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1. (#1) 5/4-Current, Online - This Week in Immigration podcast
2. (#2) 5/13-16, Online - Latin American Studies Association annual meeting
3. (#3) 5/13, Online - Seminar on preserving the economic well-being of immigrants and refugees during COVID-19 - [New Listing]
4. (#4) 5/15, Online - Discussion on EU border closures, asylum, and COVID-19 - [New Listing]
5. (#5) 5/19, Online - Discussion on how ethics and religion shape policy responses to refugees
6. (#6) 5/22, Online - Discussion on remittances during COVID-19 - [New Listing]
7. (#7) 5/26, Online - Discussion on national security, epidemics, and US immigration policy during a pandemic - [New Listing]
8. (#8) 5/28, Online - Discussion on proposed state-based visa programs in the U.S.
9. (#9) 5/29, Online - Discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on international migration - [New Listing]
10. (#10) 6/3, Online - Seminar on migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
11. (#11) 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
12 (#12) 8/24-29, Prague - IOM summer school on Migration Studies
13. (#13) 9/9-11, Tetovo, North Macedonia - The Migration Conference - [New Listing]
14. (#14) 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
15. (#15) 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit - [Rescheduled from 3/13-14]

This Week in Immigration: Episode 67
Bipartisan Policy Institute, May 4, 2020
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Description: In this week’s episode, Host Jordan LaPier and BPC regulars Theresa Cardinal Brown and Cris Ramón discuss the Trump Administration’s 60-day suspension on certain green card categories, as well as President Trump’s statement suggesting that state and local relief funds could be contingent on their sanctuary city policies. The team also has another edition of ‘The Gavel’ where they take a look at the legal happenings of DACA, the Public Charge, and more.

This podcast can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Google Play.

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Latin American Studies Association annual meeting

Wednesday-Saturday, May 13-16, 2020
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Changed to a virtual congress.

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Preserving the Economic Well-being of Immigrants and Refugees During COVID-19

12:00-1:30 p.m. PDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2020
This seminar will be presented via zoom. Registration will be required to receive meeting information.
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Speaker:
Erica Bouris, Director, Economic Empowerment, International Rescue Committee

Registration: [link removed]

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EU Border Closures, Asylum, and COVID-19

1:00-1:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 15, 2020
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, online via Zoom
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Description/Speakers: Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Didier Bigo, Professor of International Relations at King's College London and MCU Research Professor at Sciences-Po Paris, and Elspeth Guild, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary University of London and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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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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
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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

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Remittances during COVID-19

1:00-1:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 22, 2020
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, online via Zoom
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Description/Speakers: Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Dilip Ratha, Lead Economist, Migration and Remittances and Head of KNOMAD at The World Bank.

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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Revisiting "National Security, Epidemics, and US Immigration Policy" During a Pandemic

12:00-1:30 p.m. PDT, Tuesday, May 26, 2020
University of California, San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
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Description: While a CCIS pre-doctoral fellow, Robbie Totten, PhD, wrote an article on historical relationships between security, epidemics and US immigration policy that, by citations and view statistics, was met with a yawn. It began by underscoring how the Obama administration in 2014-15 characterized Ebola as a national security issue, opposed to seeing it as purely a humanitarian concern. This may have seemed a hyperbolic framing by Obama at the time, but it now looks like a prescient characterization, with authorities comparing U.S. responses to the coronavirus as akin to waging a war. Totten's article then reviewed epidemics through history to show how contagions can alter the fates of civilizations, explicated ways that epidemics jeopardize states' national security, and reviewed American immigration policies over the past three hundred years to protect against contagions. After finishing the article, Totten did wonder to what extent the historical findings from centuries ago had
pertinence for a modern world with vaccines and sophisticated medicine, but he now unfortunately has an answer to this musing with COVID-19 spreading and creating havoc across the globe in a few months. In his talk, Totten will revisit his article and how its findings has relevance to coronavirus, international security, and U.S. immigration policy.

Speaker:
Robbie Totten, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, American Jewish University

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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
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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*

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The Impact of COVID-19 on International Migration

1:00-1:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 29, 2020
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, online via Zoom
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Description/Speakers: Alex Aleinikoff is joined by Gregory Maniatis, Director of the International Migration Initiative at the Open Society Foundations.

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

12:00-1:30 p.m. PDT, Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
This seminar will be presented via zoom.
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Speaker:
Rufat Efendiyev, Visiting Scholar, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego; Associate Professor and Chief Researcher, Institute of Economics, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Rufat Efendiyev is currently working on migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the United States at the CCIS, as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Developing his paper on this topic, he will highlight the emigration phases in post-Soviet Azerbaijan, describe the socio-demographic characteristics of Azerbaijani population residing in the U.S. and tell about the In-Depth Interview technique he used with migrants in order to reveal the key drivers, "pull" and "push" factors for Azerbaijani migrants. In general, the study is devoted to deeper understanding of the migratory behavior of Azerbaijanis in the U.S., from the point of view of consideration of various key drivers for immigration and their socio-economic nature. Another equally important aspect of the study to be discussed is an integration aspects in the U.S.

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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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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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The Migration Conference

Tuesday-Thursday, September 9-11, 2020
South East European University
Tetovo, North Macedonia
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Description: On behalf of The Migration Conference Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to submit abstract(s) to the 8th conference in the series which will take place in South East European University campus, Tetovo, North Macedonia from 9 to 11 September 2020. The Conference is a forum for discussion where experts, young researchers and students, practitioners and policy makers working in the field of migration are encouraged to exchange their knowledge and experiences in a friendly and frank environment.

The conference is organised in thematic streams of parallel sessions focusing on migration, migrant populations, diasporas, migration policies, labour migrations, refugees, economic impacts, remittances as well as non-migrants and the wider impact of human mobility on sending, transit and receiving societies. The scientific programme of TMCs usually comprises invited talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, exhibitions and workshops. The conference hosts about 150 parallel sessions and several distinguished keynote speakers joining us in intriguing plenary sessions.

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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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