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Conveners: Saskia Bonjour, Marco Borkent, Sonja Evaldsson-Mellström, Elsemieke van Osch, and Eline Westra

Program 9 November

10h30 – 12h: Paper panel: State definitions of the good family

Moderator: Betty de Hart

• Helena Wray, Invisible Families: Who counts in the European Court of Human Rights migration jurisprudence?
• Marie Jacobs, “One family, three passports”: legal counselling and the notion of family reunification
• Karin Borevi, Age requirement for spousal immigration – a comparative analysis of Scandinavian policy discourses
• Giacomo Orsini et al, “Reproducing and/or challenging family norms in policy-oriented migration research: A Belgian case study.”

12h-13h : Lunch break

13h – 14h30: Roundtable : Sex, Gender and Race on the Move: Navigating Positionalities, Humanitarianism and Vulnerabilities at the Intersections of Migratio Research and Activism

Moderator: Eline Westra

With Elsa Tyszler, Nisrine Chaer, Fabian Holle, and Sonja Evaldsson Mellström

14h30-15h: Coffee break

15h- 16h30: Families navigating the asylum regime

Moderator: Melanie Griffiths

• Elsemieke van Osch, “What kind of decision is this? Am I not part of this family?” Imaginaries of “kinlessness” and navigations of mixed-status families in the asylum regime.
• Nuni Jorgensen, Changing rules after each move: the emergence of mixed-status Venezuelan families in South America
• Giselle Corradi & Ellen Desmet, A multi-perspectivist analysis of a lived family reunification experience: At the junction of co-creative research and autoethnography
• Elena Fattorelli, Ignorance: Disregarding the existence of divergent and “other” culturally dependent family models and conceptions in descent-based family reunification procedures of refugees

18h – 21h: Workshop Dinner

Program 10 November

9h30 -11h : Roundtable:  Regulation of post-colonial family migration

Moderator: Sonja Evaldsson Mellström

With Nawal Mustafa, Guno Jones, Eline Westra, and Rébecca Franco

11h – 11h30: Coffee break (with snacks)

11h30 – 13h: Paper panel: Family and the construction of race

Moderator: Jan Mendes

• Gerwen van Schie, Laura Canidatu, Christl de Koe, Motherhood in the Datafied Welfare State: Investigating the Gendered and Racialized Enactment of Citizenship in Dutch Algorithmic Governance
• Willy Sier, Descendants of the Dragon? Racialized Chineseness in Immigrant China
• Nadine Blankvoort, Preventative Parenting: Governmental Racialization of Migrant Families
• Elena Zambelli, ‘Improper couples’: A moral and political economy of interracialized intimacies across Europe and Western Africa

13h-14h30 : lunch & move to Spui25

14h00 – 16h00: Closing Roundtable at Spui25

Moderator: Sonja Evaldsson

With Bridget Anderson, Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Anne-Marie D’Aoust, and Saskia Bonjour