BSA Annual Conference 2026

8-10 April 2026
University of Manchester, UK

Jenny CHAN; Zihao ZHANG

Abstract:
Masculinities and labor in China’s platform-based food delivery work
Presentation Mode:
Oral
Stream:
Work, Employment & Economic Life

International Sociological Association (2025)

Forum of Sociology 2025

The International Political Economy of Labor Migration: The Next Great Transformation? (2024)

Date: July 18–20, 2024

Venue: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Call for Papers

Link:　https://ipelm2024.info/

Over the past few decades, the expansion of global (re)production networks, the partial liberalization of cross-border mobility, the rise of new sending states promoting migrant exports and the burgeoning of a migration industry with recruitment networks at the lead, presage fundamental changes in world society. A global summit focused on the political economy of migration answers the call to open the “black box” of labor migration to better understand the mechanisms making mobility possible in addition to identifying the factors driving migration and what happens at migrants’ destination.

The conference highlights contributions in three cross-cutting themes that explore the relationship between states, markets, and migrants: Governance and the Making of Transnational Labor Mobilities and Labor Regimes; Transformation and Transnationalization of Social Reproductive Labor (e.g., care work, health, education); as well as Regulation and Resistance. We seek individual papers and panels drawing on experiences in different parts of the world and encourage reflections on the reasons behind convergences and diversities in labor migration patterns and outcomes within and across world regions. Presentations on intra-regional labor migration are particularly welcomed. Priority will be given to those panels combining theory and new empirical findings based on comparative research, cross-regional perspectives, or in-depth single-case studies.

Program committee

Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University, USA

Karen Shire, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Nicola Yeates, Open University, UK

Julie Greene, University of Maryland, USA

Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Ngai Pun, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Jenny Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach, World Society Foundation, Switzerland

Submission of abstracts: September 1, 2023