Seminar Series: Migrants, Workplace and Community: Learning from Innovations in Civil Society

在私人和公共领域(与国家有关)之间是公民社会的领域，即团体、机构和网络的领域，如信仰团体、工会和社区组织。移徙工人是探讨当前民间社会变革及其在促进社会正义、社会凝聚力和更公平社会方面的作用的宝贵切入点。农民工在当代社会经济中扮演着重要的角色，但他们却被建构为当代公共政治话语中的核心问题之一。至关重要的是，公民社会中有一些团体正在努力--通常是在基层--在社区和工作场所自下而上地建立凝聚力。这一领域的研究和实践目前都是支离破碎的。这一系列研讨会汇集了以“移民、工作场所和社区”为主题的研究人员和实践者，其中心目的是为学术界和实践者发展从民间社会的这些创新中学习。该系列研讨会为期三年，为期一天，共九个研讨会。应用小组的主要成员包括一名主要工作人员(移民权利网络主任)，以及来自商业、雇佣关系、经济地理、社会学和移民研究等领域的学者，这一建议的核心理念体现在应用小组的组成上。该提案还旨在通过纳入博士生和早期职业研究人员来发展研究能力。除了为博士生提供研讨会奖学金外，还有一个研讨会(关于方法创新和反思)致力于促进博士生和早期职业研究人员的学习和发展。该提案还旨在加强国际学习和合作。其中一个研讨会致力于揭示美国、欧洲和全球南方对这一领域的经验教训。总共将有6名国际演讲者参与该系列活动。这9个研讨会的主题是：1.移徙者、民间社会和社会凝聚力：国际移徙背景下的问题、辩论和做法2.移徙工人在社区和工作场所组织和自我组织的新形式。美国、欧洲和南半球的经验教训。3.移徙工人倡议和建立的劳工组织。4.公民社会参与雇佣关系。公民和劳工参与作为移民融入社会和社会凝聚力的途径：探索种族、阶级和性别以及边缘化身份的交集6.收取国王的先令：当民间社会被邀请时。非正常移民、民间社会组织和国家。在移徙和社会凝聚力的背景下研究公民和劳工参与：方法创新和思考。8.移民文化生产中对工作场所、社区和社会的反思。9.“我们能帮上什么忙？”公民和劳工从业者的建议对学术研究实践的影响更大。这一系列活动将为学术界和民间社会实践者带来重要成果。该系列将为出版两种主要学术期刊的特刊提供信息，这两种期刊分别是雇佣关系和移民研究。它还将导致为民间社会从业人员出版一本小册子(由专门的网站支持)，概述工作场所和社区交界处的社会凝聚力和移徙者方面的最佳做法案例。在明确的社交媒体战略的推动下，该系列还将促进民间社会团体之间以及学者与民间社会团体之间的长期有机联系。

Between the spheres of the private and the public (relating to the state) lies the realm of civil society, the realm of groups, institutions, and networks, such as faith groups, trade unions, and community organisations. Migrant workers are a valuable vantage point to explore current transformations in civil society and its role in fostering social justice, social cohesion and a fairer society. Migrant workers perform an important role in contemporary society and economy yet they are constructed as one of the key contemporary problems in current public and political discourse. Crucially, there are groups in civil society that are working, often at the grassroots level, to build cohesion from the bottom-up in communities and workplaces. Both research and practice in this area is currently fragmented. This seminar series brings together researchers and practitioners on the theme of 'Migrants, Workplace and Community', with the central aim of developing learning, for both academics and practitioners, from these innovations in civil society. The series comprises 9 one-day seminars over 3 years.The central approach of the proposal of fertilising knowledge across disciplinary boundaries and across boundaries between academics and practitioners is shown in the make-up of the application team, which includes a key practitioner (the Director of Migrants' Rights Network), and academics from the backgrounds of business, employment relations, economic geography, sociology and migration studies. The proposal is also structured to develop research capacity by including PhD students and early career researchers. As well as bursaries being made available for PhD students for the seminars, there is one seminar (on methodological innovations and reflections) devoted to enhancing the learning and development of PhD students and early career researchers. The proposal is also designed to enhance international learning and collaboration. One seminar is devoted to uncovering the lessons for this area from the US, Europe and the Global South. In total, 6 international speakers will contribute to the series. The 9 seminar topics are:1. Migrants, civil society and social cohesion: Issues, debates and practices in the context of international migration 2. New forms of organizing and self-organizing of migrant workers across community and workplace. Lessons from the US, Europe and the Global South. 3. Migrant workers initiatives and established labour organizations. 4. Civil societal involvement in employment relations.5. Civic and labour engagements as avenues for the integration and social cohesion of migrants: exploring the intersections of race, class and gender and marginalized identities 6. Taking the king's shilling: when civil society is invited in. Irregular migrants, Civil society organisations and the state.7. Researching civic and labour engagements in the context of migration and social cohesion: methodological innovations and reflections. 8. Reflections on workplace, community, and society in the cultural production of migrants. 9. 'How can we help?' Civic and labour practitioners' suggestions for academic research practice with greater impact. The series will lead to important outcomes for both academics and civil society practitioners. The series will inform the publication of special issues of two leading academic journals, in employment relations and in migration studies. It will also lead to the publication of a booklet for civil society practitioners (supported by a devoted website) outlining cases of best practice with regard to social cohesion and migrants at the intersection of workplace and community. Facilitated by a clear social media strategy, the series will also foster longer-term organic links among civil society groups, and between academics and civil society groups.