We invite abstracts for a panel at the IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris, 1-4 July 2025
Submission deadline: 21 September 2024
This panel explores employers’ pivotal role in shaping migration processes, highlighting their influence on the receiving labour market, national and international migration policies and individual migrant experiences. Employers often serve as key actors in labour migration, actively engaging in sourcing the workforce, recruitment, job placement, and integrating migrant workers into the workplace environment. They are key players who, through their activity (economic and non-economic), significantly influence international labour migration and, even more so, the placement of migrants in the labour market of the receiving country. In the context of labour migration, employers’ group interests are primarily expressed in their efforts to influence public policies. Moreover, public policies, as formal arrangements providing the basis for general legal functioning, are not always in line with the practices that take place during the employment of foreigners. Through cross-disciplinary perspectives, this panel will examine how employers’ needs for migrant labour influence migration flows, the negotiation of immigration regulations, and the implementation of sponsorship and visa programs. The proposed session aims to bring together the results of recent research, theoretical and empirical reflections on the role, mechanisms and strategies of action among employers and intermediaries to ensure the flow of immigrant labour in different sectors. We invite the speakers to discuss case studies from various industries and regions. The panel aims to provide a comprehensive picture of how employers not only facilitate migration but also affect broader socio-economic and political landscapes.
The proposed panel is related to the E-factor project at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. Please submit abstracts of 200-250 words to s.bojarczuk@uw.edu.pl The panel organisers will then submit chosen abstracts as part of the panel proposal for IMISCOE on September 23. The conference organisers will review the proposed panels and decide which ones will be accepted to the conference. This panel will take place in person.