Workshop — Citizenship Challenges for Children and Young People

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HIDDEN Workshop · COST Action CA21120
Citizenship Challenges for Children and Young People:
Barriers, Borders, and Bureaucracy in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Tuesday – Wednesday, 12–13 May 2026
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU Brussels Office)
Rue Guimard 9, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tuesday
12 May
09:30 – 16:00
Wednesday
13 May
09:00 – 13:00
TimePaperDiscussant
09:30–10:00 — Participants Arrival, Registration, and Coffee
10:00–10:15 — Opening session: Welcome, Introductions, and Discussion of the Goals of the Workshop
Michael J. Geary and Beatrice Scutaru
10:15–10:45 Fabio Macedo (Université d’Angers), Migration, Nationality, Gender and Care: Orphans and Abandoned Foreign Children and Their Mothers in France (1850–1914) Luciana Jinga
10:45–11:15 Hacer Elmacı (University of Leeds), Visualising the British Empire through Images of the Nation’s Children: A Critical Analysis of English School History Textbooks Fabio Macedo
11:15–11:45 Luciana Jinga (ICCMER/University of Bucharest), Paper Lives: Bureaucratic Violence, Humanitarian Aid, and the Reconstruction of Childhood in Post-Socialist Romania Beatrice Scutaru
11:45–12:00 — Coffee Break
12:00–12:30 Tatiana Eremenko (University of Salamanca), Experience of Irregularity among Child Migrants in France Hacer Elmacı
12:30–13:00 Jonathan Collinson (University of Sheffield) and Andrew Jolly (University of Birmingham), No Recourse to Public Funds: Childhood Destitution, and the Paradox of Excluding British Citizen Children of Migrant Parents from Welfare Entitlements Michael J. Geary
13:00–14:30 — Lunch
14:30–15:00 Stephanie Zloch (Dresden University of Technology), Compulsory Schooling as a Pathway to Belonging? Citizenship Challenges and Youth Agency in Germany’s Education System since 1945 Aisling Shalvey
Online
15:00–15:30 Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (University of Portland), Invisible in Transit: Educational Challenges for Children and Youth on the Move Online Susan Beth Rottmann
Online
15:30–16:00 Olga Krysanova (ISCTE-IUL/NOVA), Motivation as a Culturally Informed Factor in Integration of Refugee Youths in Portugal April Maja Almaas
TimePaperDiscussant
09:00–09:30 — Participants Arrival, Registration, and Coffee
09:30–10:30 — Bibliography Input Task Session (All Participants)
10:30–11:00 April Maja Almaas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), The challenges of Family Reunification Processes for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors as Seen by Employees in the Norwegian Health and Integration Services Olga Krysanova
11:00–11:30 Shila Khuki de Vries (Radboud University), “If we do not speak out, no one else will”: Dutch Adoptee Activism and its Impact on Intercountry Adoption Policy in The Netherlands Stephanie Zloch
11:30–11:45 — Coffee Break
11:45–12:15 Tin Maung Htwe (Chiang Mai University), Administering Invisibility, Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Production of Statelessness in Ban Mai Nai Soi Refugee Camp, Thailand Online Michael J. Geary
12:15–12:45 Bridget Wooding Obmica (Observatory Caribbean Migrants, Santo Domingo), Contestation by Young People of New Legal Barriers for Access to Nationality in the Dominican Republic Online Shila Khuki de Vries
12:45–13:00 — Wrap-Up and Discussion of Next Steps

Workshop Organisers:

Professor Michael J. Geary, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (michael.j.geary@ntnu.no)
Dr Susan Beth Rottmann, Özyegin University (susan.rottmann@ozyegin.edu.tr)
Dr Beatrice Scutaru, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (beatrice.scutaru@uab.cat)
Dr Aisling Shalvey, University College Cork (aisling.salvey@ucc.ie)

This workshop is funded through the COST Association Action CA21120 — History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration.

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