Sub-theme 37: International Migration, Work and Organization
Convenors:
Jelena Zikic, York University, Toronto, Canada
Kyoung-Hee Yu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Robert MacKenzie, University of Leeds, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, COM-3106
Theories on Migration, Work, and Organisation
Chair: Jelena Zikic
Michael Cowen
Opening organisation and critical management studies to migration and migrant worker research through governmentality
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Simy Joy
Simy Joy, Ishita Toshniwal and Annilee Game
Applying Bourdieu's Capital-Field-Habitus framework to migrant careers: Adding a transnational perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Michael Cowen
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, COM-3106
Organisations and Migration
Chair: Kyoung-Hee Yu
Will Harvey, Diane van den Broek and Dimitria Groutsis
The impact of intermediaries, reputation and social networks on skilled migration decisions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christian Hirt
Christian Hirt, Almina Bešić, Christina Grün, Renate Ortlieb, Josef Scheff and Julian Winterheller
How a company’s internship programme fosters migration and the development of career capital – The case of an Austrian bank
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sreelekha Mishra
Sreelekha Mishra and Sushanta Mishra
Migration and multiculturalism: Centrality of work organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marina Schmitz
Marina Schmitz
Change in China? Taking stock of blue collars’ work values
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): William Harvey
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, COM-3106
Critical and Post colonial approaches
Chair: Kyoung-Hee Yu
Joanne Jones and Kelly Thomson
Welcome to the Jungle: How "hosts" from the colonial centre interpellate the identity work and transition decisions of migrants
in strange bodies
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Michelle Mielly
Andrea Toarniczky and Bettina Sárközi
Hungarian professionals in an English pub?! Adaptive and explorative identity work of young Hungarian professional migrants
Michelle Mielly and Gazi Islam
Organizational life after Charlie: Giving meaning to identity work in contemporary France
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Joanne Jones
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, COM-3106
Occupations and Careers
Chair: Jelena Zikic
Panagiotis Gkorezis, Victoria Bellou and Eugenia Petridou
The impact of work overload on academics' intention to leave Greece: A moderated mediation model
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Andrey Kozhevnikov
Andrew Kozhevnikov, Tracy Scurry and Steve Vincent
Studying the careers of highly skilled migrants: The problem of definition
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Florence Karaba
Florence Karaba
Coping strategies of self-initiated expatriates: African immigrant nurses in the UK
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Panagiotis Gkorezis
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, COM-3106
Cultures and Identities
Chair: Jelena Zikic
Andreas Landes and Christoph Barmeyer
Organizations as (cultural) anchors –
An organizational identification approach to the integrative role of the work place
in migration processes of skilled European migrants
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Kyoung-Hee Yu
Kyoung-Hee Yu
Negotiating cultural 'otherness' through cultural work: Professional migrants in multicultural Australia
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Firat Sayin
Firat K. Sayin
Multiple identities and workplace socialization: Bringing social identity and Bourdieusian approaches together
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Andreas Landes
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, COM-3106
Entrepreneurship
Chair: Kyoung-Hee Yu
Nada Kakabadse, Nikolai Mouraviev, Nadeem Khan, Katerina Nicolopoulou, KANELLOS NIKOLOPOULOS and jose alcaraz
Cosmopolitan disposition as an enabler for openness and innovation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Dilek Zamantili Nayir
Rachel Shinnar, Rachel Shinnar and Dilek Zamantılı Nayır
Immigrant entrepreneurship in an emerging economy: The case of Turkey
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Huriye Aygoren
Huriye Aygören
Bridging the gap between resistance and power though agency: An empirical analysis of struggle with immigrant women entrepreneurs
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nada Korac-Kakabadse
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, COM-3106
Diaspora and Students
Chair: Jelena Zikic
Vilmantė Kumpikaitė-Valiūnienė, Jurga Duobienė, Kęstutis Duoba, Ineta Žičkutė and Antonio Mihi-Ramirez
High-skilled migrants as virtual employees
Antonio Mihi Ramírez and Vilmantė Kumpikaitė-Valiūnienė
Contemporary changes and chances of the post-graduated mobility
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Maria Elo
Maria Elo and Sivaram Vemuri
Organizing mobility: A case study of Bukharian Jewish diaspora
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tony Fang
Tony Fang and Carl Lin
Migrants from a different shore: Economic assimilation of immigrants from China in the United States
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Vilmante Kumpikaite-Valiuniene