Conferences & Talks

2025

  • 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference – Panel: ‘Migrantisation: Refining and operationalising a key concept’ (Brexit Couples Team and invited speakers); and ‘Evidence: material, biomedical, discursive and affective proofs in migration regimes’: “Evidencing Relationships: Young, mobile UK-EU couples and the UK immigration regime” (J. El-Shewy et al); Campus Condorcet Paris Aubervilliers

  • The zero-sum game of labour exploitation: Migration, precarious work, and the impact on workers’ family life Workshop – “How family migration rules impact on people’s working lives” (H. Wray), Oxford Brooks

  • BelMix Seminar Series – “From transnational Pakistani marriages to Brexit Couples: studying relationship-based migration” (K. Charsley), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

  • Immigration Summit 2025: (K. Charsley), Leigh Day, London


2024

  • 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference – ‘Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn’: “Brexit Couples: UK-EU Couples and Experiential Migrantisation in the UK Spouse/Partner Immigration Regime” (K. Charsley, N. Hoellerer), Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE (CIES-ISCTE), University Institute of Lisbon.

  • Migrantisation Workshop, organised by K. Charsley, University of Bristol

  • European Migrants in the UK in the Brexit Era – Discursive Approaches Symposium: “Migrantisation and exceptionalism narratives of UK-EU couples” (N. Hoellerer, K. Charsley), University of Liverpool

  • Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (J. El-Shewy), University of Portsmouth

  • Routes Network Workshop – ‘Exploiting mobility: governments, law and the instrumentalisation of movement’: “Instrumentalising love: Marriage migration requirements as a regime of (im)mobility in the UK” (N. Hoellerer, K. Charsley, J. El-Shewy), University of Exeter

2023

  • Conference: ‘Strange(r) Families – ‘Political contestation over family and nation in migration regimes’: “Invisible Families: Who counts in the European Court of Human Rights migration jurisprudence?’ (H.Wray), University of Amsterdam

  • ‘Deportability and the family’ Seminar, Migration Institute of Finland (Turku): “Kept Apart: temporality, migrantisation and family separation in the UK family immigration system” (K. Charsley)

  • 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference: “UK-EU couples after Brexit: Migrantization and the UK family immigration regime” (N. Hoellerer), University of Warsaw

  • British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2023: “Kept Apart: couples separated by the UK family immigration regime” (K. Charsley), University of Manchester