Beyond brain drain. Skills & Mobility without Methodological Nationalism

Beyond brain drain

skills & mobility without methodological nationalism

Conveners: Speranta Dumitru (Paris 5), Stéphane Chauvier (Paris 4), Caroline Caplan (Paris 5)  

26-27 March 2015

Salle des Thèses 5e étage Bât. Jacob

45 rue des Saints-Pères Paris Descartes

Thursday 26th     Mobility

Introduction : Chair: Stéphane Chauvier (P4)

9.15 – 9.30           Speranta Dumitru (Paris 5) Introducing the project

9.30 – 10.15         Alex Sager(Portland) The Critique of Methodological Nationalism and “Brain Drain”

Coffee Break

neither utility, nor rights?

Chair: Caroline Caplan (P5)

10.30 – 11.30       Antoine Pécoud(Paris 13) Brain Drain and the free movement of people 

11.30 – 12.15       Adina Preda (Limerick) Some reflections about the rights and freedoms to migrate

LUNCH

the states’ perspective

chair: Camille Schmoll (P7)

14.30- 15.15        Lucie Cerna(Compas Oxford) The policy implications of the war on talent

15.15 – 16.00      Oliviero Angeli(Dresden) Taxing the entrants to protect the stayers? On the prospective responsibility of skilled migrants

Break

A plea for change

Chair: Hélène Thiollet (CERI)

16.15 – 17.15       Michael Clemens (CGD, Washington): Losing our minds? A fresh Start in considering policy toward skilled emigration

17.15 – 17.45       General discussion

Friday 27th        Skills

Whose skills, which serfdom?

Chair: Shirin Shahrokni (INED)

9.30- 10.15          Valeria Ottonelli (Genova): The "global drain" of domestic care work: what's wrong with it?

Coffee Break

10.30 – 11.30       Bernardo Bolanos & Camelia Tigau(Mexico): Diasporas and colonialism. The geopolitical dimension of skilled migration

11.30 – 12.15       Christine Straehle(Ottawa): Are they my Skilled? Anti-emigration measures from a liberal perspectiv

Lunch

Cosmopolitan Views

Chair: Stéphane Dufoix (paris 10)

14.00- 14.45        Phillip Cole(U West of England): Labor mobility: towards a cosmopolitan ethic

14.45 - 15.30       Jean-Baptiste Meyer(IRD Montpellier): Brain drain and the cosmopolis: conflicting views… or may be not

Break

Towards a new perspective on skills

Chair: Yves Boquet (U of Bourgogne)

16.00 – 17.00     Parvati Raghuram(Open University) Dis/locating skills

17.00 – 17.30      General discussion

The conference is part of iNAME (Political theories of immigration and methodological nationalism, a research project at Paris Descartes) and of Sociétés plurielles, an Interdisciplinary Program of the University Sorbonne Paris Cité. It is organized by CERLIS (CNRS), INALCO and SND, Paris 4.