1. 3/27, Nationwide - Online discussion on migration-related issues and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
2. 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention - [Cancelled]
3. 3/31, Nationwide - Online discussion on migration-related issues and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
4. 3/31, Cambridge, MA - Workshop on the contexts of reception that make asylum seekers feel welcome in Germany
5. 4/3, Nationwide - Online discussion on migration-related issues and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
6. 4/7, Nationwide - Online discussion on migration-related issues and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
7. 4/10, Nationwide - Online discussion on migration-related issues and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
8. 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
9. 4/16-19, Chicago - Immigration at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting - [Cancelled]
10. 4/22, Los Angeles - Lecture on unaccompanied Moroccan migrant minors in Spain - [Cancelled]
11. 4/22-23, Edinburgh, Scotland - Immigration at the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism annual conference
12. 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news - [Cancelled]
13. 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration - [Cancelled]
14. 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
15. 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
16. 5/21-23, New Orleans - Conference on aiding immigrant and refugee communities in the Southeast U.S. post-Hurricane Katrina
17. 5/13-16, Guadalajara, Mexico - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting
18. 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
19. 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies
20. 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
21. 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]
1.
Immigration Short-takes: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
https://zolberginstitute.org/initiatives/covid19-chats/
Description: Join the Zolberg Institute in an online series of short discussions on the nexus of migration-related issues and COVID-19.
Scholars and activists on migration and mobility will join the Zolberg Institute in an online series of short discussions on the nexus of migration-related issues and COVID-19, during the worldwide pandemic.
These short discussions, held over Zoom, will inform and engage the public through live and recorded conversations.
Discussions are held on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 1:00 p.m. ET/12:00 CT/11:00 a.m. MT/10:00 a.m. PT.
Speaker:
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia: Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic - Penn State Law
Join Alex Aleinikoff and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Penn State Law School, for the launch of Immigration Short-Takes: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19.
Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is the Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law at Penn State Law in University Park. Her research focuses on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and the intersections of race, national security and immigration. She has published more than thirty law review articles, book chapters and essays on immigration law. Her work has been published in Emory Law Journal, Texas Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, Harvard Latino Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Race and Law. Wadhia’s first book, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases, was published by New York University Press in 2015, and named an honorable mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her new book, Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump, was released in 2019 by New York University Press. Wadhia has also co-authored an immigration textbook, Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Solutions, with Steve Yale-Loehr and Lenni Benson, published by Carolina Academic Press in 2019.
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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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Immigration Short-takes: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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Speaker:
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: Associate Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
Alex Aleinikoff is joined by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: Associate Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an associate professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and a frequent commentator in national and international media. He publishes crimmigration.com, a blog about the convergence of criminal and immigration law that is a past recipient of the 100 best law blogs honor by the ABA Journal.
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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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Immigration Short-takes: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19
1:00 p.m., Friday, April 3, 2020
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Speaker:
Yael Schacher: Senior U.S. Advocate, Refugees International
Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Yael Schacher. Yael Schacher is a senior U.S. advocate at Refugees International, where she focuses on U.S. asylum, U.S. refugee admissions, temporary protected status, and immigration practices that have refugee protection implications. Prior to joining Refugees International, Yael spent a decade researching the relationship between immigration and refugee policy for her forthcoming book on the history of asylum in the U.S. since the late nineteenth century.
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Immigration Short-takes: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, 2020
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Alan Kraut: University Professor of History and International Service at American University
Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Alan Kraut. Alan M. Kraut is a University Professor of History and International Service at American University, where he has been named Scholar/Teacher of the Year. A past president of the OAH, he is the author or editor of nine books, including the award-winning books Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994) and Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (2003).
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Immigration Short-takes: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19
1:00 p.m., Friday, April 10, 2020
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Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research
Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Miriam, who works at the intersections of the anthropology of medicine and science, law, and transnational and postcolonial feminist theory. Her research has focused in the broadest sense on what it means to make political claims in the name of a universal humanity: she has been interested in what these claims tell us about universalisms and difference, about who can be a political subject, on what basis people are included and excluded from communities, and how inequalities get instituted or perpetuated in this process.
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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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Midwest Political Science Association annual conference
Thursday-Sunday, April 16-19, 2020
Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
https://www.mpsanet.org/conference
[CANCELLED as of March 17, 2020]
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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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30th ASEN Annual Conference: Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Wednesday-Thursday, April 22-23, 2020
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
https://asen.ac.uk/events/asen-conference/
Conference programme draft - Immigration-related sessions
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Welcome Ceremony and First plenary speaker: Bikhu Parekh
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
PANEL SESSION 1
Diaspora Communities: Long-Distance Nationalism in Situ
Indo-Trinidadian heritage: Toronto as a diaporic context
Kathleen Boodhai
Nationalism and politics among the Chinese diaspora in the UK
Oana Burcu
How Restrictive is Liberal Nationalism’s Immigration Policy?
Ranjoo Herr
Rescaling Identity in Europe: Civilisationism, Self-determinism, and Multiculturalism
Other Brexit Imaginaries: Openness and the crisis of liberal Britain
Arshad Isakjee
Rescaling the border: Simulation, sovereignty and civilisationism
Paul Richardson
Challenges to Scandinavian National Identities
From Exclusion to Establishment: Researching Anti-Political Establishment Parties in Scandinavia
Johan Andersen
3:15-4:45 p.m.
PANEL SESSION 2
Social Perceptions of Diversity : Migration in European Nations
National/ European identities and attitudes towards migrant integration: findings from EVS-European Values Study
Simona Guglielmi
The perception of European migrant crisis by Danish minority in Germany and German minority in Denmark. A comparative analysis of media discourses.
Sergiusz Bober
Migration and national minority communities: two sides in the debate about multiculturalism and interculturalism in Catalonia
Mariona Lladonosa
What’s in a name? Children of migrants, national belonging and the politics of naming
Marco Antonsich
3:00-4:30 p.m.
PANEL SESSION 3
Indeterminate status: the Global Refugee Crisis
Nationalism and Immigration in Greece and the Netherlands: a Comparative Perspective
Thanos Koulos
Creating “refugees” within: Challenges for multiculturalism in Japan where only 20 refugees are accepted out of 20,000 applications
Naoko Hosokawa
Syrian refugees in Turkey: Challenge to Nationalism
Cigdem Nas
New Approaches in Nationalism Studies
Beyond assimilation: the compliance – resistance theory
Manolis Pratsinakis
When the Methods are Madness: Researching with Refugees in the UK
Isabella Gabrovsky
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Plenary speaker: Christian Joppke
Thursday, April 23, 2020
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Populism, Multiculturalism and Internationalism in Eurasia: Negotiating Empire and its Legacies
Russia reports Western voting: transnational nationalisms versus multiculturalism
Chatterje-Doody
1:30-3:00 p.m.
PANEL SESSION 5
Minority Nationalisms in the West
Immigration and the Imagined Community: Province-wide Norm or Local-level Realities in Quebec?
Antoine Bilodeau
European stateless nationalisms facing the challenge of multiculturalism. Insights from Scotland, Catalonia, Basque Country and Flanders
Paolo Perri
Migration, Minority Groups and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Japan and Northeast Asia
The politics of local multiculturalism in the age of superdiversity and resurgent nationalism in Japan
Sachi Takaya
Challenges and Possibilities of “Multicultural Japan” – The Emergence of Minority Representatives in Japan’s Political Landscape
Seiko Mimaki
Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia: Questioning the “national consciousness” paradigm
Alexander Bukh
Cultural nationalism in multicultural Japan
Fumiko Takahashi
Book Panel: Struggle over Borders
Pieter De Wilde
Disputing ‘One China’: Cases from Hong Kong and Taiwan
One country, two identities. In search of Hong Kong’s identity
Malgorzata Osinska
‘I was discriminated against because I was seen as PRC-Chinese’: The negotiation between ethnicity and nationalism among Taiwanese migrants in Australia
Yao-Tai Li
Representing the Nation in Media Discourses
Cultural Boundary Drawings of German National Identity in Migrant Integration Discourses
Anja Benedikt
Book Panel: Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the outskirts of nationhood
Robin Hemley
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Beyond the Melting Pot: Ethnicity in North America
Melting the Pot: The Rise of ‘Ethnicity’ in the United States
Jaakko Heiskanen
The Oxymoronic Nation: Liberal Individualism and the Invention of Color Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1880-1920
Reynolds Scott-Childress
Muslim Minorities in Europe
Liberal citizenship, pluralism and Muslims in Europe
Nasar Meer
Spiritualising Reason, Rationalising Spirit. Ex-, Practicing, and Converted Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far-Right
Julian Gopffarth
Laïcité bien comprise vs. Laïcité compromise: Senegalese Muslims in France
Olivia Till
Questioning Perceptions of National Belonging with Discourse Analysis
Discursive constructions of national identity in the Gulf States: ‘Deserving citizens’ and ‘undeserving migrants’
Idil Akinci
Cataloguing the nation: National canons and admission to citizenship in the Netherlands and Flanders (2006-2019)
Jan Rock
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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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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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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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16.
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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Latin American Studies Association annual meeting
Wednesday-Saturday, May 13-16, 2020
Guadalajara, Mexico
https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2020/
Conference program to be available soon.
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2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
Monday, June 29-Friday, July 10, 2020
Université libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium
http://odysseus-network.eu/2020-summer-school/eng/
Description: While we celebrate the 20th anniversary of our summer school, it has trained more than 2000 persons and is well known among employers considering it as an asset for job seekers. This 20th edition will focus on the new pact on migration to be presented in April by the European Commission. The objective is to give to the participants a global understanding of the immigration and asylum policies in the EU from a legal perspective. The summer school is organised by the Odysseus Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, founded in 1999 with the support of the European Commission. In addition to classes, the summer school provides an excellent opportunity to spend an intellectually stimulating time in a group of around one hundred participants specialised in the area of asylum and immigration from all over Europe. The location of the summer school in Brussels creates a unique environment facilitating participants’ interaction with European institutions. Participants in the summer school typically includes PhD and graduate students, researchers, EU and Member State officials, representatives from NGOs and International Organisations, lawyers, judges, social workers, etc. The classes are taught by academics originating from all EU Member States collaborating in the framework of the Odysseus Network, and by high- ranking officials from the European Institutions, particularly the European Commission. You can discover the Summer School through this video: odysseus-network.eu/2020-summer-school
Subjects:
Opening lecture
Migration flows and statistics
Free movement of EU citizens
European institutional framework.
Implications of human rights
External relations and European migration policy
European Databases (SIS, VIS, Eurodac, etc.)
External border control
European visa policy
Immigration for purposes of work
Family reunification
Status and integration of third country nationals
Smuggling and trafficking
Return and readmission
Reception conditions for asylum seekers
European concepts of refugee and of subsidiary protection
Member States responsibility
(“Dublin mechanism”)
Asylum procedures
Calendar and Schedule: The first general part of the program includes 14 hours of lectures and the second and third specialised parts on immigration and asylum 30 hours in total. Each day is generally done of 2classes of 2 hours, presented with a coffeebreak in between. In order to enable participants in full-time employment to attend the classes, courses take mainly place in the afternoon between 2 pm and 6:30pm.
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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
https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=31222947
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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Crimmigration, Capital, and Consequences, 5th Biennial CINETS Conference
Wednesday-Friday, September 24–26, 2020
Lewis and Clark Law School
10015 SW Terwilliger Blvd #7768
Portland, OR 97219
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-12-17-crimmigration-capital-and-consequences-5th-biennial-cinets-conference
Description: The Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies (CINETS) is pleased to invite you to our fifth biennial international conference, which will be held in partnership with Lewis & Clark’s 25th annual Business Law Forum. For the first time, Oxford-based Border Criminologies will join CINETS as a co-host for this event.
Crimmigration, the merging of immigration enforcement and criminal justice regimes, has rapidly become the dominant response to human mobility around the globe. Crimmigration has emerged, ironically, in tandem with growing economic globalization. For capital, national borders have virtually disappeared, while the walls, virtual and literal, are growing higher for workers and others who need mobility to thrive, and even survive. Race, ethnicity, and personal wealth matter in who gains entry. Are fairness, justice, and inclusion, values that democratic societies hold dear, to be available only on a members-only basis? What is the role of capital in fomenting human mobility and profiting from the barriers that governments are erecting to deter immigrants? How can we resist the bordering trend that works selectively against those most in need? This conference will treat crimmigration and bordering holistically as systems nested within economy and society in subtle, and not-so-subtle, ways.
We welcome individual and panel submission (fully or partly-formed). The conference also welcomes submissions for work-in-progress sessions, including potential Border Criminologies blog posts. To apply, submit a (maximum) 200-word abstract, with a tentative title and contact information. Please indicate whether you are applying for a papers-only panel or a work-in-progress/blog post session.
Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2020. Send your submissions and questions to Richard Adams at [email protected].
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Immigration and the changing nature of work
Canadian Immigration Summit 2020
[RESCHEDULED FROM MARCH 13-14, 2020]
Monday-Tuesday, October 5-6, 2020
The Shaw Center
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
https://www.conferenceboard.ca/web/canadian-immigration-summit-2020.html
Programme:
Monday, October 5, 2020
8:20 a.m.
Opening remarks—Building an attractive and welcoming immigration system
8:40 a.m.
Remarks—Remaining competitive in a disruptive economy
9:00 a.m.
Keynote -Radical innovation for greater social good
9:30 a.m.
Panel presentation - Global migration trends—Systems and policies
11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions (please select one)
Concurrent A1: Fostering immigrant entrepreneurship
Concurrent A2: Long-term success of international students in Canada
Concurrent A3: Paving pathways for inclusion for skilled refugees
1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (please select one)
Concurrent B1: Using technology to help immigrants and refugees
Concurrent B2: Immigrant women and the fourth industrial revolution
Concurrent B3: In-camera session for employers—Talent solutions at the intersection of immigration and long-term prosperity
2:30 p.m.
Panel presentation - Attracting an immigrant workforce: Regional approaches to immigration in the new world of work
3:30 p.m.
Panel discussion - Innovation in the workplace—The employer experience
4:45 p.m.
Day 1 roundup
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
8:15 a.m.
Remarks—Building a forward-thinking workforce
9:00 a.m.
Keynote - Innovative solutions: Can technology help transform the labour market, reskill workers, and support lifelong learning?
10:00 a.m.
Panel discussion - Business savvy with a global mindset: Employment in the age of increased migration
11:00 a.m.
Presentation - Remaining competitive through immigration and future-thinking
11:45 a.m.
Summit closing remarks
12:00 p.m.
Conference conclusion
1:00 p.m.
Optional Workshop Attracting international investment through business succession
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