L’Université de Chicago organise un atelier international sur le thème « Le lien dans la migration : dette, dépendance et mobilité » les 19 et 20 janvier 2012, dans les locaux du Centre à Paris de l’Université de Chicago (6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris, métro Bibliothèque-François Mitterrand). Les exposés et débats auront lieu en anglais. / The University of Chicago is pleased to announce the international workshop “The bonds of migration: debt, interdependence and mobility” to be held in Paris on 19 and 20 January 2012 (6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris, Metro Bibliothèque-François Mitterrand). The papers and discussion will be in English.

Presentation

L’objet de cet atelier est l’étude de la manière dont les migrants gèrent les dettes et obligations morales et économiques qui accompagnent l’aval et l’amont de leur migration. L’étude des relations de dépendance entre les travailleurs migrants et les différents acteurs qui bénéficient de leur travail sera privilégiée (notamment les parents qui reçoivent les versements, les pourvoyeurs de crédit et agents de la migration, ainsi que les patrons, souteneurs et employeurs). Seront ainsi abordées un ensemble de relations sociales qui permettent de poser la question du consentement et la contrainte dans toute sa complexité. 

Pour télécharger le programme : centerinparis.uchicago.edu/conferences  

This workshop explores the relationship between people who migrate in order to work and the economic, affective and moral debts and obligations that inspire, enable and result from their migrations. We seek to examine relationships of interdependence between migrating laborers and the various people who benefit or profit from their labor, including but not limited to the kin to whom they send remittances, creditors, loan sharks and smugglers, and their partners, procurers, masters, or employers. As such, we are interested in exploring relationships that span the range of possibilities of, and blur clear-cut distinctions between consent and coercion.

To download the program: centerinparis.uchicago.edu/conferences

Programme

19 JANUARY 2012 (THURSDAY)

8h45-9h WELCOME

9h-9h15 OPENING REMARKS

• Alan Kolata Academic Director (2011-12) of the University of Chicago Center in Paris
• Nicolas Lainez Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/National University of Singapore
• Julie Y. Chu  University of Chicago

9h15-10h45 PANEL 1 – REGULATING MOBILITY: COLONIALISM AND ANTI-TRAFFICKING DISCOURSES

Discussant Chairperson Nicolas Lainez (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/National University of Singapore)

9h15-9h30  Maria Jaschok (Oxford University) Discourse on Female Slavery, the Chinese Moo Jai Practice and Patriarchal Power in Colonial Hong Kong at the Turn of the 20th Century – from Confucian ‘Patriarchal Charity’ to ‘Female Slave Labor’

9h30-9h45 Jean-Michel Chaumont (Université Catholique de Louvain) The Philanthropic Traffickers and Their Humanitarian Disguise: On “Repatriation” (1904-1937)

9h45-10h  Micheline Lessard (University of Ottawa) ‘Cet Ignoble Trafic’: The Kidnapping and Sale of Vietnamese Women and Children in French Colonial Indochina (1873-1935)

• 10h-10h15 Discussant’s Remarks
• 10h15-10h45 Q&A + Discussion
• 10h45-11h COFFEE BREAK

11h-12h30 PANEL 2 – BEYOND THE TRAFFICKING PARADIGM: LABOR MOBILITY, COERCION AND CONSENT

Discussant Chairperson Milena Jaksic (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux)

11h-11h15 Ronald Weitzer (George Washington University) Rethinking Sex Trafficking: A Critique of the Dominant Paradigm

11h15-11h30 Jo Doezema (Paulo Longo Research Initiative) The Quagmire of Consent: Trafficking and the Sexual Contract

11h30-11h45 Julia O’Connell Davidson (University of Nottingham) Paradoxes of ‘Freedom’: Dependence, Debt, Labor and Belonging

• 11h45-12h Discussant’s Remarks
• 12h-12h30 Q & A + Discussion
• 12h30-14h LUNCH

14h-15h30 PANEL 3 – THE ECONOMIC AND AFFECTIVE OBLIGATIONS OF MIGRANT SEX WORKERS: DEBT AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Discussant Chairperson Ronald Weitzer (George Washington University)

14h-14h15 Irene Peano (University of Cambridge) Debt Chains: Migrant Nigerian Sex Workers Between Bondage, Interdependency and Ambiguous Obligations

14h15-14h30 Sarah Luna (University of Chicago) The Spatialization of Economic and Affective Obligations: Migrant Sex Workers in a Mexican Border City and Those They Labor For

14h30-14h45  Nicolas Lainez (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/National University of Singapore) Commodified Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Power Dynamics in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam)

• 14h45-15h Discussant’s Remarks
• 15h-15h30 Q & A + Discussion
• 15h30-15h45 COFFEE BREAK

15h45-17h00 ROUNDTABLE

Chairperson Jean-Michel Chaumont (Université Catholique de Louvain)

20 JANUARY 2012 (FRIDAY)

9h-10h30 PANEL 4 – MIGRANT’S DEBT REGIMES: CIRCULATIONS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY

Discussant Gustav Peebles (New School for Social Research)

9h-9h15 Johan Lindquist (University of Stockholm) Circular Migration and Gendered Regimes of Debt in Contemporary Indonesia

9h15-9h30 Julie Y. Chu (University of Chicago) Unsettling Accounts: Debt, Theft and the Calculus of Fortune Among Chinese Transmigrants

9h30-9h45 Cheryll Alipio (National University of Singapore) Affect, Debt and the Shaping of Filial Piety Among the Children of Filipino Migrants

• 9h45-10h Discussant’s Remarks
• 10h-10h30 Q & A + Discussion
• 10h30-10h45 COFFEE BREAK

10h45-12h15 PANEL 5 – DEBT, MOBOILITY AND THE DEBTOR/LABORER RELATIONSHIP

Discussant Irene Peano (University of Cambridge)

10h45-11h Jan Breman (University of Amsterdam) The Continuing Story of Labor Bondage

11h-11h15 Isabelle Guérin (Université Paris I Sorbonne/Institut de Recherche sur le Développement) Debt, Circulation and Social Mobility in Rural South-India

11h15-11h30 Danièle Bélanger (The University of Western Ontario) Debt, Labor and Mobility: Vietnamese Labor Migrants Bound to East Asia

• 11h30-11h45 Discussant’s remarks
• 11h45-12h15 Q & A + Discussion
• 12h15-14h LUNCH BREAK

14h-15h30 ROUNDTABLE

Chairperson  Gustav Peebles (New School for Social Research)