Migrants and Regional Governance in European and Chinese Cities

This study explores the relevance of European-Chinese comparison in migration and regional studies, taking the European Union and China as the regional units of comparison. The European Union is a unique governance experiment in the free movement of persons, enabling citizens of member states as EU citizen to live, work, study, and retire freely across national borders, as well as claim certain key welfare rights as non-national residents. Economically, the policies have benefitted major cities (such as London) at the expense of peripheral regions less integrated in the international economy, and more liberal economies (such as the UK). With Brexit, and the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, the EU may move to a system closer to the Chinese Hukou system where mobility and welfare rights remain attached, and/or migration is controlled by the state. We will consider what can be mutually learned from the comparison of these two regional political economies of labour migration.

演讲人：Adrian Favell，利兹大学社会学与社会政策学院教授及国际事务主管

     Li Sun，利兹大学社会学与社会政策学院讲师、博士

主持人：文军，社会发展学院院长、教授

讲座时间：2018年10月30日（星期二）18时

讲座地点：法商北楼525室

主办：华东师范大学人文与社会科学研究院

承办：华东师范大学社会发展学院

演讲人简介

Professor Adrian Favell

    Professor Favell is a well-known sociologist on migration and cities. Prior to Leeds, He has worked as professor at UCLA in the US, Sciencen Po in France, and Aarhus University in Denmark. Professor Favell is the author of various works on multiculturalism, migration, cosmopolitanism and cities, such as Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (1998), Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (2008), and East-West migration and anti-EU politics in Britain, was published by ECPR Press (2015).

Dr Li Sun (孙丽)

Dr Li Sun has international working experience in universities in Germany, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, and China. Besides academic positions, Dr Sun also serves as consultant to UN, World Bank, and OECD. She has published 10 SSCI journal articles which appear on journals such as Social Policy & Administration, Land Use Policy. Her new book entitled Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China: Migrant Workers' Coping Strategies was recently published by Palgrave.