1. 4/6, Nationwide - Webinar on humanitarian protection in an era of pandemic - [New Listing]
2. 4/7, Nationwide - Webcast on implementing the USMCA trade deal - [New Listing]
3. 4/7, Nationwide - Webinar on DACA litigation and advocacy in the face of COVID-19 - [New Listing]
4. 4/10, Nationwide - Webinar on coronavirus as the 'Invasive Other' - [New Listing]
5. 4/14, Nationwide - Webinar on why immigrant workers are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 - [New Listing]
6. 4/14, Nationwide - Videoconference on COVID-19 and the northern border - [New Listing]
7. 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
8. 4/17, Nationwide - Webinar on the 1918 pandemic and US immigration - [New Listing]
9. 4/21, Nationwide - Webinar on COVID-19 and refugee camps - [New Listing]
10. 4/22-23, Edinburgh, Scotland - Immigration at the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism annual conference
11. 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law - [Postponed indefinitely]
12. 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
13. 5/13-16, Guadalajara, Mexico - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting - [Still scheduled]
14. 5/21-23, New Orleans - Conference on aiding immigrant and refugee communities in the Southeast U.S. post-Hurricane Katrina - [CANCELLED]
15. 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
16. 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies
17. 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
18. 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]
1.
Humanitarian Protection in an Era of Pandemic
9:30 a.m. ET, Monday, April 6, 2020
MPI Webinar
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/humanitarian-protection-era-pandemic
Speakers:
Kathleen Newland, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Hanne Beirens, Director, MPI Europe
Sarah Pierce, Policy Analyst, MPI
Susan Fratzke, Policy Analyst and Program Coordinator, MPI
Moderator:
Meghan Benton, Director of Research, MPI International Program and MPI Europe
Description: The rapid closures of borders around the world have been among the most dramatic migration-related effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 130 countries have introduced entry restrictions at their borders, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates. While these closures have virtually suspended leisure and business travel across the world, the effects are proving even more severe for refugees and migrants fleeing danger. Crossing an international border to a country of safety and filing an asylum claim is no longer possible in many places—a seismic shock to the foundations of a post-World War II international protection system that relies on the goodwill of national governments to grant access to their territory for those in need.
The pandemic has also placed into stark relief the unique vulnerabilities forced migrants now confront in the face of outbreak. The reception facilities where many asylum seekers live while awaiting a verdict on their claim invite outbreaks, even in high-income countries with well-run asylum and reception systems. Infection is likely to spread even more rapidly in severely overcrowded facilities, such as the camps on the Greek islands and informal settlements in Mexican border cities where migrants awaiting U.S. asylum hearings are massed. In developing countries where access to proper health care is limited even for nationals, the consequences of the pandemic could be disastrous for refugees who often live in densely packed housing with poor sanitation. At the same time, the suspension of resettlement operations by IOM and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has closed off a crucial lifeline for the especially vulnerable.
Please join us as we consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected—and perhaps, remade—the global protection systems. Meghan Benton, Director for Research of MPI’s International Program, will be joined by MPI colleagues for a free-flowing conversation regarding the effects of the pandemic on asylum systems in Europe and North America, as well as those in developing regions, where 85 percent of refugees remain. In addition to considering the immediate effects the crisis has had on national asylum systems and on refugees themselves, the conversation will look ahead and begin to assess the implications for the principle of asylum and access to protection in the future.
Register: http://my.migrationpolicy.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=89599
[Event has concluded but a video may be made available on the MPI website].
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WEBCAST - Implementing USMCA: A Conversation with Luz Maria de la Mora, Mexico's Undersecretary for Foreign Trade
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., April 7, 2020
Woodrow Wilson Center
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/webcast-implementing-usmca-conversation-luz-maria-de-la-mora-mexicos-undersecretary-foreign
Speaker:
Luz María de la Mora, Undersecretary for Foreign Trade, Mexico
Moderator:
Earl Anthony Wayne, Public Policy Fellow,
former Career Ambassador to Afghanistan, Argentina, and Mexico
Description: In mid-March, Canada ratified the USMCA trade deal, becoming the third and final country to ratify the deal that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now that the USMCA has been approved, a new chapter for North American trade is about to begin. While the official date has not been set, all three countries have begun taking important steps to be ready for implementation. There is still much work to be done on preparing the automotive rules of origin, and Mexico must also take steps to implement its major labor reforms. Additionally, some worry that the novel coronavirus outbreak could affect the implementation timeline, as industries work to navigate possible disruption to supply chains caused by the outbreak.
Please join us for a conversation BY WEBCAST with Mexico’s Undersecretary for Foreign Trade Luz María de la Mora as she discusses what Mexico anticipates as the steps ahead to implement USMCA.
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DACA Litigation and Advocacy in the Face of COVID-19
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.
1:00-1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, 2020
https://event.newschool.edu/st-daca
Speakers and Description:Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Muneer Ahmad, Director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, and Marisol Orihuela, Clinical Associate Professor at Yale Law School, to discuss DACA litigation and advocacy efforts.
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.
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Coronavirus as the 'Invasive Other'
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.
1:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, April 10, 2020
https://event.newschool.edu/st-ticktin
Speakers and Description: Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research, to discuss her recent article Coronavirus Cannot Become an Excuse to Label Groups of People ‘Invasive’.
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.
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Why Immigrant Workers are Especially Vulnerable to COVID-19
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
1:00-1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, 2020
https://event.newschool.edu/st-gelatt
Speakers and Description: Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Julia Gelatt, Senior Policy Analyst, US Immigrant Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute, to discuss her recent report on the vulnerability of immigrant workers during COVID-19.
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.
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COVID-19 and the Northern Border
2:00-3:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Video conference - Woodrow Wilson Center, Canadian Institute
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/covid-19-and-northern-border
Speakers:
Alan D. Bersin, Global Fellow, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Policy, and Vice President of INTERPOL for the Americas Region
Kathryn Friedman, Global Fellow, Director of Cross-Border and International Research, University at Buffalo
Laurie Trautman, Global Fellow, Director, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University
Solomon Wong, President and Chief Executive Officer, InterVISTAS
Moderator:
Christopher Sands, Director
Description: The Canada Institute is bringing together a panel of expert speakers for a video conference briefing to give an update on the novel Coronavirus and how Canada and the United States are working together during this crisis. During the call, speakers will discuss the details of the temporary border agreement and the impact this has on trade between our two nations.
In the wake of the novel Coronavirus outbreak, Canada and the United States agreed to temporarily restrict all non-essential travel across their shared border for the first time since September 11, 2001. This new agreement, enacted in order to protect the health and safety of their citizens, restricts travel for tourism and recreation and allows for the continuation of business travel crucial to our integrated supply chains.
Currently, $2.7 billion worth of goods crosses the Canada-U.S. border every day; yet, with markets plummeting, business closures, and an increase in unemployment, we may be headed for continued economic downturn. How is COVID-19 affecting businesses on both sides of the border? How long can we expect this to last? And what else can be done to maintain our strong economic ties?
The Canada Institute is bringing together a panel of expert speakers for a video conference briefing to give an update on the novel Coronavirus and how Canada and the United States are working together during this crisis. During the video conference, speakers will discuss the details of the temporary border agreement and the impact COVID-19 has on trade between the two nations.
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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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The 1918 Pandemic and US Immigration
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
1:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2020
https://event.newschool.edu/kraut
Speakers and Description: Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Alan Kraut, University Professor of History and International Service at American University.
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.
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COVID-19 and Refugee Camps
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
1:00-1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Online-Zoom
https://event.newschool.edu/st-spiegel
Speaker:
Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Paul Spiegel, MD, MPH, Professor of the Practice, Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss COVID-19 and refugee camps.
Description: 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.
Join the Zolberg Institute in an online series of short discussions on the nexus of migration-related issues and COVID-19.
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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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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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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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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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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
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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