BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T063530Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20220519T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20220520T170000 SUMMARY:Migrant Workers and Rights in a Global Justice Perspective: between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory UID:20240329T063639Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Kardinaal Mercierplein 2\, Leuven\, Belgium\, 3000 DESCRIPTION:
Submission deadline: December 20th\, 2021
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Labor migration is widely recognized as an effective tool to reduce global poverty and inequality. However\, migrant workers' integration into foreign labor markets is not without its challenges. From a normative standpoint\, one of the more salient challenges lies in working out ways to maximize the justice-enhancing potential of labor migration while minimizing the adverse effects that this can have on domestic and migrant workers. These adverse effects follow from the fact that boosting labor migration seems possible by limiting migrant workers' rights in the host society &ndash\; i.e.\, the numbers vs. rights trade-off. Therefore\, the expansion of labor migration to its maximum potential creates a number of inescapable trade-offs\, such as that between prospective migrants' economic benefits and the vulnerability they would face if their rights were extensively differentiated or\, at the EU level\, that between posted workers' economic benefits and the adverse effects of posted work's social dumping on domestic workers produced.
Philosophers have taken diverging normative stances towards the challenges of labor migration. Some\, strongly concerned with the damaging effects that rights differentiation can have on the democratic ethos of society\, oppose rights differentiation. Conversely\, others support extensive rights differentiation based on the justice-enhancing potential of labor migration and the agency-enhancing effects migration offers to migrant workers. This baffling disagreement between liberal egalitarians is partly substantiated by a disagreement in their understanding of the role empirical facts\, social practices\, and feasibility conditions should play in our normative theorizing. Nonetheless\, this methodological discussion has not been part of the normative debate on labor migration and its role in the global justice agenda. Hence\, this workshop takes stock and debates the different ideal and non-ideal theory approaches to the topic.
\nWe invite submissions from all related academic fields\, including political and moral philosophy\, political theory\, legal theory\, and social theory. Possible topics include:
\nThis list is non-exhaustive\, and submissions on related topics are welcome.
\nConfirmed speakers:
\nRainer Baubö\;ck
\nValeria Ottonelli
\nAndrea Sangiovanni
\nAnna Stilz
\nChristine Straehle
\nWe have space for three more external speakers on our program. If you are interested in participating in this expert workshop\, please submit an anonymized abstract of no more than 500 words\, along with an email including your name\, title\, and affiliation to mario.cunningham@kuleuven.be. The format of this particular panel is pre-read. Abstracts should therefore developed into a full paper. Participants will be asked to give a brief (5-10 min) presentation of their paper as part of the 1-hour discussion session of their work. The deadline for submission is December 20th\, 2021. Notification of acceptance will be provided by February 15th .
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\nIf you have any questions regarding the workshop\, please contact the organizer\, Mario Cunningham\, at mario.cunningham@kuleuven.be
\nThis workshop is organized as part of the &ldquo\;Justice and Migration&rdquo\; project\, funded by KU Leuven.
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