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This institute is free and open to all teachers.
Lunch and resource binder are included.

Migration, the movement of people across and between nations, is a central thread in social science curriculum in California. Social science teachers in California are responsible for helping students trace the evolution of work and labor, the effects of immigration, divisions of labor, and the union movement.  The second annual EU teachers' institute invites educators to explore these issues through case studies of the European Union and how contemporary political arrangements have fundamentally changed migration and labor processes. One of the four freedoms established by the European Union for its 27 member states is the free movement of people:

• How has this freedom changed relationships between employees and employers in Europe?
• What have been the effects of increased migration on national economies?
• Does the model of the European Union and the free flow of people represent a solution other world areas should move towards? Or do the migration polices of the European Union have unintended, negative consequences?

BACKGROUND

• Introduction
  Beverly Crawford, Associate Director, Center for German & European Studies, UCB.
  
  
• "How the European Union has changed migration and labor processes."
  Phil Martin, Professor, Chair UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program
  

CASE STUDIES:

• "Between Europe and Africa: Building the new Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women"
  Cinzia Solari, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, UCB.
  

The coming of capitalism to Ukraine has forced many women out of the labor market and necessitated a shift from extended families (working-mothers, peripheral men, and grandmothers as primary caregivers of their grandchildren) to nuclear families (mother-housewives, father-breadwinners, and peripheral grandmothers). Yet men’s salaries are unable to sustain this new gender order. Instead, it is sustained by grandmothers, doubly marginalized from the labor market and their families, who work in Italy as domestics and send back remittances. In my work I argue that gendered processes are constitutive of both this migration pattern and the construction the “new” Ukraine. At a time when the definition of Ukrainian nationhood is highly contested, migrant women are working towards a vision of Ukraine as “Europe,” a utopia of consumer capitalism and western modernity. But the fear that Ukraine will instead become “Africa,” the underbelly of the global economy, is always looming. An ethnographic look at this migrant community of women in their meeting places in Rome and in transnational space during a six-day round-tip bus journey between Italy and Ukraine reveals processes of collective meaning-making that are rooted in transnational links, both physical and discursive, that make these women active participants in a transnational community that moves beyond connections between fellow Ukrainians working in Italy and their individual families back home to profoundly shape what it means to part of the larger community of the new Ukrainian nation.

Cinzia Solari is a Ph.D. Candidate in the sociology department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her multi-sited ethnographic dissertation, "Exile vs. Exodus: Nationalism and Gendered Migration from Ukraine to Italy and California," explores how two contrasting patterns of migration in the post-soviet period generate distinct practices and subjectivities for individual migrants abroad. It also addresses how these migration patterns are differentially implicated back home in Ukraine’s nation-building process. Cinzia Solari has published in peer reviewed journals such as Gender & Society and the American Behavioral Scientist. Her work continues to investigate the lives of Soviet peoples as they make their way in a post-Soviet world. 

• "Just How Many 'Immigrants from Heaven'?: The politics of Eastern European labor market access in the U.K."  
  Chloe Thurston
  

Chloe Thurston is a PhD student in the department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.  Her research interests are in the comparative political economy of the United States and Western Europe, with a focus on immigration, employment and social policy. Her current project examines how public support for new immigration policy is affected by governments' past records with predicting and managing immigration flows.  In particular, she examines why it was that the United Kingdom closed off immigration from new European Union member countries in 2007, despite the success (from a macroeconomic and cultural standpoint) of the open immigration policy towards the 2004 member countries. 

 

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