If this is Tuesday, it must be Fribourg: back-to-back gigs to talk about sex and migration
5 November 2010 in migration by | No comments | 
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I wonder if my stamina will hold out to the end of a very demanding schedule. Last week, talks on different subjects in Neuchatel and Fribourg, then a flight to London to participate in the Battle of Ideas, then a flight back and the next day a talk in the Swiss capital of Bern, followed by a 3-day intensive course for MA students called Migration and Globalisation: phew! Tomorrow is the last day of that and then I plan to remain prone all weekend before leaving Monday to give a talk in Lausanne followed by a talk in Basel on Wednesday! I feel like a wind-up toy lecturer at times and suddenly think: oh god, am I repeating myself? Have I already told this story?
Details of my schedule as Visiting Professor in Gender and Migration are at the Swiss Gender Website.
The 3-day workshop is terrific, by the way – combining ideas about globalisation with different theories and experiences of all sorts of migration and, especially, how the need for low-wage labour and informal-sector work is a positive element in everyone’s economic development. I’ll soon be selling it and not just to students.
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Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry was published by Zed Books in 2007. Order from Amazon. Or get the ebook from Books A Million.
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