EUMCHA Conference Final Programme

9:00-11:00 Integration and Identity

Chair: Francesca Fauri (University of Bologna)

• Anikó Bernát and Zsófia Tomka (TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Budapest), The Refugee-Citizen Paradox: Ethnic Hungarians from Ukraine in Hungary
• Marina Glaser and Lolita Koroleva (HSE University, Moscow),Selective Humanitarianism of the EU and the Migration Crisis: A Constructivist Analysis
• Tayssir Sammari (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Intra-Community Structure and Social Boundaries within the Pan-Arab Community in Hungary
• Andrew Hayen (University of Technology, Sydney), Salmon Bias in Australia: A First Examination

11:00 Coffee break

11:15-13:00 Aid, Borders and Securitisation

Chair: Elenora Vlach (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

• Mark McQuinn (SOAS, University of London), Aid as Migration Management: The EU’s Externalisation of Borders Through Development Cooperation with Case Studies from Africa
• Alice Lacchei and Adel-Naim Reyhani (University of Bologna), From Borders to Courts: How Intermediaries Contest Austrian and Italian Pushbacks
• Roberta Gentili (University of Bologna), The Game and the Infrastructures of Mobility in Una Sana Canton

13:00 Lunch break

14:30-15:30 Legal Frameworks

Chair: Mark McQuinn (SOAS, University of London)

• Zeynep Naz Oral (University of Genova), The Legal Architecture of Italy’s Externalisation Strategy
• Bukurie Ozuni (University of Genova), Externalising Borders, Reconfiguring Sovereignty: Constitutional Review of the Albania-Italy Migration Protocol in the EU Context

15:30 Coffee break

15:45-17:30 Theoretical Perspectives

• Tamar Todria and Lasha Matiashvili (Tbilisi State University), Perceptions of Migrants by Host Societies
• Angela Rinaldi (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome), Unaccompanied Minors in Europe: Subsidiary Cooperation for Development and Active Citizenship
• Irene Saggese (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Migration and the Borders of Europe: A Philosophical-Political Approach

9:00-12:15 Educational Contexts

Chair: Agostino Portera (University of Verona)

• Giancarlo Gasperoni and Francesca Fauri (University of Bologna), Support for Education Opportunities and Other Attitudes Towards Immigrants’ Rights Among Students’ Parents
• Debora Mantovani and Giuseppe Calignano (University of Bologna), Friendship Integration of Immigrant-Origin Students: A Case Study in Italy
• Eleonora Vlach (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Which Paths to Inclusion? The Educational Trajectories of Children of Immigrants in Germany’s Stratified Educational System

10:45 Coffee break

• Francesca Carimando and Loris Vergolini (University of Bologna), Ethnic Gaps in Track Choice within the COVID-19 Timeline
• Emanuele Di Maria and Paola Bonifacci (University of Bologna), From Positive Attitudes to Warm Support: Home Learning Environment Pathways in Multilingual Children’s Socio-Emotional Development

12:15: Screening of EUMCHA documentary

• Integration Tales: Immigrant Students’ Storytelling, by Paolo Galassi

12:30 Lunch break

14:00-17:15 Historical Case Studies

Chair: Stefano Toso (University of Bologna)

• Francesco M.S. Fiore Melacrinis (Bicocca University, Milan) and Donatella Strangio (Sapienza University, Rome), From Italian Periphery to Global Exodus: Patterns and Variations in Calabrian Emigration (1876-1901)
• Claudio Staiti (University of San Marino), Fears, Miscalculations and Integration Strategies: Gino Speranza and Italian Migration to the United States as a Lesson for Today’s Europe
• Paolo Tedeschi (Bicocca University, Milan), The Activity of the European Social Fund in Favour of Migrant Workers in the EEC: Improving Professional Skills to Find a Better Job Abroad (Late 1950s-Early 1980s)

15:30 Coffee break

• Gloria Sanz Lafuente and Joseba De la Torre (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona), Migration and Atoms in the 20th Century
• Erika Greco (Sapienza University, Rome), Self-Narratives of Double Absence for a Future Oriented Perspective: Narrating Past and Present Migrations through Multimodal Elements