QuaMaFa Closing Workshop

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For more details please contact Julia Müller-Nathues mueller(at)mmg.mpg.de.

Wednesday, 18 December

09:00-09:15 | Opening remarks

09:15-10:45 | Workshop Part I

• Helena Hof: “Social incorporation versus professional dissociation among migrant startup founders in Singapore and Japan”
• Micheline van Riemsdijk: “Making the employable subject: Professional (re)socializaton of foreign-born pharmacists in communication classes”
• Aimi Muranaka: “Reluctant stay-ing of Vietnamese IT professionals through their working, social and family life in Japan”

10:45-11:15 | Coffee break

11:15-13:15 | Workshop Part II

• Ruth Achenbach: “Precarity and opportunity in the labor market transitions of Chinese top-level graduates in Japan and Singapore”
• Mustafa Aksakal: “Highly-skilled migration and career development: A multi-level analysis of the (re)production of social inequalities in Europe”
• Joohyun Justine Park: “Transitional migrants: Rethinking retention and integration strategies for skilled migrants in South Korea”
• Megha Wadhwa: “At the crossroads of leaving and staying: Indian migrants’ journey in Singapore and Japan”

13:15-14:30 | Lunch break

14:30-16:00 | In Dialogue “Migration, Retention & Incorporation of the Highly Skilled”

16:30-18:00 | Film screening of QuaMaFa Film “Home in the “Making”

Thursday, 19 December

9:00-10:30 | Workshop part III

• Theoretical reflections on skilled migrants‘ social and professional incorporation

10:30-11:00 | Coffee break

11:00-13:00 | SCD meeting: QuaMaFA group presentation

13:00-14:00 | Lunch break

14:00-15:00 | Workshop part IV (wrap up & reflection)