1. 4/20, Nationwide - Podcast - This Week in Immigration - [New Listing]
2. 4/21, Nationwide - CIS panel discussion America’s post-pandemic labor force - [New Listing]
3. 4/21, Nationwide - Webinar on COVID-19 and refugee camps
4. 4/22, Nationwide - Webcast discussion on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Pandemic - [New Listing]
5. Webinar on pandemic response and executive authority in El Salvador - [New Listing]
6. 4/22-23, Edinburgh, Scotland - Immigration at the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism annual conference
7. 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
8. 5/8, Nationwide - Livestreamed discussion on immigration detention, courts, and COVID-19
9. 5/13-16, Guadalajara, Mexico - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting - [Still scheduled]
10. 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
11. 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies
12 8/24-29, Prague - IOM summer school on Migration Studies
13. 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
14. 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]
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Episode 66: This Week in Immigration
Monday, April 20, 2020
Bipartisan Policy Center podcast
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/podcast-episode/episode-66-this-week-in-immigration/
Description: In this week’s episode, Host Jordan LaPier sits down with BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón to discuss the CDC’s new Title 42 order that allows CBP to expel any migrant arriving at the U.S. border from the United States on public health grounds, the efforts of Northern Triangle countries to limit the arrival of deportations from the United States to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, and way states and cities are providing disaster relief support to their immigrant populations during the economic fallout from the pandemic.
This podcast can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Google Play.
Want to listen to more podcasts focused on immigration? You can find all episodes here.
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America’s Post-Pandemic Labor Force
Do we need millions of foreign workers?
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Center for Immigration Studies virtual panel
https://cis.org/Press-Release/Panel-Americas-PostPandemic-Labor-Force
Description: The Center for Immigration Studies will stream a panel discussion on the need for present levels of foreign workers in the United States at a time of high unemployment. With 20 million layoffs in just one month, and both white collar and blue collar workers being impacted, U.S. visa programs continue to bring in an historic number of workers impacting job opportunities and wages for American workers.
How many foreign workers are employed in the United States? What type of jobs are they filling? How does it impact wages for Americans? Are these jobs Americans won’t do? Is a moratorium on employment-based immigration a good idea?
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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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Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Pandemic: A Conversation with Members of Congress
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Woodrow Wilson Center Mexico Institute
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/webcast-immigration-and-us-mexico-border-during-pandemic-conversation-members-congress?emci=2cc76b3c-1280-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=555eeac4-e280-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=32079
Opening Remarks:
Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center
Speakers:
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX)
Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
Member of the House Homeland Security Committee and Ranking Member of its Oversight, Management, and Accountability Subcommittee
Moderator:
Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy Institute
Description: As the U.S. government has implemented a raft of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, a significant number have been in the immigration arena, touching in particular on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Mexican and U.S. administrations agreed to halt nonessential travel across the border, slowing activity across a closely interconnected and vibrant regional economy. The Trump administration also has taken a number of unprecedented measures, drawing on powers given to the Surgeon General in 1944 to block the entry of foreign nationals deemed possible health risks. As a result, border officials have expelled more than 10,000 unauthorized migrants and asylum seekers through an expedited process and largely ended access to asylum during the crisis.
In a bipartisan discussion organized by the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and the Migration Policy Institute, two border-state members of Congress – Rep. Veronica Escobar of El Paso and Rep. Dan Crenshaw of suburban Houston – will discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak, how it is affecting the border region, and what the future might hold.
RSVP: https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/onlineactions/WxL1W5Z_QkW-H2gEK5_hQA2
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Pandemic Response and Executive Authority – The Case of El Salvador
10:00-11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Inter American Dialogue Online Webinar
https://www.thedialogue.org/events/online-event-pandemic-response-and-executive-authority-the-case-of-el-salvador/
Speakers:
Jose Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director, Americas Division, Human Rights Watch
Carlos Dada, Founder, El Faro
Leonor Arteaga, Senior Program Officer, Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF); Member of the El Salvador National Commission for the Search of Disappeared Persons
Moderator:
Michael Camilleri, Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Description: President Nayib Bukele reacted quickly to the threat of Covid-19, closing El Salvador’s borders and implementing stay-at-home orders. But reports quickly emerged of arbitrary detentions by security forces enforcing Bukele’s quarantine. When the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber ruled against the detentions, Bukele defied the court’s order, and the Salvadoran military remains in the streets enforcing a lockdown in the municipality of La Libertad.
How serious are concerns regarding human rights and the separation of powers in El Salvador, and what are the risks if the constitutional showdown continues? What limits exist on a president’s authority in a time of emergency, and might other countries in the region run a similar risk of executive overreach?
Follow this event on Twitter at #ElSalvadorDDHH and @The_Dialogue.
We invite participants to submit questions using the event hashtag on Twitter OR to email questions to [email protected]. Please RSVP to receive dial-in information.
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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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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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Immigration Detention, Courts, and COVID-19
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, May 8, 2020
UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
https://www.international.ucla.edu/migration/event/14351
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
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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IOM Summer School on Migration Studies
Monday-Sunday, August 24-29, 2020
Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.iom.cz/home/iom-summer-school-on-migration-studies-2020
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
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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