This workshop is dedicated to contemporary research on migration and minorities. It is organized by the research network “migration and minorities” of the Swiss Sociological Society to provide a platform for discussion on current work.
Programme of the day
10.30 Coffee and welcome
11.00-12.30 Panel “Inclusion”
- Paolo Martinelli et al. (Lausanne) Informing integration policies through research: A scoping literature review on factors influencing migrants’ integration in Switzerland (with Zoé Scalabrini, Francesca Bosisio, Dario Spini)
- Oleksandra Tarkhanova (St. Gallen) Social networks and the agency of forced migrants from Ukraine in Switzerland
- Taras Romashchenko (Bielefeld) Supporting Ukrainian forced migrants from home: examining the wartime paradox of reverse remittances
12.30 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel “Exclusion”
- Helena Hof (Zürich) “We Were Just People Who Write Codes”: The Production of Transnational Entrepreneurs in Asian Startup Hubs
- Andreas Genoni (BiB) Intersectionality in the impact of parenthood among immigrants in a high-income country: Unmet migration expectations among highly educated women and less-educated men (with Natalie Nitsche)
- İrem Karaçay (Mannheim) Discrimination by Whom, Against Whom? Identity Responses to Boundary-Making Among Minority-Origin Migrants
15.30-16.30 Administrative session, closing
Working language of the workshop is English. Presentations are 15-20 minutes to allow sufficient time for discussion.
If you wish to participate without giving a presentation, please register at https://neuchatel.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5Bm0Rb3xZeU0Sd8 by 1 September 2025 so that we can get enough coffee and lunch for you!