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

在私人领域和公共领域（与国家有关）之间是公民社会领域、团体、机构和网络领域，如信仰团体、工会和社区组织。移徙工人是探索民间社会当前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有利条件。农民工在当代社会和经济中扮演着重要的角色，但在当前的公共和政治话语中，他们被建构为一个关键的当代问题。至关重要的是，民间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碎片化的。该系列研讨会汇集了研究人员和实践者，主题为“移民、工作场所和社区”，其中心目标是为学者和实践者从民间社会的这些创新中发展学习。该系列包括为期3年的9个为期一天的研讨会。申请团队的组成体现了跨学科边界和学者与实践者之间的知识融合的核心方法，其中包括一名主要实践者（移民权利网络主任），以及来自商业、雇佣关系、经济地理、社会学和移民研究背景的学者。该提案还旨在通过博士生和早期职业研究人员来发展研究能力。除了为参加研讨会的博士生提供奖学金外，还有一个研讨会（关于方法创新和反思）致力于加强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。其中一个研讨会专门探讨了美国、欧洲和全球南方国家为该地区提供的经验教训。总共有6位国际演讲者将为该系列活动作出贡献。9个主题分别是：1；移民、民间社会和社会凝聚力：国际移民背景下的问题、辩论和实践农民工跨社区、跨工作场所的组织和自组织新形式。美国、欧洲和全球南方的经验教训。移徙工人倡议和已建立的劳工组织。4. 4 .民间社会参与就业关系。公民和劳工参与作为移民融合和社会凝聚力的途径：探索种族、阶级、性别和边缘化身份的交叉点。拿着国王的先令：当公民社会被邀请时。非正规移民、民间社会组织和国家研究移民和社会凝聚力背景下的公民和劳工参与：方法创新和反思。8. 流动人口文化生产中对工作场所、社区和社会的反思。9. “我们能帮什么忙？”公民和劳工从业者对学术研究实践的建议具有较大的影响。该系列会议将为学术界和民间社会实践者带来重要成果。该丛书将为两份主要学术期刊《就业关系》和《移徙研究》特刊的出版提供资料。它还将导致为民间社会从业者出版一本小册子（由一个专门的网站提供支持），概述在工作场所和社区交叉点的社会凝聚力和移民方面的最佳做法案例。在明确的社会媒体战略的推动下，该系列还将促进民间社会团体之间以及学术界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.