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Conf&#233;renceFAMILIES, CONSTRUCTIONS OF FOREIGNNESS AND MIGRATION IN 20th CENTURY WESTERN EUROPE KU Leuven, Belgium, May 15-16 2008 This conference aims at comparing policies, perceptions and experiences with regard to family and migration in twentieth century Western Europe. It will discuss how family figured in political and cultural constructions of foreignness in the past century, as well as how these policies and stereotypes shaped and were shaped by family-related strategies, experiences and identities of migrants or their relatives. A selection of the conference proceedings will be published in History of the Family. An International Quarterly.Conference language ENGLISHLangue de la conf&#233;rence ANGLAISRegistrationYou can register for this conference by using the webform at http://www.kuleuven.be/mosa/conf_fcfm.htmProgramme THURSDAY 15 MAY 200810.15-10.30 Welcome, Leen Beyers (MoSa, KU Leuven)10.30-11.30 Session 1: Concepts and challengesChair: Idesbald GoddeerisCommentator: Kristen Stromberg Childers1. Mary Chamberlain (History, Oxford Brookes University)'Migration and families. History and memory'2. Marlou Schrover (History, Leiden Universiteit)'Vulnerability and constructions of family and gender'11.30-12.00 Coffee12.00-13.00 Session 2: Constructions of foreignness and family migration politicsChair: Idesbald GoddeerisCommentator: Frank Caestecker3. Johanna Leinonen (History, University of Minnesotta)'Marriage, migration, and the nation-state: Twentieth century Finns and Americans in Finland and the U.S'4. Flavia Cumoli (Histoire contemporaine, Universit&#233; Libre de Bruxelles; Universit&#224; di Bologna)'Migration, housing policies of the welfare state and 'the nuclear family' in Italy and Belgium in the 1950s'13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-15.30 Session 3: Family strategies and experiences of migrants I Chair: Marlou SchroverCommentator: Mary Chamberlain5. Heike Drotbohm (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg) 'Frontiering proximities. Inequalities, vulnerabilities and disconnections in transnational Cape Verdean families'6. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (Unit&#233; de Recherche Migration et Soci&#233;t&#233;, URMIS, Universit&#233; Paris 7 Denis Diderot)'Reinforcing motherhood through migration. Family in the perspective of Filipino migrant mothers in France'7. Leen Beyers (MoSa, KU Leuven) and Chris Timmerman (Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies, Universiteit Antwerpen)'Continuity and change in the economic and marriage migration from Emirdag (Turkey) to Belgium'15.30-16.00 Coffee16.00-17.30 Session 4: Children and migrationChair: Louis VosCommentator: Heike Drotbohm8. Hanna Markusson Winkvist (Historiska Institutionen, G&#246;teborg University)'The Orphan Myth. Adoption on the Swedish agenda'9. Vera Hajto (MoSa, KU Leuven)'De hongaartjes. Experiences of Hungarian children living with Belgian foster families in the interwar period'10. Idesbald Goddeeris (MoSa, KU Leuven)'Divided families? The children of Polish domestic workers in Belgium' 17.30-22.00 Drinks and dinnerFRIDAY 16 MAY 20089.30-11.00 Session 5: Family strategies and experiences of migrants IIChair: Machteld VenkenCommentator: Marlou Schrover11. Louise Ryan (Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University)'Work, family, agency: Irish and Polish women in Britain in the post-war period'12. Albert Kraler, Veronika Bilger, Elisabeth Strasser (ICMPD, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Wenen)'Doing family. Responses to the constructions of 'the migrant family' across Europe' 13. Konstantinos Mantzos (University of Ioannina, Griekenland) and Athina Peglidou (University of Thessaly, Griekenland)'Families and lines. Family-related migration at the Greek-Albanian Border'11.00-11.30 Coffee11.30-13.00 Session 6: Public and private representations of family among migrants and their descendantsChair: Leen BeyersCommentator: Louise Ryan14. Cristina Johnston (School of Languages, Cultures and Religions, University of Stirling)&#8216;Ta m&#232;re, ta race&#8217;: filiation and the sacralisation and vilification of the mother in French banlieue cinema'15. Fabienne Lentz (Laboratoires d'Histoire, Universit&#233; du Luxembourg)'Private memory, family and gender versus the myth of the exemplary integration of Italians in Luxemburg'16. Machteld Venken (MoSa, KU Leuven)'Families and silences: Ostarbeiterinnen in Belgium'13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-15.30 Session 7: (Post)colonial foreignness and migration politics Chair: Jan KokCommentator: Chris Timmerman17. Amin Perez (Ecole Normale Sup&#233;rieure et Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)'The 'state thinking', the media and the making of a 'second generation' citizenship in France (1970-1990)' 18. Kristen Stromberg Childers (History, University of Pennsylvania)'Departmentalization, migration, and the politics of the family in the post-war French Caribbean'19. Sarah Van Walsum (Rechten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)'Sex and the regulation of belonging. Dutch family migration policies in the context of changing family norms'15.30-16.00 Coffee16.00-17.30 Concluding discussion Chairs: Leen Beyers, Machteld VenkenDiscussantsLeo Lucassen (History, Leiden Universiteit)Jan Kok (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)17.30 DrinksLieuFacult&#233; de Lettres, KU LeuvenBlijde-Inkomststraat 21B-3000 LeuvenComit&#233; scientifiqueMary Chamberlain, Louise Ryan, Leo Lucassen, Marlou Schrover, Jan Kok,Leen Beyers, Machteld Venken, Idesbald Goddeeris, Anne Morelli, FrankCaestecker, Maddy JanssensInformation suppl&#233;mentaire: leen.beyers@arts.kuleuven.be