Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts

This two-day symposium is organised 26.-27. August 2025 in Helsinki. It brings together scholars who research different aspects of precarities and temporalities in migration contexts, paying attention to how they shape migrants’ and racialised minorities’ life circumstances and experiences.
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Precarity, i.e. insecurity and uncertainty in life, is structural, situational and, for many, especially for migrants and racialised minorities, an enduring condition of life. Sociologists and social scientists have for long acknowledged that time, temporalities and rhythms are simultaneously central to the organisation of the society and everyday lives yet commonly taken for granted. For migration scholars time has become an important perspective for the analysis of power dynamics, governance structures, individual experiences and forms of agency and asymmetric relations as well as experiences of precarity. 

Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Bridget Anderson from the University of Bristol, UK, Professor Vanessa May from the University of Manchester, UK and Professor Cathrine Degnen from Newcastle University, UK.  

Find the programme and a link to registration below. For more detailed information, visit our website.

Registration for the Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts is open from 26th of May to 11th of August.
 

Fees:

26th May - 15 June:  Early bird 50€
16th June- 11 August: Normal price 80€
 

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

 

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  

 

Find the book of abstracts here.