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1. (#1) 1/14, DC - House hearing on DHS efforts to prevent child deaths in immigration custody - [New Listing]
2. (#2) 1/14, DC - House hearing on low morale at DHS - [New Listing]
3. (#3) 1/15, DC - House hearing on strengthening security and the rule of law in Mexico - [New Listing]
4. (#4) 1/15, DC - Annual U.S.-Mexico security conference
5. (#5) 1/16, Paris - OECD forum on building a whole-of-society approach to emerging migration and integration challenges
6. (#6) 1/16-19, DC - Immigration at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference
7. (#7) 1/17, Paris - Conference on making migration and integration policies future ready
8. (#8) 1/17-18, Copenhagen, Denmark - Conference on forced displacement
9. (#9) 1/19-21, Cairo - IOM/OECD International Forum on Migration Statistics
10. (#10) 1/21-24, Quito, Ecuador - Annual Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development
11. (#11) 1/21, Florence, Italy - Lecture on the democratic case for immigration in the EU
12. (#12) 1/23, DC- MPI webinar on employment services for refugees - [New Listing]
13. (#13) 1/23, New York, NY - Report and discussion on statelessness in the U.S.
14. (#14) 1/23, Toronto - Discussion on Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime
15. (#15) 1/23, Canada/North America - Webinar on local strategies to support immigrant business and local prosperity
16. (#16) 1/24-24, Dubai, U.A.E. - EB-5 investors conference
17. (#17) 1/29, Brooklyn, NY - Lecture on threats posed by increased immigration enforcement
18. (#18) 2/3, San Diego - Seminar on emigrant political rights in Latin America
19. (#19) 2/4, Toronto - Discussion on State responsibilities towards refugees under the 1967 Protocol to the 1951 Convention
20. (#20) 2/14, Los Angeles - Lecture on explaining state responses to refugees
21. (#21) 2/17-21, San José, Costa Rica - World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
22. (#22) 2/20-22, Charleston, SC - Conference on current trends in immigration research and activism
23. (#23) 2/24, San Diego - Seminar on the White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression
24. (#24) 2/27, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migrant lives at Israel’s margins
25. (#25) 3/2-4, DC - Certificate program course in international migration studies - [New Listing]
26. (#26) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
27. (#27) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
28. (#28) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
29. (#29) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
30. (#30) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law

Assessing the Adequacy of DHS Efforts to Prevent Child Deaths in Custody

10:00 1.m., Tuesday, January 14, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, & Operations
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:
Brian Hastings, Chief, Law Enforcement Operations, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Alex Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS, FAEMS, Senior Medical Officer - Operations, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Seventeen Years Later: Why is Morale at DHS Still Low

2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 14, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, & Accountability
310 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:

Angela Bailey, Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Chris Currie, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Max Stier, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service

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Strengthening Security and the Rule of Law in Mexico

2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 15, 2020
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade
2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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Witnesses:
David Shirk, Professor of Political Science, University of San Diego

Maureen Meyer, Director for Mexico and Migrant Rights, Washington Office on Latin America

Richard G. Miles, Senior Associate (Non-resident), Americas Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies

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Eighth Annual U.S.-Mexico Security Conference: Taking Stock of Mexico's Security Landscape One Year On

8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 15, 2019
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
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Description: The Wilson Center's Mexico Institute invites you to its eighth annual Mexican security review. The forum will examine the pressing security challenges Mexico faces, such as the record number of homicides in 2019, and how it plans to respond. Other topics to be covered will include efforts to fight corruption and impunity; trends in security and migration enforcement on Mexico's southern border; the status of U.S.-Mexico security cooperation; and how illegal drug markets are evolving in Mexico and the United States. Two new research papers, one on the formation of Mexico's National Guard, and the other on countering the evolving drug trade in the Americas, will be presented. The conference will feature leading policy analysts from Mexico and the United States.

We hope you will be able to join us for this informative event.

Speakers:
Alejandro Hope, Security Analyst

David Shirk, Global Fellow, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center; Associate Professor, University of San Diego; Director, Justice in Mexico Project

Edna Jaime, Global Fellow, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center; Director General, México Evalúa

Iñigo Guevara, Director at Jane's Aerospace, Defense and Security

Maureen Meyer, Director for Mexico and Migrant Rights, Washington Office on Latin America

Celina Realuyo, Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, The National Defense University

Eric L. Olson, Global Fellow, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center; Director of the Central America- D.C. Platform, Seattle International Foundation

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OECD High-Level Policy Forum: Building a Whole-of-Society Approach to Emerging Migration and Integration Challenges

Thursday, January 16, 2020
OECD Conference Centre 2
rue André-Pascal 75775
Paris CEDEX 16 France
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Program:

9:30-10:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Chair or Vice-Chair of the OECD Migration and Integration Ministerial Meeting

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Preparing for the future: lessons from global migration over the past decade

This introductory panel (5-6 participants) will discuss the experiences of countries regarding large migration inflows, and the lessons learned moving forward. It will involve high-level representatives from the UN and from selected OECD countries that have - or had - a key role in contexts of dealing with large migration inflows, as well as the president of a leading think tank. 11:00 – 11:30 Elevator pitches for the Innovation Lab Following a call for proposals with member countries, 10 selected innovative projects related to migration and integration from across OECD countries will be presented in short, 1-minute “elevator pitches”. More detailed presentations of these projects will be made throughout the day in the hall of the OECD Conference Centre.

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Foresight: the future of migration and integration

Presentation and discussion in break-out groups of the results of the foresight exercise of the OECD, focusing on four themes:

(i) the impact of new technologies on migration control and enforcement as well as on

(ii) integration services delivery; and on

(iii) the role of regional and local authorities and

(iv) the role of corporations in migration and integration management in 2035.

2:30-3:45 p.m.
Parallel Sessions

1) Engaging with civil society – new approaches in the integration of migrants

New and innovative approaches that have been taken throughout OECD countries to leverage civil society in promoting the integration of migrants – notably with respect to social integration. This session will present and discuss some of these.

2) Innovations in language training

This session will present and discuss innovative approaches to language learning – either through new technologies or through innovation in course design and outreach.

3) Matching migrants with employment opportunities

A key issue with which many countries are struggling is to match migrants’ skills with available employment opportunities, notably, but not exclusively, for refugees. This requires skills being assessed upfront and migrants being put in touch with relevant employers.

4) Innovation in skills partnerships

Skills partnerships are an increasingly important tool for matching talent in origin countries with labour needs in destination countries, while avoiding negative impacts on the origin country. This session will discuss some recent policy innovations in this field.

4:00-4:30 p.m.
A conversation on the global competition for talent

This session will bring together a high-level representative from emerging economies and a global thought leader from an OECD country to discuss the global competition for talent.

4:30-5:45 p.m.
Ministerial panel: A whole-of-society response to future migration and integration challenges

This high-level closing session will act as a bridge between the policy forum and the ministerial meeting on the following day and will involve a selection of Ministers.

4:30-5:45 p.m.
Ministerial panel: A whole-of-society response to future migration and integration challenges

This high-level closing session will act as a bridge between the policy forum and the ministerial meeting on the following day and will involve a selection of Ministers.

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Society for Social Work and Research annual conference

Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality

Thursday-Sunday, January 16–19, 2020
Marriott Marquis
901 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Immigration-related sessions:

Thursday, January 17, 2020

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Examining Stress in Lives of Immigrants

The Effects of Caregiving, Self-Efficacy and Stigma on Wellness Among Asian-American Family Caregivers of People with Mental Illness
Meekyung Han, San Jose State University; Sadhna Diwan, San Jose State University

Venezuelan Youth in Diaspora: A Multisite Study of Crisis Migration and Cultural Stress
Christopher Salas-Wright, Boston University; Mariana Cohen, Boston University; Patricia Andrade, Raices Venezolanas; Jose Rodriguez, Iglesia Episcopal Jesús de Nazaret; Mariana Sanchez, Florida International University; Seth Schwartz, University of Miami

Personal Well-Being, Resilience, Social Support and Psychological Distress Among Burmese Resettled Adults in the United States
Kareen Tonsing, Oakland University; Martha Vungkhanching, California State University, Fresno

The Loneliness Absorbs and Oppresses: Social Integration Barriers, Social Isolation and the Health Behaviors of Latino Immigrant Day Laborers
Jennifer Siegel, University of Maryland at Baltimore; Gabriel Fiallos, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Priya Sharma, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Nalini Negi, University of Maryland at Baltimore

Healthcare Literacy & Utilization

Changes in Immigration Policy and the Mental Health of Recent Mexican American Immigrants
Robin Gearing, University of Houston; Micki Washburn, University of Houston; Luis Torres, University of Houston; Alberto Cabrera, University of Houston; L. Christian Gearing, University of Houston; Robin Gearing, University of Houston

Testing Competing Models of Somatization in a Sample of Somali Refugees Living in Urban Kenya
Claire Luce, Virginia Commonwealth University; Laura Swan, Virginia Commonwealth University; Shelby McDonald, Virginia Commonwealth University; Hyojin Im, Virginia Commonwealth University

Mental Health Needs and Healthcare Access Among Venezuelan Immigrants in Central Florida
Tracy Wharton, University of Central Florida; Andres Cubillo-Novella, Pontificia Javeriana University; Matthew Abrams, University of Central Florida; Gilarys Garcia, University of Central Florida; Heather Peralta, RN, University of Central Florida

Health Literacy and Healthcare Use Among Karen Refugees
Isok Kim, University at Buffalo; Wooksoo Kim, University at Buffalo; Krisztina Baltimore, University at Buffalo; Biplab Bhattacharya, State University of New York at Buffalo; Mary Keovisai, MA, State University of New York at Buffalo; Li Lin, State University of New York at Buffalo

3:15-4:45 p.m.
Exploring Mental Health Correlates

Trends and Mental Health Correlates of Discrimination Among Latin American and Asian Immigrants in the United States
Christopher Salas-Wright, Boston University; Michael Vaughn, Saint Louis University; Trenette Goings, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sehun Oh, University of Texas at Austin; Jorge Delva, Boston University; Mariana Cohen, Boston University; Seth Schwartz, University of Miami

Meanings of Resilience and Mental Health Among Syrian Refugees: Findings from Two Countries
Asli Yalim, University of Central Florida

Do Family Relation and Immigration Influence Mental Health Service Use Among Asian Americans?
Xiaochuan Wang, University of Central Florida

Structural Determinants of Mental Health Vulnerabilities and Access to Services Among Asian Immigrant Men in Toronto, Canada
Ran Hu, University of Toronto; Kenneth Fung, University of Toronto; Josephine Wong, Ryerson University

Friday, January 17, 2020

8:00-9:30 a.m.
Health Status of Immigrants

Perception of the Affordable Care Act Among Korean Americans
Chung Hyeon Jeong, University of Southern California; Hyunsung Oh, Arizona State University; Lawrence Palinkas, University of Southern California

Determinants of Healthcare Use Among Refugees from Burma
Isok Kim, University at Buffalo; Wooksoo Kim, University at Buffalo

Health and Mental Health Experiences of Latina Immigrant Women during the Perinatal Period
Maria Pineros Leano, Boston College; Laura Crowley, Boston College; Natalia Pineros Leano, Universidad de la Sabana

Gaining through Giving: A National Study of Volunteering and Health Status Among Immigrants in Canada
Jacky Ka Kei Liu, University of Calgary; Yeonjung Lee, University of Calgary

2:00-3:30 p.m.
Interpersonal Violence and Mental Health

Pathways between Economic Insecurity, Sexual Violence, and Depression Among Urban Refugee and Displaced Adolescents and Youth in Kampala, Uganda
Carmen Logie, University of Toronto; Moses Okumu, University of Toronto; Simon Mwima, Uganda Ministry of Health; Senkosi Balyejjusa, Uganda Christian University; Robert Hakiza, Young African Refugees For Integral Development

Controlling Behaviors, Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, and Social Adaptation Among Immigrant Women in South Korea
Hyun Lee, Yonsei University; Jae Yop Kim, Yonsei University; Lkhamkhuu Munkhnaran, Yonsei University; Boyoung Nam, University of Maryland Baltimore

Exploring Exclusionary and Fragmented Healthcare Access for Undocumented Women Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Miriam Valdovinos, University of Denver; Sarah Dodd, University of Connecticut; Maritza Vasquez Reyes, University of Connecticut

Complexity of Men's of Experiences of Violence in Northern Uganda: Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander
Steve Friedman, School for Social Work

3:45-5:15 p.m.
Multifold Impact of the Border Crisis

Preventing Family Separation: Child Custody and Family Deportation Planning with Undocumented Latinx Families
Jodi Berger Cardoso, University of Houston; Liza Barros Lane, Baylor College of Medicine; Monica Faulkner, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Scott, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge; Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, University of Houston

Educational Inclusion for Special Needs Students in a Refugee Camp: How Is School Setting Related to Children's Wellbeing?
Thomas M. Crea, Boston College; Kerri Evans, Boston College; Robert Hasson, Boston College; Kelsey Werner, Boston College; Elizabeth Wanjiku, Jesuit Refugee Service; Gregory St. Arnold, Jesuit Refugee Service

"I Want to Feel Safe at My School. I Want to Feel like I Belong": Exploring Muslim Refugee Students' Levels of Engagement in Schools
Ashley Cureton, The Johns Hopkins University

Developing Peer-to-Peer Support for Foreign-Born High School Students: Using Youth-Led Community-Based Participatory Research to Assess & Address Needs
Abbie Frost, Simmons University School of Social Work; Hugo Kamya, Simmons University School of Social Work

5:30-7:00 p.m.
Immigration Detention: The Racialized Response to Violence and Trauma
Sergio Serna, University of California, Los Angeles, Angela Garcia, University of California, Los Angeles, Anthony Gamez, University of California, Los Angeles, Fatima Gonzalez, University of California, Los Angeles and Marianna Hernandez, B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Background:Background: Recent data indicate the U.S. apprehended 92,607 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in March, 2019, the highest monthly total since April, 2007. (Pew Research) The recent wave of migration has been marked by two unique factors: refugees are migrating as family units more than ever and the number of people from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras together accounted for the bulk of apprehensions. In February, 2019, days after the Trump Administration declared a National Emergency at the border, four Latinx students from the Master's in Social Welfare program at UCLA, arrived in the rural town of Dilley, Texas. Joining volunteer lawyers, the team's role was to provide legal assistance to detained mothers and children undergoing the Credible Fear Interview process. The students, accompanied by department faculty, embarked on an intensely personal and professionally poignant journey to address this humanitarian crisis. In collaboration with Dilley's on-the-ground legal
team, the students conducted interviews of women and their children to determine their clients' strongest claims for asylum. While seeking and documenting their testimonies, students learned of women's harrowing accounts of traversing multiple countries with their young children, their terrifying crossing at the Rio Grande, and dehumanizing conditions in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facilities.

Methods: As a result of the experience, the team created a set of tools for advocates assisting newly arrived Central American refugees. The three key resources include: (1) an educational and outreach video documenting the experience of volunteer advocates and their clients; (2) a case example demonstrating the utility of exploring trauma narratives for providers struggling with secondary trauma; and (3) transdisciplinary recommendations aimed to decrease re-traumatization of detained immigrant clients through use of trauma-informed perspectives and practices.

Results: The perpetuation of dangerously false narratives, racialized narratives, paints Central American refugees as criminals. This is facilitated by existing systems of oppression including racism. The fact that these sentiments are promoted by the world's highest political office has broad implications for both micro and macro-level social work practice. Through disseminating these additional tools to better address the needs of newly arrived Central American refugees, this toolkit seeks to document helpful responses to the real national emergency—xenophobia.

Conclusions and Implications: Continued conversation must bring together researchers, educators, students and staff of organizations serving the most vulnerable racial/ethnic minorities whose life experiences led them to the U.S. We must acknowledge that a legal perspective alone is insufficient, akin to working with one hand tied behind our backs. The law often operates in a black and white paradigm, making it sometimes difficult to recognize the humanity of all people. Through dialogue we look to demonstrate why and how social workers and their perspective is uniquely suited for intervening with this population. This work is rooted in the narratives of the women and their children, those who participated in this journey and those seeking to provide culturally humble services and effective policy advocacy on behalf of impacted communities—all of which will serve as a continuous reminder of the power of resilience.

Understanding Economic Inequality in Immigrant Lives

Emerging Health and Economic Inequality Among U.S. Citizen Minors in Mexico
Jodi Berger Cardoso, University of Houston; Sharon Borja, University of Houston

Immigrant Women, Violence, and Economic Oppression
Arlette Vila, University of Texas at Austin; Elizabeth Pomeroy, University of Texas at Austin

Mothering in Contexts of Economic Inequality, Violence and Transnational Mobility: A Qualitative Study with Asylum-Seeking Mothers from Central America
Maria Emilia Bianco, Boston College

Exploring Determinants of Employment Among Resettled Refugee Women in the United States
Erum Agha, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saturday, January 18, 2020

9:45-11:15 a.m.
Improving health care delivery

"How Will I Take Her to Have Her Vaccinated?": Threats to Healthcare Access Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Cindy Sousa, Bryn Mawr College; Bree Akesson, Wilfrid Laurier University; Dena Badawi, University of Waterloo

Adaptation of Immigrants & Refugees

Reimagining Successful Aging Among Latinx Communities in the United States
Rocio Calvo, Boston College; Nacho Gimenez-Nadal, Universidad de Zaragoza

Gender Inequality in Assimilation across Immigrant Generations
Felix Muchomba, Rutgers University; Neeraj Kaushal, Columbia University

Institutional Innovation amidst the Demise of the Refugee Resettlement Sector
Jessica Darrow, University of Chicago

On Being Black, Muslim, and a Refugee: Stories of Somalis in Chicago
Ifrah Magan, New York University

4:00-5:30 p.m.
Immigration Status As a Social Determinant of Racial and Economic Inequality

The resurgence of anti-immigrant sentiment in immigrant receiving countries, like the United States and Canada, represents a pressing social just concern especially for undocumented immigrants who face the threat of deportation along with racial discrimination and economic insecurity. As Sociologist Roberto Gonzalez (2015) has argued, immigration status functions as a “master status” in the lives of immigrants through organizing the social, political, and economic resources available to immigrants as well as processes of stigmatization and discrimination that negatively impact people who are constructed in media and political rhetoric as "illegal," "criminal",' or "threats" to society.

The following papers present research from Canada and the United States to develop a cross-national understanding of the discriminatory effects of anti-immigrant sentiment and accompanying structural inequalities on the well-being of undocumented or precarious status immigrants, with direct implications for social work practice.

The first paper links macro and micro practice, through a psychoanalytic analysis of news coverage of the Trump administration's rhetoric of the “migration crisis” in the United States. Using select psychoanalytic constructs, Lee & Bhuyan present a critical discourse analysis of the Trump Administration's response to asylum claims related to domestic violence and gang violence. Their findings illustrate how political construction of the feared bad object/immigrants corresponds with construction of the imagined good object/nationalism as exemplified by Trump's motto – Making America Great Again (MAGA). Lee & Bhuyan discuss how attention to veiled racist political discourse can be addressed in clinical practice.

Park and colleagues' survey of social workers' attitudes towards immigrants in the United States indicate a troubling degree of anti-immigrant sentiment among social workers who do not perceive immigrants as facing discrimination and endorse anti-immigrant views towards undocumented immigrants. Park and colleagues call for deepening social workers' knowledge of structural barriers faced by immigrants, particularly related to race and national origin, towards improving outcomes for immigrants seeking social services.

Drawing upon research on immigrant settlement service in Ontario, Canada, Bhuyan and Schmidt employ an intersectional, gender-based analysis of racial and economic inequality in the lives of refugee claimants, low-skilled temporary foreign workers, international students, and immigrants with less access to financial capital. Their findings illustrate how gender, precarious status, racialization and financial security increase immigrant women's vulnerability to long periods of family separation, employer abuse and exploitation, and limited access to social and health services.

The final paper focusses on how immigrant families prepare their children for enduring racial and structural inequalities. Cross reports findings from a mixed-methods longitudinal study with Latinx immigrant parents in the United States. This research identifies how Latinx parents mobilize cultural practices to mitigate the threat of deportation and prepare their children to face experiences of discrimination outside of the home.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Immigration Policies and Media Discourse in the United States: Politics of Global Anxiety from Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Eunjung Lee, University of Toronto; Rupaleem Bhuyan, University of Toronto

Perceptions of Structural Inequality and Attitudes Towards Undocumented Immigrants Among U.S. Social Workers
Yoosun Park, Smith College; Maria Torres, Smith College; Andrew Rundle, Columbia University

Precarious Immigrant Pathways: A Gender-Based Analysis of Racial and Economic Insecurity for Immigrant Women in Canada
Rupaleem Bhuyan, University of Toronto; Catherine Schmidt, University of Toronto

Socialization Practices Latinx Immigrant Parents Utilize to Prepare Their Children for Anti-Immigrant Discrimination
Fernanda Cross, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Sunday, January 19, 2020

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Access to Services for Latinx Immigrant Families

Efforts to reduce racial and economic inequalities should address not only their effects on mental health but also on improving access to mental health services. Latinx immigrant families have been shown to experience gains in mental health outcomes upon arrival, relative to the non-immigrant population. However, these gains erode over time and from one generation to another, with poor mental health exceeding that of the general population. This symposium explains the difficulties associated with the Latinx immigrant experience in the United States and outlines interventions aimed to increase access and utilization of mental health services for Latinx immigrant families. The first panelist describes the need for access to services for Latinx caregivers of children with developmental disabilities. The study targets the unique experiences of Texan families, as little is known about this population. Texas is unique in that it is comprised of a racial/ethnically (58.3% reported racial/ethnic
minority) and linguistically (36% speak non-English language in home) diverse population. Subsequently, it is important to assess service access and receipt in Central Texas to determine if available services and supports are adequate for the needs of the community. The purpose of this needs assessment study is to fill these gaps in knowledge and determine the diagnostic and service needs of children with ASD and their families in Central Texas utilizing a mixed-methods approach. The second panelist addresses issues of child behavioral problems related to immigration stressors, through a community-based parenting intervention with Latinx immigrant family populations. Low-income Latinx immigrant families are exposed to multiple immigration-related challenges. These stressors place Latinx youth at high risk for experiencing various problematic behaviors (e.g., drug use). This presentation will describe strategies to effectively engage and retain underserved Latinx families in community-based
parenting prevention programs. The third panelist describes the perceived mental health needs of emerging adults from immigrant Latinx families, highlighting the social determinants of mental health burden and participants' preferences for a mental health intervention that leverages the existing infrastructure of the Ventanillas de Salud (VDS; Health Window). A model of health located within the Mexican Consulate General of Austin, the VDS connects consulate patrons to appropriate health services. A discussant will conclude the symposium with a discussion of how these interventions can be implemented and disseminated to promote mental health equity among often-underserved Latinx immigrant populations.

Identifying the Needs of Latino Immigrant Children with ASD in Central Texas: Results from a Mixed-Methods Needs Assessment
Sandy Magana, The University of Texas at Austin; Sandra Vanegas, Southwest Texas State University; Weiwen Zeng, University of Texas at Austin

Addressing Adversity and Discrimination in Intervention Curriculum and Delivery: Lessons Learned in Parenting Prevention Research with Low-Income Latinx Immigrant Families
Ruben Parra-Cardona, University of Texas at Austin

Mental Health Access to Immigrant Latinx Emerging Adults
Carmen Valdez, The University of Texas at Austin; Ashley Ables, University of Texas at Austin; Kevin Wagner, University of Texas at Austin; Alice Villatoro, University of Texas at Austin

Assessing Mental Health Interventions

A Randomized Clinical Trial Testing a Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment Intervention for Mental Health Among Refugees in Malaysia
Stacey Shaw, Brigham Young University; Lynette Randall, Brigham Young University; Latifa Ali, Brigham Young University; Hamid Karim, Brigham Young University; Louisa Gilbert, Columbia University

Psychometric Qualities of Measurement Tools Used in Research on Refugee Youth Mental Health: Findings from a Systematic Review
Kristan Armstrong, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Shandra Forrest-Bank, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Mary Held, The University of Tennessee; Omotola Akinsola, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mental Health Interventions for African Immigrants and Refugees Resettled in the Western Nations: A Systematic Review
Evalyne Orwenyo, Rutgers University; Betty Tonui, University of Texas at Arlington; Cecilia Mengo, Ohio State University

Addressing Mental Health Disparities in Resettled Refugees: The Promise of Family-Based Prevention
Theresa Betancourt, Boston College; Jenna Berent, Boston College; Jordan Farrar, Boston College

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Making Migration and Integration Policies Future Ready

Friday, January 17, 2020
OECD Conference Centre 2
rue André-Pascal 75775
Paris CEDEX 16 France
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Description: Under the title “Making Migration and Integration Policies Future Ready”, Ministers responsible for migration and integration issues from all OECD countries and from selected non-OECD countries will have the opportunity to exchange their views on their countries’ challenges, opportunities, and best practices in a Ministerial Meeting to be held on 17 January 2020 in Paris.

Notably Ministers will address:

* Innovative Approaches to managing Economic Migration
* Partnerships to improve Migration Enforcement and Compliance
* Innovative Approaches to Integration
* Engaging the Whole of Society and Improving Co-ordination

Ministers will also set out their priorities for Migration and Integration Policy work of the OECD.

Program:

9:30-10:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Karin Keller-Sutter, Federal Councillor, Chair of the Ministerial, Switzerland

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Preparing for the future: lessons from global migration over the past decade

This introductory panel will discuss the experiences of countries regarding large migration inflows, and the lessons learned moving forward. It will involve high-level representatives from the UN and from selected OECD countries that have - or had - a key role in contexts of dealing with large migration inflows, as well as the president of a leading think tank.

Annette Widmann-Mauz - Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, Germany

George Koumoutsakos - Alternate Minister of Citizen Protection, Greece

Gillian Triggs - Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Demetrios G. Papademetriou - Distinguished Transatlantic Fellow and President Emeritus, Migration Policy Institute

11:00-11:30 a.m.
Elevator pitches for the Innovation Lab

Following a call for proposals with member countries, 10 selected innovative projects related to migration and integration from across OECD countries will be presented in short, 1-minute “elevator pitches”. Further detailed presentations of these and other selected innovative projects will be made throughout the day in the OECD Conference Centre room CC9.

Duo for Jobs (Belgium)

Responsible AI in immigration decision-making (Canada)

Integral Actions (Colombia)

Integration Centers (Czech Republic)

Serious board game about migration governance (European Union)

Virtual Welcome Center (Germany)

CONNGI - Coordinamento Nazionale Nuove Generazioni Italiane (Italy)

Mana Aki: Building intercultural competence in New Zealand’s public service (New Zealand)

Wroclaw on tongues of the world (Poland)

Power Coders (Switzerland)

Hej Framling! (Sweden)

11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Foresight: the future of migration and integration

Presentation and discussion in break-out groups of the results of a foresight exercise of the OECD, focusing migration and integration in 2035. The session will be divided in four parallel themes:

(a) The impact of new technologies on migration control and enforcement

Nina Gregori - Executive Director, European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

Ola Henrikson – Director, Regional Office for the EU, Norway and Switzerland, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

(b) The impact of new technologies on integration services delivery

Cornelia Lüthy - Vice-Director, State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland

Agnes Fontana – Director, Reception and Support for Foreigners and Nationality at the Ministry of the Interior, France - TBC

(c) The role of regional and local authorities

Bart Somers - Vice Minister-President, Flemish Government, Belgium

Lena Metlege Diab - The Honourable Minister of Immigration, Nova Scotia, Canada

(d) The role of corporations in migration and integration management

Anne Duncan – Global Vice-President, International Women's Forum

Pierre Gattaz – President, BusinessEurope - TBC

1:00-2:30 p.m.
Lunch Break (special VIP lunch with keynote speech)
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)

2:30-3:45 p.m.
Parallel Sessions

A) Engaging with civil society – new approaches in the integration of migrants
New and innovative approaches that have been taken throughout OECD countries to leverage civil society in promoting the integration of migrants – notably with respect to social integration. This session will present and discuss some of these.

Keizo Yamawaki – Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Lizette Risgaard – President, Danish Trade Union Confederation, Denmark

Maria Nyman – Secretary-General, Caritas Europe

Kostas Bakoyannis - Major of Athens, Greece

B) Innovations in language training
This session will present and discuss innovative approaches to language learning – either through new technologies or through innovation in course design and outreach.

Haviv Katzav - Acting Director General, Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Israel

Uta Saumweber-Meyer - Director-General for Integration, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Germany

Sonja Hamalainen - Director for Migration, Ministry of Labour and the Economy, Finland

Michel Boiron – Director General, Centre d’Approches Vivantes des Langues et des Médias (CAVILAM), France

C) Matching migrants with employment opportunities
A key issue with which many countries are struggling is to match migrants’ skills with available employment opportunities, notably, but not exclusively, for refugees. This requires skills being assessed upfront and migrants being put in touch with relevant employers.

Guro Angell Gimse – State Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Norway

Fraser Valentine - Assistant Deputy Minister of Settlement and Integration, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Canada

Petra Draxl – Managing Director of the Public Employment Service Vienna (AMS), Austria

Ruth Annus - Director General of Citizenship and Migration Policy Department, Ministry of Interior, Estonia

D) Innovation in skills partnerships
Skills partnerships are an increasingly important tool for matching talent in origin countries with labour needs in destination countries, while avoiding negative impacts on the origin country. This session will discuss some recent policy innovations in this field.

Zsuzsanna Jakab - Deputy Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Michael Spindelegger - Director General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)

Leonie Gebers – State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany

José Alarcon Hernández – Director General of Migration, Ministry of Employment, Migration and Social Affairs, Spain

4:00-4:30 p.m.
A conversation on the global competition for talent

This session will bring together a high-level representative from emerging economies and a global thought leader from an OECD country to discuss the global competition for talent.

XU Ganlu - Vice-Minister of Public Security and Head of National Immigration Administration, China

Ylva Johannsson - European Commissioner for Home Affairs, European Commission - TBC

4:30-5:45 p.m.
Ministerial panel: A whole-of-society response to future migration and integration challenges

This high-level closing session will act as a bridge between the policy forum and the ministerial meeting on the following day and will involve a selection of Ministers.

5:45-6:00 p.m.
Concluding remarks
Gabriela Ramos - OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20

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Conference on Forced Displacement

Friday-Saturday, January 17-18, 2020
UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Description: In 2018 the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally-displaced people reached its highest level since the creation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after the Second World War. In recent years, the World Bank Group (WBG) and UNHCR have significantly stepped up the scale and scope of their joint initiatives on forced displacement. On the data side, these two organizations have recently established the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, thanks to a generous contribution from the Danish government. Part of the JDC mandate is to stimulate further interest and research around data on forcibly displaced populations.

Recognizing the need for robust evidence to inform policy decisions and program and project design, the JDC is partnering with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University and the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) and Middle East Initiative (MEI) at Harvard University to organize an international research conference on forced displacement to be held January 17-18, 2020 at the U.N. City in Copenhagen, Denmark. The goals of the conference are to focus attention on emerging scholarship and establish links between researchers and data providers to promote new work on this important topic.

Papers presented at the conference will be eligible for consideration for a special issue on Forced Displacement in The Journal of Development Economics. Details of the submission process will be provided at the conference. Presenters are not required to submit conference papers to this special issue.

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International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS)

Sunday-Tuesday, January 19-21, 2020
Cairo, Egypt
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Description: Migration remains at the top of policy agendas in many countries worldwide. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) recognize the need for reliable, disaggregated statistics on migration that are nationally relevant and internationally comparable. However still today, there is scarcity of basic data on international migration and existing data are not fully analysed, utilized or shared.

The International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS) is a unique, global platform devoted to improving data on migration in all its dimensions. Organised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the IFMS offers space for dialogue for a broad range of actors, from national and regional authorities, NGOs, international agencies and the private sector. The first meeting of the IFMS, took place in Paris, France, from 15 to 16 January 2018, and it included 240 speakers and over 350 participants from 90 countries, representing national statistical offices, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions.
IFMS 2020

The second IFMS aims to mobilise expertise from a wide range of disciplines – such as statistics, economics, demography, sociology, geospatial science, and information technology – to improve the collection and analysis of migration data worldwide. The Forum will take place in Cairo, Egypt on 19-21 January 2020.

It will explore innovative ways to measure population mobility and to generate timely statistics, by bringing together a broad range of participants to share and to discuss new data initiatives and examples of success in the field of migration data. The Forum will also provide a unique opportunity for policy-makers to have direct contact with migration data experts and to use their expertise to feed policy evaluations and to identify best policy options.

The focus on data capacity building comes from the recognition that implementing the commitments of international processes comes with significant challenges for National Statistical Offices, which often have limited capacities to collect, analyse and manage data relevant to migration.

The plenary sessions of the Forum will be organised around the following six themes:

* Strengthening data for policy: ensuring effective data communication and examining existing gaps in migration statistics to determine what is needed to address policy concerns;
* Data collection and innovation: Lessons and new approaches to the collection of migration data, including from 2020 censuses and administrative sources, and the potential of technologically-driven solutions, including big data;
* Cooperation and data governance: exploring ways to strengthen stakeholder coordination and the exchange and sharing of data;
* Capacity development and financing: identifying strategies to enhance data literacy as well as institutional capacities to collect, analyse and disseminate data;
* Measuring progress on the SDGs and other global commitments: data challenges, initiatives and indicators-based approaches to monitoring;
* Improving the availability of data on migrants in vulnerable situations: disaggregating statistics by migratory status, age and sex - analysing challenges, opportunities and best practices.

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The 6th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development

Tuesday-Friday, January 21-24, 2020
Centro de Convenciones Metropolitano
Quito, Ecuador
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Description: The Government of the Republic of Ecuador, in its capacity as 2019 Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), will be hosting the Twelfth GFMD Summit Meeting on 20-24 January 2020 in Quito, Ecuador, open to Member States and Observers of the United Nations, and other GFMD Observers. The Twelfth GFMD Summit will be the climax of the Ecuador GFMD Chairmanship.

The Twelfth GFMD Summit will be opened by High Level officials of the Government of the Republic of Ecuador. It is expected to be attended by Ministers and Vice Ministers from all regions of the world, and a broad range of policy-makers and practitioners in migration and development fields.

From the outset, a central focus of the GFMD 2019 Chairmanship has been continuing the global dialogue on migration in the changed policy landscape following the affirmation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Migration (GCM), the review of the implementation of migration-related commitments in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda through the High-level Political Forum, and the enhancement of the GFMD process through the follow up of the recommendations of the GFMD Ten-Year Review Report.

The Ecuadorian Chairmanship is focused on the central theme: “Sustainable approaches to human mobility: Upholding rights, strengthening state agency, and advancing development through partnerships and collective action.”

The substantive agenda of the Quito GFMD Summit focuses on three Roundtable (RT) themes, to be discussed in six RT sessions:

(1) Coordinated responses to mixed movements: Partnerships and collective action to protect rights

Roundtable 1.1: Providing regular pathways from crisis to safety

Roundtable 1.2: Facilitating social and economic inclusion

(2) Migration narratives and communication: What role, responsibility and resources do governments have?

Roundtable 2.1: Shaping public narratives on migration and migrants

Roundtable 2.2: Communicating effectively with migrants

(3) Addressing human mobility as part of urban and rural development strategies

Roundtable 3.1: Supporting arrival cities through policy coherence and multi-stakeholder partnerships

Roundtable 3.2: Harnessing migration for rural transformation and development

In line with the tradition of the GFMD, the three-day GFMD Summit program will include inaugural and closing ceremonies, as well as Roundtable discussions and special sessions on the GFMD Platform for Partnerships and the Future of the Forum open to Friends of the Forum. Additionally, this year, for the first time, the three multi-stakeholder mechanisms of the GFMD – the Civil Society Days, the Business Meeting and the Mayoral Forum – will be held in the same space and integrated into the overall program of the GFMD Summit. The ‘Common Space’ sessions will provide an opportunity for the multi-stakeholder representatives from all mechanisms to mingle and share ideas in unified shared events.

For more details, please refer to the Provisional Programme for 20-24 January 2020 and Logistics Note with practical information for participating delegations.

Registration for the Quito GFMD Summit will be coursed through the GFMD Support Unit in Geneva ([email protected]). For logistical considerations, all delegations are encouraged to complete online registration via gfmd.org until 13 December 2019.

The Ecuadorian GFMD Chair looks forward to welcoming your government / organization’s delegation to the Twelfth GFMD Summit.

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The Democratic Case for Immigration in the European Union

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Seminar Room, Villa Malafrasca
Migration Policy Centre
Villa Malafrasca
Via Boccaccio 151
I-50133 Florence – Italy
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Abstract: In this talk, Rainer Baubock will present three challenges to the view that democratic self-determination justifies immigration control. He proposes, first, that the reason why democratic states have immigration control powers is not that they are democratic, but that they are independent states. Exercising this power is legitimate when immigration control is needed to preserve the conditions for democratic self-government. Second, he will argue that democratic norms provide positive reasons for promoting free international movement and admission claims for family migrants, economic migrants and refugees. Third, he will suggest that current disputes over immigration policy in the European Union reflect deeper conflicts between open and closed conceptions of democracy. If this is correct, then choosing closure over openness may put the future of democracy itself at risk and should thus not be regarded as an issue of legitimate democratic self-determination.

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Employment Services for Refugees: Leveraging Mainstream U.S. Systems and Funding

2:00 p.m. EST, Thursday, January 23, 2020
MPI Webinar
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Description: A key goal of the U.S. refugee resettlement program is to help refugees rapidly find employment. While refugees do work at high rates, and entry-level jobs are often available in today’s tight labor market, service providers sometimes struggle to help refugees into jobs that provide long-term career pathways and upward mobility.

Such challenges are compounded by the pressures and challenges of the current environment around refugee resettlement, in a context of greatly reduced refugee arrivals, strains on local resettlement organizations—many of which have ended or reduced operations—and uncertainty about which states and counties will be resettling refugees in the years ahead. Under these circumstances, two activities can be key parts of a broader strategy for sustaining and improving employment services for refugees: Partnerships with experts in workforce development strategies, and access to federal workforce development funding.

Join Migration Policy Institute (MPI) researchers and other experts on this webinar as they explore what these approaches can look like in practice. Speakers will discuss the possibilities for collaboration between refugee resettlement and mainstream workforce services, and funding streams such as Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs, SNAP Employment and Training funds, Pell grants, and more to help refugees find better jobs. State leaders in Michigan and Washington State will also share how they have leveraged such funding to support their refugee employment services.

Speakers:
Essey Workie, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute

Amanda Bergson-Shilcock, Senior Fellow, National Skills Coalition

Sarah Peterson, Chief, Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance, and Washington State Refugee Coordinator, Economic Services Administration, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

Karen Phillippi, Director, New American Integration, Office of Global Michigan, Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity

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Report and Event on Statelessness in the United States

2:00-4:30 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2020
Center for Migration Studies of New York — 6th Floor
307 E 60th Street
New York, NY 10022,
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Description: Join the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) for a presentation on its new report on statelessness in the United States.

In October 2017, CMS initiated a study to map the stateless population in the United States; that is persons living in the United States who do not have nationality in any country. It ultimately produced a report – using a unique methodology – that provides estimates and profiles of US residents who are potentially stateless or potentially at risk of statelessness.

In conjunction with the release of its report, CMS will share and discuss its findings with experts, practitioners and advocates for stateless persons. This event is free, but advance registration is required.

Speakers:
Danah Abdulaziz, Founding Member, United Stateless

David Baluarte, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law

Laura Bingham, Senior Managing Legal Officer for Equality and Inclusion, Open Society Justice Initiative

Karina Clough, Founding Member, United Stateless

Lindsay Jenkins, Protection Officer, UNHCR Regional Office for the USA and the Caribbean

And the authors of the new CMS report:
Donald Kerwin, Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies

Daniela Alulema, Director of Programs, Center for Migration Studies

Mike Nicholson, Researcher, Center for Migration Studies

Robert Warren, Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for Migration Studies

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Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: Early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)

12:30-2:30 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2020
York University
626 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
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Speaker:
James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University

Description: While there is a rich literature on the politics of the global refugee regime and the politics of asylum in the global South, there has been less systematic treatment of the role of civil society actors in navigating the everyday politics of the regime, especially in the global South, which hosts 80% of the world’s refugees. This gap is surprising given the literature on the role that civil society plays in other global regimes and the range of civil society actors engaged with the work of the global refugee regime. In response, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) was launched in 2018 as a partnership between four Canadian universities, INGO partners, and working groups in Kenya, Tanzania, Lebanon and Jordan, which include local academics, national NGOs and refugee-led initiatives from each context. This presentation will share the early results of LERRN and its work to understand the everyday politics of the global refugee regime.

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Webinar: Inroads to Entrepreneurship: Local strategies to support immigrant business and local prosperity

1:00 p.m. EST, Thursday, January 23, 2020
Cities of Migration
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Speakers:
Janet Moser, Managing Director, Immigration Services, Ignite Fredericton (Fredericton, News Brunswick, Canada)

As Managing Director of Immigration Services Janet brings over 30 years of professional experience. From business owner, to career councillor for local post secondary colleges Janet is a professional who strives for excellence of those she is working with and for. Along with her years of experience Janet is a connector, negotiator, liaison and advocate working between government and private industry involving the development and startup success of immigrant investors in Fredericton and across New Brunswick. Janet has been involved in the creation and management of immigrant entreprenurial settlement programming for the past ten years. Most recently she transitioned into an exciting new role to oversee the build of Fredericton’s five-year innovative immigration and population growth strategy as well as the leading the Local Immigration Partnership.

Reem Ali, Community Development Worker, New Canadians Centre Peterborough (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)

Reem is the Community Development Worker, leading projects at the New Canadians Centre that focus on the economic and social empowerment of newcomers. She also coordinates working groups under the Peterborough Immigration Partnership that focus on refugee and immigrant integration.

Reem has an MSc in Biochemistry from McMaster University and an MPA from Carleton University. She started her career in life sciences as a Researcher and Lecturer at Trent University. Her passion for international development led her to Egypt, where she spent 6 years specializing in the field of child rights and working with local and international organizations, most notably CIDA, UNICEF, and the Drosos Foundation. She continues to teach at Trent University in the International Development Studies department.

In 2018, Reem was a recipient of the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce’s ‘4 Under 40’ award. The ‘4 Under 40’ awards are designed to recognize four individuals in our community who are under the age of 40 and who are making their mark in the Peterborough area. Reem was also a recipient of the inaugural Peterborough-Kawartha Women’s Leadership Awards in October 2018.

Description: With retirement rates outpacing workforce growth in communities across regional and rural Canada, smaller cities and towns are looking for new ways to bolster the local economy. For many, that means investing in strategies for the reception and integration of immigrant entrepreneurs. Whether running a small business or investing in a new start-up, entrepreneurship has always been a route for immigrants to establish and sustain themselves in new communities. Research suggests that local communities that are willing to invest in entrepreneurism are investing in strategies that will advance innovation and spur creativity for the benefit of all residents (Kao et al. 2002).

Immigrants face the same challenges in starting a new business as entrepreneurs anywhere. Additional roadblocks can include language, limited knowledge of local markets, regulatory issues, access to credit or vital business networks. What can smaller cities do to support aspiring immigrant entrepreneurs and ensure they lay down the roots for a successful business and new life in the community?

Join us online to learn how the cities of Fredericton (NB) and Peterborough (ON) are providing inroads to entrepreneurism and economic inclusion for newcomers.

Learn about Good Ideas:

* In Fredericton, New Brunswick (CA): The innovative Business Immigrant Mentorship was launched in 2009 by the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, and became a launching pad for a City led business incubator and centre that supports immigrant entrepreneurs from networking to training to advocacy, including Planet Hatch and Ignite Fredericton

* In Peterborough, Ontario (CA): the Newcomer Kitchen Peterborough focuses on empowering newcomer women through cooking, learning workplace English and entrepreneurial skills.

The Immigrant Futures project explores new perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of immigration in Canada's small cities, towns and regions. The Immigrant Futures webinar series is presented in partnership with Hire Immigrants-Magnet, Hamilton Economic Development, the City of Moncton, The Halifax Partnership and the Leeds Grenville Local Immigration Partnership; with support from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).

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2020 EB-5 and Uglobal Immigration Expo

Friday-Saturday, January 24-25, 2020
Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Waterfront
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Description: In light of Dubai becoming a magnet for foreign high net worth individuals with more than 8,600 multi-millionaires, EB5 Investors Magazine is excited to host the 2020 EB-5 Expo Dubai on Jan. 24-25. We are proudly presenting you with a gathering of industry leaders, who will share their insight and expertise during two days of educational, interactive panels about United States’ EB-5 immigrant investor program and other global migration programs.

Join us to network with EB-5 regional centers, law firms, service providers, migration agencies and potential investors.

Why Attend This Event?

Ultra-high net worth individuals are forecasted to grow more than 20% in the Middle East region in the upcoming five years.

More than one quarter of all UHNWIs in the Middle East are considering to permanently emigrate to another country.

UAE ranks among the top 5 countries in the world with the highest number of millionaire inflows in 2018 and half of them have settled in Dubai.

UAE continues to be a hub with more than 8 million expats and global migrants.

Dubai has emerged as the world’s fifth most important hub for wealthy individuals.

More than 60 percent of the second-passport UHNWIs candidates are from the MENA region.

Who Will Attend This Event?

Learn and network in an exclusive, cross-cultural setting among the world’s key players in the global immigration investment market.

HNWIs
Foreign Intermediaries & Wealth Managers
Migration Agents
Real Estate Developers
Immigration Attorneys
EB-5 Regional Centers
Service Providers

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Threats from Within: The Rise of the Immigration Police State

6:30–8:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Description: With White Nationalism on the rise, increased militarization of the border, and inhumane practices justified by “America First,” our land of opportunity is now the land of nightmares for immigrants seeking a better life.

Elizabeth F. Cohen, professor of political science at Syracuse University, confronts this new normal in her book Illegal: How America’s Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All and shows how the rising tide of nationalism and unfettered policing of immigrants threaten citizen and non-citizen alike.

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Emigrant Political Rights in Latin America: A configurational analysis approach

12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, February 3, 2020
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
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Speaker:
Leydy Diossa-Jimenez
Visiting Graduate Student, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
PhD Candidate, UC Los Angeles

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Beyond the 1951 Convention: What are State responsibilities towards refugees according to the 1967 Protocol

12:30-2:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 4, 2020
York University
519 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
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Speaker:
Robert Barsky, Canada Research Chair: Law, Narrative and Border Crossing, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

Description: Prof. Barsky will discuss the letters, minutes of meetings, memos, and reports that pertain to the negotiations leading up to the 1967 Protocol. These documents show that the ambitions of the 19 legal experts who convened in Bellagio in 1965 were far more wide-ranging than simply removing the temporal (pre-1951) and geographical (Europe) limitations of the 1951 Convention. Rather, the documents reveal complex discussions about how to create a stand-alone treaty that would expand the Convention’s reach and render it more adaptable to new refugee situations, while not impeding any more expansive regional instruments that might come to be adopted.

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Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees

UCLA Center for Study of International Migration

12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, February 14, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Lamis Abdelaaty, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Syracuse University

Description: What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This project identifies two puzzling patterns in state responses to refugees: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (the “discrimination puzzle”), and a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (the “delegation puzzle”). I develop a two-part framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. At the international level, policymakers consider relations with the refugee-sending country. At the domestic level, policymakers consider political competition among ethnic groups. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies.

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World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges

Monday-Friday, February 17-21, 2020
Radisson San José
Calle Central y Tercera Av. 15
San José, Costa Rica
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Description: The World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges is themed as A New World on the Move: The Realities of Irregular Mass Migration and the Challenges Facing Asylum and Immigration Judges Background and it is indeed a great opportunity for the Americas Chapter of the IARMJ to focus on the increase of mixed flows of people who cross international borders, whether forced to seek international protection or migrants with other characteristics and profiles.

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Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Conference

Current Trends in Immigration Research and Activism

Thursday-Saturday, February 20-22, 2020
The Citadel
Charleston, SC
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[Conference details will be available soon.]

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Legalizing the Impossible Subject: The White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression

12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, February 24, 2020
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
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Speakers:
S. Deborah Kang, Visiting Scholar, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Associate Professor of History, California State University San Marcos

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Indignity and Indignation: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins

12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, February 27, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
Lower Level Library
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Sarah Willen, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights, University of Connecticut

Description: Sarah Willen is the author of Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no place. The deportation campaign quickly devastated Tel Aviv's migrant communities and set the stage for even more aggressive antimigrant and antirefugee policies in the years to come.

Fighting for Dignity traces the roots of this deportation campaign in Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows how policies that illegalize and criminalize migrants wreak havoc in their lives, endanger their health, and curtail the human capacity to flourish. Children born to migrant parents are especially vulnerable to developmental and psychosocial risks. Drawing on nearly two decades of ethnographic engagement in homes and in churches, medical offices, advocacy organizations, and public spaces, Willen shows how migrants struggle to craft meaningful, flourishing lives despite the exclusions and vulnerabilities they endure. To complement their perspectives, she introduces Israeli activists who reject their government's exclusionary agenda and strive to build bridges across difference, repair violations of migrants' dignity, and resist policies that violate their own moral convictions. Willen's vivid and unflinching ethnography challenges us to reconsider our
understandings of global migration, human rights, the Middle East— and even dignity itself.

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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies

XCPD-703 - Newcomers to Citizens: Immigrant Integration

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday-Wednesday, March 2-4, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: With a record 200 million people living outside their country of birth, immigration is a global phenomenon with profound demographic, economic, social, and political implications for both sending and receiving countries. The debate over immigration law and policy has become increasingly volatile and, in some instances, characterized by misinformation, hate, and xenophobia. Beyond the politics of immigration, genuine challenges to immigrant integration abound. Successful integration of immigrants is critical to the long-term prosperity of host countries that rely on immigrants as workers, consumers, taxpayers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in light of their aging native-born populations and lower birth rates. In this course we will explore integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving countries--such as the United States and Canada and new countries of permanent immigration such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom. We
will raise questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity. We will also discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism, paradigms that challenge an integrationist reading of migration. Using case studies from North America and Europe we will pay special attention to the different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation on their road from newcomers to citizens.

Course Objectives:

At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:

* Discuss the integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving and source countries.
* Recognize questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity.
* Discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism.
* Compare different modes of immigrant civic engagement and political participation.

Instructor: Jennifer Wistrand

Notes: This course is an open enrollment course. No application is required and registration is available by clicking "Add to Cart." Current students must register with their Georgetown NetID and password. New students will be prompted to create an account prior to registration.

Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours

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Border Security Expo

Wednesday-Thursday, March 11-12, 2020
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
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Conference agenda:

Keynotes:
Ronald D. Vitiello, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Vice Admiral Scott Buschman, Director, Joint Task Force-East

Scott A. Luck, Deputy Chief, U.S. Border Patrol

John P. Sanders, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Panels:
National Vetting Center: What is It? What isn’t It? And How Will It Change the Way We Protect the Homeland?
This session will focus on the National Vetting Center (NVC) and how it will complement the National Targeting Center (NTC). Experts from the NVC, NTC, as well as other members of the Intelligence Community, will discuss why the NVC is critical to the Homeland and next steps. The NVC will be operational at the time of the Expo, enabling the audience and panels to discuss the implementation.

Mass Migration and Unaccompanied Children: Financial and National Security Impacts
This panel will be comprised of experts from ICE Homeland Security Investigations assigned to the U.S., Mexico, and Central America. The panel will discuss the financial impact on the U.S., Mexico, and Central American countries in addressing the issues related mass migration and unaccompanied children attempting to enter the U.S. The panel will discuss human trafficking, organized human smuggling organizations, and national security issues relating to mass migration and unaccompanied children. The panel will provide publicly releasable information relating to “The Caravan” that reached the U.S./Border in November 2018.

Border: Wall – Ports – System(s) – Technology – Infrastructure – Integration – Modernization
Panel will discuss the immediate, near term, and out-year capability requirements, goals, and vision for border operations including infrastructure updates; technology needs, requirements, and planning; initiatives; modernization; and deployments.

Model Port: How Technology, Public-Private Partnerships, and Innovation Will Continue to Change the Way Ports-of-Entry Operate
This panel will be comprised of experts from the federal/local governments and industry. It will highlight what will take place at the POE in Donna, Texas and why it is important to the country’s national and economic security. Technology will play a key role in defining the Model Port. A representative from the City of Donna will explain why this investment is important to the local community. CBP Headquarters staff will address the Donation Assistance Program and why it is necessary to make the Model Port a reality.

A Dialogue with Tenoch Moreno, General Customs Administration, Mexico: Current Operations and Future Thoughts

Procurement: Keeping Industry Current in the Complex Area of Government Procurement and the Mission Needs of Border Operators

This is a must-attend session for those who plan to compete for government contracts. Rules and regulations change frequently, and new requirements are placed on industry. Industry must have a clear understanding of the mission needs of the border operators. Government and industry experts will discuss best practices and explain how to best leverage the many opportunities that support the daily mission of CBP and other agencies. Government panelists will include Senior Executives from CBP procurement and the new office of Operations Support.

Complete conference agenda will be available at end of December.

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Emigration from Paradise: Migration Stories from Interwar Hungary

Harvard Center for European Studies

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
llse Josepha Lazaroms, Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Martin Buber Chair, Goethe University Frankfurt; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University

Description: In this talk Ilse Josepha Lazaroms will discuss the many variations of emigration and emigration narratives that existed among Jewish communities in interwar Hungary and the Hungarian diasporas. This story is a part of a larger book project entitled Emigration from Paradise: Home, Fate and Nation in Post-World War I Jewish Hungary (forthcoming with Stanford University Press). The manuscript deals with the nature of national attachment and social exclusion in 1920s East Central Europe, and Hungary in particular, as well as the ways in which the personal, social and national traumas of these years reverberate until today. The story, which is set at the point when European civilization plunged into the depths of darkness, focuses on the life-stories of individual Hungarian Jews, thereby bringing the domain of the private into the world of politics, migrations and nation states.

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The Society of Government Economists Annual Convention

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Friday, March 27, 2020
Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
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Writing Immigration History in an Age of Fake News

12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Katy Long, Senior Research Associate at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London

Description: In the battle that currently rages over immigrants’ place in America’s future, history has been weaponized. If liberals remain convinced that America is at its very core a ‘nation of immigrants’: a country shaped by a constant flow of newcomers, conservatives insist that preserving historic American identity depends upon keeping an imminent immigrant ‘invasion’ at bay. The reality, however, is a far more less binary history than is suggested by either shrill and repetitive headlines about walls, deportations and looming crisis, or romanticized nostalgia for an era in which ‘huddled masses’ were ushered through ‘golden doors’. At a moment when debates over immigration are at the center of a national political crisis, is there a duty to write about immigration in ways that reach beyond the seminar hall? If so, how can researchers best tell stories about the history of American Immigration in ways which engage an ever-more skeptical and polarized public.

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Annual Conference on European Immigration Law 2020

Monday-Tuesday, April 27-28, 2020
Academy of Europe
Avenue des Arts 56,
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Objective:
The aim of this conference is to provide legal practitioners with an update on recent developments in the EU legal migration system and the mechanisms put in place to tackle labour and skills shortages and to reinforce the attractiveness of the EU for key workers. It will give them the opportunity to discuss current legal reforms with high-level experts in the field.

Key topics: Key novelties in current EU legal migration law.

Schengen Visa Code amendments

Blue Card system for highly qualified workers

Intra-Corporate Transfers Directive in practice

Implementation of the Single Permit Directive

Family reunification of third-country nationals

Integration of third-country nationals in the EU Member States

Strengthening cooperation with non-EU countries: facilitating legal migration pathways

Employment and immigration law post-Brexit

Recent case law of European courts in legal migration matters

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