1. 8/28, Nationwide - MPI webinar on serving immigrant populations through home visitation programs
2. 8/29, DC - Discussion of new report on irregular migration
3. 8/29-9/1, DC - Immigration at the American Political Science Association annual meeting
4. 9/4-20, DC - Certificate program online course on refugees and displaced persons
5. 9/9, New York, NY - Senate field hearing on the post-9/11 state of homeland security - [New Listing]
6. 9/10, DC - Book discussion: A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
7. 9/11, DC - Discussion of new World Bank report on leveraging economic migration for development
8. 9/12-13, Neuchâtel, Switzerland - Conference on migration and mobility studies
9. 9/19-20, Toledo, OH - Annual international human trafficking and social justice conference
10. 9/20, Cambridge, MA - Seminar on the impact of migration on the E.U. and democracy
11. 9/25, Princeton, NJ - Lecture and book discussion on Japan's restrictive immigration policy
12. 9/26, DC - CIS Immigration Newsmaker series with USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli - [New Listing]
13. 9/26-27, Trier, Germany - Annual conference on EU Border management 2019
14. 10/8, DC - Annual immigration law and policy conference
15. 10/7-12-7, DC - Certificate program online course on global trends in international migration
16. 10/10-11, Zagreb, Croatia - Conference on diaspora and homeland
17. 10/17, New York, NY - Symposium on forced migration, protection, and border control
18. 10/17-18, Trier, Germany - Annual conference on European asylum and migration Law 2019 - [New Listing]
19. 10/17-18, Florence, Italy - Workshop on cities and the global governance of migration
20. 10/24, Cambridge, MA - Seminar on the 20th century Jewish diaspora in Paris and Berlin - [New Listing]
21. 11/14, San Diego - Book panel: Migration Control
22. 11/20-22, DC - 2019 Homeland Security Week conference
23. 12/4-6, San Antonio - Border Management South conference - [New Listing]
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Effectively Serving Immigrant and Dual Language Learner Families through Home Visiting Programs
1:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, August 28, 2019
MPI Webinar
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/effectively-serving-immigrant-and-dual-language-learner-families-through-home-visiting
Description: Home visiting, a two-generation program model that serves young children alongside parents and caretakers to promote their healthy physical, socioemotional, and cognitive development, has the potential to promote improved outcomes for children and families alike.
Young children of immigrants and Dual Language Learners (DLLs), who make up one in four and nearly one in three young children in the United States, respectively, are important targets for home visiting programs as they are disproportionately more likely to face risk factors such as poverty and low parental education levels.
Join this webinar marking the release of a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) policy brief that explores program and policy opportunities to improve home visiting services for immigrant and DLL families currently underparticipating in these programs due to a lack of culturally and linguistically responsive programming and other barriers. Speakers will provide an overview of the home visiting services landscape in the United States and discuss promising strategies to build effective partnerships with immigrant parents to support their young children’s school readiness and success. Speakers will also discuss opportunities for states to expand the participation of immigrant and DLL families in home visiting services.
Speakers:
Jamie Colvard, Senior Technical Assistance Specialist, Zero to Three
Pamela Williams, Washington State Program Director, ParentChild+
Moderator:
Maki Park, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI
Register: http://my.migrationpolicy.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=89252
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Out of the Shadows: Shining a Light on Irregular Migration
Launch Event for a New Report on Irregular Migration
3:00-4:30 p.m., Thursday, August 29, 2019
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
https://www.csis.org/events/out-shadows-shining-light-irregular-migration
Description: Millions of people around the world live in and travel through the shadows. Compelled to leave home, they migrate irregularly without proper documentation to gain access to jobs, education, healthcare, food, and other essential services. Irregular migration exists because there are not enough opportunities for safety and prosperity at home and too few conventional means through which to remedy that lack of opportunity. Recognizing the critical, understudied, and often misunderstood nature of this global phenomenon, CSIS produced a research study on irregular migration involving field research in Mexico, Eritrea, and Ghana. This report, which builds on CSIS’ past work on the global forced migration crisis, aims to shine a light on irregular migration and contribute to an enormously consequential conversation.
Please join us for an event to launch CSIS’s new report Out of the Shadows: Shining a Light on Irregular Migration.
Speakers:
Brian Kelly, Regional Emergency & Post Crisis Advisor, Asia-Pacific, International Organization of Migration
Ky Luu, Director, Institute for Disaster and Fragility Resilience, George Washington University
Cindy Huang, Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development
Erol Yayboke, CSIS Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Project on Prosperity and Development, Project on U.S. Leadership in Development
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115th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Thursday, August 29–Sunday, September 1, 2019
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington Hilton
Washington, DC
https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2019/
Immigration-related sessions:
Thursday, August 29, 2019
8:00-9:30 a.m.
The Political Geography of Immigration Attitudes and Populist Voting
Individual Presentations
The Psychology of Populist Voting: Race and Immigration in the 2016 US Election
Yalidy M. Matos, Rutgers University
Why Are Ethnically-Diverse Big City Neighborhoods so Pro-Immigration?
Rahsaan Maxwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fight or Flight: Contested Communities in an Age of Immigration
Yamil Velez, George Washington University
Governing Migration in Asia
Individual Presentations
Are Strict Rules a Deterrent? Political Restrictions and Migration in China
Elise Pizzi, University of Iowa; Yue Hu, Tsinghua University
Care Citizenship: Migrant Care Worker Policies in Taiwan and South Korea
Yi-Chun Chien, National Chengchi University
Governing Migration and Migrant Labor in Malaysia
Oanh Kim Nguyen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Selective Migration Policies with Chinese Characteristics
Rey Koslowski, SUNY, University at Albany; Sheng Ding, Bloomsburg University
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Human Rights, Borders, and Migration: New Normative Directions
Individual Presentations
Democracy, Borders, and Authoritarian Closures
Julie Mostov, New York University
Connecting Human Rights and Migration Rights: Economic and Climate Refugees
Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University
Bordering Practices: Statelessness, Nationality, and Rohingya Rites of Return
Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi, New York University
Religion and Immigration: Perspectives across Sub-Fields
Individual Presentations
A Religious Melting Pot? How Religiosity Influences Immigration Opinions
Angela Farizo McCarthy
Re-examining the Relationship Between Religion and Anti-immigration Attitude
Liang Jiang, Jinan University; Yu Tao, The University of Western Australia
Religiosity and Public Opinion: Faith, Race, and Immigration
Brandon Rudolph Davis, Brown University
Religiosity, Immigration, and the Welfare State: Social Policy in Western Europe
Kathryn Schauer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Migrant Rights: Practices at the Local, National, and Multilateral Levels
Individual Presentations
Migrant Rights through Children’s Access to Citizenship
Jeannette Money, University of California, Davis; Shaina Western, University of Oxford
Assessing Legal Mechanisms to Protect Migrants via the Migrant Worker Database
Anna Katherine Boucher, University of Sydney
Migrant Rights Database
Justin Gest, George Mason University; Tom K. Wong, University of California, San Diego
Judicial Protections of Migrant Rights: The Case of Australia
Rhonda L. Evans, University of Texas, Austin
The Global Governance of Migration: Competing Theories, Comparing Regions
Individual Presentations
Tacit Compliance: State Sovereignty and the UNHCR's Authority
Yehonatan Abramson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Challenge of Global Migration Governance: A Rationalist Approach
James F. Hollifield, Southern Methodist University; Hiroki Takeuchi, Southern Methodist University
Authoritarianism and the Drivers of Migration Governance in the Middle East
Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Public Opinion on Immigration
Individual Presentations
Authoritarianism and Support for Migrant Children Maltreatment in the US
Adriano Udani, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Sanctuary or Noncooperation? Framing Effects on Immigration Policy
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California Riverside; Jennifer L. Merolla, University of California, Riverside; Chris S. Haynes, University of New Haven
The Political Consequences of Family Separation among Immigrants in the U.S.
Julie Lee Merseth, Northwestern University
The Impact of Transnational Partisanship on Immigrant Engagement in US Politics
James A. McCann, Purdue University
Breaking News Panel: Immigration and the Realignment of European Politics
Presenters:
Sara B Hobolt London School of Economics
Rahsaan Maxwell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimberly J. Morgan George Washington University
Vivien A. Schmidt Boston University
Attitudes and Migrants
Individual Presentations:
Framing Integration: Understanding Attitudes toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Burcu Pinar Alakoc, Webster University; Gulay Ugur Goksel, Istanbul Bilgi University; Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago
Messaging and Immigration Attitudes: (How) Can They be Improved?
David H. Bearce, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ken Stallman, Rice University
Individual Attitudes toward Migrants: How to Define Citizenship
Yu Jin Woo, Waseda University
Moving Citizens: Effects of Migration on Language and Identity in West Africa
Ericka Albaugh, Bowdoin College
1:30-2:00 p.m.
Poster Session: International Security III
In Event: Poster Session: International Security III & Migration and Citizenship
Individual Presentations
Signaling Capacity and Crisis Bargaining in Northeast Asia
Spencer D. Bakich, Virginia Military Institute
Rebel Fragmentation and Peace Agreement Amnesties
Matthew Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
Regime Type, Leadership, and PMSC Employment in Civil Wars and Weak States
Benjamin Tkach, Mississippi State University
Repression and the Realignment of Rebel Movements
David Bowden, University of Pennsylvania
Poster Session: Migration and Citizenship
In Event: Poster Session: International Security III & Migration and Citizenship
Individual Presentations
Are Non-Majoritarian Institutions the Life Buoys of Migrant Rights?
Eiko Thielemann, London School of Economics; Natascha Zaun, London School of Economics and Political Science
Are Walls Just for Show? Examining Whether Border Barriers Affect Refugee flows
Justin Schon, University of Florida; David Leblang, University of Virginia
Gender, Bureaucracy, and the Political Efficacy of African Immigrants in Spain
Andrea Pena-Vasquez, University of Notre Dame
Location and Discrimination: Politics of Second-generation Migrants in Europe
Julius Lagodny
Disrupting Barriers: Automation, Migration, and Trade
Eric Stein
Explaining Differences between Ethnic Groups in Trust in Police
Cecil Meeusen, University of Leuven
Returnees in Post-conflict Cabinets - Elite Perceptions in Liberia
Anna Ida Rachel Rock, Uppsala University
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Citizenship beyond Nationality: Immigrant Voting Rights across the World
Session Description: This session brings together contributors to reflect on the research agenda of comparative immigrant citizenship and political integration policies with special focus on the extension of voting rights to resident immigrants, in critical dialogue with the book Citizenship beyond Nationality: Immigrant Voting Rights across the World, by Luicy Pedroza (U Penn Press, 2019). The main topic of this book is immigrants who have settled in democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizens—working, paying taxes, making social contributions, and attending schools—yet lack the status, gained either through birthright or naturalization, that would give them full electoral rights. Referring to this population as denizens, Pedroza asks what happens to the idea of democracy when a substantial part of the resident population is unable to vote, and further aims to understand how societies justify giving or denying electoral rights to denizens.
To investigate this question, Pedroza undertakes a comparative examination of the processes by which denizen enfranchisement reforms occur in democracies around the world in order to understand why and in what ways they differ. The first part of the book surveys a wide variety of reforms, demonstrating that they occur across polities that have diverse naturalization rules and proportions of denizens. The second part explores denizen enfranchisement reforms as a matter of politics, focusing on the ways in which proposals for reform were introduced, debated, decided, and reintroduced in two important cases: Germany and Portugal. Further comparing Germany and Portugal to long familiar cases, she reveals how denizen enfranchisement processes come to have a limited scope, or to even fail, and yet reignite. In the final part, Pedroza connects her theoretical and empirical arguments to larger debates on citizenship and migration. Citizenship beyond Nationality argues that the success and type of denizen enfranchisement reforms rely on how the matter is debated on by key political actors and demonstrates that, when framed in ambitious and inclusive terms, these deliberations have the potential to redefine democratic citizenship not only as a status but as a matter of politics and policy.
In the session, the panellists will bring expertise from different backgrounds and engage with the questions addressed in the book and the larger research agenda in which it is inserted. If political membership is but one aspect of citizenship, to what extent can we say that nationality has been overcome by reforms that enfranchised non-naturalized immigrants? What is the take of alternative theories of citizenship (e.g. citizenship as practice, critical citizenship studies) on this phenomenon? How far have voting rights helped to erase or redraw the dividing lines between “us” and “them” set by nationality laws and regulations? How far can the debates on denizen enfranchisement reconstitute “stories of peoplehood” (as defined by Rogers Smith) in different polities? If it is true that citizenship rights are increasingly won beyond the boundaries of nationality by virtue of more democratic criteria like residence, what can be said we say about the moral accounting of immigration policies, which imply that immigrants face decidedly unequal access to both entry and residence? These questions will serve as the springboard for brainstorming promising directions in the field of comparative citizenship studies.
The Political, Economic and Social Ramifications of Immigration
Individual Presentations
Fiscal Impacts of Immigration in the EU: Does Reality Shape Perception?
Yvonni Markaki, University of Oxford; Scott Blinder, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Immigration in Europe and Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Preferences
Zoila Ponce de Leon, Washington & Lee University; Gabriele Magni, Princeton University
How Immigrant Origin Politicians Shape Constituent-Legislator Communication
Alex Street, Carroll College
Immigrant Diversity, Public Attitudes, and Integration
Dalston G. Ward, ETH Zurich
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Pragmatic Measure of Immigrant Integration
Session Description: The Immigration Policy Lab of Stanford and ETH-Zurich recently published a proposed measure for immigrant integration in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is now available at http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/45/11483.full.pdf. The premise of the paper was that the plethora of academic and government evaluations of immigrant integration lacked a common metric to compare results of policies and environments on immigration success. The goal of the paper was to create a valid but pragmatic measure that could serve as a component of any survey conducted on immigrant populations. The authors therefore seek disciplinary “buy-in” of the measure they created. David Laitin, a co-author of the study and co-director of Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab will serve as chair.
Friday, August 30, 2019
8:00-9:30 a.m.
After Exile: Refugee Return and the Politics of Displacement
Individual Presentations
From Expansion to Fragmentation: Aid and Activism among Syrian Refugees - Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern University
Dynamics of Refugee Return: Theory & Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Daniel Masterson, Stanford University; Ala Alrababah, Stanford University; Jeremy M. Weinstein, Stanford University; Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics; Marine Casalis, Immigration Policy Lab - ETH Zurich
Institutions & the Emergence of Conflict After Civil War: Evidence from Burundi
Stephanie Schwartz, University of Southern California
Beyond, Within and Across States: Considerations on Immigration and Migration
Individual Presentations
Non-State Actors & Normative Change: Refugee Protection Beyond the State
Kiran Banerjee, University of Toronto
Open Borders, Sovereignty, and Travelers
Ugur Altundal, Syracuse University
Can Liberal States Treat Political and Economic Refugees Alike?
Fumio Iida, Kobe University
Citizenship and Responsibility for the Past: The Spanish Sephardim and Moriscos
Michael R. James, Bucknell University
The Politics of Migrant Reception in the Global South
Session Description: Despite that the Global South is host to more than half of all migrants and 86% of refugees according to the IOM, most scholarship on migrant reception focuses on the Global North. In particular, many less developed and middle-income countries of the Global South have transitioned from being primarily migrant-sending to primarily migrant-receiving countries, or they experience both phenomena on a large scale simultaneously. During these transitions, the political framing of migration often changes, as do the key actors pushing for specific migration agendas and policies. Institutions and norms may evolve based on the new migration context, or they may remain ‘sticky’, providing leverage for domestic or international political actors to constrain the government’s potential actions toward new migrants. This roundtable panel will engage experts on different countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and MENA in conversation and comparison to identify common patterns within migration host states in the Global South, and draw distinctions from the experience of migrant reception in the Global North. Loren Landau will discuss South Africa, while Lahra Smith will analyze the Horn of Africa, particularly Ethiopia. Kelsey Norman will examine the case of Morocco within the broader context of the Middle East and North Africa. Fiona Adamson will focus on Turkey, the largest recipient of refugees in the world, while Tazreena Sajjad will reflect on Bangladesh, which is on the front lines of the displacement of Rohingya refugees. Jeff Pugh will discuss Ecuador, which has for the past two decades been the largest recipient of refugees in the Americas while simultaneously sending 10% of its population to Europe and elsewhere, while Consuelo Sanchez will examine Colombia, long a site of displacement that has now become host to the largest population of displaced Venezuelans fleeing the crisis in their country. The comparative discussion of these cases will yield insights that are more broadly generalizable to receiving countries in the Global South. In particular, the role of informal actors and weak state governance, the importance of networks, reciprocal solidarity appeals, and the central role of identity in the construction of security will be discussed and debated. The roundtable will incorporate a focus on the framing of migration in the era of an emerging global migration governance regime driven by the global compacts, externalization, and securitization. How do norms, institutions, and political practices evolve (or not) when migration flows shift and evolve in the Global South? What is the strength of normative and institutional continuity during these transitions, and how are issues framed in ways that attempt to influence the policy agenda either to maintain continuity or to promote change in the new migration context? How do shifting population flows interact with nationalist and populist forces within society to renegotiate the boundaries of belonging and national identity? Finally, the roundtable will re-center the migration discussion away from its Eurocentric and U.S.-focused tendencies to provide a platform for discussing migration reception in the geographies where it occurs most often.
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Author Meets Critics: Sarah Song's Immigration and Democracy
This panel brings together political theorists who work on questions of citizenship, migration, and democracy to discuss Sarah Song’s new book, Immigration and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue?
Some contend that borders should generally be open and people should be free to migrate in search of better lives. Others insist that governments have the right to unilaterally close their borders and should do so. In Immigration and Democracy, Song develops an intermediate ethical position that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. She argues that political membership is morally significant, even if morally arbitrary. Political membership grounds particular rights and obligations, and a government may show some partiality toward the interests of its members. Yet, we also have universal obligations to those outside our orders. Where prospective migrants have urgent reasons to move, as in the case of refugees, their interests may trump the less weighty interests of members. What is required is not open or closed borders but controlled borders and open doors.
Balancing the values of collective self-determination for political communities and justice for migrants, the book explores hard issues about admitting refugees and family members, as well as temporary and permanent migrants, and about the treatment owed to unauthorized migrants who live in liberal democratic countries. The book offers an accessible normative framework that clarifies and deepens the ideas with which members of democratic societies can debate immigration.
The panel will be chaired by Clarissa Rile Hayward, Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on theories of power, democratic theory, theories of identity, and American urban politics. Her most recent book, How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces (Cambridge, 2013), was co-winner of the American Political Science Association's prize for the Best Book in Urban Politics. Hayward is also author of De-Facing Power (Cambridge, 2000) and co-editor (with Todd Swanstrom) of Justice and the American Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). She is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled This is What Democracy Looks Like!
The panel of critics will include:
Elizabeth Cohen, Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, is the author of three books on citizenship: Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics (Cambridge UP, 2009); The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice (Cambridge UP 2018); Citizenship (with Cyril Ghosh, Polity Press, 2019) and one forthcoming book on US immigration enforcement: Illegal: America’s Lawless Immigration Regime and How it Hurts Us All (Basic Books, 2019). She is co-president of APSA’s organized section on Migration and Citizenship and in 2019 will become associate editor of the American Journal of Political Science, responsible for political theory content.
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College, works at the intersection of democratic theory and the history of political thought. She is interested in questions about popular sovereignty and borders. She is the author of The Time of Popular Sovereignty, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Populism and is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Just Borders: Peoples, Territories and the Rights of Place.
David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton, has written widely on issues of citizenship, democracy ad migration in journals such as Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory and as a contributor to volumes such as Shachar et al. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (OUP 2016) and Baubock (ed) Democratic Inclusion (MUP 2017). He is a co-author of Prospects for Citizenship (Bloomsbury 2011) among other books.
Caleb Yong, currently a JD candidate at Yale Law School, received his DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. He works in legal and political theory, with a focus on immigration law and policy. His scholarship has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, and Res Publica.
The author, Sarah Song, is professor of law and political science at UC Berkeley. Her first book, Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge, 2007), was co-winner of the 2008 Ralph Bunche Award.
The Policy and Politics of Forced Migration in the Americas
Individual Presentations
The Construction of Immigration Systems in Latin America?
Andew Dan Selee, Migration Policy Institute
Transnational Uprootings: Criminal Governance and Displacement in Michoacán
Andreas E. Feldmann, University of Illinois at Chicago; Xóchitl Bada, University of Illinois at Chicago
Confinement in Motion
Martha Balaguera, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shifts in Displacement Dynamics in the Americas
Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli, Washington Office on Latin America
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Governing Immigration and Multiculturalism
Individual Presentations
Comparative Politics of Circumcision Bans in Western Europe
Sener Akturk, Koç University
How Exposure to Asylum Seekers Affects Elite Preferences on Refugee Intake
Ilona Erzsébet Lahdelma, University of Oxford
We Want What They Get: Populism, Taxes, & Aid in Syrian Refugee Host Countries
Anne Marie Baylouny, Naval Postgraduate School
Autocratic Immigration Policymaking: The ‘Illiberal Paradox’ Hypothesis
Katharina Natter, University of Amsterdam
The Political Economy of Migration and Finance
Individual Presentations
Financing Development at Home: A Survey Experiment on Diaspora Members
Lindsay R. Dolan, Wesleyan University; Alexandra Olivia Zeitz, University of Oxford
Into the Woods: Migration and the Bretton Woods Institutions
Adrian J. Shin, University of Colorado, Boulder; Merih Angin, Koç University; Albana Shehaj, Harvard University
Migration and Cross-border Banking: The Missing Link?
Alexandra Olivia Zeitz, University of Oxford; David Leblang, University of Virginia
Shirking Hard or Hardly Shirking: Personal Finances and US Immigration Policy
Caleb Ziolkowski, UCLA
International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century
Individual Presentations
Migration Processes and Types of Migratory Flows
Melanie Kolbe, The Graduate School of International and Development Studies
National Migration Governance: Trafficking, Smuggling, & State Enforcement
Sarah P. Lockhart, Fordham University
Immigrant Incorporation: The Remaining Puzzles
Terri E. Givens, Independent; Ayca Arkilic, Victoria University of Wellington
Mighty Dragon or Paper Tiger: Populist Discourse on Migrations in Croatia
Goranka Lalic Novak, Faculty of Law, University in Zagreb; Teo Giljevic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law; Romea Manojlovic Toman, Faculy of Law, University of Zagreb
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Immigration, Populism, and Democratic Representation in Japan
Individual Presentations
When Do Voters Support Stronger Constitutional Protections for Immigrants?
Kenneth Mori McElwain, University of Tokyo; Christian Winkler, Seinan Gakuin University; Shusei Eshima, Harvard University; Ai Takahashi
Do Voters Punish the Government for Increasing Immigration? A Survey Experiment
Taka-aki Asano, The University of Tokyo; Michael Strausz, Texas Christian University; Katie Nissen, Texas Christian University
Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Individual Presentations
Circles of Solidarity: Redistribution and the National Contexts of Diversity
Alon Yakter, Tel Aviv University
Culturally Dissimilar Immigration, Competition, and Support for Redistribution
Gerda Hooijer, University of Oxford
Inequality, Ethnic Diversity, and Redistribution
William Roberts Clark, Texas A&M University; Keigo Tanabe, Texas A&M University
Evolution of Electoral Competition on the Left-Right Dimension
Zuheir Desai
Citizenship in the Peripheries: Identities in SE Asia
Individual Presentations
Ethnic and Sub-Ethnic Nationalist Mobilization of Ethnic Citizens in Myanmar
Alexandre Pelletier, Cornell University
Khmer Expansion into Jarai and Tumpuon Communities in Borderland Cambodia
Erin Lin, Ohio State University
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Rakhine Regionalism, and Burmese Nationalism
Hyo-Won Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Homogenizing Ethnicity and Diversifying Nationalism: Taiwan's North-South Divide
Chun-Ying Wu
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Immigration and Politics
National Attachment in the Nation of Immigrants: Race and Immigration Attitudes
Joe Roberto Tafoya, The University of Texas at Austin; Alvaro Jose Corral, The College of Wooster; David L. Leal, University of Texas at Austin
Progressive Citizenship? Contrasts in State Rights for Blacks and Immigrants
Allan Colbern, Arizona State University; Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California Riverside
Racialized Immigrants: Analyzing the Persistent Participation Gap
Stephanie Chan, Princeton University
The Political Geography of Wage Inequality and Public Opinion Toward Latinos
Raul Madrid, Occidental College; Dong-Wook Lee, Claremont Graduate University
Saturday, August 31, 2019
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Migration and the Wall
Individual Presentations
Fantasies of Exit: Brexit, Nationalism, and Immigration
Jennet Kirkpatrick, Arizona State University
“Deconstruct That Wall!”: The Virtuality of a Wall and the Foreigner
Charles A. Phillips, Gettysburg College
Refuge in Rootedness: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on Refugee Subjectivities
Scott Benjamin Ritner, Temple University
Migration, Populism and Democratic Politics in Europe
Individual Presentations
Cause or Effect? The AfD and Attitudes Toward Immigration
Hannah Marie Alarian, Princeton University
Left Behind: Emigration, Political Brain Drain, and Support for Radical Parties
Paula Daniela Ganga, Columbia University; Filip Savatic, Georgetown University; Abraham Newman, Georgetown University
Naturalisation, Citizenship Policy and Mobility: A Longitudinal Analysis
Floris Peters, Maastricht University; Maarten P. Vink, Maastricht University
Institutions of Identity in Times of Crisis
Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine
Migration States in Comparative Perspective
Individual Presentations
The ‘Liberal Paradox’ and the Migration State
James F. Hollifield, Southern Methodist University
The Post-Imperial Migration State: Turkey’s Evolving Migration Regime
Fiona B. Adamson, University of London, SOAS
The Postcolonial Migration State in India and Egypt
Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine; Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham
Migrants, Markets, Brokers and States: lliberal Migration Governance in the Gulf
Helene C. Thiollet, Sciences Po
10:00-11:30 a.m.
The Boundaries of Citizenship and Belonging
Individual Presentations
Immigration Policy and Social Policy Since the 1930s
Frida Borang, University of Gothenburg; Sara Kalm, Lund University; Johannes Lindvall, Lund University
Explaining Immigrant Organizing via Political and Social Positioning Model
Angela Ju, St. Edward's University
Open Borders versus Inclusive Citizenship? Beyond the Trade-Off Assumption
Samuel David Schmid, European University Institute
Qualified Inclusion: Islamic Education and Immigrant Integration in Germany
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, University of Toronto
Race, Class and Migration
Individual Presentations
El Que Nada Debe, Nada Teme: Ritualized State Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Estefania Castaneda Perez
¿Inglés o Español? The Political effects of Spanish-Language News Consumption
Barbara Gomez Aguinaga, University of New Mexico
On the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender
Joshua N. Zingher, Old Dominion University
Super-Predator Effect: How Claims of Party Racism Demobilize Blacks and Latinos
Christopher T. Stout, Oregon State University; Keith Baker, The College at Brockport
12:00-1:30 p.m.
International Cooperation on Migration
Individual Presentations
Transnational Health: Coordinating Care Across International Borders
Erica Dobbs, Pomona College
International Cooperation: Rewriting the Social (Protection) Contract
Ruxandra Paul, Amherst College
International Travel Security and the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees
Rey Koslowski, SUNY, University at Albany
The Politics of EU Migration-Development Aid and Transit States
Nicholas R. Micinski, Boston University
2:00-3:30 p.m.
The Politics of Migration, Refugees, and Conflict
Individual Presentations
Environmental Migration, Urbanization, and Conflict
Vally Koubi, ETH Zurich; Quynh Nguyen, Princeton University; Gabriele S. Spilker, University of Salzburg; Tobias Friedrich Karl Boehmelt, University of Essex
Information Access and the Decision to Return: Evidence from IDP Camps in Iraq
Jacob Aronson, University of Maryland, College Park; Jonathan Hall, Uppsala University; James Igoe Walsh, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Paul K. Huth, University of Maryland, College Park
Making Migrations: Population Displacement Strategies in Civil Wars
Adam G. Lichtenheld, Yale University
The Heterogeneous Impact of Events on Violence during the German Refugee Crisis
Arun Frey, University of Oxford
Understanding Attitudes Toward Immigration
Individual Presentations
Disgust Sensitivity and Support for Immigration Policy across Four Nations
Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Cengiz Erisen, Yeditepe University; Dane G. Wendell, Illinois College
Social Stereotypes about Immigrants and the Partisan Divide on Immigration
Kirill Zhirkov, University of Michigan
How In-Group Elites Shape Immigration Attitudes
Tyler Thomas Reny, University of California Los Angeles; Justin Gest, George Mason University
Strategic (Non)Enforcement: State Responses to Migration
Individual Presentations
International Organizations and the Globalization of National Elections
Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Princeton University
Tolerating Irregular Migration: Immigration Non-Enforcement in Western Europe
Kimberly J. Morgan, George Washington University
Intentional Ambiguity: State (Non)Enforcement of Citizenship Policies
Lillian Frost, George Washington University
The Consequences of Indifference for Migrant and Refugee Populations
Kelsey P. Norman, Rice University
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Exit and Voice in Times of Crisis: Linking Migration and Protest
Session Description: This roundtable (for Division Comparative Democratization or Migration and Citizenship) brings together an international group of junior, mid-career and senior scholars working on the linkages between migration and protest from the perspectives of comparative politics, political economy, sociology and international relations. Despite widespread references to “exit and voice”, the systematic links between migration and protest behavior have remained underexplored. This roundtable sets itself the goal to generate a forward-looking discussion on this theme as an emerging research agenda. It draws on the participants’ original survey data, social media analysis, qualitative data and mixed-methods research as well as on their diverse regional expertise (Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East). Conceptually, the discussion draws on social mobilization, resource mobilization, the role of economic, social and political remittances, comparative democratization and authoritarianism. Each panelist will combine conceptual, empirical and methodological reflections on the overarching theme. The comparability of trends within and across regions will also be addressed.
The relevance of the linkages between migration and protest have become apparent in recent political and economic crises across the globe. For example, populism characterizes politics in countries like Brazil and Poland, and conflict and violence further segment society in countries like Ukraine and Mexico. In response, both mass protest and out-migration have been on the rise in post-communist countries in Eastern Europe, post-authoritarian countries in Latin America and post-colonial countries in the Middle East and North Africa (CNTS 2016; IOM 2016). It is therefore essential to ask: When a state fails to respond to the economic or political needs of citizens, why do some people mobilize by protesting in the streets while others ‘mobilize’ by crossing borders? What are the key drivers and actors behind protest and migration, and how do the choices shaping protest and migration relate to each other?
Demetra Kasimis's The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy
Session Description: This “author-meets-critics” panel proposes to generate a critical and interdisciplinary discussion of The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Demetra Kasimis. The format and material would foster engagement with (1) enduring questions of democratic nativism, mobility, empire, and inherited citizenship; (2) why and how to read political thought “rhetorically” and “historically”; and (3) the meanings of democratic Athens in contemporary political theory.
In the Perpetual Immigrant, Kasimis argues that immigration politics (metoikia) is a critical but curiously displaced matter of inquiry in the political thought of classical Athens. The book begins from the puzzle that, despite historical work maintaining that Athenian democracy invited but kept permanently disfranchised a large population of immigrants called “metics” on the basis of blood, narratives of the history of political thought persistently render Athenian texts irrelevant to matters of immigration even in their own space and time. The book makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. It dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The recovery of the metic points to the central role afforded blood, not freedom, in defining the citizen in Athens. It then animates a strain of criticism in which Athenian thinkers are wrestling deeply with democracy’s relation to nativism and its ambiguous, even paradoxical effects. Weaving together ancient history, contemporary political theory, and literary studies, the book offers new readings of ancient Greek philosophy, oratory, tragedy and history and in conclusion reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members.
It is in this sense that the book is both about the afterlife of “Athens” in political theory; the fundamental political questions that have been displaced from the self-appointed theoretical and textual origins of the discipline; and the reading strategies and theoretical investments that have enabled and benefitted from the metic’s oversight.
The panel would include one classicist with specialties in cultural history and Greek literature and three political theorists, whose interests include the history of political thought, critical theory, the politics of difference, colonialism, contemporary political theory, and theories of textual interpretation. The range of the panellists’ areas of concern has the potential to open up the book’s particular arguments but also to stage a broad yet focused conversation on how to “do” democratic theory and the place of past texts in this enterprise.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Historical Legacies for Anti-Immigrant Attitudes, Warfare and Nationalism
Individual Presentations
How Past Geopolitical Threat Heightens Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Today
Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University
Imperialism's Original Sin: The Missionary Roots of Nationalism in China
Daniel Mattingly, Yale University
Socialization after Empire: The Colonial Legacy of British Military Training
Kristine Eck, Uppsala University; Chiara Ruffa, Uppsala University
Colonial Legacies of Anti-immigrant ‘Sons of the Soil’ Conflict in India
Shivaji Mukherjee, University of Toronto
The Micro-politics of Immigrant Integration
Individual Presentations
Local Immigration Policy and the MS-13 "Threat"
Michael Ahn Paarlberg, Virginia Commonwealth University; Loren Collingwood, UC Riverside
Immigration and Crime in Switzerland - Evidence from Micro Data
Rohan Ravindra Gudibande, Princeton University; Karsten Donnay, University of Konstanz; Ravi Bhavnani, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Size Matters: Impact of Foreigners on Immigration Attitudes at the Local Level
Eliska Schnabel, University of Illinois, Chicago
Green Lights and U-turns in State Driver’s License Policies for Immigrants
Jackie Vimo, New School for Social Research
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Defining Communities: The Politics of Immigration in Cities
Individual Presentations
Beyond Cheap Talk? City-Level Immigrant Policy Adoption in Trump's America
Ana Luisa Oaxaca Carrasco, University of California- Los Angeles
Sanctuary Cities in Europe?
David Kaufmann, University of Bern; Nora Räss
The Effect of Immigration on Municipal Fiscal Health in the United States
Brian Y. An, University of Southern California; Morris E Levy, University of Southern California
Urban Citizenship?: The Fraught Nature of Noncitizen Voting
Ron Hayduk, San Francisco State Unversity; Kathleen Coll, University of San Francisco
The Politics of Immigration Policy in East Asia
Individual Presentations
The Politics of Migration Care Worker Policy in Taiwan
Alex Payette, University of Toronto; Yi-Chun Chien, National Chengchi University
The Politics of Vertical Coercion: Immigrant Policy-making in South Korea
YeonKyung Jeong, University of Rochester
Ethnic Migration in Japan 1990-2018: Immigration, Repatriation, Consolidation?
Michael Orlando Sharpe, CUNY-York College
Determinants of Diaspora Engagement Policies
Seungbin Park, University of Alabama
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Certificate in International Migration Studies
XCPD-708 - Refugees and Displaced Persons
Course Details: Refugees and Displaced Persons focuses on international and domestic law, legal cases and policies designed to protect and assist people who have been forced to flee because of persecution, conflict and other life threatening events. It examines the causes of such flight as well as its consequences. Further discussed are the solutions to forced migration, including return, local integration and resettlement in a new community. The course explores such issues as the nexus between forced and voluntary migration, the transition from relief to development, and the intersection between refugee protection and security issues. It gives particular attention to asylum cases and standards for legal and physical protection of refugees.
Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Discuss the fundamentals of international and domestic law, legal cases and policies designed to protect and assist people who have been forced to flee because of persecution, conflict and other life threatening events.
* Discuss solutions to forced migration.
https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=14566
Online class: Wednesday, September 4-Friday, September 20, 2019
Tuition: $1,195.00, 3 sessions, 24 contact hours
Instructors: Elizabeth Ferris
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18 Years Later: The State of Homeland Security after 9/11
10:00 a.m., Monday, September 9, 2019
National September 11th Memorial & Museum
180 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/18-years-later-the-state-of-homeland-security-after-9/11
Witnesses:
Michael Chertoff
Former Secretary (2005-2009)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Janet A. Napolitano
Former Secretary (2009-2013)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Jeh C. Johnson
Former Secretary (2013-2017)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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A good provider is one who leaves: A book event with Jason DeParle
3:00-4:15 p.m., Tuesday, September 10, 2019
American Enterprise Institute Auditorium
1789 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
http://www.aei.org/events/a-good-provider-is-one-who-leaves-a-book-event-with-jason-deparle/
Description: In his new book, “A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century” (Viking, 2019), New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize–finalist Jason DeParle explores a wide range of economic, political, and cultural facets of contemporary immigration. He tells the story of a Filipino family, the Comodas, from the Manila shantytown where he first met them in the early 1980s to Saudi Arabia, Texas, and Abu Dhabi, as they navigate cultural and linguistic differences, visas and credit cards, and complicated household structures.
Please join AEI for a conversation about Mr. DeParle’s new book and the complex and global nature of migration flows.
Agenda:
Opening remarks:
Jason DeParle, The New York Times
Panelists:
Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development
Jason DeParle, The New York Times
Moderator:
Stan Veuger, AEI
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Leveraging Economic Migration for Development
12:30-2:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The World Bank, JB1-080
701 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20006
https://www.knomad.org/event/leveraging-economic-migration-development
Description: This publication provides an overview of how the World Bank Group can leverage economic migration for development, based on a recent briefing to the World Bank’s Board of Directors. It provides an update on data, drivers, and impacts; discusses recent changes in international governance, including the adoption of the Global Compact on Migration; describes World Bank Group activities during FY2017–19; and suggests future areas of activity. Migration is set to increase, driven by income gaps, demographic imbalances, and climate change. The World Bank Group can complement global efforts by (i) supporting safe and regular (legal) labor mobility, (ii) supporting the migration-related indicators specified in the Sustainable Development Goals (reducing recruitment costs paid by migrant workers, reducing remittance costs, leveraging remittances, and mobilizing diaspora resources for development), (iii) generating knowledge for policy making, and (iv) supporting global partnerships.
Archived video will be available after the event.
Speakers:
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Senior Vice President – 2030 Development Agenda – UN Relations and Partnerships, World Bank
Michal Rutkowski, Global Director and Head of Practice Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice, World Bank
Dilip Ratha, Head of KNOMAD, Lead Economist, Migration and Remittances, Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice, World Bank
Chair:
Annette Dixon, Vice President – Human Development, World Bank
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Neuchâtel Graduate Conference 2019
Outlook on the Migration and Mobility Studies Conference
Thursday-Friday, September 12-13, 2019
National Center of Competence in Research
University of Neuchâtel
Avenue du Premier-Mars 26
2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
https://nccr-onthemove.ch/events/neuchatel-graduate-conference-2019/
Description: The third edition of the Neuchâtel Graduate Conference will take place on September 12–13 at the University of Neuchâtel. This year’s topic is Innovative Approaches to Migration and Mobility Studies. The conference provides a stimulating environment in which PhD and PostDoctoral fellows from different universities and research institutions can exchange ideas, establish networks, and initiate collaborative research. We welcome paper and panel submissions from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, demography, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Program: Panels, Round Tables & Expert Interviews
Thursday, September 12, 2019
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Parallel Panels
Attitudes Towards People on the Move
Emerging Patterns of Mobility
11:30 a.m.–13:00 p.m.
Parallel Panels
The Strategic Use/Misuse of Citizenship Status
Transnational Dynamics
2:00–3:30 p.m.
Expert Interview
Enduring Inequalities in Academia
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Parallel Roundtables
Social Protection across Borders
Families and Children on the Move
6:00–7:30 p.m.
Expert Interview
Does It Still Make Sense to Use the Term Migrant in Today’s Society?
Friday, September 13, 2019
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Parallel Panels
Governing Migration through Paperwork
Queer and Gendered Perspectives on Mobility
Asylum Seekers: Human Solidarity and Institutional Restrictions
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Parallel Panels
Representations of the “Refugee Crisis”
Pitfalls of Migration and Mobility Categories
2:00–3:30 p.m.
Parallel Roundtables
Public Policies and the Production of Uneven Mobility Rights
Discrimination and Obstacles to Work
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Expert Interview
Producing and Communicating Migration and Mobility Data
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16th International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference
Thursday-Friday, September 19-20, 2019
Lancelot Thompson Student Union
3154 North Towerview Boulevard
Toledo, OH 43606
https://www.traffickingconference.com/
About: Since 2004, The International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference has been bringing together researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development.
To date, the trafficking conference has welcomed attendees from 42 states and 30 countries to learn from researchers, survivors, and social service, health care, and criminal justice professionals about human trafficking and social justice topics.
Recently, there have been many new and exciting opportunities for expansion regarding the conference, which includes a name change because of a larger mission. In 2015, the conference title was changed to the International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference. The concept of social justice will expand topics at the conference to include many of the injustices seen in the world today.
We greatly appreciate those who have brought the conference this far. Change is hard, but is also necessary. All are welcome to join us in sharing knowledge and diverse perspectives at the conference. Our conference has a maximum of 12 continuing education credits pending for social work, counseling, marriage & family therapy, chemical dependency, nursing, health education, public health, and law.
Program:
Thursday, September 19, 2019
9:00-10:00 a.m.
An Exotic Upbringing: Developmental Experiences of Children of Exotic Dancers
Sarah Erwin and Rochelle Dalla
Boys and Men: The Often-Overlooked Victims of Transnational Sex Trafficking
Michael Pittaro
Difference between Asian and Domestic Victims
Youngbee Dale
Educating through Assessment of Emergency Department Healthcare Provider Knowledge of Human Trafficking Indicators and Resources
Karen L. Hoblet
Effectiveness of Hamro Abhiyan to Create Mass Awareness
Rajendra Kumar Gautam
Human Trafficking 101
Chuck Campbell and Jamie Vaughan
Still Not Her Fault: What We've Learned from 10 Years of CATCH Court Data
Paul M. Herbert, Hannah Estabrook, and Vanessa Perkins
10:15-11:15 a.m.
The Evolution of Victim to Leader: Human Trafficking Survivors in the Anti-Trafficking Movement
Jacquelyn C.A. Meshelemiah and Raven E. Lynch
LIFE - Sex Trafficking in Lima, Ohio: A Case Study by the FBI/ Northwest Ohio Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force
Pete Swartz and Alex Hunt
Addressing Justice: What Prisoners Can Teach Us about Trafficking in the Sex Industry
Jill McCracken and Alex Andrews
Shadowboxing with the Truth: Dispelling the Myths of Counseling Individuals who Have Been Trafficked
Susan Foster and Emily Dykes
One Way Ticket to Hell: The Untold Story of African Migrant Workers Trapped Under the Kafala System in the Middle East
Ochuko Joy Agbeyegbe and Abibat Nasirudeen
Spring Awakening: Challenging Injustice Through the Lens of Theatre, Part 2
Rosie Best
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Sex Trafficking and Labor Trafficking: The Law, the Cases, and the Immigration Options
Elizabeth M. Donovan
Building Awareness for the Identification of Labor Trafficking for At-Risk Youth
Alisa Santucci and Bukola Oriola
Safe Harbor for All: A Statewide and Community-Driven Approach to Expand Support for Adult Survivors
Caroline Palmer and Lauren Martin
Trauma Informed Care: Understanding Trauma and the Impact of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Tiffany Brandt and Emily Robbins
Freedom for Youth
Kara Thompson and Taijun Waters
Protecting Children in the Philippines who are Sexually Exploited: Dissecting the Systematic Challenges from the NGO Context
Imogen Fell
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Books-to-Prison Pipeline: Critical Support and Advocacy for Incarcerated Women
Vicki White and Alex Andrews
Opening the Eyes of Healthcare Providers: Equipping Staff to See, Hear and Respond to Modern Slavery in their Patients
Rosie Riley and Laura C.N. Wood
Integrating Survivors Experiences for Better Prevention Design
Jessica Donohue-Dioh and Justin “Jay” Miller
Meeting People Where They Are: Harm Reduction in Sex Trafficking Outreach and Direct Services
Christy Croft
Understanding the Lived Experiences of People with Experience in the Commercial Sex Trade of Exploitation, Trafficking, and Prostitution
Paola Michelle Contreras and Heather Wightman
Victims' Rights and Survivors' Responsibility: Is the TVPA Conditionality Requirement a Human Rights Violation?
Gary Levvis
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Psychological Care and Support for the Survivors of Sex-Trafficking at IOM Moscow
Irina Churakova
Benefits and Challenges of Using Data Analytics and Mathematical Models to Aid Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts
Kayse Lee Maass
Labor Trafficking in the U.S.: A Closer Look at Forced Labor, Debt Bondage, and Involuntary Domestic Servitude
Hao Nguyen
Tips for Supporting the Families and Loved Ones of Sex Trafficking Victims
Debbie Lassiter
Legislative Action on Human Trafficking: Towards a Data-Driven Policy
David J. Corliss
Reframing the "Modern Day Slavery" Paradigm in the U.S.: A Critical and Intersectional Look at Language, Images, and Stories in Anti-Human Trafficking Conversation
Megan Mattimoe and Kate D’Adamo
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Traumatic Experiences, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Quality of Life Among Women Incarcerated in a State Prison System
Stephanie Grace Prost, Jennifer Middleton, and Amber McDonald
First You RISE, Then You Soar
Nora Riggs, Rosie Best, Megan Jablonowski, and Debra DeHoff
Intent vs Impact: Advocating for The Vulnerable
Codi Schei and Logan Dee
Emerging Themes in Human Trafficking: An Extensive Review of Case Summaries
Frances Patmon and Kate Keown
Adopting a Critical Advocacy and Social Action against Human Trafficking in Nigeria
Lamin Mohammed Kpaka
Intersections between Sex Trafficking and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Tammy Schultz and Hannah Estabrook
Friday, September 20, 2019
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Understanding Which Youth are At-Risk for Sex Trafficking and Responding
Celia Williamson
Survivor Story - Overcoming Adversity: Why Not Me?
Vanessa L. Tynes-Jass
Making Human Trafficking A National Priority: A Comparison Between the United States of America, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa
Joseph Chidiebere Osuigwe and Lewis Olatunji
Holding Corporations Accountable for Labor and Sex Exploitation
Fabio Leonardi
A Comparison of Global and U.S. Human Trafficking Structures: UNODC vs. IOM/Polaris Datasets
Vernon Murray
Social Justice Rapid Response: Engaging Students in Campus Activism
Chris Fike
Interviewing Victims and Suspects of Sex Trafficking as a Law Enforcement Officer
Wesley D. Jones
10:15-11:15 a.m.
Sex Trafficking: Health Consequences and Why Victims Stay
Celia McIntosh
Project NO REST: North Carolina Organizing and Responding to the Exploitation and Sexual Trafficking of Children
D.F. Duncan
Breaking the Stigma: Understanding Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma for Front Line Workers
Lambia Karitsiotis
Criminalized, Not Listened to, or Believed: Trafficked Young People’s Experiences of Services in England
Alinka Gearon
Human Trafficking and Individuals with Developmental Disability
Pat Stephens and Steve Mentrek
An Eight-Year Analysis of Labor Trafficking Arrest Cases in the United States
Bandak Lul, Kristen Bracy, and Dominique Roe-Sepowitz
Municipal Implementation of Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts
Madeline Lohman
Building a Macro-Multidisciplinary Statewide Response to the Human Trafficking of Youth
Veronica Scherbauer, Rebekkah O'Bryan, Bhumika Patel, and Dominique Burns
When “SANE” and Trafficking Meet
Amanda Brigode
Similarities and Distinctive Aspects in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in West Africa and the United States
Charles Hounmenou
Sex Trafficking and Early Childhood Sexual Abuse: Making Connections
Amy Rouleau
Understanding Human Trafficking through the Lens of Central American Law Enforcement and Victims
Jarrod Sadulski
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Human Trafficking in Nigeria: Exploring the Law Enforcement Perspectives
Rosemary Ometere Obari
At the Margins, but not Beyond Our Reach: Supporting LGBTQ+ Victims of Trafficking
Nicholas Oakley
Using Counselors to Assist in Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Claire Openshaw
Judges’ Censure of Offenders Convicted of Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offenses
Larissa Christensen and George S. Tsagaris
How to Engage Survivors for Systems Professionals
Amanda Colegrove and Bukola Oriola
Sex Work, Sexual Violence and Trafficking in the Sex Trade: Differences and Overlaps
Kate D'Adamo and Justice Rivera
2:45-3:45 p.m.
“Except as Punishment for a Crime”: State Constitutions, Slavery, and How our Founding Documents Encourage Oppression
Jesse Bach and Melissa Nahra
Disrupting Labor and Sex Trafficking in Illicit Massage Businesses Through Licensing, Regulation and Collaboration
Jennifer Harless
Patient Brokering: Human Trafficking in Substance Use Treatment and Recovery
Terry Cluse-Tolar, Michel Coconis, and Glenn Abraham
Phoenix Starfish Place and How to Set-Up a HUD Section 8 Voucher for Victims of Sex Trafficking
Kimberly A. Hogan, Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, Kristen Bracy, and Cindy Stotler
Inter-Generational Parenting Values and its Impact on Child Rearing Practices among Survivors of Sex Trafficking (SST) across 4 Cities in India
Jessie Peter, Rochelle Dalla, and Cody Hollist
Community and Boundaries: Building Relationships in the Trauma Informed Care Environment
Mandi Pierson
The Colorado Project: Exploring Community-Based Participatory Research in Social Movements
Kara Napolitano and Annie Miller
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Working Together to Fight Trafficking in our Communities: An Interdisciplinary Effort
Kristy Eldredge and Elise Reifschneider
The Impact of Prostitution Legislation on Violence and Trafficking in the Sex Industry
Jill McCracken
Labor Law and Trafficking
Erin Albright and Megan Mattimoe
AI and Cross Sector Collaboration to Combat Trafficking
Martin Laird
Domestic Human Trafficking in Southern Brazil: A Pilot Study
R. Marie Dutra Gross
How A Dad Traded his Daughter for a Black Book: A Survivor’s Perspective
Rita Gail O'Brien
How to be Trauma Informed Rather Than Token Informed
Kristina Smith
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Migration’s Rescue of the European Union and Democracy
Harvard Center for European Studies
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, September 20, 2019
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/09/migrations-rescue-of-the-european-union-and-democracy
Description: What factors make some democracies more resilient and others more prone to democratic backsliding? Thirty years after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the political trajectories of the region’s new democracies still defy expectations. Countries long-considered leaders in transitions to democracy and capitalism (Hungary, Poland) have experienced democratic backsliding and rising Euroscepticism.
Meanwhile, the laggards of post-communist transitions and EU accession (Romania, Bulgaria) now score higher that their Visegrad counterparts on some measures of democratic quality and retain EU support. What explains the unevenness of democratic consolidation in the region? This book argues that the way in which European citizenship is practiced as intra-EU free movement matters.
Even in times of crisis, European integration and liberalism maintain their appeal in countries where large parts of the population depend on European citizenship in their living-making. The book focuses on high-mobility migrants from Romania and Poland, the EU’s main migrant-sending countries, and highlights migrants’ contributions to political change in their homelands. Findings show that intra-EU mobility influences sociopolitical attitudes, voting, and the state-citizen relationship when people become economically emancipated from the national labor market (by working abroad) but remain politically rooted.
Findings also show that, paradoxically, a longer history of migration and state-led diaspora engagement limits the political incorporation of intra-EU migrants. A laissez-faire approach provides more space for bottom-up, citizen-led mobilization, empowering intra-EU movers as political actors.
Speaker:
Ruxandra Paul, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University
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Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan
4:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Princeton University, Jones Hall, #211
Princeton, NJ 08544
https://eap.princeton.edu/events/help-not-wanted-immigration-politics-japan
Speaker(s):
Michael Strausz
Texas Christian University
Description: Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more immigrants? Michael Strausz will answer this question by drawing on insights from nearly two years of intensive field research in Japan. Ultimately, he will argue that Japan’s immigration policy has remained restrictive for two reasons. First, Japan’s labor-intensive businesses have failed to defeat anti-immigration forces within the Japanese state, particularly those in the Ministry of Justice and the Japanese Diet. Second, no influential strain of elite thought in postwar Japan exists to support the idea that significant numbers of foreign nationals have a legitimate claim to residency and citizenship.
In addition to an overview of postwar Japan’s immigration control policy, this presentation provide context to recent developments in Japanese immigration policy – particularly the December 2018 decision to admit more than 300,000 low skilled foreign laborers.
Michael Strausz is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Asian Studies at Texas Christian University. He earned his BA in international relations and Japanese from Michigan State University and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Washington. His book, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan will be published with SUNY Press in August, and he has published a number of other articles and book chapters about topics including Japan’s immigration policy and Japanese whaling. His research has been funded by grants from the Japan Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation, and he is a member of Cohort III of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation ’s U.S.-Japan Network for the Future.
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Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli
1:00 p.m., Thursday, September 26, 2019
National Press Club
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20045
https://cis.org/
Additional details will be available soon.
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Annual Conference on EU Border Management 2019
Thursday-Friday, September 26-27, 2019
ERA Conference Centre
Metzer Allee 4, Trier, Germany
https://www.era.int/cgi-bin/cms?_SID=7e0c7b14d1013d7bd7067a5a30bef3fc60b5751800652139515531&_sprache=en&_bereich=artikel&_aktion=detail&idartikel=128663
Themes:
* IT Systems and Interoperability
* European Border and Coast Guard (Frontex)
* Cooperation with Third Countries
Objective: This conference will debate the latest developments and challenges in the EU’s internal and external border management. It will analyse the latest proposals and reforms on the functioning and operation of EU border management systems, as well the planned enhancements of Frontex’ role and responsibilities through a revision of the Regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard, with a focus on cooperation with third countries.
A visit to the village of Schengen and its European Museum Schengen will form part of the conference.
Key topics:
* Latest news on legislative files to strengthen border management systems and their interoperability and practical implementation by eu-LISA.
* EU databases for border management and their evolution: EES, ETIAS, PNR, ECRIS-TCN, SIS, VIS, EURODAC and a focus on land and sea borders
* Frontex: revision of the Regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard, latest migratory trends and routes, risk analysis and vulnerability assessments, joint border operations, EUROSUR, integrated border management and hotspots
* Cooperation with third countries: technical and operational assistance, return operations, the perspectives of a third country (Albania), EUNAVOR MED Operation Sophia and assistance given to the Libyan Coastguard and Navy
Programme:
Thursday, September 26, 2019
9:00 a.m.
I. THE APPLICATION OF THE SCHENGEN ACQUIS, IT SYSTEMS FOR BORDER MANAGEMENT AND THEIR INTEROPERABILITY
9:05 a.m.
The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: priorities, state of play of the legislative files in the field of border management systems
* European Border and Coast Guard
* Large-scale IT systems Mikko Simola
9:45 a.m.
Update on the IT systems being managed and under future management of eu-LISA
* Use and operation of SIS, VIS and EURODAC and their evolution
* State of preparations for EES, ETIAS, ECRIS-TN
* Interoperability: European Search Portal, Multiple Identity Detector, Common Identity Repository, Biometric Matching Service
Zsombor Nagy
II. ASPECTS OF EU DATABASES FOR BORDER MANAGEMENT AND THEIR EVOLUTION
11:00 a.m.
PNR from the perspective of a Passenger Information Unit (PIU) since going operational
* Cross-border cooperation and application to intra- and extra-EU flights
* State of play and EU Member States’ considerations to widen the extent of the PNR Directive to land and sea borders
Christian Bauer
11:30 a.m.
The future of land and sea borders: challenges faced in aligning requirements with technical means on the basis of existing and planned EU databases
Alessandra Falcinella
12:00 p.m.
Integrating technology into border management: the view of an end-user
Pedro Figueira
2:00 p.m.
The evolution of ECRIS to include third-country nationals: experiences in enhancing the system to identify criminal records within a border management setting
Vincent Cambier
III. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN EU EXTERNAL BORDER MANAGEMENT
2:45 p.m.
The revised Regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard: putting it into operation
* Setting up a European Border and Coast Guard standing corps of 10,000 operational staff with executive powers, incorporating EUROSUR into the Frontex framework
* Providing technical and operational support to Member States in return operations
* Wider scope of action in cooperating with third countries
Berndt Korner
4:00 p.m.
Border control and management through risk assessment and situational awareness raising
* Frontex Risk Analysis 2019
* EUROSUR fusion services, Integrated Border Management (IBM)
* Joint operations, hotspots and cooperation with other EU agencies Berndt Körner
Friday, September 27, 2019
IV. COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES
9:30 a.m.
The importance of enhancing cooperation with third countries
* Technical and operational assistance beyond EU neighbouring countries
* Return operations Berndt Körner
10:00 a.m.
Border management and cooperation in the EU neighbourhood region: perspectives from Albania
* Technical and operational cooperation with the EU
* Developing integrated border management
NN, Albanian State Police
11:15 a.m.
EUNAVOR MED Operation Sophia’s revised mandate and operations in the Southern Central Mediterranean:
* Strengthening surveillance by air assets
* Reinforcing support to and training of the Libyan Coastguard and Navy
* Coordinating maritime security operations through the Shared Awareness and Deconfliction in the Mediterranean (SHADE MED) forums
Olivier Bodhuin
12:00 p.m.
V. THE FUTURE OF EU BORDER MANAGEMENT
EBCG 2.0 and beyond: the future of EU integrated border management and the Schengen borders regime
Jorrit Rijpma
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16th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
Monday, October 7, 2019
Georgetown University Law Center
Bernard P. McDonough Hall
Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/16thannual-immigration-law-policy-conference
Description: This annual conference put on by MPI and its partners, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center, features thoughtful policy and legal analysis and discussion of the most important immigration topics from leading government officials, attorneys, researchers, advocates, and others.
Updated information will be posted soon.
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Certificate in International Migration Studies
XCPD-700 - Global Trends in International Migration
Course Details: Worldwide international migration is a large and growing phenomenon, with more than 230 million people now living outside of their home countries for extended periods. Understanding the complex dynamics behind international migration is essential to improved policies and programs to address the multiple causes and consequences of these movements of people. This course provides an overview of international migration numbers and trends, causes of population movements, the impact of international migration on source and receiving countries, and policy responses to population movements.
The course provides an introduction to the major theories underpinning the study of international migration, including the new economics of labor migration, dual labor market theory, world systems theory, cumulative causation, and migration networks theory. The course focuses attention on domestic and international legal regimes regarding migration, examining laws, major legal cases and regulatory frameworks. It also examines issues pertaining to the integration of immigrants in destination countries. The connections between migration and such other issues as security, development and environmental change are discussed.
Objectives:
At the completion of the course, successful students will be able to:
* Assess the positive and negative impacts of international migration on source, transit, and destination countries;
* Describe the international legal frameworks that set out the rights of migrants and the responsibilities of states;
* Discuss and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the principal policy frameworks governing the admission of migrants, control of irregular migration, and protection of refugees and other forced migrants;
* Explain the importance of gender in understanding the causes and consequences of international migration; and
* Describe models for integration of immigrants in destination countries and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches.
https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=14765
Online class: Monday, October 7-Monday, December 2, 2019
Tuition: $1,495.00
Instructor: Katharine Donato
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Diaspora and Homeland
Thursday-Friday, October 10-11, 2019
Zagreb, Croatia
https://croatiandiasporacentre.com/english/
Description: In today’s globalized world we are witness to the fact that, as never before in history, diasporas have a major role in the political, ecoonomic, cultural, religious, social and sporting life of their countries of origin. The fact that over 258 million people live outside of their country of birth and that they send more than 625 billion dollars in remittances to their country of origion perhaps best illustrates the huge potential of diasporas for their home countries. While the major focus of diasporas and homeland is on their remittances, there are many examples of how diasporas can and do through their various activities contribute to the advancement and success of their homelands both internally and in foreign affairs.
One such example which illustrates the success of a diaspora in creating economic success in the homeland is that of Chilean immigrants who returned to their homeland at the call of then Chilean leader Pinochet. These returning immigrants brought their know-how and experience to practically empower in a short period of time the economic upturn of the Chilean economy.The recent world cup of football in Russia is another example of diaspora contributions to homeland. Many football teams had diaspora players as part of their starting lineups. The best example of this was the Croatian national team which played in the finals of the world cup and which had two thirds of its players born outside of Croatia. These examples not only manifest on the one hand the strength and power of diasporas, but on the other hand also evidence of its huge potential and role in the developmental strategy of their countries of origin. Following the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, millions of citizens of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and other countries of the former Yugoslavia moved to the more developed countries of the democratic world, especially Europe. Faced with this new process of emigration, these countries were overnight faced with the task of developing national strategies and programs of cooperation between diaspora communities and their homelands.
In light of this new situation and the relations between diaspora and homeland, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2015 accepted Resolution 2043 titled “Democratic participation for migrant diasporas”. Among other things this resolution recommended that its members introduce policies which would facilitate diaspora members’ involvement in political life, review national legislation with a view to granting special status to members of diasporas in their countries of origin and facilitating the return process where appropriate, and promote diaspora members’ contribution to the development of their country of origin through the transfer of their knowledge, education and experience. The main focus of the conference is to examine the strategies and programs of individual countries towards their diasporas and in turn the relationships of diaspora with their home countries.
Conference themes include:
1. Diaspora relations – government
2. State policy and practice relating to the diaspora
3. The return of emigrants and their integration into the country of origin – success or failure
4. Direct diaspora investments
5. The influence of the diaspora on the country of origin
6. Immigrant tourism
7. Diaspora in international relations
8. Diaspora as a safety factor
9. Diaspora – media, radio programs, newspapers and publications
10. Emigrant literature
The conference organisers would like to emphasise that presenters have the opportunity to present on a different theme that is related to the general purpose.
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Forced Migration, Protection, and Border Control
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Thursday, October 17, 2019
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP
ONE New York Plaza, 1 FDR Drive
New York, NY 10004
https://cmsny.org/event/2019-symposium/
Description: On October 17, 2019, the Center for Migration Studies will hold its annual academic and policy symposium at the law offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. The event will open with a keynote address by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, about new directions for forced migration policy studies. The keynote will be followed by panels about enforcement, responding to the needs of refugees, and access to the US asylum system. In the closing session, panelists and attendees will engage in an open discussion about research and policy priorities. This is CMS’s sixth annual academic and policy conference, which celebrates the work of leading scholars and thinkers on international migration.
Agenda:
9:00 a.m.
9:00–9:15 a.m.
Welcome:
Karen Grisez, Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Introduction:
Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio
Bishop of Brooklyn
9:15–10:30 p.m.
Keynote: New Directions for Forced Migration Policy Studies
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
The New School
10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Session I: Enforcement Efforts and their Adverse Impact on Protection: A Discussion about North America, Europe, and the Global South
Over the last few years, we have seen increased efforts to build barriers and systems that prevent refugees and asylum seekers from reaching safety and applying for asylum protection. How are enforcement efforts in various regions of the world impacting refugee protection and access to asylum? What challenges do enhanced enforcement efforts impose? How have efforts to externalize borders and prevent access to asylum countries impacted genuine refugees? How can we address these problems?
Moderator: Michele Pistone, Non-Resident Fellow and Associate Editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security, Center for Migration Studies; Professor of Law and Director of the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES), Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Speakers will be announced shortly.
1:15–2:30 p.m.
Session II: Challenges in Responding to the Needs of Refugees, Displaced Persons and their Host Communities in Protracted Situations
A majority of refugees and internally displaced persons are in protracted situations—defined by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as five years or longer. Many of them are in low and medium income countries that have few resources available to provide security, education, livelihood and entrepreneurship opportunities, healthcare and other services for host communities, let alone refugees and displaced persons. This panel will discuss opportunities and challenges in addressing protracted situations, particularly in the context of adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees in December 2019.
Moderator:
Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Speakers:
Sarah Deardorff Miller, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Leah Zamore, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
2:45–4:00 p.m.
Session III: Access to Asylum on the US-Mexico Border
The Trump administration and DHS officers have pursued a series of strategies to restrict access to the US asylum system. Most of these strategies – interception, turn-backs, zero tolerance enforcement, the separation of children from parents, requiring asylum-seekers to await the US asylum process in Mexico and barring asylum to most migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border – have been focused on the US southern border. Other measures, such as the expansion of expedited removal, began at the border but have now been expanded to cover the entire United States and persons in the country for two years or less. The panel will review, critique and discuss alternatives to these policies.
Moderator: Donald Kerwin, Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies
Speakers:
Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology, Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues, and Director of Center for Interamerican and Border Studies, University of Texas, El Paso
Carmen Maquilon, Director of Catholic Charities Immigration Services of the Diocese of Rockville Centre
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Closing Presentation:
Jaime Winders will moderate an open discussion of research and policy priorities.
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Annual Conference on European Asylum and Migration Law 2019
ERA Conference Centre
Metzer Allee 4, 54295
Trier, Germany
https://www.era.int/cgi-bin/cms
Objective: The aim of this conference is to provide legal practitioners with an update on the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), the efforts undertaken to harmonise standards in EU asylum policy, as well as challenges in the management of migration policy including return and readmission. Recent developments in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights will also be addressed. Who should attend? Staff of government bodies and national asylum authorities, asylum lawyers and judges in national courts, NGOs, EU civil servants You will learn...
* the state of play in reform of the CEAS
* about challenges in managing European asylum and migration policy on European and national level
* about implementation of the Dublin system
* about relevant new legislative developments
* about challenges in asylum procedures
* cases in which applicants for national protection can be detained and alternatives to detention
* about new case law of the European courts
* about protection of vulnerable groups
Conference programme:
Thursday, October 17, 2019
9:00 a.m.
Opening of the conference
Magdalena Kędzior
I. REFORMING THE COMMON EUROPEAN ASYLUM SYSTEM (CEAS) – STATE OF PLAY AND OUTLOOK
9:10 a.m.
Setting the scene: Reform of the CEAS – where do we stand? The European Commission perspective
Borbala Szigeti
9:45 a.m.
Managing migration and asylum policy – Priorities of the Finnish Presidency of the EU
Laura Yli-akkuri
II. CHALLENGES IN POLICY MANAGEMENT ON EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL LEVELS
11:00 a.m.
National implementation of the Dublin system: best practices and potential solutions – the German example
Caroline Sheldon
11:30 a.m.
Balancing an effective asylum policy with returns and readmission of irregular migrants
* Latest EU developments: Returns Directive (recast) – first assessment
* Main national developments in the field of returns
III. ASPECTS OF THE CEAS AND RELATED EU POLICY INSTRUMENTS
1:15 p.m.
Asylum procedures: between efficiency and fundamental rights protection
* UNHCR’s interventions before the ECtHR and the CJEU
* Relevance of asylum procedures under the Returns Directive
* The intersection between asylum and return decisions Samuel Boutruche
2:00 p.m.
Selected subjects of evidence assessment in the context of the CEAS
* The EU legal framework for evidence assessment in conjunction with case law of the ECtHR
* Specific rules, general principles and concrete standards in relation to Article 4 Qualification Directive and Article 16 Procedures Directive
Bostjan Zalar
3:30 p.m.
Grounds and conditions of detention in the context of the CEAS
* Legal developments in the EU Member States regarding detention during the asylum procedure
* Cases in which applicants for international protection may be detained
* Detention conditions and alternatives to detention
Lenka Horáková
IV. EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF EU ASYLUM POLICY
4:15 p.m.
Legal and safe pathways to Europe for people in need of international protection
* Focus on the Commission proposal to establish an EU Resettlement Framework
* The scope of legal pathways for protection in the EU
* Refugee and non-refugee-specific complementary pathways
* Initiatives currently implemented by selected Member States Roberto Cortinovis
Friday, October 18, 2019
V. TOWARDS A COHERENT JURISPRUDENCE OF THE EUROPEAN COURTS IN ASYLUM AND RETURN MATTERS
9:30 a.m.
The ECtHR’s jurisprudence on current issues related to asylum and return decisions
Pamela McCormick
10:15 a.m.
Asylum and return: recent jurisprudence of the CJEU
Lars Bay Larsen
VI. ENHANCING PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS
11:30 a.m.
The role of EASO in vulnerability assessment
* EASO support for national authorities in identification of vulnerable asylum seekers
* Operating Plans for Greece and Italy Marina Capriola
12:15 p.m.
Guaranteeing the fundamental rights of unaccompanied minors in European asylum and migration policy
Karen Mets
For programme updates: www.era.int Programme may be subject to amendment.
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Workshop: Cities and the global governance of migration. An under-explored link.
Thursday-Friday, October 17-18, 2019
Seminar Room, Villa Malafrasca
Migration Policy Centre
Florence, Italy
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/event/cities-and-the-global-governance-of-migration-an-under-explored-link-17-18-october-2019/
Description: In the last two decades research on various aspects of subnational governments’ policymaking on migration and diversity issues has been expanding and consolidating, leading to a ‘local turn’ in migration scholarship. Case studies and comparative research in Europe and beyond have shed light on how migration policies and laws are not only implemented but also actively produced and shaped in local arenas in which actors with different interests and conceptions of migration-related challenges continuously interact. More recently, a relational and multilevel governance perspective has been emerging: local governments are conceptualised more and more as actors in complex regulatory processes which include a multiplicity of actors at different territorial scales, both public and non public.
In this panorama though, the dimension of the global mobilisation of local governments on migration is still underdeveloped, especially vis-á-vis other policy fields such as environment and climate change. Why and how cities get engaged in policy processes around migration issues beyond the borders of their national principals are still open questions. Yet cities are becoming more and more active on the international and global migration scene, as demonstrated by their participation in the Global Compact of Migration or by the mobilisation of – old and new – transnational city networks on the issue of refugees’ reception.
In this workshop we aim at establishing a dialogue between scholars who, from different disciplinary perspectives and using different theoretical and methodological approaches, are working on the mobilisation of cities in the global governance of migration. We welcome studies that take a city perspective as well as those that focus on the organisations (e.g. City Networks) or venues (e.g. GCM forum) promoting/enabling cities’ international mobilisation on various aspects of migration-related policies (e.g. integration, asylum seekers reception, access to social assistance etc.).
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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — Diasporic Home-making: Jews in Paris and Berlin in the 20th Century
4:30-6:00 p.m., Thursday, October 24, 2019
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/10/diasporic-home-making-jews-in-paris-and-berlin-in-the-20th-century
Speaker:
Leora Auslander
Professor of European Social History and the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization
The University of Chicago
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Migration Control - Book Panel
2:00-4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 14, 2019
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost’s Building, Conference Room 115
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
https://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/Seminars.html
Speakers:
John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Invention of the Passport, 2nd Edition
Daniel Martinez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the US-Mexico Border
David FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in US-Mexican Relations, UC San Diego
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Refuge Beyond Reach
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14th Homeland Security Week
Wednesday-Friday, November 20-22, 2019
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H St NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://www.idga.org/events-homelandsecurityweek
https://plsadaptive.s3.amazonaws.com/eco/files/event_content/hsw-draft-agenda_VhYFVL8UUbZWEBNVzgJx8NCUOnEeFFHeCxZ8RG8k.pdf
Preliminary program:
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
9:00 a.m.
FEMA’s Strategic Plan for the Future 2018-2022
-Increasing resilience through increasing disaster preparedness on a local level
-Enhance coordination with intergovernmental agencies
-Streamline FEMA’s grant management and improve data analytics
9:45 a.m.
Modernizing Maritime Security And Border Management
-Future strategies of the Coast Guard
-Current theatre of operations and capability gaps
-Procurement priorities and strategic shifts
11:15 a.m.
Procurement and Border Management
-Border management modernization requirements.
-The improvement of border management integration, including tailored procurement of specialized equipment
Rose Marie Davis, Director, Innovative Program Acquisitions, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
DOJ’S Counter-UAS Protection and Acquisition Priorities
-Pinpointing unique requirements of the DOJ to fulfill its objectives - Taking lessons from DOD’s counter-UAS acquisition strategies applying them at home
-Testing and fielding counter-UAS technologies to determine the suitability of solutions
Scott Miller, Assistant Section Chief, Surveillance & Aviation, FBI
12:00 p.m.
Confronting the Opioid Crises and Protecting the American People
-Working with interagency and international partners on a comprehensive approaches
-Identifying and monitoring networks of foreign suppliers and domestic importers of fentanyl
-Increasing investigation and prosecution efforts
Combating Nuclear Terrorism: DHS’s Efforts to Protect Key Cities from WMDs
-Providing local agencies with equipment for detecting nuclear material
-Training local law enforcement
-Track progress by collecting data from the key cities
Jeffrey H. Musk, Chief, Nuclear Detection Division, Nuclear Technologies Department Research & Development Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
1:30 p.m.
Challenges and Opportunities in Protecting Energy Critical Infrastructure
-Invest in next-generation physical security controls and cybersecurity technologies
-Continually analyzing and gaming the energy cyber-threat landscape
-Share and communicate cybersecurity information between the public and private sectors
Ronald Keen, Senior Energy Advisor, National Risk Management Center, CISA, DHS
Protecting the Nation’s Food Supply
-Identifying sector-wide vulnerabilities and gaps
-Identifying indicators and warnings that could signify planning for an attack
-Develop mitigation strategies to reduce the threat/prevent an attack
Jennie Melin, Consumer Safety Officer, FDA
2:15 p.m.
War on Drugs: Combating Organized Drug Cartels at the Border
-Increasing cohesion between federal, state and local agencies at the border
-Partnering with foreign nations to deny drug cartels a safe haven
-Monitoring money laundering and smuggling operations to hamper drug operations
Increasing the Nation’s Preparedness Against Chemical and Biological Threats
-Improving threat awareness through intelligence collecting and sharing
-Investing in advanced detection and surveillance technologies
-Putting in place responsive countermeasure policies
3:30 p.m.
Procurement standards and guideline for providing goods and services to FEMA
-Purpose and importance of current rules in place
-Providing a broad overview of federal procurement rules
-Relationship between Federal rules, State, Local and Tribal procurement rules
4:15 p.m.
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
Thursday, November 21, 2019
9:00 a.m.
Identifying and Mediating National Security Threats
-Monitoring activities of groups and movements potentially at risk for radicalization and violence
-Improving information sharing policy for the Department
-Building partnerships with nation-wide State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers
David Glawe, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security
9:45 a.m.
CISA’s Priorities for Advancing Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resiliency
-Strategies in working with private partners to secure our infrastructure
-Priorities for coordinating national cyber security and communications integration center
-Coordinating security and resiliency efforts through public private partnerships
Brian Harrell, Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security, CISA, DHS
11:15 a.m.
DHS’s Evolving Requests for DoD Support Along the South-West Border
-DHS’s support requirements from April 2018 to present
-How and why those requests have evolved along with the evolving situation at the SWB
-DHS’ expectations for DoD support in FY20 and beyond
LTC Kelly Brown, Senior National Guard Advisor to DHS, U.S. Army
Leadership in Cyber
-Strategic and forward thinking
-Mentoring and nurturing talent to increase potential
-Learning and improving by listening
Kevin Nally, Chief Information Officer, US Secret Service
12:00 p.m.
Engaging with the Private Sector to Better Protect Critical Infrastructures
-Weather related threats to critical supply chains
-Improving emergency protocols
-Conducting research into improving strategies and practices Kay Mereish, Senior Advisor, DHS
The race for 5G: Protecting Emerging FifthGeneration Wireless Networks
-End-to-end protection of network traffic
-Investing in R&D to address threats and vulnerabilities to mobile networks
-Improving visibility of traffic from mobile devices to detect malware, cyberattacks and data exfiltration attempts
12:30 p.m.
Interactive Discussion Groups
During this part of the conference, each attendee will have the opportunity to select three topics of their interest from the list below and will rotate between those sessions. Discussion groups are kept small to ensure all attendees get the opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, ensuring a perfectly tailored experience.
1:30 p.m.
IDG Group 1
Key to Identifying Potential Terrorists through Research
-Identity crises often plays a significant role in a person’s transition to terrorism
-Often potential terrorists will take part in certain activities that raise red flags about their intents
-Connections with known terrorists online or offline are a big factor in radicalization
Allison G. Smith, Social Scientist, DHS
IDG Group 2
Using AI for Video Analysis and Increasing Security
-Improving multimedia analytics
-Increasing video data processing time through automation
-Increasing automatic threat detection
Jeff Alstott, Program Manager, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
IDG Group 3
sUAS Threats and Policy Hurdles Facing Local Police Authorities
-sUAS threat profile for local communities
-Laws and policies limiting the abilities of local law enforcement
-Partnership opportunities with DHS to counter the threat of sUAS
IDG Group 4
Deploying Biometrics Technologies To Secure Sensitive Facilities
-Assessing security vulnerabilities of facilities
-Adding biometrics as an added layer of security
-Picking the best biometric security solutions for your facility
2:15 p.m.
Key Updates On The National Vetting Center Operations
-What are some of the lessons learned?
-Approaches to working with the IC community to support NVC’s operations
-Plans for expansion of vetting and enabling advanced analytics capabilities
National Security Threats Posed by Quantum Computing & Strategies to Mitigate Them
-Deploying more resilient cryptography standards
-Investing in quantum computing solutions
-Developing partnership with private industry to share technological know how
Using Artificial Intelligence and Situational Awareness Technologies for Critical Incident Response
-Enhancing quick decision-making skills
-Improving awareness connectivity between first responders
-Improving patient outcomes and healthcare
The Future of Biometrics & Identity Technologies
-What does the future of identity verification look like?
-Strategies and policies for biometric technology for the next 10 years
-Addressing privacy concerns and data leaks
2:45 p.m.
Improving Airport Security with the Help of AI
-Using machine learning-powered tools that can aide agents to identify threats
-accurately predict the location of threat objects on the body
Using Blockchain Technology to Improve Safety of Critical Infrastructures
-Blockchain shows promise to better protect IoT
-Improved defense mechanisms against collaborative intrusion detection
Dangers of Irregular Migration to National Security
-Human trafficking and drug smuggling networks
-Risk of potential terrorists
-Increased chance of spread of infectious diseases
Blas Nunez-Neto, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND
Transitioning Identity Management Systems To The Cloud
-Update on the development of HART
-Addressing stakeholder challenges
-Increasing collaboration and data sharing
4:00 p.m.
Promoting Best Practices and Streamlining Acquisition Management at DHS
-Establish cross-functional teams in which key stakeholders coordinate and execute the acquisition tasks
-Strategically assess agency needs and how acquisition can meet those needs
-Establish mechanisms that promote the participation of small business suppliers
4:30 p.m.
Cyber threats to critical infrastructure (what are the threats? How to counter them? How to mitigate impact of?
Bob Kolasky, Director, National Risk Management Center, CISA
Lara Schmidt, Director, Strategy, Policy, and Operations Program, RAND
Ryan Consaul, Senior International Defense Researcher, RAND
Friday, November 22, 2019
9:00 a.m.
Breaking Down the DHS Information Technology Strategic Plan 2019-2023
-Optimize workplace technologies with cost-efficient and high impact solutions
-Developing a plan for safe and swift cloud migration
-Implement data protection practices to safeguard DHS systems and applications
9:45 a.m.
Keynote Presentation -James P. O'Neill, Police Commissioner, NYPD
11:15 a.m.
The Nexus Between Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Homeland Defense: A Whole of Nation Mission
-The strategic environment demands an urgent reexamination of Homeland Defense
-Any gaps between Homeland Defense and Homeland Security must be addressed
-DoD Mission Assurance requires whole of community partnerships
Neal Anderson, Senior Advisor to DHS, NORAD
Promoting Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Security and Increase Resilience within the Nation’s Chemical Industry
-Developing and implementing partnerships -Strategies and protocols during natural disasters
-Promoting good practices among federal, state and local agencies
Eric Choy, Chief, Chemical Sector Specific Agency, CISA, DHS
Amy Graydon, Deputy Director at Infrastructure Security Compliance Division, DHS
Jonathan Buckles, Section Chief, Government & Industry Affairs, DHS
12:00 p.m.
Engaging with the Private Sector to Better Protect Critical Infrastructures
-Establishing protocols to promote information sharing
-Equipping Private Sector critical infrastructure owners and the intelligence needed to protect instrumental assets
-Strengthening and expanding current partnership agreements
Modernizing CBP’s IT Infrastructure to increase network resilience and streamlining CBP operations
-Implementing cloud technologies to better connect the vast CBP IT network
-Using machine learning and data analytics tools to improve CBP’s threat and fraud detection capabilities
-Modernizing CBP network to increase bandwidth for all users and increasing protection against attacks
1:30 p.m.
Developing Effective Response Plans to CBRN Attacks That Minimize Risk to Personnel
-Training federal government employees in how to best respond to CBRN attacks with minimal loss of services
-Identifying new and emerging technologies in the field and finding their applications within Homeland Security
Sean Crawford, Director, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Office, FEMA
Investing in full spectrum impedance and denial capabilities to reduce illegal immigration, drug smuggling and human trafficking
-Increasing infrastructure investment at the border and enforcement of immigration and criminal laws
-Equipping our law enforcement professionals with the latest tools, technology, and training they need to do their job
-Collaborating with federal and local law enforcement agencies and international
2:15 p.m.
Supporting Border Response And Recovery Capabilities With And Between Federal, State, Local And Canadian Partners
-Implementing plans to promote open communication and strategies across the international boundary
-Evaluating progress toward addressing capability gaps in the Northern and Southern Border
-Policies & Plans to facilitate effective response and recovery operations
Manpower, the core of CBP: Recruiting, Hiring, training, and retaining the most qualifies people
-Enhancing recruiting and hiring efforts and reducing obstacles to attracting quality candidates
-Improving the messaging of recruitment campaigns to more closely align with CBP’s mission
-Offering incentives to increase staff retention
3:15 p.m.
Intelligence Sharing Panel Discussion
Protecting the American people from ever-changing domestic and transnational threats requires a DHS that shares intelligence not only with internal agencies but also partnering federal intelligence agencies. In this panel leaders from various national intelligence agencies will discuss how far they have come since 9/11 when it comes to intelligence sharing and pinpoint areas for improvement.
Panelists:
Sean Moon, Chief, Global Strategies, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, DHS
Lilian Alessa, Deputy Chief, Global Strategies, DHS
3:45 p.m.
Enforcing our Immigration Laws by Empowering and Modernizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
-Increasing the numbers of law enforcement officers and support personnel
-Investing in safe and secure detention facilities
-Partnering with foreign governments to expedite necessary removals
4:30 p.m.
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
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23.
Border Management South
Wednesday-Friday, December 4-6, 2019
Hilton Garden Inn San Antonio
8101 Pat Booker Rd.
Live Oak, Texas, 78233, USA
https://www.idga.org/events-bordermanagementsummit/landing/official-border-management-south-brochure
https://plsadaptive.s3.amazonaws.com/eco/files/event_content/border-management-south-2019.pdf
Overview: The southern border shared between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. is an enormous economic gateway for the United States, but it requires control, safety and modernization to maintain it. Enforcing laws and securing the border is a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security. As time passes, the need for operator driven policies and solutions, modern devices, and fully integrated border becomes more crucial.
This year’s Border Management South Summit will aim to connect local, federal and state officials to discuss the top challenges and priorities in the field. Interactive group discussions and panels will address procurement initiatives and aligning border solutions with development of operators.
Agenda:
Focus Day, Wednesday, December 4, 2019
8:50 a.m.
CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
9:00 a.m.
USING THE INTEGRATION OF IT SYSTEMS TO ENHANCE RESPONSE AT THE BORDER
The U.S./Mexico border is in need of becoming a fully integrated border. This session will evaluate how communication between law enforcement officials and security personnel will be seamless and sufficient using integration strategies.
* Understanding how the integration of technological systems will enhance communication across the border
* Enhancing border mobility
* Managing information data flow across the border
10:30 a.m.
OPTIMIZING THE USE OF SECURITY PERSONNEL USING SECURITY APPLICATIONS
This session will provide a break down of how the use of advanced analytics can transform and protect the border. Advanced analytics will be able to detect security breaches from objects, unauthorized people and more. Security personnel will be able to receive knowledge of potential threats and act accordingly and in a timely manner.
* Using AI and ML to not only stockpile data, but also manage it
* Utilizing analytical tools to enhance perimeter protection
* Enabling security personnel to recognize threats using intelligent video
12:30 p.m.
ANALYZING DATA TO PREDICT FUTURE EVENTS AND OUTCOMES
Data will only become sufficient and useful if it is then transformed into action. Join us as we learn about the transforming of paper data into visionary plans and help detect future events. Information management allows room for improvement to border services and protection of citizens.
* Managing current data and transforming it into visionary plans and action
* Collecting and exploiting data to drive border decision making Timothy Bennett, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security
Thursday, December 5, 2019
8:50 a.m.
CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
9:00 a.m.
TEXAS IN REAL-TIME: RESPONDING AT THE BORDER
* Gain insight on how front line law enforcement officials are tackling border issues in real-time
Sheriff Waybourn, Tarrant County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez, Del Val Verde County
9:45 a.m.
ANALYZING THE U.S. BORDER AS A SYSTEM: THE MEMBRANE, THE SURVEILLANCE AND THE HUMAN ELEMENT
In order to effectively secure the U.S. / Mexico border, it should be thought of as a system divided into three parts. A representative of the DHS will outline ways of uniting the organizational structure and breaking down each border element into compartments that work together to provide one outcome - effective border security.
* Evaluating the border as a whole system and not in parts
* Identifying the humanity aspect when working at the border
11:00 a.m.
ADVANCING ALL SITUATIONAL AND DOMAIN AWARENESS TO SUPPORT BORDER MISSIONS
Supporting border missions through situational and all domain awareness allows room to address challenges and provides understanding on how to respond in a threatening environment. Custom Border Patrol representatives will share how to appropriately notice changes across the border and respond rapidly.
* Building and sustaining situational awareness in a threat environment
* Using all domain awareness to predict future actions and threats
* Being aware of air, land and maritime border challenges and opportunities
Jennifer Barreras-Rawls, Operations Section Chief of Joint Task Force West, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
11:45 a.m.
ENSURING INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN OPERATIONS IN A THREAT ENVIRONMENT
It is important to use intelligence for improvement of the border system as a whole. Understanding how to share intelligence between partners and how to utilize the data given is a key component in securing the border.
* Understanding a threat environment using information and data
* Sharing Intelligence between Law Enforcement Enterprise Partners
Brad Skinner, Deputy Director Office of Field Operations Laredo Field Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
* Advancing the border using intelligence and innovative technology
* Enhancing operation objectives to increase border protection productivity
* Bringing the human element back into border management
1:30 p.m.
USING A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO ADDRESS BORDER CHALLENGES
Scientific breakthroughs and advancements have caused a huge gateway for the use of CIP and enhancing threat management. Here you will understand how intelligence pictures and process help conquer nearby threats.
* Using common intelligence pictures to showcase threat capabilities
* Establishing the ability to detect threats beyond the border
* Deploying a systematic process for analyzing and distributing data
2:15 p.m.
ENHANCING PARTNERSHIPS AND ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION
Establishing partnerships will assist the border in creating meaningful relationships and thus, actively creating new ways to guard the U.S. / Mexico Border. Utilizing department-wide cooperation and international input will help overcome border threats.
* Establishing a unity of effort approach to effectively guard the U.S/Mexico Border
* Building international partnerships to effectively detect threats
* Enhancing supply chain security to conduct thorough examinations at the border
Ismael Navarez Jr., Special Agent in Charge, IRS
3:00 p.m.
ADVANCING THE BORDER WITH THE MODEL PORTS PROGRAM
The Model Ports Program was designed to improve overall experience and operations at the port of entry. This session will showcase the reasoning and effectiveness behind the Model Ports Program.
* Improving wait time monitoring and processing
* Conducting meetings with senior level industry leaders for establish goals and monitoring techniques
* Using Public-Private Partnerships to enhance operation at the ports of entry
Friday, December 6, 2019
8:50 a.m.
CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
9:00 a.m.
PROCUREMENT: FUTURE INITIATIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
A DHS representative will disclose the 2020 Vision for the Department of Homeland Security. Attendees will understand where important investments are being made and how future policy will evolve border management.
* The 2020 outlook for the U.S./Mexico Border
* How policy changes will provide solutions to current border challenges
* Understanding future border investments
Rose Marie Davis, Director innovation Program Acquisitions, DHS
9:45 a.m.
IMMIGRATION OF FAMILIES ACROSS THE BORDER
The border is currently filled with multiple families including children seeking to come to the U.S. Due to the increase of migrants, facilities constantly become over crowded. Gain insights on how to ensure maintenance of facilities and navigate current and future border policies to secure the border.
* Maintaining protocol and policies when dealing with families at border
* Creating a safe and ethical environment at the U.S. /Mexico border
Robert Gross, DHS Attaché, Department of Homeland Security
11:00 a.m.
PROMOTING INNOVATION AND INTEGRITY AMONGST PERSONNEL
Training personnel on how to react in force situations and maintaining DHS ethical standards is important. Join us as we evaluate new initiatives taking place to reconstruct and advance CBP’s organizational structure.
* Reconstructing the border’s organizational structure
* Ensuring ethical conduct and integrity along the border
* Advancing training initiatives in assisting use of force situations
11:45 a.m.
PREVENTING COUNTERTERRORISM AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME AT THE BORDER
Joining forces across law enforcement allows one to maximize its resources and enhance operational integration. Leaders of the Department of Homeland Security will share how the interaction of global partners will assist with reducing crime and potential threats.
* Joining forces with local, state, and federal law enforcement to increase resources
* Using integrated operations to detect weapons and disrupt illegal crossings
* Expanding mobility to quicken response to threats John Jones, Divisional Director Intelligence and Counterterrorism, Texas Department of Public Safety
1:30 p.m.
ADVANCING BORDER TRADING IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE U.S.
Implementing strategies and trade intelligence will protect against unlawful items from entering. This session will break down the use of trade intelligence in real time and how it will shape enforcement efforts.
* Collaborating with advanced technology and enforcement to intercept high-risk shipment
* Responding to border risk in real-time using trade intelligence
* Integration of law enforcement to help protect the border from illegal trade
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