09.-11.04.2014 Workshop: Medical Selection Examinations during the Recruitment of Work-Related Migrants in Europe between 1950 and 1990
April 9-11, 2014
Workshop:
Medical Selection Examinations during the Recruitment of Work-Related Migrants in Europe between 1950 and 1990
Institute for the History of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Conference organizers: Sascha Topp and Volker Roelcke
Programme
Wednesday, April 9
15:00
Get-together
15:30
Welcome and Introduction
16:00
The
Construction of the Labour Migrant’s Body:
West Germany’s Recruitment of Turkish Labour from 1961
to 1973
Maria Kramer, GSSSH Koç University (Istanbul), Turkey
16:45
Coffee break
17:15
"…
sold like cattle on the cattle market" West German medical examinations for the regulated
recruitment of "Guest Workers" from Italy, Spain (and Turkey),
1955-1973
Sascha Topp, Justus
Liebig University Giessen, Germany
The historical Development of the Health Conditions of Migrant Women from Turkey in Germany, in the Mirror of interdisciplinary Discourse
Asli Topal-Cevahir, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
18:45
Commentary
Michael Knipper, Justus Liebig University Giessen,
Germany
20:00
Dinner
Thursday, April 10
10:00
Medical
Examinations and Diseases as Exclusion Risks in individual Biographies:
The Case of Belgium and Western Germany
Jenny Pleinen, Augsburg
University, Germany
10:45
Quick adaptable People with
clear X-rays: Yugoslavs on "temporary work"
Vladimir Ivanović, University
of Innsbruck, Austria
11:30
Coffee break
12:00
"We would prefer agile and skilled boys"
– ["Wendige und geschickte Burschen wären uns am liebsten"]
Discourses and Recruitment
Practices of Migrant Workers in the Context of the History of Labour Migration
to Austria
Vida Bakondy, University
of Innsbruck, Austria
12:45
Commentary
Jürgen Dinkel, Justus
Liebig University Giessen, Germany
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Zionism, Immigration and Public Health:
Medical Selection Practices from the British Mandate
to Mass Immigration (1920-1956)
Nadav Davidovitch, co-author Rakefet Zalashik, Tel
Aviv University, Israel / Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam,
Germany
15:15
Ethnicity, Ability, Health:
Medical and Social Selection among Co-Ethnic
Immigrants to Israel and West Germany (1950s-1960s)
Jannis Panagiotidis, Imre
Kertesz Kolleg Jena Germany / European University Institute Florence, Italy
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Exceptional,
Imperial or Just Inefficient:
Medical Border Management in Britain, 1948-2005
Roberta Bivins, University
of Warwick, United Kingdom
17:30
Commentary
Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, University of Bonn, Germany
19:00
Dinner
Friday, April 11
10.00
Medical Technologies of Managed Migration:
The Bracero Program in Global Context, 1942-64
Julie Weise, University
of Oregon, USA
10:45
Medical
Selection at the Transition of Work Migration and Immigration:
Sketches and Thesis on Risk Perception and Preventive
Measures in 20th Century
Sascha Topp, Justus
Liebig University Giessen, Germany
11:30
Commentary
(N.N.)
11:45
Coffee break
12.00
Final
Discussion and Concluding Remarks
13.00
Buffet lunch