Research Output
Published research papers
Caro,E., Berntsen,L., Lillie,N., Wagne, I.(2015).Posted Migration and Segregation in the European Construction Sector. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41 (10).
Dushi, M.(2014). Influence of Migration in Women Emancipation. Case study from Kosovan Albanian Diaspora. The journal International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Swiss Publishing House, 58,91-103.
Danaj,S.,Caro, E.,Xhaho,A. (2015). Trade Unions in Albania: Struggling between legitimacy and worker’s rights’. Kerkime Gjeografike, FSHMN – UP, 18.
Conference Presentation
Caro, E.,& Dushi, M.(2016, April 26-27).Industrial Citizenship perceptions among Kosovar“Gestarbeiter’s” in Germany and Switzerland. Paper presented at The International Conference Labour Migration in the European Peripheries, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Xhaho, A. ( 2016, June 21-24). Challenges of ethnobiographical research with migrants. Paper presented at the Doctoral student day of International Conference “Thinking Migration to Rethink the World, 30th Anniversary of Migrations internationales, espaces et societies” University of Poitiers, France.
Caro, E. (2016, April 26-27). Exclusion and Strategies to Inclusion: Albanian Labour Migrants in Greece. Paper presented at The International Conference Labour Migration in the European Peripheries, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Xhaho,A.,Caro, E., & Dushi, M.(2016, April 26-27). Gendered patterns of emancipation and integrations of Albanian migrant women in three host societies: Greece, Germany and Switzerland Paper presented at The International Conference Labour Migration in the European Peripheries, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Caro, E. (2016, April 2-6). Challenges of the New Migration in Western Balkans – Inaugural speech as the winner of the Early Career Plenary speaker presented at Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Graz, Austria.
Caro, E.( 2015, November). Albanians in crossroad: 25 years of migration. Paper presented at the AIIS Symposium-Albania 25 years after communism: Rebuilding state and society, Tirana, Albania.
Dushi, M.(2015, November 13-14). “Home” for Now or “Home” for Life. Migration Memories of Kosovan Albanian Migrants in West European Countries. Paper presented at the International Conference on Labor Migration and Industrial Citizenship”. Albanians on the move – Citizenship, identity and development, Tirana, Albania.
Danaj, S.,Kall, K.,& Caro,E.(2015, November 13-14). Emigration and Trade Unions in Eastern Europe: The cases of Albania and Estonia. Paper presented at the International Conference on Labor Migration and Industrial Citizenship”.Albanians on the move – Citizenship, identity and development, Tirana, Albania.
Xhaho, A.,Caro,E., & Fetahu,E.(2015, November 13-14). Engendering Empowerment in the Private/Public Dichotomy: Albanian Migrant Women as the New Breadwinners. Paper presented at the International Conference on Labor Migration and Industrial Citizenship”. Albanians on the move – Citizenship, identity and development, Tirana, Albania.
Caro, E., & Dushi, M.(2015, November 13-14). Industrial Citizenship and Migration from Western Balkans. Case studies from Albania and Kosovo migration towards Greece, Germany and Switzerland. Paper presented at the International Conference on Labor Migration and Industrial Citizenship”. Albanians on the move – Citizenship, identity and development, Tirana, Albania.
Dushi, M. (2015, September 2-4). “Home” for Now or “Home” for Life. Migration Memories of Kosovan Albanian Migrants in West European Countries. Paper presented at The 10th Annual Conference‘ Memory, Migration ,the City and its Museum’, Moscow, Russia
Caro, E.( 2015, November 27-28). Moving Identities: (Re) integration struggles of return Albanian labor migrants from Greece. Paper presented at International Conference: Transition In Retrospect -25 Years After The Fall Of Communism Tirana, Albania.
Caro, E. (2015, November). The fall of the Communist Regime in Albania as depicted in the Foreign Media in the early 90s. Paper presented at The International Conference on Media and Memory Covering the Communist Past: Media Transformation and Memory in Albania, Tirana
Caro, E. (2015, July). Being the Good Worker: What It Means for Albanian Labour Migrants to be Successful in the Italian Host Society. Paper presented at The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics International Conference, London, UK.
Xhaho,A., Fetahu, E.,& Toci, A.( 2015, July). Identification of Barriers that Conditions and Limits the Possibilities of Women for a Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference. International of Southern Eastern Europe in Western Balkans – Albanian’s case, Tirana, Albania.
Caro, E. (2015, June 25 -26).National identities in motion: (Re) integration struggles of return Albanian labor migrants from Greece. Paper presented at the International Conference on Migration, Citizenship and Development in a neoliberal era, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Caro, E. (2015, June). Experiences of Albanian and Estonian women migrants in the service sector in Italy and Finland and Greece. Paper presented at The Migration, Development and Citizenship: Examining the Nexus Between the Arrangement of Migrant Lives and (Global/National) Political and Economic Regimes, VU University Amsterdam, Netherland.
Caro, E.,& Xhaho, A.(2015, May 28-29 ).Industrial Citizenship and Migration from the Western Balkans: Migration from Albania and Kosovo towards Greece, Germany and Switzerland. Paper presented at the 6th RRPP Annual Conference, Ohrid, Macedonia.
Xhaho, A., & Caro, E. (2015, May). General overview of trade unions in Albania: Struggling for legitimacy and workers’ rights. Paper presented at the The State, Society and Law: Albanians 25 Years from the Changes of Systems International Scientific Conference, Durres,Albania.
Caro, E. (2015). How to explore through superdiversity the Industrial Citizenship and Labour Mobility of Albanian migrants to Greece and Italy’. Paper presented at the Superdiversity and Intersectionality workshop, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Caro, E. (2015). Industrial Citizenship and Migration from the Western Balkans:Migration from Albania and Kosovo towards Greece, Germany and Switzerland. Paper presented at the University of Greenwich workshop ‘‘Marketization and neoliberal restructuring in Europe”, London, UK.
Labour Markets Competitive Norms and Trade Unions: Cases of Albanian migrants in Italy and Greece and of Estonians in Finland, Sonila Danaj, Erka Caro, Laura Mankki, and Markku Sippola
Conferences confirmed and forthcoming for presentation
Dushi, M. (2016, July 10 – 14). “Home” for now or “Home” for life. Migration memories of Kosovan Albanian Migrants in Germany and Switzerland (emotional aspect), Paper presented at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna Austria. (accepted)
Caro, E., & Danaj, S. (2016, July 10 – 14). Unions in Post-Communist Albania: Problems of Organization and Solidarity in the Times Crisis. Paper presented at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna Austria. (accepted)
Dushi, M. (2016). “Children are integrated”. Perception of integration among different generations of Kosovan migrants in Germany and Switzerland. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Migration, Innsbruch, Austria. (accepted)
Xhaho, A., Caro, E.,& Dushi, M. ( 2016, August 11-12). New patterns of emancipation and integrations of Albanian migrant women in three host societies; Greece, Germany and Switzerland. Paper presented at The 18th Nordic Migration Conference on “Migration and social inequality: Global perspectives – new boundaries”, Oslo, Norway. (accepted)
Xhaho, A. and Caro, E. (2016, September 02-03)”Reintegration Strategies for Return Albanian Migrants: Gendered Trajectories and Challenges” Paper will be presented at RRPP Annual Conference 2016 “ Is Western Balkan Changing in the Social, Political and Economic Terms?”, Tirana
Research article/book chapters- Submitted or in publication process
Caro,E.,& Lillie,N. (2017). Paradoxes of feminization of labour in the time of Austerity: Working migrant women in the service sector context of Greece, Italy, Finland. In Greer,I. (Ed.), Marketization in Europe. Cornel University ,USA (Expected Publication, Winter, 2017).
Danaj,S., Çaro, E., Mankki,L.,& Sippola,M. (2017).Labour Migrants and Union Membership: Labour Market Dilemmas of Albanians in Italy, Greece and Estonians in Finland. In Doellgast, V.,Lillie, N., & Pugliano, V. (Eds.). (Expected publication May, 2017).
Caro,E.,& Danaj,S.(….). The fall of the Communist Regime in Albania as depicted in the Foreign Media in the early 90s. ( Book chapter in an edited volume, in Press).
Caro,E.,& Danaj,S (….).Rënia e Regjimit Komunist në Shqipëri sipas Mediave Nderkombetare në Fillimet e Viteve 90. (Book Chapter in an edited volume /Albanian Language, in Press).
Conferences organised
“International Conference on Labor Migration and Industrial Citizenship”.Albanians on the move – Citizenship, identity and development”, 13th and14th November, University of New York Tirana in Albania
http://icm-westernbalkans.com/icm-conference/
International Conference“Labour Migration in the European Peripheries”, 26th -27th April 2016 University of Jyväskylä, Finland. http://icm-westernbalkans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Book-of-Abstracts1.pdf
