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Scheduled Seminars [ pdf ] last update 10\/03\/2026<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ text_text_color=”#000000″ link_text_color=”#0C71C3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Form to confirm attendance in advance [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=KUxRa5EjMUi3dITzXEW_Ab10kerulM5JtIDXYTskm9tUQVZJSTlCUkcyS1dTTFk3RkhVMVk2UlVWUC4u” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Registration for IGOP seminars” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”14px” button_text_color=”#009639″ button_icon=”||fa||400″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ text_text_color=”#000000″ link_text_color=”#0C71C3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 16\/04\/2026 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Encouraging fathers to take parenting leave has been the subject of policy directives from the European Commission and the aim of recent innovations in family policies across several countries. Yet, expansions have been uneven historically and cross-nationally. Using pooled time-series cross-sectional analysis, this paper examines relationships between different political actors and leave provisions, namely, paternity and parental leave duration, pay, and allocation as individual, non-transferable entitlements. Analysis combines independently developed fathers\u2019 leave provision indicators and data from publicly available comparative political data sets. Overall, results support power resources explanations for family policy expansion, though women lawmakers regardless of partisanship also play a facilitative role. Results also suggest a complicated role for confessional right parties. Such parties have a positive effect on fathers\u2019 total leave provisions but a negative effect on the duration of fathers\u2019 well-paid leave, which poses more of a challenge to traditional gender norms. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 24\/04\/2026 a les 11:30h sala d’actes (Facultat d’economia) Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Varieties of reproduction regimes: institutions, norms and inequalities<\/strong><\/p>\n Reproduction policy as a regulatory field of the welfare state has received little scholarly attention so far. But state measures that directly intervene in processes of having or not having children, such as abortion, contraception or medically assisted reproduction, fulfill central welfare state functions: They address social risks and inequalities and can either guarantee or limit social rights, also reproducing ideas of who deserves to reproduce. This study proposes a theoretical and empirical typology of \u2018reproduction regimes\u2019 of developed welfare states, considering different fields of regulation of reproduction in terms of what is being addressed and how. The concept of social reproductive risks is employed to describe welfare states\u2019 attention to potentially negative individual and collective consequences of reproductive processes; and institutional variation is considered in terms of permissiveness and cost compensation. Four theoretical regime types are identified: a universalist, an interventionist, a liberal and a selective type. Empirically, quantitative policy indicators for 30 countries from the new International Reproduction Policy Database (IRPD) are used to operationalize the policy level. The analysis expands welfare state research with a systematic, empirical perspective on reproduction policy. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 30\/04\/2026 a les 12:30h sala reunions MRA Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n This paper uses Bourdieuisian field theory to examine the evolution of political participation in Europe and the West since the latter half of the 20th century, leading up to the development of a sub-field of institutionalised participation, often referred to as \u201cdemocratic innovation\u201d. Whilst these processes originate in radical politics, they have deradicalized as they are institutionalised. So, what remains of their democratic potential? Through a reconstruction of the history of political participation in the social democratic and neoliberal eras, I show that, as new practices expand, co-optative pressures increase. I argue that social structure exerts a field force that intensifies as participatory practices come closer to the \u201cfield of power\u201d, with generally deradicalizing effect. However, the field of political participation retains possibilities for change through ongoing field struggles over field specific symbolic capital, and the development of new practices in \u2018local fields\u2019. Moreover, co-optation does not necessarily mean tokenism. Rather, co-opting institutions need to make changes in form to make co-optation effective. Thus, in non-revolutionary moments, change occurs through a circuit consisting in the co-optation and renewal of practices. Finally, the concept of participatory capital is developed to explain how the field of participation evolves in struggles between actors advocating different participatory ethics. I conclude that while the increased structural power of capital in neoliberalism constrains the field of participation to a greater extent than in social democracy, it remains a contested space, where possibilities for democratization remain. <\/p>\n ___ Date:<\/strong> 14\/05\/2026 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n Nobel-prize winning economist Claudia Goldin has argued that being the “on-call parent” (that is, being the parent primarily responsible for emergencies, like picking up a sick child from school or daycare), is a key barrier to gender equality in men and women\u2019s careers. In this seminar, Prof. Mara Yerkes will present findings from the study On Call, Off Track? The Hidden Career Costs of On-Call Parenthood that examines this issue in the Netherlands. Drawing on a unique survey on on-call parenthood combined with register data, the study aims to provide insights that can address persistent gender differences in Dutch society and the labor market. During the seminar, preliminary results will be presented on how caregiving responsibilities influence parents\u2019 career paths in the Netherlands and what this means for gender inequality. <\/p>\n Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n Mara A. Yerkes is Professor of Comparative Social Policy in relation to Social Inequalities at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research centres on comparative social policy (including national and local welfare state policy and industrial relations), social inequalities (related to work, care, communities and families, in particular relating to gender, generations, and sexual orientation) and their interplays. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ text_text_color=”#000000″ link_text_color=”#0C71C3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n SEMINARS IN PREPARATION<\/strong><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> TBC <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> TBC Book presentation \u201cLaberintos de la Ira. Extremismo violento en la adolescencia y la juventud\u201d.<\/p>\n Discussant<\/strong>: Marga Le\u00f3n (IGOP-UAB)<\/p>\n More info: https:\/\/www.catarata.org\/libro\/laberintos-de-la-ira_155335\/<\/a><\/p>\n Zyab Iba\u00f1ez<\/strong> is a researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (2007) and a Master’s degree in Environmental Assessment from the London School of Economics. His research combines cross-national institutional analysis and organizational case studies to explore how different institutional regimes shape the design and implementation of public policies in the areas of employment, working time and migration. As a researcher, he has participated in several EU-funded projects, such as RECWOWE, Mobile Identities, PROMISE and Euroship. <\/p>\n Miguel Perlado<\/strong>, Psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher-supervisor (FEAP-EAP) and psychoanalyst (SEP-IPA). President of the Section of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Spanish Federation of Psychotherapy Associations (FEAP). He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catalan Congress Foundation on Mental Health (FCCSM), supervisor of the Institute of Forensic Psychology of Barcelona (IPF), founder and current supervisor of the Association for the Investigation of Psychological Abuse (AIIAP) and member of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). He is coordinator of the Working Group on Sectarian Drifts (Official College of Psychology, COPC) and co-coordinator of the Working Group on Violent Ideological Radicalization of the FCCSM and PCG. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Federation of Information Centres on Sects (FECRIS) and a professor of the Master in Transcultural Spirituality and the Master in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Ramon Llull University. He has written Clinical Studies on Sects (2010) and Captured: Everything you need to know about sects (2020). <\/p>\n Jorge Ti\u00f3<\/strong>, Clinical psychologist from the University of Barcelona and psychoanalyst of the Spanish Society of Psychoanalysis and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has worked in the Public Assistance Network in Mental Health since 1985. He is a supervisor of social care and mental health teams, and a teacher in different university master’s degrees at the University of Barcelona. Author of different articles on psychotherapy and adolescence and co-author of the book Adolescencia y transgresi\u00f3n (Octaedro, 2014). Co-coordinator of the Working Group on Violent Ideological Radicalization of the FCCSM and PCG. He is also vice-president of the Catalan Association of Mental Health Professionals-Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry and was a member of the board of trustees of the Congr\u00e9s Catal\u00e0 de Salut Mental Foundation from 2001 to 2003. He was coordinator of the Minor Care Team of Pere Claver Grup-Servei Catal\u00e0 de la Salut from 2005 to 2015, a team that in 2009 was awarded an honourable mention by the Department of Justice of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is a representative of the Adolescence and Youth Area of the PCG. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ link_text_color=”#0C71C3″ background_color=”rgba(0,133,57,0.13)” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”10px|20px|10px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 24\/03\/2026 a les 13h sala de Juntes Facultat CCPP Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Research on rental housing discrimination (RHD) against migrant minorities has overwhelm ingly focused on the first generation, paying special attention to the most sizeable immigrant groups. As a result, we still know little about the housing-market experiences of immigrants\u2019 children and the less sizeable\u2014but often fast-growing\u2014ethnic minorities. RHD research has also lagged behind the spectacular growth of online apps for conducting private rental transactions. We present a novel instant messaging correspondence test to study (real) private landlords\u2019 responses to (fictitious) f lat seekers of native and Chinese background in Madrid, Spain. Drawing on instant messaging allows us to introduce innovative treatments for phenotype and cultural assimilation. We find moderate levels of RHD against visibly Chinese-background applicants with a fully Chinese name and who use full Chinese characters in their WhatsApp status profile (low assimilation condition) but very low levels of discrimination against visibly identical applicants who combine a Spanish first name with a Chinese last name (typical of the second generation) and who use the word \u201cMadrid\u201d in Latin alphabet in their app status profile (high assimilation condition). Finally, we find adding signals of f lat-seekers\u2019 income reliability (diagnostic treatment) does not reduce discrimination propensity. Results are robust to stringent controls for ethnic composition and COVID-19 incidence rate at the district level. <\/p>\n These findings highlight the primacy of perceived cultural assimilation over racial appearance and information deficits in shaping RHD against Chinese minorities in Spain and illustrate the analytical pay-offs of using instant messaging correspondence tests in discrimination research.<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 17\/03\/2026 a les 12h Sala de Juntes Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n After gaining unprecedented momentum towards the end of the 2010s, the European path towards environmental sustainability is now facing a growing polarization and contestation, which has prompted several analysts to speak about a green backlash. A striking manifestation of this phenomenon occurred between 2023 and 2024, when farmers across the European Union (EU) mobilized in mass protests against the European Green Deal and specifically its provisions for greening agriculture. In the scholarly literature, the green backlash remains empirically underexplored, especially when it comes to unpacking its impact on policymaking. This seminar seeks to advance our knowledge on this matter by comparatively investigating the multilevel politics of sustainable agriculture policies in Europe. The presentation advances three core contributions. First, it offers a review of existing studies on the green backlash, identifying key trends and gaps, particularly from a public policy perspective. Second, the seminar focuses on the EU level, tracing the trajectory of the most recent Common Agricultural Policy reform \u2013 from its initial framing as a cornerstone of the Green Deal to its substantial scaling back after farmers\u2019 protests \u2013 and compares it with EU energy decarbonization policies, which have instead proven slightly more resilient. Third, the analysis shifts to the national level, comparing policy responses to farmers\u2019 protests in four Western European countries \u2013 France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands \u2013 which differ in the extent of concessions granted to farmers and the rollback of sustainable agriculture measures. Preliminary findings suggest that the design of green policies and the way governance structures balance competing interests are key to prevent backlash from eroding the political stability of Europe\u2019s climate action. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 04\/03\/2026 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n En el m\u00f3n interconnectat d’avui dia, les crisis transfrontereres, com la pand\u00e8mia de la Covid-19, s\u00f3n cada cop m\u00e9s comunes, i exposen vulnerabilitats que afecten les societats globals.<\/p>\n The pandemic had a particularly severe impact on migrants living in cities, especially those in vulnerable situations derived from the legal-administrative status (e.g., undocumented individuals, rejected asylum seekers, or those awaiting administrative decisions) and socio-economic conditions (e.g., migrants experiencing homelessness, temporary agricultural workers, and those employed in the service sector). This study examines the extent to which local governments act as policy entrepreneurs to protect these vulnerable populations during crises, as well as the reasons for their varying levels of engagement. Theoretically, our paper explores the relationship between crisis management and policy entrepreneurship at the local level, with a focus on vulnerable populations such as migrants. Empirically, we apply this theoretical framework to qualitatively analyse the responses of four mid-sized Spanish municipalities that at their own initiative offered a repertoire of policy actions addressing these individuals \u2013 namely, Almer\u00eda, Getxo, Fuenlabrada and Lleida \u2013 during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n We argue that these initiatives reflect a form of entrepreneurial governance, where crises serve as policy windows for innovation and pragmatic problem-solving. Rather than ad hoc responses, these actions represent a shift from routine policymaking to a crisis-time logic centered on complementarity, coordination, and responsiveness. Local governments, acting as innovation brokers, mobilized networks and resources to fill institutional gaps and mitigate exclusion. Our contribution aims to enhance the understanding of the capacity and willingness of local public administrations to promote and channel entrepreneurial governance arrangements that engage with vulnerable groups\u2019 needs. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 05\/02\/2026 a les 13h sala reunions MRA Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n In urban planning circles, Barcelona is well known for its implementation of Superblocks: a traffic management and urban design strategy that prioritizes street space for people over motor vehicles. Barcelona captured global attention when the mayor and team committed to scaling the Superblock strategy to the entire city. Could Barcelona become the first car-light city in Europe? Since then, the strategy has evolved considerably, leading us to ask how Barcelona\u00b4s Superblocks strategy has been implemented in practice. How has Barcelona\u00b4s Superblock strategy evolved from neighborhood units to green axes? What are the results thus far and how are Superblocks inspiring other cities? This presentation reviews the implementation and evolution of Barcelona\u2019s Superblock strategy, from its origins to the present. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 15\/01\/2026 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Democratic innovations emerged as a response to the crisis of representation\u2014marked by citizen exclusion and declining deliberation\u2014prompting deliberative theorists to champion mini-publics as a solution. Yet despite their expansion, these deliberative institutions have failed to counter the rise of populism, which has proven far more politically effective in mobilizing mass support. This paper argues that mini-publics struggle to generate legitimacy because they neglect two key dimensions of politics that populism exploits: the pursuit of power to reshape institutions and the mobilization of emotions to build popular appeal. While mini-publics prioritize inclusive deliberation, they often function as technocratic exercises, producing few tangible outcomes and failing to inspire broad participation. Drawing on theoretical debates and empirical cases, the paper examines why mini-publics falter in contests over legitimacy, power, and public engagement\u2014and explores what democratic innovations might consider to better compete with populism. This is not a normative claim in favour of populism but a challenge to prevailing assumptions about institutional fixes and underscore the need for participatory mechanisms that engage not just with reason, but with the political realities of power and emotion. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 26\/11\/2025 a les 12h online Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n Social investment is one of the dominant approaches today for framing welfare reform. It conceives social policies as investments that deliver positive returns not only in terms of social outcomes (equality of opportunities, social inclusion, gender equality, etc.) but also for the economy. For example, improving people\u2019s health and education not only ameliorates their quality of life, but also their \u201chuman capital\u201d, thereby increasing the quantity and quality of labour market participation. Highlighting the positive contribution of social policy to the economy, social investment is clearly more progressive than austerity, which sees the welfare state as a cost to be minimized. Yet the justification of social policy in terms of productivity, employment and growth generates a dilemma for progressive forces \u2013 a dilemma that becomes increasing salient with the deepening of the ecological crisis. Indeed, addressing the latter requires to embrace post-productivist approaches. Thus, while capitalism is the root-cause of many social-ecological problems, progressive policies are often legitimized by their contribution to capitalist growth. In this presentation, I build on Karl Polanyi and Amartya Sen\u2019s work with a view to theorizing emancipatory, feminist and de-colonial eco-social policies centred on the democratization of the power over socioeconomic matters and the capability to care for people and planet. However, since anti-capitalism is nowhere on the political agenda, addressing the progressive dilemma requires to invest in those policies that, improving people\u2019s quality of life in the present, also open the way for deeper social-ecological transformations \u2013 and research itself can play a role in this process. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 12\/11\/2025 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Date:<\/strong> 05\/11\/2025 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n This paper explores the historical construction of women as subjects of welfare, with an emphasis on female targets of survivors\u2019 benefits and the conditionality associated with their relationship to paid and unpaid work. We compare the cases of Spain and Turkey, two rarely compared Southern European Welfare States, through the exploration of social policy laws (1900-2020). <\/p>\n By extending the analysis beyond widows to include all family members historically covered by survivors\u2019 benefits, the study shows that conditionality reflects evolving welfare state ideas about the roles of wives, mothers, grandmothers, daughters and sisters in family and society across all life stages. We find that associating survivors\u2019 benefits solely with old age overlooks their broader significance. We also show how the association of unpaid care work with women was framed within the nation building projects of both countries, with conditionality for spouses mostly fulfilled through women\u2019s bodies and unpaid care work.<\/p>\n The paper challenges the traditional view of women\u2019s historical framing solely as dependents, showing that they were legally constructed as both workers and caregivers since the early 1900s. Legally, the exception has not been the idea of the female worker, rather the idea of the financially dependent man. Gendered notions of vulnerability of still present in current legislation, which calls for further research into the historical institutionalization of male dependency. Finally, conditionality in survivors\u2019 benefits has historically been designed more as a mean of sustaining moral values and gendered power relations around the division of labor within the family and society, instead of a mechanism for work activation or poverty reduction. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 07\/11\/2025 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n The seminar focuses on the debate on local institutional capacities and their relationship with inequality, a key issue for understanding why public policies are not implemented with the same effectiveness in all territories. From this perspective, the seminar will examine the case of public basic education in Brazil, analyzing the dimensions that comprise these capacities, how they can be measured, the extent to which they are unequally distributed, and how they have evolved in recent years.<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 29\/10\/2025 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Date:<\/strong> 16\/10\/2025 a les 9:30h Palau Macaya Barcelona Date:<\/strong> 06\/10\/2025 a les 12h sala reunions MRA Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Across Europe, long-term care (LTC) for older persons has become a salient topic. As the predominant providers of LTC are (still) informal care givers \u2013 mostly female family members \u2013 they often face the issue of combining paid work and care. Care leave, which allows a temporary withdrawal from employment to engage in care work, constitutes an increasingly popular policy measure for supporting work-care conciliation. Care leave policies are very heterogenous, for instance as regards target group, duration and payment. However, there are insufficient studies on (long-term) care leave policies both in the scholarship on leave and long-term care. In the seminar talk I present my project on “long-term care leave policies in comparison” which aims to address this gap by describing and explaining LTC leave design in international-comparative perspective. The project consists of two main parts. Firstly, I aim to generate a comprehensive, original dataset on the generosity of LTC leave schemes for 27 European Union (EU) member states. In doing so, I employ a two-dimensional conceptualisation of social policy generosity, consisting of inclusiveness as the personal dimension and scope of benefit as the material dimension. Secondly, drawing on welfare state theories, I plan to investigate which explanatory factors influence the generosity design of LTC leave policies in Europe. I employ fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis for identifying which care regime institutions and socio-economic factors condition generous LTC leave. Complementing this cross-country analysis, I comparatively study LTC leave policies in two cases \u2013 Austria and Germany \u2013 with similar welfare and care arrangements to investigate in-depth how political factors and discourses have shaped the divergent care leave design in both countries. In my talk I present my project proposal and first research steps in particular on the construction of the comparative data set. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 22\/09\/2025 a les 13h aula de seminaris DEC (Sala de juntes) Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking of Women: Tracing the Evolution of Women\u2019s Rights Norms in UN General Debate Speeches<\/p>\n International norms around women\u2019s rights appear increasingly contested, even as they remain deeply embedded in global governance frameworks. This paper examines how states articulate support for\u2014or resistance to\u2014these norms by analyzing all United Nations General Debate (UNGD) speeches from 1946 to 2023. Drawing on nearly eight decades of annual addresses by UN member states, the study uses quantitative text analysis to track the frequency, timing, and thematic content of gender-related references. It asks: who speaks about women, girls, and gender; when; and in what terms? The findings reveal a notable increase in engagement with women\u2019s rights since the mid-1990s, particularly after the 1995 Beijing Conference, with attention doubling after 2010. While Western liberal democracies, especially the Nordic countries, have historically acted as norm entrepreneurs, recent patterns suggest shifting centers of engagement. The study argues that global gender politics cannot be fully understood through a simple progress-versus-backlash lens. Instead, it reveals a more complex normative landscape shaped by simultaneous advancement, resistance, and strategic appropriation. By offering a longitudinal and comparative account of gender discourse in one of the UN\u2019s most visible forums, the article contributes to broader debates on norm diffusion, international legitimacy, and the future of global gender equality. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 17\/09\/2025 a les 12h sala de reunions de l’IGOP, MRA Discussant:<\/strong> Ismael Blanco (UAB)<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> This article examines the emergence and contentious politics of urban sanctuary in Barcelona under a progressive \u201cnew municipalist\u201d government. Through document analysis, key informant interviews, participant observation, and media and archival research conducted between 2015 and 2023, it analyses the City of Refuge programme and other local migration policies as sites of multilevel migration governance and political struggle. The article conceptualises sanctuary not as a stable policy field but as a dynamic, contentious process shaped by the interplay between legality, discourse, identity formation, and scalar negotiation. It draws on theoretical insights from scholarship on urban citizenship and multilevel governance, tracing how municipal actors and civil society mobilised symbolic and material resources to include undocumented residents and contest exclusionary national and supranational frameworks. Empirical attention is given to administrative inclusion practices, targeted social programmes, and confrontations over policy competence. The findings reveal both the transformative potential and structural limitations of municipal sanctuary initiatives, highlighting the tensions between symbolic commitments to inclusion and the constrained capacities of local governments within hierarchical systems of governance. Barcelona thus offers a paradigmatic case for understanding how cities reconfigure\u2014and are constrained by\u2014the scalar politics of migration governance. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 3\/06\/2025 a les 12h Escola de l’IGOP (Pg Urrutia, 17 Barcelona) Discussant:<\/strong> \u00d2scar Rebollo (UAB)<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> Within the framework of a radical reduction in the role of the State, the current Argentine government has undertaken a neoliberal reformulation of social policies to address social vulnerability. This reform consists of limiting the participatory management programs constructed throughout this century, in order to strengthen the policy of individual monetary allocations. The budgetary, programmatic, and regulatory reconfiguration is accompanied by a narrative campaign to delegitimize territorial community organization, in a combination that dismantles a tradition of public-social actions aimed at social integration in vulnerable territories. Based on a detailed analysis of these changes, we question their possible effects on social cohesion and on society’s relationship with public-state institutions. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 4\/06\/2025 a les 12h sala de reunions de l’IGOP, MRA Discussant:<\/strong> Carlos Delcl\u00f3s (UAB)<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> This presentation is based on the results of the doctoral thesis conducted by Alice Lancien, jointly supervised by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Paris Nanterre. The thesis focuses on the urban socialization of working-class youth in the Old Town neighborhoods of Paris and Barcelona. It is based on an ethnographic survey conducted between February 2018 and January 2020 in the neighborhoods of La Chapelle (Paris) and Raval (Barcelona). Date:<\/strong> 21\/05\/2025 a les 12h sala de reunions de l’IGOP, MRA Discussant:<\/strong> Adri\u00e1n Zancajo (UAB).<\/p>\n Alejandro Carrasco<\/strong> Professor at the Faculty of Education, (Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile<\/span>), currently Dean, and researcher at CEPPE UC and the Center for Educational Justice. UC sociologist and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. <\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> Chile has been paradigmatic in organizing a market-like education system over four decades. The Inclusion Law was implemented 10 years ago aiming to reorganize such principles inspiring the educational provision as well as to tackle the effects of decades of those market-driven policy initiatives. The seminar offers a comprehensive review of the central components of the Inclusion Law, the rationale of its incorporation, conceptual tools for its understanding, and findings of the early assessment of its implementation. The seminar offers a view of the cultural, political, and policy difficulties to transform educational systems deeply informed and structured by neoliberal principles. <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> 14\/05\/2025 a les 12h sala de reunions de l’IGOP, MRA Discussant:<\/strong> Joaqu\u00edn Rozas (UPF). The seminar is part of the CARE-Spain project<\/a>. <\/p>\nRegistration for open seminars<\/strong><\/h3>\n
(to assess whether the capacity requires reserving the room at the Metr\u00f2poli Institute – MRA Building, floor 2)<\/p>\nUPCOMING SEMINARS<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Cassandra Engeman (\u200bSwedish Institute for Social Research)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cInvesting in fathers\u2019 leave provisions: The politics of paid parenting leave across affluent democracies since 1965″.
Discussant:<\/strong> Dani Marinova (IGOP-UAB).<\/p>\n![\"Hannah](\"https:\/\/igop.uab.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Hannah-Zagel.jpg\")
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Speaker:<\/strong> Hannah Zagel (TU Dormund University)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cReproduction Regimes: Institutions, Norms and Inequalities<\/span>“.
Open Keynote part of the 3rd<\/sup> Early Career Workshop on Comparative Social and Public Policy (COSPPO).<\/p>\n![\"Adrian](\"https:\/\/igop.uab.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2026-Adrian-Bua-IGOP-seminar-NEW-date.jpg\")
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Speaker:<\/strong> Adrian Bua (IGOP-UAB)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cTrajectories of Change, Co-optation and (De)Democratization: towards a Bourdieusian Field Theory of Participatory Democracy”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Yanina Welp (Albert Hirshman Centre on Democracy).<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cThe Hidden Career Costs of On-Call Parenthood for Gender Equality in the Netherlands”.
Discussant:<\/strong> – (TBC).<\/p>\n
Speaker:<\/strong> Josep Espluga (IGOP-UAB)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cProjecte ECF4CLIM”.
Discussant:<\/strong> -.<\/p>\nTBC<\/h4>\n
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Name: Zyab Iba\u00f1ez, Miguel Perlado, Jorge Ti\u00f3.<\/strong><\/p>\nSEMINARS HELD<\/h4>\n
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Speakers:<\/strong> Javier San Mill\u00e1n and Antonio Gamundi (Delft University of Technology \/ CSIC)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cRental housing discrimination against Chinese minorities in Spain: a new instant messaging correspondence test”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Dani Marinova (IGOP-UAB).
Joint Seminar DEC\/IGOP<\/p>\n
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Speakder:<\/strong> Mateo Mandelli (Sciences Po CNRS, Paris)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cEurope in the midst of a green backlash: the comparative and multilevel politics of sustainable agriculture policies”.
Discussant:<\/strong> \u00d3scar Molina (UAB).
Joint Seminar QUIT\/IGOP<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Juan Carlos Trivi\u00f1o (Transdem \/ IGOP)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cCrisis as Opportunity: Local Governments and Policy Entrepreneurship in Migrant Responses During the Covid-19 Pandemic”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Eva Ostergaard (UAB).
Join Seminar TransDem\/IGOP<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Jordi Honey (ICTA, BiciZen)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cSuperblock Barcelona: Streets for Urban Experimentation<\/span>“.
Discussant:<\/strong> Lorenzo Vidal (IGOP-UAB).<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Yanina Welp (Albert Hirshman Centre on Democracy)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cWhy Populism \u2018Wins\u2019? The Limits of Mini-Publics in Addressing Power and Legitimacy”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Adrian Bua (IGOP-UAB).<\/p>\n
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Open Seminari IGOP Francesco Laruffa | Reuni\u00f3n-Unirse | Microsoft Teams<\/a>
Speaker:<\/strong> Francesco Laruffa (Sociological Research Institute, Germany)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cInvesting in social services for a just transition: dilemmas and possibilities”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Zyab Iba\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Bea Cantillon (Antwerp University. Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cAn Eco-Social Union in the Making: European Myth, Impossible Promise, or Irreversible Reality?”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Daniel Edmiston.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Laura Andrea \u00c1lvarez Tobar (University of Bremen)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cWomen, work and welfare: Constructing the target group of \u2018survivors\u2019 in Spain and Turkey (1900-2020)<\/span>“.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Bruno Lazzarotti (Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o Pinheiro)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cCapacidades institucionales locales y desigualdades en la implementaci\u00f3n de pol\u00edticas educativas en Brasil<\/span>“.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Violetta Tucci (IGOP – Whocounts project)
T\u00editle: <\/strong>\u201cAt the margins of measurement: housing insecurity and inclusion in official poverty statistics”.
Discussant:<\/strong> Carlos Delcl\u00f3s.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Anton Hemerijck (European University Institute)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cCapitalism, Democracy and The Welfare State”.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Johanna Fischer (Bremen University. SOCIUM Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy.)<\/span>
Title: <\/strong>\u201cComparing long-term care leave policies in Europe<\/span>“.
Discussant:<\/strong> Margarita Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Cecilia Josefsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Title:<\/strong> \u201cSpeaking of Women: Tracing the Evolution of Women\u2019s Rights Norms in UN General Debate Speeches”.
IGOP\/DEC Joint Seminar<\/p>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong> Carlos Delcl\u00f3s (IGOP-UAB)
Title: <\/strong>\u201cContesting Sanctuary: Urban Citizenship and Multilevel Migration Governance in Barcelona”.<\/p>\n
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Name:<\/strong> Adriana Rofman
Institution:<\/strong> (FLACSO Argentina)
\u201cPol\u00edticas sociales en la Argentina de Milei: de la participaci\u00f3n a la individualizaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Name:<\/strong> Alice Lancien
Institution:<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre)
\u201cHabitar la inestabilidad. La gentrificaci\u00f3n de los centros hist\u00f3ricos desde el prisma de los j\u00f3venes de clases populares (Par\u00eds-Barcelona)\u201d.<\/p>\n
By questioning the socialization of working-class youth groups, generally assumed to be solely peer-to-peer and neighborhood-based, the thesis investigates the reception of gentrification and social mixing by the working classes in historic centers. It aligns with work that addresses gentrification as a complex process, far from a univocal and linear process of displacement and substitution, and examines the strategies developed by individuals to cope with it. This thesis sheds light on a popular youth urbanity that is constantly being negotiated, transforming as the city itself does. <\/p>\n
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Name: Alejandro Carrasco<\/strong>
Institution:<\/strong> (Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile<\/span>)
\u201cThe School Inclusion Law in Chile: Highs and lows after 10 years of implementation<\/span>\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Name: Rasmus Broms<\/strong>
Institution:<\/strong> (University of Gothenburg<\/span>)
\u201cPrivatization of welfare and quality outcomes: The case of residential elder care in Sweden<\/span>\u201d.<\/p>\n
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