Migration and Minorities: Inclusion and Exclusion

Workshop dedicated to contemporary research on migration and minorities.

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!