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1. (#1) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
2. (#2) 3/12, Toronto - Workshop on collaborative efforts to support Central American migrants
3. (#3) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
4. (#4) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Seminar on future aspirations among refugee youth in Turkey between integration and mobility - [New Listing]
5. (#5) 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach
6. (#6) 3/16, DC - Discussion on engaging the diaspora to meet Africa’s development financing needs
7. (#7) 3/17, DC - Discussion on remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019 - [New Listing]
8. (#8) 3/17, Canada/US - Webinar on local municipalities creating conditions for success for immigrants - [New Listing]
9. (#9) 3/18, DC - Book discussion: Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees
10. (#10) 3/24, Cambridge, MA - Workshop on evaluations of victimization in US asylum determinations
11. (#11) 3/24, New York, NY - Book discussion: The Shifting Border
12. (#12) 3/25-28, Honolulu - Immigration at the International Studies Association annual convention - [Updated with agenda]
13. (#13) 3/26, DC - Discussion on assessing temporary-to-permanent immigration systems in Europe and North America
14. (#14) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
15. (#15) 3/31, Fairfax, VA - Celebration of the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs
16. (#16) 3/31, Cambridge, MA - Workshop on the contexts of reception that make asylum seekers feel welcome in Germany
17. (#17) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
18. (#18) 4/22, Los Angeles - Lecture on unaccompanied Moroccan migrant minors in Spain
19. (#19) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
20. (#20) 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration
21. (#21) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
22. (#22) 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
23. (#23) 5/21-23, New Orleans - Conference on aiding immigrant and refugee communities in the Southeast U.S. post-Hurricane Katrina
24. (#24) 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies - [New Listing]

Border Security Expo

Wednesday-Thursday, March 11-12, 2020
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
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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.

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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
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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
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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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Future Aspirations among Refugee Youth in Turkey between Integration and Mobility

The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration

12:30-2:000 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
MIT Building 9, Room 255
105 Mass Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02142
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Speaker:
Ayşen Üstübici, Assistant Professor at Koç University Department of Sociology and the Department of Political Science. She is also a member of the executive board and vice-director of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc)

Abstract: Along with several urgent issues related to their wellbeing and integration, one of the pressing questions about Syrian refugees in Turkey is whether they use Turkey as a “stepping stone” to reach other countries or whether they will ever return to Syria. This paper explains the future mobility aspirations of Syrian refugee youth between the ages of 18 and 30 living in Turkey in relation to their experiences of social mobility and integration in Turkey.

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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
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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
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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
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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:
Richmond Commodore
Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar,
Policy Analyst, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana.

Sonia Plaza
Senior Economist, Co-chair Remittances and Diaspora KNOMAD, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, Africa (East), World Bank

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Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019

12:00–2:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Inter-American Dialogue
1155 15th Street NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC xxxxxx
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Introductory Remarks:
Denisse Yanovich, Director, Development and External Relations, Inter-American Dialogue

Speakers:
Gene Nigro, Vice President of Global Business Development, Remitly

Laura Porras, Program Officer, Plan International

Liz Alicea-Velez, Director of Latin America and Caribbean, MoneyGram

Mario López, Vice Chairman, Tigo Guatemala

Piero Coen, President and CEO, Grupo Coen

Moderator:
Manuel Orozco, Director, Migration, Remittances and Development, Inter-American Dialogue

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Webinar: Immigrant FUTURES: Economy. Immigration. Communities.

Cities of Migration Webinar
1:00 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Canada/U.S.
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Description: Small towns, big ideas. Embarking on a local immigration strategy, especially one that ties economic growth and community sustainability to newcomer attraction and retention, means thinking differently. Newcomer friendly services and slogans aren’t enough. Successful settlement and integration depends on positive labour market experiences, a robust local economy – and a place that feels like home. What can local planning and municipal councils in smaller and regional new immigrant gateways do to create the conditions for success? The Immigrant Futures project explores the challenges and opportunities of immigrant attraction and retention in small, medium and regional communities in Canada in an age of global migration.

On March 17, join us online with Kim Turner, Ryerson University; David Campbell, former Chief Economist with the Government of New Brunswick; and Tania Maksymenko, Rural Employment Initiative, Newcomer Centre of Peel, in conversation with Devon Franklin, Manager, Knowledge Mobilization & Partner Development at WES.

Learn about the new Immigrant Futures Toolkit, a multi-stakeholder planning framework, tools and resources to help city and community leaders make the case for immigration as a critical strategy for local economic development, and initiate a whole-of-community local planning process.

Speakers:
David Campbell, former Chief Economist with the Government of New Brunswick

David is the President of Jupia Consultants Inc., an economic development consulting firm based in New Brunswick. He works with communities across the country on economic development and people attraction strategy. He was formerly Chief Economist with the Government of New Brunswick. In that role he advised Cabinet on economic policy and was involved in developing important initiatives such as the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Project and the New Brunswick Growth Plan. In recent years, David has been helping communities and governments develop workforce development and immigrant attraction plans. David is a published author and columnist and is asked to speak many times a year around the country on economic development, people attraction and related topics. He write a blog covering regional economic development topics at davidwcampbell.com.

Tania Maksymenko, Training and Development Facilitator for the Rural Employment Initiative at the Newcomer Centre of Peel

Tania Maksymenko is a Training and Development Facilitator for the Rural Employment Initiative at the Newcomer Centre of Peel, Mississauga. It’s a unique province-wide project that helps rural communities attract and retain newcomers. Originally from Ukraine, Tania had been living and working in New Delhi, India for 12 years before relocating to Canada in 2014. Through her work experience and personal journey, Tania has gained insight into career transitions of immigrant professionals, as well as barriers to their career success in the new labour market. Tania is a passionate social architect. She likes ideas and action. Her vision is to empower immigrant professionals in Canada: provide them with knowledge, resources and support they need to rediscover themselves in a new cultural environment and fully participate in the Canadian society. She is a co-founder and leader of a community of 4,000 Ukrainian mothers in Greater Toronto. Tania has a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership
from Azusa Pacific University (California, USA), BA in Psychology (Kyiv, Ukraine), and an eLearning certificate (University of Toronto).

Devon Franklin, Manager, Knowledge Mobilization & Partner Development, WES

Devon Franklin is the Manager of Knowledge Mobilization and Partner Development on the Global Talent Bridge team at World Education Services Canada. In her role, Devon manages the development of key partnerships with stakeholders related to the integration of skilled immigrants and refugees in Canada. Through partnerships, Devon seeks to build the capacity of Canadian organizations to improve the employment outcomes of newcomers. Previously, Devon was the Project Manager of Hire Immigrants, a program at the Global Diversity Exchange (GDX), a ‘think-and-do’ tank based at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada). Hire Immigrants is an online platform for employers to find and share good practices on immigrant employment and a network hub for increased awareness of the valuable skills and talent immigrants bring to local and global businesses. Hire Immigrants is unique in its approach to immigrant employment: by focusing on the role of employers and drivers of business performance, we help
identify outdated HR practices in hiring, recruitment and development, and empower employers to fully leverage immigrant talent in their workforce. Devon holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Immigration and Settlement Studies from Ryerson University.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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Immigration-related sessions:

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

8:00-9:45 a.m.
Political Economy of migration

Closed Door Policy: Explaining the Wage Gap of Immigrants to the United States
Rita Boyajian Groh, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Estimating the Factors that Affect the Circular Flow of Skilled Migrants Between their Destination and Origin Countries
Esther Jack-Vickers, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Italy’s Silent Return to Emigration: Trends, Causes, Consequences
Francesca Fauri, University of Bologna and Donatella Strangio, Sapienza University Rome

10:00-11:45 a.m.
Climate Change and Migration

Environment-induced migration in the IR agenda: current challenges and urgent needs
Carolina de Abreu Basta Claro, University of Brasilia

Support for Climate Migrants or Rohingya? How Bangladeshis Donate to Local Humanitarian Charities
Rachel Castellano, University of Washington

Shifting gendered subjectivies: Everyday lives of Burmese climate-induced migrants in Thailand
Chung Ah Baek, University of Warwick

A fallout from ‘good’ citizenship?: Diversity, identity and participation at times of political crisis and stability

Effect of Dual Citizenship on Electoral Viability
Alice Yiqian Wang, Stanford University

The Right to Community Participation and Citizen Security in Colombia
Dáire McGill, University of Oxford

The gendered path to Brexit: masculine identity and Euroscepticism in the UK
Charloe Galpin, Birmingham University

Citizenship on timeout? Mapping youth perceptions of ‘good’ citizenship in the nexus of migration and social media
Nora Siklodi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology/University of Portsmouth

Moving, Walking, Blocking: Conceptualizing Mobility in International Relations

Necropolics and Forced Migration in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Violence as a device of death
Ruth Elizabeth Prado, ITESO, Jesuit University of Guadalajara

Securitizing and Desecuritizing Refugees during Election Campaigns: Categorization and Labelling of Mobility in Turkey
Sezgi Karacan, University of Ottawa

Challenges of Higher Education in the Global South - Panel

The Emergence of Higher Education Networks in the Global South
Jermain Grin, American University

The International Migration of Students from the Global South: Does it Reduce or Boost Social Inequality?
Uwe Hunger, University of Muenster

12:15-2:00 p.m.
Refugees and International Migration

Refugees, education and inter-community trust: New micro-level evidence from Rohingya Refugees living in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh
Gudrun Østby, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Kendra Dupuy, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Fear, anxiety and emotional security after the refugee wave
Chrisan Kaunert, International Centre of Policing and Security, University of South Wales and Joana de Deus Pereira, University of South Wales - United Kingdom

The Religious Left and Right: Attitudes and Action Regarding US Immigration Policy and Border Security in Houston, Texas
Joanna U. Kaan, University of Houston - Downtown

Conservation-induced displacement and the democratic deficits of global governance: a study of a village by the Sinharaja World Nature Heritage Site
Grace Cheng, San Diego State University and Upali Pannilage, University of Ruhuna

Restrictive refugee policies: A guarantee for local security?
Heidrun Bohnet, University of Geneva

Mexico’s Perspective on the Central American migration Crisis
Carlos E. Juarez, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico and Juan Carlos Gachuz Maya, (UDLAP)

Discomfort in the Biopolical Heart of the State Apparatus? The case of missing asylum-seekers in Sweden
Anna Hammarstedt, Swedish Defence University

Moving people: adopting, interrogating and refuting governmental categorizations
Julia Morris, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

2:15-4:00 p.m.
Migration and Security in South Asia

Two Hard Places at Once: Pakistani Labour Migrants in the Persian Gulf
Zahra Babar, Georgetown University Qatar, Center for International and Regional Studies

4:15-6:00 p.m.
Regional Organizations and Human Rights

After Securisation: Militarisation of Governance of migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Muge Kinacioglu, Hacateepe University & Leiden University

The Dichotomy between Humanitarian practice and National Security: A comparison of EU and ASEAN migration issues.
Pakawadee Suphunchitwana, Ramkhamhaeng University

Foreign Influences on National Elections

Immigrants Political Preference and Social Democratic Parties: The Quantitative Analysis on Immigrants Voting in Australian Election
Juan Chen, University of Sydney

Managing migration: histories, actors, strategies

The Internal Migration Industry in Myanmar
Darshan Vigneswaran, University of Amsterdam

Turkey’s reversed liberal immigration paradox: the logic and implications of Turkey’s positive rhetoric on migration on the international stage
Juliette Tolay, Penn State Harrisburg

After Cologne - Gender, Body Politics, and migration in Germany
Sabine Hirschauer, New Mexico State University

The Shifting Context of Reception for Migrants to Japan: 1970-2010
Tristan Ivory, Cornell University

Thursday, March 26, 2020

8:00-9:45 a.m.
Banks and Borders

Migration and cross-border banking: The missing link?
Alexandra Zeitz, University of Oxford

IPE- Gendering International Political Economy

Gendered Dimensions of Skilled Migrant Women: United States and Ecuador in comparative perspective due to the crisis in Venezuela
Maritza Figueroa, Pontifical Universidad Católica del Ecuador

The “Rights” Way to Care: How policies for migrant domestic work are developed
So Young Chang, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Gender and migration

Environmental-induced migration in Mexico and Central America: A conceptual and empirical approach
Ursula Oswald Spring, National Autonomous University of Mexico

A feminist analysis of the ‘embodied’ experiences of Nepali women migrant workers in the Gulf countries
Hari KC, Balsillie School of International Affairs

The Personal is International: Transborder Movements and Abortion Access in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Andreanne Bissonnee, University of Quebec in Montreal

Consequences of the lack of intersectional public policies for women refugees: The cases of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
Mariana Almeida Silveira Corrêa, Universidade de São Paulo and Kelly Agopyan, University of São Paulo

10:00-11:45 a.m.
New Directions in Public Opinion about Foreign Policy I

Prejudice Towards Internal and Foreign migration: Combining List and Endorsement Experiments In Brazil
Feliciano de Sá Guimarães, University of São Paulo and Ivan Almeida Lopes Fernandes, UFABC

Cities in War and Peace

Cities, migration, and Insurgency in India's "Red Corridor"
Matthew Cobb, University of Arizona

Migration and the European Union

Turkey’s migration management: Uncertainties arising from swift changes in the legal framework and the impact of the EU-Turkey Statement
Elif Çen, University of Cambridge and Yaşar University

The cultural and economic determinants of an-immigration attitudes and support for right-wing populism in Europe
Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of Reading

The not-so-hidden cost of the ‘Australian model.’ A warning for the EU Fabio Scarpello, University of Auckland

Managing migration in the Central Mediterranean: SAR Missions, Disembarkment, and the Politics of Saving Lives
Gemma Marolda, University of Pittsburgh

Who Emigrates? Electoral Consequences of Emigration in Eastern Europe Junghyun Lim, University of Pittsburgh

Security and violence in colonial and post-colonial contexts

Face recognition as a postcolonial practice for migration control
Flavia Guerra-Cavalcan, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

12:15-2:00 p.m.
Gender, Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East

The intersecting experience of gender, displacement(s) and politics of migration: the case of Palestinian refugees from Syria in Jordan
Afaf Jabiri, University of East London

The ‘Inherent Vulnerability’ of Being Female: A Gendered Analysis of Morocco’s Immigration Reform
Kelsey Norman, Baker Institute, Rice University and Carrie Reiling, Washington College

Syrian Refugee Men and the Violence of Humanitarian “Vulnerability”
Lewis Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

Precarity, exclusion and everyday migrant struggles

Performing the perfect carer and ideal migrant. The ambiguity of female migration, role expectations and migrant agency in an age of global mobility.
Catherine Goetze, University of Tasmania and Georgia Spiliopoulos, University of Nongham, Ningbo, China

Everyday Meaning Making Practices of Refugees
Mehpare Selcan Kaynak, Bogazici University and Cansu E. Dedeoglu, University of Toronto

Shared spaces, disparate horizons: the (dis)similar struggles of migrant and native squatters in São Paulo, Brazil
Diana Thomaz, Balsillie School of International Affairs

The Ability to Exclude while Claiming Inclusion: The Role of Temporary Humanitarian Visas in Reproducing Precarious Migrants
Carla Angulo-Pasel, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

From Poverty Porn to Humanization and Resisting the Trump Administration: Interrogating the US Immigrant and Refugee Rights Spaces Through Questions of Inequality, Diversity and Representations
Sabrina Axster, Johns Hopkins University

2:15-4:00 p.m.
People on the Move law, gender, and technologies of migration

Militarization, Infrastructure and migration Management: The EU`s new Agenda on migration and its Hotspot Approach in the Mediterranean Borderscape
Bilgin Ayata, University of Basel

International soft law and local immigration policies, perspectives from Mexico City and Buenos Aires
Adriana S. Ortega, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)

Race and migration Policies in a Colorblind World
Andrew Rosenberg, University of Florida

The Masculinities of Humanitarianism
Lewis Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

Mitigating Fears of Being Outnumbered: Studying Singapore's Efforts to Maintain a Chinese Majority Amidst Increasing migration
Rebecca Grace Tan, University of Bristol

Forced migration

Forced migration from areas of limited statehood in northern Central America
Sonja C. Wolf, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)

Transit migration and people smuggling in Asia, Africa and the Americas: a rich field for comparison
Antje Missbach, School of Social Sciences Monash University

Devolving anti-child tracking responsibilities to multinational companies: the big scam? Lessons from the field in the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Elisa Narminio, Waseda University & Université Libre de Bruxelles

4:15-6:00 p.m.
Plotting ‘Return’: Diasporas, Diplomacy and the Homeland

Kabootarbazi: Phantom Experiences, The Policies of Naming, and Illegal migration
Akta Kaushal, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Universalist and Particularist Diplomacy

Plyler v. Doe: The Fulcrum of Liberal American Immigration Policy
Dan Keller, Baylor University

Friday, March 27, 2020

8:00-9:45 a.m.
Problematizing Migration

Messaging and Immigration Attitudes: (How) Can They be Improved?
Ken Stallman, University of Colorado at Boulder

The excess of migrants’ experiences over modern political categories
Suzana Velasco, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Who chooses to leave? Heterogeneous migration decisions in conflict and non-conflict settings.
Jana Kuhnt, German Development Instute/Deutsches Instut für Entwicklungspolik (DIE) Constann Ruhe, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Global migration Governance from Below? Civil Society and the Global Compact for migration
Stefan Rother, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the University of Freiburg

Environmental migration and conflict: Evidence from disaster induced displacement
Angela Chesler, University of Notre Dame

Borders and International Relations

Bringing sociology to the study of border security: a critical analysis
Cagla Luleci-Sula, Bilkent University

First Impressions at the Border: The Effects of Securitization at Europe’s Frontier
Alice Vercelli, Northeastern University

Territorial Salience: A Better Predictor for Territorial War and Peace
Karthikeyan Thiagarajan, University of Central Florida

Innovating outside the 1951 Refugee Convention- A Comparative Study of UNHCR in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Kundan Mishra, University of Massachusetts Boston

Queer/Trans Displacement in the United States and the Theoretical Borders of Forced migration Studies
Samuel Ritholtz, University of Oxford

New Borders to migrations In South Africa: How South Africa’s use of carrier sanctions has created new actors and new obstacles to migration
K. Taplin, University of Ottawa

The informalisation of EU migration cooperation with third countries
Juan Santos Vara, University of Salamanca and Laura Pascual Matellán, University of Salamanca

10:00-11:45 a.m.
Power and Wealth in the Anthropocene: Bringing Illicit, Informal and Resource Economies into IPE

“We are not an Immigration Country!” Complex Political Economy, Gender, and migration in Germany
Sabine Hirschauer, New Mexico State University

The Many Faces of Populism

Immigration in the European mind: The confounding of migration from within and outside the EU
Maurits Van der Veen, College of William & Mary

Internal migration Politics 2

Staging the national Other: Internal migration within the EU and populist an-immigrant mobilization
Oliver F. Schmidtke, University of Victoria

Does Immigration from Eastern Europe Fuel Euroscepticism?
Dimiter Toshkov, Leiden University

Not local enough: Opposition to internal migration in Asia
Isabelle Cote, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Internal migration and support for separatism in southern Thailand
Bethany Ann Lacina, University of Rochester

Human Rights, Gender and (In)voluntary migration: Human, Sex and Labor Tracking

Labor NGOs and Labor Tracking: Does the Spotlight Work?
Robert G. Blanton, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Shannon Lindsey Blanton, University of Alabama at Birmingham; and Dursun Peksen, University of Memphis

Sex Tracking and Women's Rights in India
Heather Smith-Cannoy, Arizona State University

Human Tracking and the International Labor Organization: Perspectives of the Global South
Ana Laura Anschau, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Human Tracking and the Relationship Between Civil Society and Anti-Tracking Legislation
Rachel Castellano, University of Washington

Successful Human Tracking Investigations: Questioning the Law Enforcement Standard
Richard Ramm, University of Nevada Reno

Recent Developments and Challenges in Return and Circular migration: Focusing on Reintegration of Returned Emigrants, Migrant Workers and Refugees in Home Countries

Reexamining the Reintegration Policies and Practices in Assisted Voluntary Return of Refugees and Migrants from Europe ---the German Case Studies
Ryo Kuboyama, Senshu University

Swedish labour market integration of refugees: Is the right to work guaranteed?
Ikuko Sato, J.F., Oberlin University

Returning to their homeland after a protracted period of immigrant life: Interrelationships between transnationalism and return migration among Filipino migrants in Italy
Itaru Nagasaka, Hiroshima University

Integration and Mobility: Complex Reality of migration in and from Africa
Mari Katayanagi, Hiroshima University

African Security Challenges

In search for common ground: conceptual, polical, and organizational dynamics of the migration partnership between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU).
Alice Musabende, University of Cambridge and Maria Chiara Vinciguerra, University of Cambridge

12:15-2:00 p.m.
International migration in an Integrated World

Into the Woods: migration and the Breon Woods Institutions
Merih Angin, Koç University; Albana Shehaj, Harvard University; and Adrian Shin, University of Colorado Boulder

Get Out: How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates
Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles and Margaret E. Peters University of California, Los Angeles

Compacts and Declarations: A Two-Tiered Approach to Migrants and Refugees in Global migration Governance
Nicholas Micinski, ISA Rosenau Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University

The Global Compact on migration: the role of the EU in the global governance of migration
Juan Santos Vara, University of Salamanca and Laura Pascual Matellán, University of Salamanca

Flexible Governance and Mul-Stakeholders Negoang the Global Compact for migration from the ‘cheap seats’ or the ‘front row’
Nicola Piper, Queen Mary University of London and Jenna Hennebry, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University

International Legal Issues in Asia

An Emerging International Norm of Paid Voluntary Return or Remigration? The International Office for migration (IOM), The Netherlands, and Japan
Michael O. Sharpe, City University of New York

Spaces, Mobilities, Infrastructures II

Geoinfrastructuring border crossing and migrant (im)mobility
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam

Bordering practices: a contribution to theory and practice through the case of Hungarian-Serb border policing practices
Beatrix Futak-Campbell, Leiden University

Borders and Outsiders: Ethnicity and Biometrics in Border Control
Samah Raq, Yale University

States and Statelessness

Marginalized and Misunderstood: How An-Rohingya Language Policies Contribute to Persecution and Forced Displacement
Lindsey Kingston, Webster University and Aroline Seibert Hanson, Arcadia University

Cycles of violence: The protection issues facing stateless adolescent Rohingya refugees
Alison Brele, King's College London

Reexamining the Dichotomy between the Nation and the Foreign: The Analogy between Statelessness and Dual Nationality
Ryo Watanuki, Osaka University of Economics and Law

No place like home? Citizens, governance, and the sovereignty of disappearing States.
Selina O'Doherty, Queens University, Belfast

A Dualism of State Sanction: The Emigrant-Citizens of Egypt and Tunisia
Ahmed Khaab, Georgetown University

2:15-4:00 p.m.
State Responses to Sudden Demographic Change

Refugees: Accounting for South America’s Puzzling Generosity
Sybil Rhodes, Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argenna

Leadership Psychology and the Restrictiveness of migration Policy: A Cross-National Study
Dennis M. Foster, Virginia Military Institute

Modeling the Transformation of migration
Anne Marie Baylouny, Naval Postgraduate School

Roundtable
At A Crossroads: The Future of Comparative Immigration Politics

Disc. Jusn Gest, George Mason University, Part. Audie Klotz, Syracuse University Part. Harris Mylonas, George Washington University Part. Kelsey Norman, Baker Institute, Rice University

4:15-6:00 p.m.
Challenges to European Democracy

The Failure of Sea Rescue in the Mediterranean as an Expression of a Political Crisis of the EU
Patricia Schneider, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)

The EU and its sub-Self Others: The struggle against disintegration in the context of the ´migration crisis
Julia Simon, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

Queering IR

Everyday Racism Facing Queer Syrian Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Lebanon
Razan Ghazzawi, University of Sussex

Middle East Feminism and its contributions to International Relations

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Gendered migration During Conflict and Marriage Patterns
Carla Abdo-Katsipis, Wesleyan University

Narratives on migrations

Narraves of (be)longing? On the need to decolonise migration + refugee studies
Jasmin Habib, University of Waterloo

EU border and migration governance and NGOs: civil society partnership revisited
Satoko Horii, Akita International University

Expanding Theoretical Horizons: Studying Ethnic Diversity and migration in Postcolonial States
Rebecca Grace Tan, University of Bristol

The exclusionary violence of the forced migration: Venezuela´s case
Ivonne Tellez Patarroyo, Poncia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Where are you from?: Identity and Interpretivism in migration Studies
Oanh Nguyen, University of Minnesota

Saturday, March 28, 2020

8:00-9:45 a.m.
Human Rights and migration

Safeguarding Human Rights through European Asylum Policy? An Ethnographic Investigation at a Greek Migrant Camp
Zoe Zahariadis, Vassar College and Nikolaos Zahariadis, Rhodes College

Divided Families: Impact of Family Reunicaon Policies on Syrian Refugees in Germany
Isis Nusair, Denison University

Equal Rights, Unequal Access: Citizenship, State Capacity, and Access to Social Rights
Natasha Benne, University of Puget Sound

Movement and Belonging

Variation in Home- and Host-Country Attachments among Turkish Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis
Melanie Kolbe, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Diaspora Mobilization, Political Engagement, and Rebel Group Violence
Nadia Eldemerdash, University of Nevada Las Vegas and Steven Landis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Opposing from afar? The activation and formation of transnational opposition against growing authoritarianism at home – The case of Turkey’s Diaspora in Germany
Gözde Böcü, University of Toronto

Intersections of migration and Trade

Local Economic Benefits Increase Positivity toward Foreigners: Evidence from an Exogenous Influx of Chinese Foreign Capital
Steven Liao, University of California, Riverside; Neil Malhotra, Stanford University; and Benjamin Newman, University of California, Riverside

Job-Training, Ideas, and Values: Explaining the Link between Education and Pro-Immigrant Attitudes
Seungbin Park, University of Alabama and Kim-Lee Tuxhorn, University of Calgary

Firm Influence on Immigration in Comparative Perspective: The Power of Large Markets
Vivienne Born, Texas Woman's University

Disrupting Barriers: Automation, migration, and Trade
Eric Stein, UC Santa Barbara

Migrants, Refugees, and Power Politics

Hyperpresidentialism, migration and International Relations: Understanding Regional Reactions to the Venezuelan Displacement Crisis
Soledad Casllo Jara, Universidad del Pacíco

Migration Diplomacy as Power Politics: A Typology of migration and Refugee “Deals"
Fiona Adamson, SOAS, University of London and Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham

Safeguarding Dictators: EU migration Management & Authoritarianism in Africa
Kelsey Norman, Baker Institute, Rice University and Nicholas Micinski, ISA Rosenau Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University

Refugees, Camps, and (Global) Governance: A Comparative Study of Refugee Camps Across Jordan
Rawan Arar, University of Washington

Governing Transit migration: A Relational Approach to Polycentric Governance
Maria Koinova, Warwick University

Non-State Approaches to the Politics of Ethnic Nationalism and migration: Korea from a Comparative Perspective

Talking of a Multicultural Korea: The Prospects for Transformational Change in a Homogenous Nation-State
Timothy C. Lim, CSU, Los Angeles

Pacifying Citizenship: Two Tales of Political Incorporation in Japan and the United States
Erin Chung, Johns Hopkins University and Jaeeun Kim, University of Michigan

Dusting Off ‘North Korean Identity’ and Embracing Cosmopolitan Identity: North Korean Defectors’ Onward migration to Australia
Kyungja Jung, University of Technology Sydney

10:00-11:45 a.m.
Contextualizing the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Influence Activities

Channeling PRC Pressure: Media, Immigration, and Institutions in Australia and New Zealand
Eric Hundman, NYU Shanghai

Global Perspectives on migration, Refugees and Sustainable Development - Panel

The migration and refugee ‘crisis’, international law, and the backlash against human rights
Ralph Wilde, University College London

Mainstreaming migration into National Development Plans: Perspectives from Kenya
Linda Oucho, African migration and Development Policy Centre

Leaving no one behind? Achievement of SDGs 3 and 17 in relation to migrants’ access to healthcare in Mexico and the US
Valeria Marina Valle, Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City

Universal Health Coverage and migration: The Challenge of Reaching the most Vulnerable in an African Context
Dêlidji Eric Degila, Ecole Nationale d'Administraon du Bénin & Graduate Institute, Geneva

Resistance and polical mobilisation within and across diverse geographical contexts

Mobilizing and Organizing Beyond Borders: Transnational Activism in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Duyen Bui, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Migrant Workers Activism as a Form of Resistance to migration Management: The Case of Italy
Aurora Ganz, St. Andrews University

A Continent on the Move! Migration in Contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States - Panel

Lan America’s Pendulum Politics: Implications for Democratic Development in the Region
Emily Acevedo, California State University, Los Angeles

Escapando la “Tierra de Gracia”: Venezuelan migration in era of the “Bolivarian Revolution
Miguel Tinker Salas, Pomona College

The Haitian Diaspora in Mexico
April Mayes, Pomona College

Loving, Loathing, and Leaving Honduras: Coups, Militarization and Displacement in Central America in the Trump Era
Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Pitzer College

Revival of the Far Right

"Lies about Migrants: Immigration policy in a me of 'post-truth' politics"
Beverly Crawford, University of California, Berkeley

The Left Behind: Emigration, Political Brain Drain, and Support for Radical-Right Pares in Europe
Paula Ganga, Columbia University and Filip Savatic, Georgetown University

12:15-2:00 p.m.
Internationalizaon, Researcher Mobility and Intellectual Exile: Shaping Institutions, Networks and Narratives beyond the Center Periphery Divide

Latin America and Syrian Conflict: Politics, Ideology and Immigration
Mehmet Ozkan, Center for Global Policy, Washington D.C.

Forced migration and Academics in Fragile Host Countries: The Case of Lebanon
Hana Addam El-Ghali, American University of Beirut

Turkey's Academics in Exile: The German Experience
Ergun OZGUR, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

Of Dependencies and Opportunities: Reconstructing Transnational Networks of Scholars in Exile
Carola Richter, Free University Berlin and Florian Kohstall, Free University Berlin, Cairo Office

Identity and China

Debating Cizenship, Discussing Identity: The Children of Chinese Immigrants in Spain and their Artistic Activism
Nieves Romero-Diaz, Mount Holyoke College

East Asian Sociopolitical Challenges

Immigration Policy without Immigrants in East Asia
Erin Chung, Johns Hopkins University

The Accidental migration State: Taiwan’s Transformation of the Immigration Policy in the Globalizing World (1949-1990’s)
Yuki Tsuruzono, Waseda University

2:15-4:00 p.m.
Rhetoric and Politics

The Rhetoric of Immigration Enforcement
Kevin Cope, University of Virginia and Charles Crabtree, University of Michigan

The polical implicaons of South-South migration of Migrant Domestic Workers: Challenges for International Relations

Justified migrations from Central America: Asylum Caravans and Accountability Claims
Noelle K. Brigden, Marquee University

Race and Humiliation through the Kafala: the case of Ethiopian migrant domestic workers
Bina Fernandez, University of Melbourne

West African Domesc Worker migration to the Gulf: The case of Ghana as a ‘newcomer’
Mary Setrana, University of Ghana and Leander Kandilige, Centre for migration Studies, University of Ghana

Title: Governing the migration of Domestic Workers in Asia: a Gender and Rights-based analysis of Bilateral Labour Agreements
Nicola Piper, Queen Mary University of London Jenna Hennebry, International migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University

Influencing International Relations from below: Philippine Migrant domestic workers as transnational political actors
Stefan Rother, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the University of Freiburg

Other Options, Other Worlds: Central American migration to Mexico
Marcus Boyd, University of Maryland

Forced Displacement: Causes and Solutions Using Novel Data and Methods

When to flee? Understanding patterns of displacement during the Lebanese Civil War
Tiffany Chu, Virginia Military Institute and Faten Ghosn, University of Arizona

Counterinsurgency Heuristics: Ethnicity and Forced Resettlement
Christoph Dworschak, University of Essex

The Effect of the 2015 Crisis on Attitudes towards Refugees in Europe
Lamis Abdelaaty, Syracuse University

An Examination of U.S. Refugee Policy Over Time
Rebecca Cordell, University of Texas at Dallas and Thorin M. Wright, Arizona State University

How do refugee crises end? Theory & Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Daniel Masterson, Stanford University and Ala' Alrababa'h, Stanford University

Women and the Economics and Violence of migration

Migrant Domestic Workers: Immigration Policies Exacerbating Gender Inequality in Japan and South Korea?
Atsuko Abe, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo and Jihey Bae, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo

Labour migration from Central Asia to Russia: Economic and Social Impact on the Societies of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
Irina Malyuchenko, OSCE Academy in Bishkek

Dimensions of gendered violence in forced migration research
Cita Weerich, University of Freiburg

Violence Across Borders: migration, Gender, and Subjectivity Among Rohingya Refugee Women
Farhana Rahman, University of Cambridge

4:15-6:00 p.m.
Studying Identity in the Global South

The Lost Idenes: Understanding the victimisation of migrant women across the Asian countries
Tanushree Malakar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Politics of Power in Human Rights

Unveiling Citizenship and Immigration in Canada v. Zunera Ishaq
Herbert McCullough, Midwestern State University

Identity and Island Politics

How State Education Shapes An-Immigrant Attitudes
Boyoon Lee, Pennsylvania State University

The Political Legacy of American Occupation on Native Hawaiian Identity
Ngoc Phan, Hawaiʻi Pacific University

Fighting for Hawaiian Home Lands: Challenges to Nave Hawaiian sovereignty.
Ngoc Phan, Hawaiʻi Pacific University

Taiwan Naonalism and “One China”: Examining Mainlander (waishengren) Identity
Junki Nakahara, American University

Internal Migration Politics 3

Those who leave Quebec: the politics of secondary migration
Mireille Paquet, Concordia University and Catherine Xhardez, Sciences Po Paris and Université Saint-Louis

Strangers in their Homeland: Internal Migrants in Soa, Bulgaria
Chris Kostov, Schiller University

Inequality and the Individualization of Social Rights in China
Alexsia Chan, Hamilton College

Research Note on Immigrant Youth Radicalization and Terrorism: Pre-and Post migration Considerations
Haval Ahmad, Aberystwyth University and Mambo Masinda, TSAS

Communicating Human Rights

Silencing through benevolence: Turkey’s ‘generous’ Syrian refugee policy and its impact on the (dis)empowerment of refugees
Juliee Tolay, Penn State Harrisburg

Framing of immigrants and refugees during the EU’s refugee crisis: Comparing framing of different categories of migrants across East Central European and Western European countries
Jan Kovar, Institute of International Relations Prague & University of New York in Prague

Indigenous Treaties, Custodianship, and Constitutional Recognition

Transforming External Sovereignty: Indigenous Assertions of Self-determination in Trade and Global Agreements, Defense, and Immigration in Canada and New Zealand
Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Annual Conference on European Immigration Law 2020

Monday-Tuesday, April 27-28, 2020
Academy of Europe
Avenue des Arts 56
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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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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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
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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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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
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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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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies

XCPD-744 - Global Displacement & Migration Studies

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 27-31, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: This course offers deep knowledge and information about the different groups of people on the move (labor migrants, refugees, internally displaced, asylum seekers, and others), and the multiple causes and consequences of such movements of people. It also provides a global overview of displacement and migration numbers and trends; drivers of population movements; impacts on origin, transit and host countries; and policy responses to population movements.

Specifically, the course will cover the major theoretical explanations underpinning displacement and international migration; global migration and refugee governance; differences and trends in national policies, especially refugee resettlement and labor migration; integration experiences of immigrants in host countries; and connections between migration and displacement and other issues as security, development and environmental change. Finally, the certificate will illustrate how research questions are answered in an effort to enhance existing knowledge and improve policies and practices.

Course Objectives:
* After completing the certificate, successful students will be able to:

* Understand current patterns and trends related to displacement and global migration, including the number and characteristics of those on the move at global, regionally and national levels

* Understand differences among those on the move, including refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers and others

* Articulate the causes of displacement and migration, drawing from both theory and empirical evidence;

* Describe the global refugee and migration governance frameworks and how they articulate the rights of people on the move and the responsibilities of origin, transit and destination countries;

* Assess the interconnections between international migration and other transnational issues, such as development, security and climate change

* Discuss and articulate strengths and weaknesses of the national policy frameworks governing the admission of migrants, control of irregular migration, protection of refugees and other forced migrants, etc.

* Understand the integration process of immigrants, and the resettlement process of refugees, in destination countries

* Learn how to ask and answer relevant research questions about these issues

Instructor: Katharine Donato

Tuition: $4,995.00, 60 contract hours

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