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1. (#1) 4/6, Nationwide - CIS panel discussion on whether ICE should release detainees during pandemic - [New Listing]
2. (#2) 4/14, Nationwide - Webinar on the particular vulnerability of immigrant workers to COVID-19
3. (#3) 4/14, Nationwide - Videoconference on COVID-19 and the northern border - [New Listing]
4. (#4) 4/15, Nationwide - Webcast on Covid-19 in Latin America - [New Listing]
5. (#5) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration
6. (#6) 4/17, Nationwide - Webinar on the 1918 Pandemic and US Immigration
7. (#7) 4/17, Nationwide - Livestreamed discussion on health and immigration in the era of COVID-19 - [New Listing]
8. (#8) 4/20, Nationwide - Online Event: Russia in the post-Soviet space: National identity and citizenship regime - [New Listing]
9. (#9) 4/21, Nationwide - Webinar on COVID-19 and refugee camps - [New Listing]
10. (#10) 4/22-23, Edinburgh, Scotland - Immigration at the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism annual conference
11. (#11) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law - [Postponed indefinitely]
12. (#12) 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
13. (#13) 5/8, Nationwide - Livestreamed discussion on immigration detention, courts, and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
14. (#14) 5/13-16, Guadalajara, Mexico - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting - [Still scheduled]
15. (#15) 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
16. (#16) 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies
17. (#17) 8/24-29, Prague - IOM summer school on Migration Studies - [New Listing]
18. (#18) 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
19. (#19) 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]

Panel: Should ICE Release or Continue Detention for Aliens during Pandemic?

New England Sheriffs joins CIS experts to address judge-mandated releases in New England.

1:00 p.m., Monday, April 13, 2020
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Speakers and Description: The Center for Immigration Studies will host a virtual panel discussion Monday, April 13, at 1 p.m. on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and whether the institutional conditions of detention centers necessitate the release of immigrant detainees due to the coronavirus and the safety, and legal implications of releases.

Center experts will be joined by Bristol County (Mass.) Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who has been forced by a federal judge to release 45 detainees from the Bristol House of Corrections; releases are to continue on a rolling basis.

Panelists will discuss the 2011 Operations Manual ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS), revised in December 2016, and explore if facilities are set-up to deal with communicable diseases and medical emergencies. They will try to answer the question: Which scenario – release or continued detention – is the more responsible policy, for the individual detainee and for the American public?

Stream: Scheduled streams will be live on both Facebook and YouTube. We will also have an unscheduled stream on our Twitter feed.

Questions: Questions can be sent prior or during the event to [email protected] or on twitter to @CIS_org.

Sheriff Hodgson said, "Ironically, of my 850 detainees/inmates, we have had no COVID 19 cases since the pandemic began and this Judge is releasing these detainees under a 'humanitarian' claim. I can think of nothing more inhumane than letting dangerous people wander around our neighborhoods, based on a claim that maybe, just maybe they could contract COVID 19 in the detention center."

"Detainees deserve to be housed in safe, healthy facilities. But policymakers must compare their situation in the facility to their safety outside of the facility, and the availability of treatment inside to that outside of the facility," said Andrew Arthur, the Center's resident fellow in law and policy and former immigration judge in a detention facility. "And, who should be making these decisions? What if a single judge says to empty the jails and detention centers completely? Judges should not be controlling policy, in this manner."

Dan Cadman, a Center fellow and retired INS/ICE official, said, "Policymakers must also remember that detention often serves public safety, because most of the aliens taken into detention are convicted criminals. Once released, most of these individuals will re-offend."

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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
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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
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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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Covid-19 in Latin America: The Role of Social Policy

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Webcast - Woodrow Wilson Center, Latin American Program
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Speakers:
Luis Miguel Castilla, Senior international consultant and former Finance Minister of Peru

Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor and Director of Commitment to Equity Institute, Tulane University

Sebastián Villarreal, Undersecretary for Social Services, Ministry of Social Development, Government of Chile

Santiago Levy, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, IADB

Moderator:
Cynthia J. Arnson, Director, Latin American Program

Description: In Latin America and the Caribbean, the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been devastating. With quarantines in place across most of the region and economic activity grinding to a halt, already-struggling economies face deep and possibly historic levels of recession. The rise in unemployment is dramatic; but particularly hard hit are those in the informal sector—over half of the labor force in the LAC region. Even before the harsh impacts of Covid-19, most informal workers lacked access to health insurance, pensions, and other forms of social protection.

What are governments in region doing to soften the economic blow for their most vulnerable citizens? Do existing high debt-to-GDP ratios make it too risky for governments to adopt expansionary social policies? If not, where will the funding for social programs come from and how can the greatest number be reached? What are the political costs of doing too little to address the rise in poverty during and after the pandemic, especially in light of last year’s protest movements?

Please join us on Wednesday, April 15th, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST, for a videoconference on the role of social policy in responding to the economic dislocations caused by the coronavirus.

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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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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
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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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Health and Immigration in the era of COVID-19

12-1:30 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2020
UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
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Description: Please join us in a conversation with Dr. Michael A Rodriguez regarding how COVID-19 is impacting immigrant communities.

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Online Event: Russia in the Post-Soviet Space: National Identity and Citizenship Regime

10:00-10:45 a.m., Monday, April 20, 2020
Center for Strategic and International Studies
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The event will be webcast live from this page.

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Speaker:
Igor Zevelev, Wilson Center Global Fellow

Jeffrey Mankoff, CSIS Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Description: A lingering tension exists between the borders of the Russian Federation and the mental maps of “Russianness” in the minds of many Russians. Moscow has grappled with the question of how to address the issue of ethnic Russians in neighboring states - who often express their loyalty to Russia - in both domestic and foreign policy since 1992. Starting in 2014, the Russian government started changing Russian citizenship law to allow rapid proliferation of Russian citizenship in neighboring states. Will the new citizenship policy become the major instrument of Russian influence in the region? What will be the consequences of the transnational citizenship regime for Russian national identity?

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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
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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
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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
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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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Immigration Detention, Courts, and COVID-19

12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, May 8, 2020
UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
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Description: Please join us in a conversation with Professor of Law Ingrid V, Eagly regarding how COVID-19 may be affecting migrants in detention

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Latin American Studies Association annual meeting

Wednesday-Saturday, May 13-16, 2020
Guadalajara, Mexico
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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
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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
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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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IOM Summer School on Migration Studies

Monday-Sunday, August 24-29, 2020
Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
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Description: The 12th IOM Prague Summer School on Migration Studies will be held at Charles University in Prague from 24th to 29th August 2020. IOM Prague has organised the Summer School every year since 2009, and more than 600 students and professionals from almost 100 countries have attended these lectures.

The programme is open for university students (both graduate and undergraduate) as well as young professionals. Six days of lectures, workshops and discussions with experts will provide a unique opportunity to get familiar with different migration topics, including integration of migrants, trafficking in human beings, environmental migration, migration and gender, migration and health, migration and development and return migration.

The application deadline is 5th April 2020. For information about the event and how to apply, please visit the programme website.

For the 2020 edition, the programme includes the following topics and experts:

* Dušan Drbohlav, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague - Migration Theories, Myth and Realities
* Fatima Eldiasty, UNHCR Middle East and North Africa Operations - Mixed Migration Flows
* Eric Opoku Ware, Sahara Hustlers Association Ghana - The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa
* Michal Broža, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Prague - A World on the Move-Migration and Current Global Risks
* Robert Stojanov, University Padova (visiting) and Mendel University - Environmental Migration
* Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre Vienna - Migration and Demography
* Michal Vašecka, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts - Integration of Migrants
* Salim Murad, EMMIR – European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations - Migration and Ethnicity
* Petra Ezzeddine, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University - Migration and Gender
* Eva Janská, Geographic Migration Centre - Transnational Migration
* Kristýna Andrlová, UNHCR Prague - Assistance to Asylum Seekers and Refugees
* Irena Fercík Konecná, International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe - Human Trafficking

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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
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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
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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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