1. 3/2-4, DC - Certificate program course on international migration studies
2. 3/3, DC - House hearing on FY 2021 DHS budget request - [New Listing]
3. 3/4, DC - Senate hearing on resources and authorities needed to protect and secure the homeland
4. 3/4, New York, NY - Discussion on public preferences for limits and conditions on asylum policies
5. 3/5, DC - MPI webinar on green cards and public charge - [New Listing]
6. 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo - [Updated with Agenda]
7. 3/12, Toronto - Workshop on collaborative efforts to support Central American migrants
8. 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
9. 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach
10. 3/16, DC - Discussion on engaging the diaspora to meet Africa’s development financing needs - [New Listing]
11. 3/18, Book discussion: Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees
12. 3/24, Cambridge, MA - Workshop on evaluations of victimization in US asylum determinations - [New Listing]
13. 3/24, New York, NY - Book discussion: The Shifting Border
14. 3/25-28, Honolulu - Immigration at the International Studies Association annual convention - [New Listing]
15. 3/26, DC - Discussion on assessing temporary-to-permanent immigration systems in Europe and North America - [New Listing]
16. 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
17. 3/31, Fairfax, VA - Celebration of the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs - [New Listing]
18. 3/31, Cambridge, MA - Workshop on the contexts of reception that make asylum seekers feel welcome in Germany
19. 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
20. 4/22, Los Angeles - Lecture on Unaccompanied Moroccan Migrant Minors in Spain
21. 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
22. 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration
23. 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
24. 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
25. 5/21-23, New Orleans - Conference on aiding immigrant and refugee communities in the Southeast U.S. post-Hurricane Katrina
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-703 - Newcomers to Citizens: Immigrant Integration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday-Wednesday, March 2-4, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=14536
Course Description: With a record 200 million people living outside their country of birth, immigration is a global phenomenon with profound demographic, economic, social, and political implications for both sending and receiving countries. The debate over immigration law and policy has become increasingly volatile and, in some instances, characterized by misinformation, hate, and xenophobia. Beyond the politics of immigration, genuine challenges to immigrant integration abound. Successful integration of immigrants is critical to the long-term prosperity of host countries that rely on immigrants as workers, consumers, taxpayers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in light of their aging native-born populations and lower birth rates. In this course we will explore integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving countries--such as the United States and Canada and new countries of permanent immigration such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom. We will raise questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity. We will also discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism, paradigms that challenge an integrationist reading of migration. Using case studies from North America and Europe we will pay special attention to the different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation on their road from newcomers to citizens.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Discuss the integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving and source countries.
* Recognize questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity.
* Discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism.
* Compare different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation.
Instructor: Jennifer Wistrand
Notes: This course is an open enrollment course. No application is required and registration is available by clicking "Add to Cart." Current students must register with their Georgetown NetID and password. New students will be prompted to create an account prior to registration.
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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Review of the Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 3, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
https://homeland.house.gov/a-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2021-budget-request-for-the-department-of-homeland-security
Witnesses:
Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Resources and Authorities Needed to Protect and Secure the Homeland
2:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Senate Committee on Homeland Security
SD-342 Senate Dirksen Building
Washington, DC, 20510
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/resources-and-authorities-needed-to-protect-and-secure-the-homeland
Witnesses:
Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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A Need for Control? Political Trust and Public Preferences for Asylum
Presented by Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
6:00-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
I 202, Arnold Hall
The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
https://event.newschool.edu/zolbergseriesruhs
Speaker:
Dr. Martin Ruhs, Chair in Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre
The European University Institute
Description: Europeans want to protect refugees, but they prefer a policy approach that sets limits and conditions. This discussion will provide the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy in Europe, a highly politicized policy area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date.
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Green Cards and Public Charge: Who Could Be Denied Based on Benefits Use?
MPI Webinar
1:00 p.m. EST, Thursday, March 5, 2020
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/green-cards-and-public-charge-denied-based-benefits-use
Speakers:
Randy Capps, Director of Research, U.S. Immigration Policy Program, MPI
Julia Gelatt, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Mark Greenberg, Senior Fellow, MPI
Description: Even before the Trump administration’s public-charge rule took effect on February 24, there was evidence of sizeable disenrollment from public benefit programs by legal immigrants afraid that use by themselves or their U.S.-born children could doom a future application for legal permanent residence.
These “chilling effects” result from confusion about which benefit programs and populations are considered under the new public-charge determination, or fear that the government could change the rules in the future. Yet the number of noncitizens who could be deemed ineligible for a green card based on existing use of a public benefit is very small, as a forthcoming Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis will show.
Join us for this webinar, as MPI experts release their estimates of the populations that could be deemed ineligible for a green card based on existing benefits use. During the webinar, the experts also will discuss the far larger consequences of the public-charge rule, through its chilling effects and imposition of a test aimed at assessing whether green-card applicants are likely to ever use a public benefit in the future. This wealth test holds the potential to reshape legal immigration to the United States in far more significant ways than any other measure taken by the administration to date. There will be extensive time for Q&A.
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Border Security Expo
Wednesday-Thursday, March 11-12, 2020
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
https://www.bordersecurityexpo.com/
Conference agenda:
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
8:30–9:15 a.m.
Opening Keynote:
Robert Perez, Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
9:15–10:15 a.m.
Plenary Panel: State of the Border: An Expansion of Historical Efforts – A Transitional Approach – Transformational Change?
10:15–11:15 a.m.
Plenary Panel: Insider Threats and the New DCSA
1:30–2:30 p.m.
Plenary Panel: Congressional Influence on Border Security
2:30–3:00 p.m.
Plenary Keynote:
Manuel Padilla, Jr., Director, Joint Task Force–West
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Plenary Panel: Domain Awareness and the Evolving Role of Border Patrol and Air & Marine Operations in Opening up the Sky
Thursday, March 12, 2020
8:30–9:30 a.m.
Plenary Keynote Panel
9:30–10:45 a.m.
Plenary Panel: Procurement Panel
10:45–11:30 a.m.
Plenary Panel: Biometrics
Keynotes:
Ronald D. Vitiello, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Vice Admiral Scott Buschman, Director, Joint Task Force-East
Scott A. Luck, Deputy Chief, U.S. Border Patrol
John P. Sanders, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Panels:
National Vetting Center: What is It? What isn’t It? And How Will It Change the Way We Protect the Homeland?
This session will focus on the National Vetting Center (NVC) and how it will complement the National Targeting Center (NTC). Experts from the NVC, NTC, as well as other members of the Intelligence Community, will discuss why the NVC is critical to the Homeland and next steps. The NVC will be operational at the time of the Expo, enabling the audience and panels to discuss the implementation.
Mass Migration and Unaccompanied Children: Financial and National Security Impacts
This panel will be comprised of experts from ICE Homeland Security Investigations assigned to the U.S., Mexico, and Central America. The panel will discuss the financial impact on the U.S., Mexico, and Central American countries in addressing the issues related mass migration and unaccompanied children attempting to enter the U.S. The panel will discuss human trafficking, organized human smuggling organizations, and national security issues relating to mass migration and unaccompanied children. The panel will provide publicly releasable information relating to “The Caravan” that reached the U.S./Border in November 2018.
Border: Wall – Ports – System(s) – Technology – Infrastructure – Integration – Modernization
Panel will discuss the immediate, near term, and out-year capability requirements, goals, and vision for border operations including infrastructure updates; technology needs, requirements, and planning; initiatives; modernization; and deployments.
Model Port: How Technology, Public-Private Partnerships, and Innovation Will Continue to Change the Way Ports-of-Entry Operate
This panel will be comprised of experts from the federal/local governments and industry. It will highlight what will take place at the POE in Donna, Texas and why it is important to the country’s national and economic security. Technology will play a key role in defining the Model Port. A representative from the City of Donna will explain why this investment is important to the local community. CBP Headquarters staff will address the Donation Assistance Program and why it is necessary to make the Model Port a reality.
A Dialogue with Tenoch Moreno, General Customs Administration, Mexico: Current Operations and Future Thoughts
Procurement: Keeping Industry Current in the Complex Area of Government Procurement and the Mission Needs of Border Operators
This is a must-attend session for those who plan to compete for government contracts. Rules and regulations change frequently, and new requirements are placed on industry. Industry must have a clear understanding of the mission needs of the border operators. Government and industry experts will discuss best practices and explain how to best leverage the many opportunities that support the daily mission of CBP and other agencies. Government panelists will include Senior Executives from CBP procurement and the new office of Operations Support.
Complete conference agenda will be available at end of December.
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Researchers & Activists Working Together to Support Central American Migrants
10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 12, 2020
York University, 519 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
https://crs.info.yorku.ca/archives/event/workshop-central-american-refugees-ii
Description: With the Trump administration’s hard line policies at the US-Mexico border, challenges faced by migrants fleeing violence and poverty in northern Central America have been making global headlines.
On 11 March the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) and the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) will host a public lecture highlighting the transit experiences of Central Americans as they attempt to cross multiple borders and the response of grass-roots organizations in Mexico and the US. It features three speakers working in Mexico, Guatemala, and the Mexico-US border area: activist and organizer Adalberto Ramos, and researchers Gio B’atz’ (Giovanni Batz) and Elizabeth Oglesby. Commentary on implications for grassroots organizing/movement building and for Canadian policy makers will be provided by Francisco Rico-Martínez.
To follow up on that event CRS and CERLAC are hosting a workshop to explore how university-based researchers and activists working in the field can collaborate to support Central American migrants and to work towards policy change.
Agenda:
10:00-10:10 a.m.
Welcome, acknowledgement of territory & introductions
Alan Durston
10:10-10:30 a.m.
Introducing the Canadian policy framework and Central American migrants
Sean Rehaag
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Breakout session 1: How can researchers support Central American migrants and grass roots organizations?
Co-facilitators: William Payne, Luin Goldring & Adalberto Ramos)
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Breakout session 2: How can researchers help push for policy change?
Giovanni Batz
12:45-1:00 p.m.
Concluding thoughts: Problematizing the boundaries between action and research
Alison Crosby
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Emigration from Paradise: Migration Stories from Interwar Hungary
Harvard Center for European Studies
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/03/new-research-on-europe-tbd-ilse-lazaroms
Speaker:
llse Josepha Lazaroms, Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Martin Buber Chair, Goethe University Frankfurt; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Description: In this talk Ilse Josepha Lazaroms will discuss the many variations of emigration and emigration narratives that existed among Jewish communities in interwar Hungary and the Hungarian diasporas. This story is a part of a larger book project entitled Emigration from Paradise: Home, Fate and Nation in Post-World War I Jewish Hungary (forthcoming with Stanford University Press). The manuscript deals with the nature of national attachment and social exclusion in 1920s East Central Europe, and Hungary in particular, as well as the ways in which the personal, social and national traumas of these years reverberate until today. The story, which is set at the point when European civilization plunged into the depths of darkness, focuses on the life-stories of individual Hungarian Jews, thereby bringing the domain of the private into the world of politics, migrations and nation states.
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Author Meets Critics Event: Refuge Beyond Reach
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
https://www.international.ucla.edu/migration/event/14188
Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces how rich democracies have deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Drawing on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks, and interviews with asylum seekers, he finds that for ninety-nine percent of refugees, the only way to find safety in one of the prosperous democracies of the Global North is to reach its territory and then ask for asylum. FitzGerald shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of deterrence methods -- first designed to keep out Jews fleeing the Nazis -- that have now evolved into a pervasive global system of "remote control." While some of the most draconian remote control practices continue in secret, Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points and finds that a diffuse humanitarian obligation to help those in need is more difficult for governments to evade than the law alone.
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Beyond Remittances: Engaging the Diaspora to Meet Africa’s Development Financing Needs
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Monday, March 16, 2020
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/beyond-remittances-engaging-diaspora-meet-africas-development-financing-needs
Description: According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), African countries must invest US $600-700 billion annually to meet the development needs of their growing populations. To achieve this investment goal, African governments are increasingly looking to the diaspora, amongst other measures. The African diaspora already contributes enormously to the continent’s economy through remittances: in 2018, Sub-Saharan Africa received an estimated $47 billion in remittances (World Bank)—compared to an estimated $32 billion in foreign direct investment (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development). Looking beyond remittances, the diaspora community also possesses other resources including knowledge, expertise, and networks that could greatly benefit the financial, trade, and technology sectors—and be leveraged for peace—if properly engaged.
Speakers will examine the current role and future opportunities for the diaspora in Africa’s economic development and peacebuilding efforts. Using several country case studies, they will assess the growing diaspora, transitions in thinking about the diaspora and its role, lessons learned from countries that have developed diaspora engagement strategies, and the potential and opportunities for fostering economic development and sustainable peace through more robust diaspora engagement. They will also offer concrete policy recommendations for African governments, stakeholders, and international partners to better engage with and leverage the diaspora to help meet Africa’s development and peacebuilding needs.
Speakers:
TBA
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Book Event: Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Arrupe Hall, Multipurpose Room
Georgetown University
3700 O Street NW
Washington, DC 20057
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/humanizing-migration-and-border-security-tickets-92994323525
Description: ISIM will co-sponsor a book event with author David Hollenbach, the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor and ISIM Faculty Affiliate. Professor Hollenbach's new book is titled Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees, and it is published by Georgetown University Press. Panelists will include Anne Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration; Alex Aleinikoff, former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees; Clemens Sedmak, professor of social ethics at the University of Notre Dame, as well as Profesor David Hollenbach. More information soon.
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Legal Standards and Moral Worth in Frontline Decision-Making: Evaluations of Victimization in US Asylum Determinations
12:00pm to 1:30pm, Tuesday, March 24, 2020
William James Hall, Room 450
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/event/talia-shiff-legal-standards-and-moral-worth-frontline-decision-making-evaluations
Speaker:
Talia Shiff, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University
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Book Discussion: 'The Shifting Border'
Presented by Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.
6:00-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
Starr Foundation Hall, U L102, University Center
The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
https://event.newschool.edu/bookdiscussiontheshiftingborde
Speaker:
Ayelet Shacher, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs
Toronto University
Description: We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country’s territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This transformation upsets our assumptions about waning sovereignty, while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. It also presents a tremendous opportunity to rethink states’ responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.
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International Studies Association Annual Convention
Wednesday-Saturday, March 25-28, 2020
Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort
2005 Kalia Road
Honolulu, HI 96815
https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/Honolulu-2020
http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/Honolulu2020-s/Honolulu%202020%20-%20Full%20Program.pdf
Conference program to be added soon
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Works in Progress: Assessing Temporary-to-Permanent Immigration Systems in Europe and North America
10:00-11:30 a.m., Thursday, March 26, 2020
Bipartisan Policy Center
1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC, xxxxxx
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/event/works-in-progress-assessing-temporary-to-permanent-immigration-systems-in-europe-and-north-america/
Speakers:
Cristobal Ramon
Senior Policy Analyst and Report Author, Bipartisan Policy Center
Julia Gelatt
Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute
Daniel Costa
Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute
Moderator:
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Director of Immigration and Cross Border Policy, BPC
Description: Since the 1990s, a significant part of the reform debate on immigration has focused on whether the United States should change its legal immigration system to accept more high-skilled immigrants. President Trump and his congressional allies have argued that the United States should take cues from Canada and Australia and implement merit based systems that focus on admitting almost exclusively high-skilled migrants using a points-based assessment. However, the ways that workers on temporary visas can, or cannot, transition to permanent status rarely get discussed. When thinking about U.S. immigration reform, looking at other countries’ approaches to establishing temporary-to-permanent pathways may give us insight into a path forward.
Join the Bipartisan Policy Center as it releases its latest comparative report looking at five employment-based immigration systems in Europe and North America, and what we can glean from these approaches, followed by an expert panel discussion. Coffee and light snacks will be served.
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The Society of Government Economists Annual Convention
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Friday, March 27, 2020
Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
http://www.sge-econ.org/2020-sge-annual-conference/
Immigration-related sessions:
8:05 a.m.
The Migration Cost-Remittance-Consumption Pathway: Implications of High Migration Costs for Human Capital Investment in Nepal and Pakistan
Esther Bartl, The World Bank Group; Laura Caron Georgetown University; and Sundas Liaqat, The World Bank Group
Abstract: South Asian economies are major sources of international migrant labor and have experienced positive development impacts from the process. However, these countries have some of the highest migration costs in the world, and there is limited understanding of how these costs affect household welfare and behavior. This paper focuses on Nepal and Pakistan, to address this gap. In these countries, households that receive remittances spend 11% percent more on education and health than non-remittance receiving households. However, the high costs of migration tend to dampen both the propensity to remit and the amount remitted: a 1% increase in recruitment cost may decrease remittances by 0.05-0.15%. Specific interventions, such as the elimination of visa costs for Pakistani migrants could increase remittances by 2.9-5%. Policies that reduce migration costs may have large and important impacts on household investment behavior, and therefore the economic growth and development of Nepal and Pakistan.
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Celebrating the Contributions of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
4:00-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, 2019
Johnson Center, Meeting Room C
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
https://iir.gmu.edu/events/10711
Speakers:
TBA
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The contexts of reception that make asylum seekers feel welcome in Germany
12:00-1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 31, 2020
William James Hall, Room 450
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/event/rahsaan-maxwell-contexts-reception-make-asylum-seekers-feel-welcome-germany-0
Speaker:
Rahsaan Maxwell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-715 - Environmental Displacement and Migration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, April 15-17, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=26702181
Course Description: Since the earliest history of humankind, people have migrated in response to environmental change. Today there is growing concern that human-induced climate change, coupled with human settlement patterns, will lead to far greater movements of people; some movement is likely to be voluntary as people look for better opportunities elsewhere in response to changing livelihoods. Some is likely to be involuntary – either anticipatory as people see the handwriting on the wall or reactive as people have no alternative but to move. Some will be spontaneous – in the case of Puerto Rico where hundreds of thousands of people left Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Some will be planned as in the case of Staten Island where people decided to move elsewhere, with government support, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Environmental displacement and migration are not just concerns for future generations; people are already moving. This course will begin with an examination of environmental risk due to physical processes and then review the state of theoretical knowledge about patterns of migration. The course will then look at the socio-economic, political, security, and demographic factors that affect environmental displacement and migration as well as the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Understand the relationship between environmental phenomena and socio-economic factors as drivers of displacement and migration
* Analyze the relationship between environmental risk and mobility
* Understand the normative frameworks applicable to different types of internal and cross-border migration and displacement
* Explain basic concepts, such as vulnerability, risk, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation
* Identify different disciplinary approaches to environmental migration and displacement
* Recognize the different international institutional actors
Instructor: Elizabeth Ferris
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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Unaccompanied Moroccan Migrant Minors in Spain
3:00-5:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Lydeen Library, Rolfe Hall West 4302
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
https://www.international.ucla.edu/migration/event/14255
Speakers:
Susan Plann, Research Professor Emerita at UCLA in the departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Spanish and Portuguese and the author of Coming of Age in Madrid: An Oral History of Unaccompanied Moroccan Migrant Minors .
Abdellah Laroussi, social worker with Fundación La Merced Migraciones (Madrid), director of various residences for unaccompanied migrant youth, and prominent immigrant rights activist and spokesperson.
Description: According to Human Rights Watch, unaccompanied child migration is today the new normal; according to the Spanish press, it has now reached crisis proportions, and the great majority of unaccompanied foreign migrant minors in Spain are Moroccans. The topic of “Unaccompanied Moroccan Migrant Minors in Spain” is of importance for both European and African im/migration, and it also has significant implications for child migration to the U.S.
During the first half of the presentation Prof. Plann will provide an overview of unaccompanied Moroccan child migration to Spain, including the motives for their migration, how it is accomplished, their reception on Spanish shores, their status under Spanish law, and what happens when these children come of age. She will also point out notable differences between their situation in Spain and that of migrant minors in the U.S. Spain’s policy toward unaccompanied child migrants, which includes a path to citizenship, may seem an attractive alternative to the American model, but Prof. Plann argues that it also has its downsides.
The second half of the presentation will feature Mr. Laroussi, himself a former Moroccan child migrant who now resides in Madrid. Social worker with the foundation Merced Migraciones and prominent immigrants’ rights activist and spokesperson, Mr. Laroussi will tell his personal story and analyze the current situation of unaccompanied migrant youth in Spain, with whom he works on a daily basis.
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Writing Immigration History in an Age of Fake News
12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://immigrationinitiative.harvard.edu/event/writing-immigration-history-age-fake-news-katy-long-writer-and-broadcaster
Speaker:
Katy Long, Senior Research Associate at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
Description: In the battle that currently rages over immigrants’ place in America’s future, history has been weaponized. If liberals remain convinced that America is at its very core a ‘nation of immigrants’: a country shaped by a constant flow of newcomers, conservatives insist that preserving historic American identity depends upon keeping an imminent immigrant ‘invasion’ at bay. The reality, however, is a far more less binary history than is suggested by either shrill and repetitive headlines about walls, deportations and looming crisis, or romanticized nostalgia for an era in which ‘huddled masses’ were ushered through ‘golden doors’. At a moment when debates over immigration are at the center of a national political crisis, is there a duty to write about immigration in ways that reach beyond the seminar hall? If so, how can researchers best tell stories about the history of American Immigration in ways which engage an ever-more skeptical and polarized public.
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The Issue of Immigration in America: Moving Beyond Walls and Open Borders
4:30–6:00 p.m., Friday, April 24, 2020
Heinz College – Hamburg Hall A301
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/events/the-issue-of-immigration-in-america
Description: In the United States, the issue of immigration gives rise to controversy and conflict. This issue requires us to wrestle with challenging questions about many things, including:
Who should be admitted to the US as an immigrant (family members, skilled workers, etc.)?
How many people should the US admit as immigrants (should we increase, decrease or keep current levels)?
What rules should guide the immigration process (and how should these rules be enforced)?
How should we address the problems (social, political, and economic) that cause people to migrate from their home countries?
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23.
Annual Conference on European Immigration Law 2020
Monday-Tuesday, April 27-28, 2020
Academy of Europe
Avenue des Arts 56,
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
https://www.era.int/cgi-bin/cms
Objective:
The aim of this conference is to provide legal practitioners with an update on recent developments in the EU legal migration system and the mechanisms put in place to tackle labour and skills shortages and to reinforce the attractiveness of the EU for key workers. It will give them the opportunity to discuss current legal reforms with high-level experts in the field.
Key topics: Key novelties in current EU legal migration law.
Schengen Visa Code amendments
Blue Card system for highly qualified workers
Intra-Corporate Transfers Directive in practice
Implementation of the Single Permit Directive
Family reunification of third-country nationals
Integration of third-country nationals in the EU Member States
Strengthening cooperation with non-EU countries: facilitating legal migration pathways
Employment and immigration law post-Brexit
Recent case law of European courts in legal migration matters
Conference Program:
Monday, April 27, 2020
I. THE LEGAL MIGRATION FRAMEWORK IN THE EU – RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
9:45 a.m.
Recent legislative developments and key priorities for 2020-2021 in the EU legal migration system
Laura Corrado
10:45 a.m.
Update on the Community Code on Visas: Regulation (EU) 2019/1155 amending Regulation (EC) 810/2009
Dimitri Giotakos
12:15 p.m.
The post-Brexit UK immigration system and its impact on EU citizens
* Should business be worried by the drop in EU migration?
* Current assessment of adopted measures • What additional challenges are to be expected by companies?
* Solutions for cross-border workers after Brexit Annabel Mace
II. ASPECTS OF EU AND NATIONAL LEGAL MIGRATION LAW IN A BROADER LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT
2:15 p.m.
Investor citizenship and residence schemes in the European Union: the cases of Malta, Bulgaria and Cyprus
* Investor residence schemes and EU law on legal migration
* The link between investor residence schemes and naturalisation procedures
* Areas of concern
* Risks posed by investor citizenship and residence schemes
Jelena Dzankic
3:15 p.m.
Mobility rights for third-country nationals under the EU’s migration directives: posted workers and EU intra-corporate transferees – how to differentiate and ensure compliance
* Main changes introduced by the revised posted workers directive
* Facilitating intra-EU mobility by the ICT permit
* Case law of the CJEU Matthias Lommers
4:30 p.m.
The new German skilled immigration rules
Marius Tollenaere
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
III. CASE LAW OF THE CJEU AND ITS IMPACT ON EU LEGAL MIGRATION LAW
9:30 a.m.
The right to family reunification and long-term resident status in recent CJEU jurisprudence
* G.S. and V.G. Joined cases C-381/18 and C-382/18
* Cases C-519/18 and C-706/18
* Case C-93/18: Right of residence of a third-country national who is a direct relative in the ascending line of Union citizen minors
* Case C-302/18: Conditions for the acquisition of long-term resident status
Doyin Lawunmi
IV. EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF LEGAL MIGRATION
11:00 a.m.
Developing and implementing alternative pathways for legal migration
* Socio-economic challenges
* Pilot projects for legal migration with selected third countries
* Legal migration pathways to Europe for low- and middle-skilled migrants
Silvio Grieco
V. FUTURE CHALLENGES AND OUTLOOK
12:00 p.m.
Reflections on EU legal migration law
* Assessment of the current situation
* Main challenges
* Ideas and suggestions for the future Kees Groenendijk
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24.
Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-716 - Immigration Policy
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, May 6-8, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=29908153
Course Description: U.S. Immigration Reform examines the strengths and weaknesses of current US immigration policy and proposals for its reform. The course focuses on the system for legal permanent admissions and temporary admissions (nonimmigrant categories) for work, family reunification, study, and other similar purposes. It also examines policies designed to curb unauthorized migration, assessing the effectiveness of border and interior enforcement activities.
The course also examines policies related to forced migration, including refugee resettlement, asylum and temporary protected status. These issues will be discussed in a comparative framework, analyzing how other countries address issues affecting the United States. The course will examine the role of federal, state and local authorities in implementing policy reforms. It also examines the role of public opinion and various interest groups in affecting policy formulation.
Students will be required to write a 10-page paper, due after the course completion, on a specific reform issue.
Section Notes: U.S. Immigration Reform examines the strengths and weaknesses of current US immigration policy and proposals for its reform. The course focuses on the system for legal permanent admissions and temporary admissions (nonimmigrant categories) for work, family reunification, study, and other similar purposes. It also examines policies designed to curb unauthorized migration, assessing the effectiveness of border and interior enforcement activities.
Instructor: Katharine Donato
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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25.
Building Just and Inclusive Communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama: 15 Years After Katrina
A Whole of Community Approach to Immigrants and Refugees
Thursday-Saturday, May 21-23, 2020
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
526 Pine Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
https://cmsny.org/event/2020-whole-of-community-conference/
Description: The Center for Migration Studies’ (CMS) Whole of Community Conference will be held this year at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law from May 21-23, 2020. At the conference, participants will explore the challenges facing diverse immigrant and refugee communities in local communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and elsewhere. The conference will feature best practices in supporting and defending these communities.
The Whole of Community Conference is a platform for community-focused collaborations among public officials, legal service providers, community organizers, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, scholars, researchers, immigrants, refugees, and others in response to local and national immigration policies. The sponsors of this year’s event will be CMS, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and the Jesuit Social Research Institute / Loyola University New Orleans.
The conference schedule includes: optional site visits on May 21; and plenary panels and workshops on May 22 and 23. The conference fee of $50 includes lunch and refreshments throughout the event.
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