Seminaari hyvinvointivaltiosta ja maahanmuutosta Helsingin yliopistossa ke 11.5.

Seminaarissa alustavat kansainvälisesti arvostetut tutkijat Englannista, Ruotsista ja Tanskasta.

Seminaarissa käsitellään ajankohtaisia kysymyksiä kuten maahantulopolitiikkaa, maahanmuuttajien oikeuksia EU-tasolla, sukupuolten tasa-arvon ja pohjoismaisen hyvinvointivaltion suhdetta sekä poliittista integraatiota. Jokaista luentoa kommentoi suomalainen alan tutkija, ja luentojen jälkeen on varattu aikaa keskusteluun. Tapahtuma järjestetään yhteistyössä Pohjoismaisen hyvinvointivaltion tutkimuksen huippuyksikön NCoE NordWel:in ja Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolanin kanssa.

Seminaari pidetään Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolanin luentosalissa, Snellmaninkatu 12 (sisäänkäynti Yrjö-Koskisenkadun puolelta).

Ilmoittautumiset, haastattelupyynnöt ja lisätiedot: WelMi-koordinaattori Saara Pellander, s-posti saara.pellander@helsinki.fi, gsm 0405397699.

13.00 Welcoming words
Professor Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki

13.15 Immigration Policy: Contradictions, Continuity and Exclusion

Professor Rosemary Sales, Middlesex University
Commentary by Adjunct Professor Pasi Saukkonen, University of Helsinki

14.15 When Rights Disappear: EU Migration Policy in a Post-Social Europe
Associate Professor Peo Hansen, Linköping University
Commentary by Professor Sirpa Wrede, University of Helsinki

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45 Gender Equality and the Nordic Welfare States: Actors, Dynamics and Institutions

Professor Anette Borchorst, Aalborg University
Commentary by Adjunct Professor Suvi Keskinen, University of Turku

16.45 Ethnic Organisation and Political Integration

Professor Bo Bengtsson, Uppsala University
Commentary by Adjunct Professor Aino Saarinen, University of Helsinki

17.45 Closing of the Event

Professor Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki

Lisätietoja puhujista:

Rosemary Sales
is Professor Emiritus of Social Policy at Middlesex University. She has written and researched widely on migration processes and policy in Britain and Europe. Her recent research projects have focused on new migration to London, including Chinese and Polish migration, and on migration, schooling and diversity. Her most recent book Understanding Migration and Refugee Policy was published by Policy Press in 2007.

Peo Hansen
is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. His main research interest lies in the contemporary as well as historical development of European integration. His publications include Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State, co-authored with Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Stephen Castles (Oxford University Press, 2006); The Politics of European Citizenship: Deepening Contradictions in Social Rights and Migration Policy, co-authored with Sandy B. Hager (Berghahn Books, 2010); and Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, co-authored with Stefan Jonsson (Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming 2012).

Anette Borchorst

is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her primary research interests are related to the intersection between gender, ethnicity and class in public policies. Among her recent publications are Borchorst, Anette & Mari Teigen (2010) "Political Intersectionality: Tackling Inequalities in Public Policies in Scandinavia", Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2-3, and Borchorst, Anette & Birte Siim (2008) "Woman-friendly Policies and State Feminism: Theorizing Scandinavian Gender Equality", Feminist Theory 9(2).

Bo Bengtsson

is Professor of Political Science, esp. housing and urban policy, at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published extensively in the field of housing policy and politics, in recent years also on integration politics and ethnic organization. Theoretically, his main interests are historical institutionalism, political opportunity structures, corporatism and perspectives of thin rationality. He has been keynote speaker and workshop organizer at a number of international conferences, and is a member of the editorial board of Housing, Theory and Society. He has been the editor of five books, most recently Diversity, Integration and Citizenship in Scandinavia (with Per Strömblad and Ann-Helén Bay).

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