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1. (#1) 4/27, Nationwide - CIS discussion with former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions - [New Listing]
2. (#2) 4/29, Nationwide - CIS book discussion, Defend the Border and Save Lives, with former acting ICE Director Tom Homan - [New Listing]
3. (#3) 4/29, Nationwide - Webinar on monitoring migration using social media data - [New Listing]
4. (#4) 4/29, Nationwide - Webinar discussion on Covid-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf - [New Listing]
5. (#5) 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
6. (#6) 5/7, Nationwide - First installment of panel series exploring the stages of the immigrant experience in America - [New Listing]
7. (#7) 5/8, Nationwide - Livestreamed discussion on immigration detention, courts, and COVID-19
8. (#8) 5/13-16, Guadalajara, Mexico - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting - [Still scheduled]
9. (#9) 5/?? (TBA), Nationwide - Seminar on migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the U.S. - [New Listing]
10. (#10) 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
11. (#11) 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies
12 (#12) 8/24-29, Prague - IOM summer school on Migration Studies
13. (#13) 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
14. (#14) 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]

Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions

11:30 a.m. EST, Monday, April 27, 2020
Center for Immigration Studies livestream
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Description: Featuring former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is campaigning to take back the Alabama U.S. Senate seat that he held for 20 years. This timely conversation with one of the nation’s top immigration experts takes place as President Trump contemplates signing a second Presidential Proclamation expanding suspension of certain immigration categories to help the American worker in a time of high unemployment.

During his twenty years in the U.S. Senate, Sessions played a major role in the immigration debate and resulting policy. He provided leadership as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees and as a ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. Sessions has been a constant voice for decades asking, “Who’s Looking Out for the American Worker?”

As attorney general early in the Trump administration, Sessions played a major role shaping immigration policy. His impact on immigration courts can still be felt from his “streamlined hiring plan” to attack the court backlog, and his tighter guidelines for immigration judges.

Stream: Scheduled streams will be live on both Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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

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Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan

11:00 a.m. EST, Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Center for Immigration Studies livestream

Description: A discussion with Tom Homan centered on his new book, Defend the Border and Save Lives. Mr. Homan will speak to the challenges at the border and the partisan politics that contribute to continued illegal immigration, which is not a victimless crime.

Stream: Scheduled streams will be live on both Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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Monitoring Migration Using Social Media Data: An Introduction

9:00-10:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration
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Presenter:
Ingmar Weber, Research Director, Qatar Computing Research Center

Moderator:
Lisa Singh, Research Professor, Massive Data Institute
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown

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Webinar: Covid-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf

3:00-4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The Brookings Institution webinar
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Description: One of the foremost challenges following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the Gulf region is the situation of key migrant workers. Many already live and work in environments not conducive to physical distancing. Meanwhile, the remittance process has become complicated due to lockdowns in both the sending and receiving states.

In response to these issues, government ministries have set up hotlines for workers to report workplace and accommodation violations, as well as guidelines to ensure optimal employer-contractor relations during the pandemic. However, media and NGO reports continue to voice concern and criticism regarding the plight of migrant workers in the Gulf. Questions abound surrounding the repatriation of migrant workers, as well as their accommodation conditions, employment status, and access to adequate food. It is also unclear whether the pandemic will slow down, accelerate, or completely halt labor reforms in the long-term.

The Brookings Doha Center is pleased to invite you to a webinar discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on key migrant workers in the Gulf region. The discussion will address the following questions: What role should international organizations play in advising governments on the pandemic and related labor issues? What have we learned about the interconnectedness of labor policies and public health policies? How will the pandemic change the way labor issues are addressed in the region? And what barriers continue to thwart journalists and other independent monitors trying to find and verify information about the situation on the ground for migrant workers?

Panelists:
Zahra Babar
Associate Director for Research - Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar

Borzou Daragahi
International Correspondent - The Independent

Houtan Homayounpour
Head of the International Labour Organization’s Project Office - State of Qatar

Moderator:
Noha Aboueldahab
Fellow - Foreign Policy, Brookings Doha Center

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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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Once Upon an American Dream: A Panel Series Exploring the Stages of the Immigrant Experience in America: Migration, Arrival, and Integration

4:00-5:00 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2020
Bipartisan Policy Center virtual event
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Description: Our first panel will take place as a virtual happy hour on May 7, 2020, and explores “Why People Migrate and How Are They Received: A Historical Perspective.” Arriving immigrants have traditionally received a great deal of support from other immigrants, as well as from their local communities. How does this support, or lack thereof, shape their experiences and their trajectory for success in America? How does this compare to the experiences of immigrants past?

This panel series explores issues core to the Heurich House Museum’s mission. Christian Heurich’s life embodied a rags-to-riches story where an immigrant’s spirit of creative entrepreneurship yielded success and a family legacy. Yet, the journey to achieve the American Dream comes in many forms and depends on many factors, from gender and race to education and training, opportunity and luck. Grab your favorite cocktail or “mocktail” and join the Heurich House and the Bipartisan Policy Center on Zoom as we dive into these questions. Panelists will be announced in the coming weeks.

This virtual event is free, but suggested donations are appreciated to support both organizations.

Participants:
Alan M. Kraut, Professor of History, American University; Non-Resident Fellow, Migration Policy Institute

Abel Nuñez, Executive Director, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)

Moderator:
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center

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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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Migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the United States: a look from the outside and inside

May 2020, exact date and time forthcoming
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
This seminar will be presented via zoom. Additional information will be provided.
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Speaker:
Rufat Efendiyev
Visiting Scholar, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego; Associate Professor & Chief Researcher, Institute of Economics, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

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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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