in the transnational space of care - exploring the narratives of Chinese migrant older parents with a life-course perspective    

Synnøve Jahnsen: Ageing at the Margins: Violence and Vulnerability among Older Migrants in Norway    

 

Workshop 2 Social Reproduction (Chair Elisabeth Wide) 

Daria Krivonos : Temporality of 'crisis' and socially reproductive worlds of Ukrainian migrant/refuge workers   

Professor Majella Kilkey (2) Dr Obert Tawodzera (3) Dr Jayanthi T. Lingham : A long view on the crisis of social reproduction for those entangled in (post)colonial labour migrations   

Emma Lamberg: Everyday political economy and social reproduction in a withdrawing welfare state   

Olga Gheorghiev: At the foot of the mountain: temporalities of production and social reproduction of Ukrainian refugee women in the Czech Republic   

 

Workshop 3 Inclusion & Migrantisation (Chair Sara Eldén) 

Turid Misje: What counts as an emergency situation? Time and the precarious inclusion of homeless EU/EEA citizens in Norwegian public social welfare   

Valter Sandell-Maury: Difference and similarities: connecting the exclusions of migrants and citizens in the welfare state   

Ilona Bontenbal and Quivine Ndomo: Climate change, vulnerability and im(mobility) in a European context   

Andrea Iossa; Minna Seikkula: A Nordic tragedy of commons: parallel patterns to differential inclusion and labour exploitation of temporary migrant labour in production of wild berries across Finland and Sweden 

 

15.45-17.15

 

Workshop 4 Belonging (Chair Vanessa May) 

Nessa, B., Seddighi, G., and Radlick, R.L: The Digital Life of Precarious Belonging: NEET-Youth with Migration Backgrounds in Norway  

Rashida Bibi, Jo Britton, Majella Kilkey, Lois Orton: Intersectional complexity in go-along interviews: Temporal dimensions of belonging and inclusion in the lives of older people with migration backgrounds' 

Maryna Smahina: ‘More Than Sufferers’: Belonging and Boundary-Making Through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland   

Laura Kemppainen & Sirpa Wrede: Precarious Emplacement: Lifetime Experiences of Displacement, Settlement and Shifting Belonging in Finland 

 

Workshop 5 Time (Chair Olivia Maury)

Anna-Maria S. Marekovic Anna Liisa Närvänen:  Imagined Educational Trajectories and Acting in the Present: Newly Arrived Migrant Students in Introductory Education 

Anastasia Diatlova: Precarious Time and Migrant Construction Workers in Finland 

Reiko Shindo: Time and (un)countability of language   

María Hernández Carretero: Everyday borderscapes: space, time and migrants’ resistance. A case study from Senegalese migrants in Spain 

 

Workshop 6 Different Precarities (Chair Lena Näre)

Markus Jäntti & Lena Näre: Precarity in Nordic countries - levels and trends across various notions of precarity   

Erna Bodström: The temporality of asylum - from protection to precarity   

Laura Mankki, Eeva Heikkinen, Mikko Jakonen: Precarious Affects in Liminal Time Zone of Low-Income Migrants   

Ismaël Maazaz: Precarious rivers: flood, mobilities and livelihoods at the Chad-Cameroon borderland   

Workshops Wednesday 27th August

The time assumed for each presentation is 15 minutes, followed by a 7-minute discussion. 

10:45-12:15 

 

Workshop 7, Labour 1 (Chair Lena Näre )

Rasmus Ahlstrand: Solidarity in migrant worker mobilisation: Syndicalist unionisation in Sweden   

Catharina Calleman: Syndicalist struggle for labour migrant workers in the Swedish Labour Court   

Alejandro Miranda Nieto: Partial Footholds: Rethinking the Trajectories of Highly Qualified Migrants in Oslo  

Olivia Maury: Racialized Geographies of Labour: The Case of Food Delivery Workers in Helsinki   

 

Workshop 8 Home & Hospitality (Chair Paula Merikoski)  

Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid Alejandro Miranda Nieto: Precarious Work, Precarious lives? How Migrant Workers in Norway Weave Life-Narratives and Build a Sense of Home 

Olga Tkach: Non-linearity of homestay accommodation in wartime: Life-making temporalities and materialities of homesharing    

Priscilla Solano: ‘Civil Society Hospitality’: Welcoming Initiatives and Pragmatism Targeting Unaccompanied Youth in Malmö   

 

Workshop 9 Care (Chair Sirpa Wrede) 

Majda Hrženjak: Managing Precarity with Affects: Labor Migration, Third-Country Nationals, and Senior Care Homes in the Post-Yugoslav (Semi)periphery of Europe   

TRANSCARENET (Saar, Maarja; Melander Charlotte, Ginte Martinkene and others): Addressing Methodological Challenges in Researching Transnational Care   

Anna Simola, Laura Merla: Academic Displacement and the Role of Family: Scholars at Risk Navigating Mobilities, Precarity, and Care Relations   

Amrithavally Thaivalappil Ramakrishnan: Workforce Reconfiguration in Residential Care: Opportunities, Risks and Future Directions   

 

13:45-15.15 

 

Workshop 10 Regulation/ Governance (Chair Markus Jäntti) 

Suvi Karhu: Labour shortages or the demand for flexible foreign workforce? The labour market test as a regulatory tool for labour immigration   

Linda Bäckman: ‘Trapped in Finland’ – misinformation as a contributor to social inequality among internationally recruited healthcare students 

Guro Aasen, Astrid Ouahyb Sundsbø: From Hope to Reality: An analysis of How Immigrant Women’s Work Ambitions Are Shaped and Realised Through Participation in a Work-Oriented Measure   

Marco Rocca: Temporariness in EU Law. The timescape of temporary labour migrations   

  

Workshop 11 Integration (Chair Anastasia Diatlova)

Avanti Chajed: Considering Integration: (Re)Creating and (Re)shaping boundaries through Information 

Turid Sætermo and Linda Dyrlid: Navigating challenges: ‘Effective integration’ and precarity for adult low literate refugees in Norway 

Eveliina Lyytinen:The end of life in refuge - temporalities of integration and death 

 

Workshop 12  Labour 2 (Chair Rasmus Ahlstrand)

Elisabeth Wide & Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid: Paced-, Piece-rated and Unpaid work: Migrants Navigating Institutional Continuity and Change in the Finnish and Norwegian Cleaning Sectors  

Sara Eldén, Rasmus Ahlstrand: Outsourced domestic cleaning: Female migrant labour and the commercialisation of domestic work in Sweden 

Synnøve Bendixsen and Ann-Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid: Cruel Optimism: The Paradox of the Norwegian Welfare State and Precarious Labor Conditions 

Paula Merikoski & Lena Näre: Negotiating dignity in undervalued and underpaid work. Ukrainian workers in Finland in agri-food and cleaning sectors.