1. 5/26, Online - Discussion on national security, epidemics, and US immigration policy during a pandemic
2. 5/27, Online - Discussion on the Mexican economy and its impact on migration - [New Listing]
3. 5/27, Online - Discussion on engaging the diaspora beyond remittances to meet Africa’s development financing needs - [New Listing]
4. 5/28, Online - Discussion on proposed state-based visa programs in the U.S.
5. 5/29, Online - Discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on international migration
6. 6/1, Online - Discussion on addressing equity concerns for English learner students - [New Listing]
7. 6/3, Online - Seminar on migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
8. 6/8, Online - Discussion on UNHCR's efforts to assist displaced communities during Covid-19 - [New Listing]
9 8/24-29, Prague - IOM summer school on Migration Studies
10. 6/29-7/10, Brussels - 2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
11. 9/9-11, Tetovo, North Macedonia - The Migration Conference
12. 9/24-26, Portland, OR - Crimmigration Control International Network of Studies conference
13. 10/5-6, Ottawa - Annual Canadian immigration summit
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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
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revisiting-national-security-epidemics-and-us-immigration-policy-tickets-104801339628
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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The Mexican Economy and Its Impact on Migration
1:00-2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Center for Strategic and International Studies Americas Program
https://www.csis.org/events/mexican-economy-and-its-impact-migration
Description: Please join the CSIS Americas Program for a discussion on how Mexico's economy, which has taken a devastating hit due to Covid-19, is affecting migration patterns.
Last year, the Mexican economy contracted for the first time in a decade. This contraction was mainly due to a series of government decisions and changes which took the private sector by surprise and depressed domestic and foreign investment. The appearance of Covid-19 has pushed Mexico further and faster down the economic contraction path by impacting its main economic pillars: trade, tourism, and oil. Economic experts fear that Mexico could enter a period of depression with very high unemployment. Coneval estimates that up to 11 million Mexicans could fall into extreme poverty, which would bring the number to approximately 32 million people. Past economic downturns in Mexico (1980s and 1990s) have coincided with an increase in violence and greater migration to the United States.
During this event, our panelists will discuss the potential effects of this economic downturn, particularly in terms of Mexican migration to the United States. They will also discuss Mexico's ability to continue receiving migrants from the Northern Triangle in the midst of their economic downturn.
Speakers:
Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy Institute
Santiago Levy, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
Mariana Campero, Senior Associate (Non-resident), Americas Program
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Beyond Remittances: Engaging the Diaspora to Meet Africa’s Development Financing Needs
2:00-3:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Woodrow Wilson Center Africa Program for a webcast
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/webcast-beyond-remittances-engaging-diaspora-meet-africas-development-financing-needs
Description: According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), African countries must invest USD $600-700 billion annually to meet the development needs of their growing populations. To achieve this investment goal, African governments are increasingly looking to the diaspora, amongst other measures. The African diaspora already contributes enormously to the continent’s economy through remittances: in 2018, Sub-Saharan Africa received an estimated $47 billion in remittances (World Bank)—compared to an estimated $32 billion in foreign direct investment (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development). Looking beyond remittances, the diaspora community also possesses other resources including knowledge, expertise, and networks that could greatly benefit the financial, trade, and technology sectors—and be leveraged for peace—if properly engaged.
Speakers will examine the current role and future opportunities for the diaspora in Africa’s economic development and peacebuilding efforts. Using several country case studies, they will assess the growing diaspora, transitions in thinking about the diaspora and its role, lessons learned from countries that have developed diaspora engagement strategies, and the potential and opportunities for fostering economic development and sustainable peace through more robust diaspora engagement. They will also offer concrete policy recommendations for African governments, stakeholders, and international partners to better engage with and leverage the diaspora to help meet Africa’s development and peacebuilding needs.
Speakers:
Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Richmond Commodore, Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar;
Policy Analyst, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana.
Sonia Plaza, Senior Economist, Co-chair Remittances and Diaspora KNOMAD, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, Africa (East), World Bank
Moderator:
Monde Muyangwa, Africa Program Director
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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
John Hostettler, Former Representative, 8th District of Indiana; VP of Federal Affairs-States Trust, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Ann Morse, Program Director of the Immigration Policy Project, National Conference of State Legislatures
Moderator:
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
Register: http://bpcevents.cloudapp.net/Pages/Home.aspx
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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
https://event.newschool.edu/st-maniatis
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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Addressing Equity Concerns for English Learner Students: Where Do Native Language Assessments Fit In?
2:00 p.m. ET, Monday, June 1, 2020
MPI Webinar
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/addressing-equity-concerns-english-learner-students-where-do-native-language-assessments-fit
Description: While much of the world’s focus is on disruptions due to COVID-19, conversations about equity in education policy have never been more timely. With major budget cuts inevitable post-pandemic and school accountability systems disrupted, states may find it difficult to develop or sustain important supports for English Learners (ELs). One such support is allowing ELs to take annual state standardized tests in their native language.
Federal law requires ELs to be included in annual state academic achievement tests and to be given accommodations to ensure that test scores accurately reflect what students know and can do in reading, math, and other subjects. The law also encourages—but does not require—states to offer native language assessments as one type of accommodation. Research shows that such assessments, given to ELs at beginning levels of English proficiency and/or who had instruction in their native language, are effective in improving test scores.
However, only 31 states offer native language assessments, and those that do typically only offer them in Spanish and for math. Further, little research or guidance exists to help states figure out to whom the assessments should be given, and in which languages, grades, and subjects. In the last few years, advocates in several states, including California, Florida, and Illinois, have sought to expand the role of native language assessments as part of their accountability systems, seeing them as critical to ensuring policymakers, practitioners, and the public have accurate information about ELs’ academic achievement.
This webchat marks the release of a new MPI report on native language assessments, and will offer participants an introduction to the key policy and practical considerations in their implementation. The panelists will also discuss how the likely pivot to computer-based learning—accelerated by the pandemic—could affect decisionmaking.
Speakers:
Delia Pompa, Senior Fellow for Education Policy, MPI
Julie Sugarman, Senior Policy Analyst for PreK-12 Education, MPI
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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.
https://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/Seminars.html
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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Online Event: Humanitarian Operations During Covid-19: A Conversation with Kelly T. Clements of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
9:30-10:15 a.m., Monday, June 8, 2020
Center for Strategic and International Studies
https://www.csis.org/events/online-event-humanitarian-operations-during-covid-19-conversation-kelly-t-clements-un-high
Description: The spread of Covid-19 continues to dominate global attention. Governments are primarily focusing efforts on the domestic response to the virus. With 168 million people in need of humanitarian assistance globally, including 70 million forcibly displaced, understanding how the pandemic will impact the most vulnerable is vital to implementing an effective response. In this talk series, the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda will speak with leadership across humanitarian institutions about the challenges their organizations face during Covid-19. Our featured guests will give their insights on how the pandemic is changing the humanitarian landscape and the impact it has on the delivery of lifesaving assistance now and in the near future. This discussion will focus on the particular challenges faced by displaced communities and how UNHCR is adapting to meet the evolving challenges.
Speakers:
Kelly T. Clements, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
Jacob Kurtzer, Interim Director and Senior Fellow, Humanitarian Agenda
Erol Yayboke, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Project on Prosperity and Development, Project on U.S. Leadership in Development
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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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2020 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
Monday, August 24-Friday, September 4, 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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The Migration Conference
Tuesday-Thursday, September 9-11, 2020
South East European University
Tetovo, North Macedonia
https://www.migrationconference.net/
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
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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