1. 5/6, Online - CIS at online debate on the necessity of tightening restrictions on immigration - [New Listing]
2. 5/6, Online - Discussion on immigrant detention in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and the COVID-19 pandemic - [New Listing]
3. 5/6-8, DC - Certificate program course on immigration policy
4. 5/7, Nationwide - First installment of panel series exploring the stages of the immigrant experience in America - [New Listing]
5. 5/7, Online - Discussion on technology, borderlands, and the future of U.S.-Mexico Ties - [New Listing]
6. 5/8, Online - Discussion on immigration detention, courts, and COVID-19
7. 5/13-16, Online - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting
8. 5/19, Online - Discussion on how ethics and religion shape policy responses to refugees - [New Listing]
9. 5/28, Online - Discussion on proposed state-based visa programs in the U.S. - [New Listing]
10. 5/xx (TBA), Online - Seminar on migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
11. 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
12. 7/27-31, DC - Certificate program course on global displacement and migration studies - [CANCELED]
13 8/24-29, Prague - IOM summer school on Migration Studies
14. 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
15. 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]
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Time to Finally Build That Wall?
6:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Soho Forum online debate
https://www.thesohoforum.org/
Resolution: The current pandemic makes it all the more necessary for the federal government to tighten restrictions on immigration.
Speakers:
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies and author of The New Case Against Immigration.
Mark Krikorian will defend the debate resolution: The current pandemic makes it all the more necessary for the federal government to tighten restrictions on immigration.
Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the author of the graphic book, Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. Bryan Caplan will oppose the resolution.
Description: The debate will be live-streamed via Zoom to a limited audience, who will be able to write in questions during the debate that might be used during the Q&A segment. To watch the live-stream, you can either donate $10 to the Reason Foundation and join the Soho Forum Inner Circle Facebook group, where you will gain access to this and all of our future online debates, or purchase a one-time $5 ticket. Links to both of these options could be found at the end of this email.
Those who don't watch the debate on live-stream will be able to access it on video and audio issued by Reason on Friday, May 8.
Everyone will be given the opportunity to participate in Oxford-style before-and-after voting. The resolution has been placed at sohovote.com, and we invite you to cast your initial vote. Please note that you will need to vote both before and after the debate for your vote to count in the final tally, and you need to vote with the same device both times.
Cast your initial vote now at sohovote.com.
Once the live debate is over, the initial vote will be closed, and the voting app will start accepting final votes from those who have participated in the live-stream. The final vote will be held open until Tuesday, May 12, at 12:00 PM ET, so that those interested get a chance to watch or listen to the debate and then cast their final vote. Only then will the winner be announced.
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Immigrant Detention in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
2:30-4:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Center for Migration Studies, New York
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YDTi3U0ySHu-ob34kVYlIw
Speakers:
Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of the Center for Migration Studies (CMS);
Hiroko Kusuda, Clinic Professor and Director of the Immigration Law Section of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law;
Amelia S. McGowan, the Immigration Campaign Director of the Mississippi Center for Justice, and an Adjunct Professor at the Mississippi College School of Law Immigration Clinic; and
Mark Dow, the author of American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons, the definitive study on the US detention system.
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading throughout the US immigrant detention system and beyond. This webinar will cover the conditions in immigrant detention facilities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; litigation that seeks the release of different populations of detainees; alternatives to detention; and the troubled history of detention in the region. Speakers include:
The event is sponsored by CMS, the Loyola University of New Orleans College of Law, the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, and the Mississippi Center for Justice. This webinar is free and open to students, researchers, and practitioners of all disciplines. Advance registration is required.
Register at link above.
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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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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
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/event/once-upon-an-american-dream/
Moderator:
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
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)
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/once-upon-an-american-dream-tickets-101917927264
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Webcast - Technology, Borderlands, and the Future of U.S.-Mexico Ties
4:00-5:00 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2020
Woodrow Wilson Center, Mexico Institute
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/technology-borderlands-and-future-us-mexico-ties
Speakers:
Alexandra Haas, Human Rights Lawyer and Visiting Researcher, Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE); Former President of Conapred, Mexico’s Federal Anti-Discrimination Commission
Andrés Martinez, Editorial Director, Future Tense
Carlos Bravo Regidor, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Journalism Program, CIDE; Political Columnist, Reforma and Expansión Política
Description: It's hard to overstate the interdependence of the United States and Mexico, whether you look at economics, culture, security, or demographics. In recent years the relationship has become even more politicized in the US, with media outlets and political leaders scapegoating our southern border, Mexico, and Mexicans for all sorts of problems, real and imagined. And yet, in a post COVID-19 world, the two countries will need to work together more closely than ever, on public health, on securing North American supply chains, on managing migratory flows, and many other fronts.
Join Future Tense and the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute Thursday, May 7 for less than an hour at 4:00 pm EDT to consider the future of the relationship amidst the pandemic fallout with two of Mexico City's most creative thinkers on US-Mexico ties.
The webcast will be available at this link. https://newamerica.zoom.us/webinar/register/2215871475598/WN_U8z-fMAaSly4TP5iFBuwQQ
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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
https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2020/
Changed to a virtual congress.
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Webinar - Humanity in Crisis: How Ethics and Religion Shape Policy Responses to Refugees
12:00-1:30 p.m. ET, Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/humanity-in-crisis#rsvp
Description: In his newly released book, Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees, Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., examines the scope of our responsibilities and considers practical solutions to the global refugee crisis. Drawing on the values that have shaped major humanitarian initiatives over the past century and a half, as well as the values of diverse religious traditions, including Catholicism, he uncovers key moral issues for both policymakers and for practitioners working in humanitarian agencies and faith communities.
In this book launch event, Hollenbach will engage with key policymakers and ethicists who will evaluate his proposed ethical imperatives and how these principles can be reflected in policy. Respondents T. Alexander Aleinikoff, former United Nations deputy high commissioner for refugees (moderator); Anne Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration; and Clemens Sedmak, professor of social ethics at University of Notre Dame, will reflect on Hollenbach’s book and consider what specific policies look like when they are consistent with ethical values. Panelists will also offer their perspectives on U.S. refugee and immigration policy actively being developed, including policy platforms of 2020 presidential candidates, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the refugee crisis.
Participants:
Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J.
Anne Richard, former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration
Clemens Sedmak, Professor of social ethics at University of Notre Dame
Moderator:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
RSVP at link above.
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Immigration at the State Level: An Examination of Proposed State-Based Visa Programs in the U.S.
10:00-11:30 a.m. ET, Thursday, May 28, 2020
Bipartisan Policy Center webinar
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/event/immigration-at-the-state-level-an-examination-of-proposed-state-based-visa-programs-in-the-u-s/
Description: The federal government has sole authority to admit immigrants, determine how many immigrants to admit, and create criteria for admission. However, immigrants live and work in states and localities which are, in turn, responsible for many aspects of everyday life for themselves and their communities. Some states feel that they do not have the workers they need or cannot recruit enough foreign workers under the current legal immigration system to support their local economy. In response, states, think tanks, and members of Congress have proposed guest worker programs that would allow them to recruit and hire additional workers. As the United States grapples with federal immigration reform, the Bipartisan Policy Center asks, should states lead on immigration?
In partnership with Michele Waslin, Ph.D., from George Mason University, join the Bipartisan Policy Center as it releases its latest report on proposed state-based visa programs. This event will be an informal webinar, with the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation.
Participants:
Michele Waslin, Report Author; Program Coordinator, Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University
Moderator:
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
*Additional panelists to be announced*
Register: http://bpcevents.cloudapp.net/Pages/Home.aspx
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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.
https://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/Seminars.html
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
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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