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| Date | January 20, 2020 10:06 PM |
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1. (#1) 1/21, DC - Discussion on new U.S. asylum and refugee policies - [New Listing]
2. (#2) 1/21-24, Quito, Ecuador - Annual Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development
3. (#3) 1/21, Florence, Italy - Lecture on the democratic case for immigration in the EU
4. (#4) 1/23, DC- MPI webinar on employment services for refugees
5. (#5) 1/23, New York, NY - Report and discussion on statelessness in the U.S.
6. (#6) 1/23, Toronto - Discussion on Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime
7. (#7) 1/23, Canada/North America - Webinar on local strategies to support immigrant business and local prosperity
8. (#8) 1/24-24, Dubai, U.A.E. - EB-5 investors conference
9. (#9) 1/28, Toronto - Seminar on refugee rights, capabilities and legal empowerment - [New Listing]
10. (#10) 1/29, Brooklyn, NY - Lecture on threats posed by increased immigration enforcement
11. (#11) 2/3, San Diego - Seminar on emigrant political rights in Latin America
12. (#12) 2/4, Cambridge, MA - Seminar on the Lebanese response to the Syrian refugee influx- [New Listing]
13. (#13) 2/4, Toronto - Discussion on State responsibilities towards refugees under the 1967 Protocol to the 1951 Convention
14. (#14) 2/14, Los Angeles - Lecture on explaining state responses to refugees
15. (#15) 2/17-21, San José, Costa Rica - World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
16. (#16) 2/20-22, Charleston, SC - Conference on current trends in immigration research and activism
17. (#17) 2/24, San Diego - Seminar on the White Russian refugees and the development of American immigration and refugee law during the Great Depression
18. (#18) 2/27, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migrant lives at Israel’s margins
19. (#19) 2/28, Los Angeles - Conference on the Venezuela refugee crisis - [New Listing]
20. (#20) 3/2-4, DC - Certificate program course in international migration studies
21. (#21) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
22. (#22) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
23. (#23) 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach - [New Listing]
24. (#24) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
25. (#25) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration - [New Listing]
26. (#26) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
27. (#27) 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration - [New Listing]
28. (#28) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS)
4:00-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Intercultural Center Executive Conference Room, 7th Floor
Georgetown University
3300 Whitehaven St, NW
Washington DC 20007
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Description: Michael Knowles and Jason Marks will speak about new asylum and refugee policies implemented during the Trump administration. As members of the American Federation of Government Employees’ National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council 119, they have been outspoken in the media, Congress, and in Friends of the Court (Amicus Curiae) briefs. They support challenges to these policies, and protections for federal employees who have spoken out on these issues.
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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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CRS Seminar: Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
2:30-4:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2020
626 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
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Speaker: Anna Purkey, lawyer, Senior Research Associate and Summer Course Director at CRS
Description: This presentation will focus on Dr. Purkey’s book by the same title (Routledge, December 2019). The world today faces the prospect of larger and more protracted refugee situations than at any time in recent history. The challenge this presents requires a re-examination of the relationship of responsibility and obligation between refugees, aid providers and host states. The research presented here investigates the role that legal empowerment can play in changing the distribution of power in refugee situations and in helping to secure effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees in situations of protracted exile and encampment. Applying an original interdisciplinary theoretical framework that combines the capabilities approach with the fiduciary theory of public legal authority, this talk will touch upon questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps.
Anna Purkey is a lawyer, Senior Research Associate and Summer Course Director at CRS. Her research focuses on international refugee law and international human rights law with a special emphasis on protracted refugee situations and themes of human capabilities, legal empowerment, human dignity, governance, and transitional justice.
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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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Open Borders, Local Closures: Municipal Curfews and the Lebanese Response to the Syrian Refugee Influx
The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
12:30-2:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Building 9, 451
105 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Center for International Studies, Room E40-496
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Description: With the largest refugee population per capita in the world, Lebanon now hosts at least 1.1 million refugees alongside a local population of approximately four million. Up until late 2014, the Lebanese government maintained what has been called a policy of “no policy”: maintaining de facto open borders, little regulation of Syrians within its territory and refusing to build any formal camps to house the population. In light of this apparent state absence, municipalities emerged as the "frontline" actors in the governance of Syrians on Lebanese territory. Most prominently, municipalities across the country adopted restrictive curfews targeting Syrians.
This talk will explore her paper which seeks to explain why certain municipalities adopted curfews, while others did not? Drawing on evidence from an original dataset of spatial, demographic, electoral, and budgetary data on over 1000 Lebanese municipalities and 120 interviews and ethnographic evidence from a year of fieldwork, she finds that the variation in the implementation of municipal curfews targeting Syrians is explained not by factors related to the presence of Syrians themselves, such as demographic pressure and inter-ethnic dynamics, but rather by local electoral competition and the the spill-over effect of this competition on neighbouring areas. Contrary to much of the expectations in the literature on host-refugee dynamics and ethnic politics, she argues that local responses are driven primarily by local leaders’ need to project a sense of order to residents. In areas where neighbouring towns and villages have recourse to discriminatory curfews, mayors and municipal leaders
faced greater pressure to act, and curfews present a relatively low cost policy mechanism through which to alleviate fears and project authority.
Speaker:
Lama Mourad, postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, and a SSHRC-postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.
Lama received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. In 2018-2019, she was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She specializes in comparative politics and the politics of migration, with a regional focus on the Middle East
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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
York University
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 are still pending.]
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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
Description: During the Great Depression, states and localities expelled nearly a half-million ethnic Mexicans from the United States. Yet, in the midst of these removals, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) launched an initiative to reform the hardships surrounding federal deportation policy. In the process, it expanded the legal architecture by which undocumented Europeans could be legalized. Drawing upon a chapter from her second book project, Undocumented Immigration and Immigration Legalization in the United States, 1906-1986, Kang will describe a legalization program created for Russian immigrants and its implications for the development of US refugee and immigration policies.
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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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Conference on the Venezuela Refugee Crisis
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-3:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2020
Haines Hall 352
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
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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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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Author Meets Critics Event: Refuge Beyond Reach
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces how rich democracies have deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Drawing on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks, and interviews with asylum seekers, he finds that for ninety-nine percent of refugees, the only way to find safety in one of the prosperous democracies of the Global North is to reach its territory and then ask for asylum. FitzGerald shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of deterrence methods -- first designed to keep out Jews fleeing the Nazis -- that have now evolved into a pervasive global system of "remote control." While some of the most draconian remote control practices continue in secret, Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points and finds that a diffuse humanitarian obligation to help those in need is more difficult for governments to evade than the
law alone.
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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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[Conference agenda has not yet been announced]
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-715 - Environmental Displacement and Migration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, April 15-17, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: Since the earliest history of humankind, people have migrated in response to environmental change. Today there is growing concern that human-induced climate change, coupled with human settlement patterns, will lead to far greater movements of people; some movement is likely to be voluntary as people look for better opportunities elsewhere in response to changing livelihoods. Some is likely to be involuntary – either anticipatory as people see the handwriting on the wall or reactive as people have no alternative but to move. Some will be spontaneous – in the case of Puerto Rico where hundreds of thousands of people left Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Some will be planned as in the case of Staten Island where people decided to move elsewhere, with government support, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Environmental displacement and migration are not just concerns for future generations; people are already moving. This course will begin with an examination of
environmental risk due to physical processes and then review the state of theoretical knowledge about patterns of migration. The course will then look at the socio-economic, political, security, and demographic factors that affect environmental displacement and migration as well as the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Understand the relationship between environmental phenomena and socio-economic factors as drivers of displacement and migration
* Analyze the relationship between environmental risk and mobility
* Understand the normative frameworks applicable to different types of internal and cross-border migration and displacement
* Explain basic concepts, such as vulnerability, risk, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation
* Identify different disciplinary approaches to environmental migration and displacement
* Recognize the different international institutional actors
Instructor: Elizabeth Ferris
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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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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The Issue of Immigration in America: Moving Beyond Walls and Open Borders
4:30–6:00 p.m., Friday, April 24, 2020
Heinz College – Hamburg Hall A301
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Description: In the United States, the issue of immigration gives rise to controversy and conflict. This issue requires us to wrestle with challenging questions about many things, including:
Who should be admitted to the US as an immigrant (family members, skilled workers, etc.)?
How many people should the US admit as immigrants (should we increase, decrease or keep current levels)?
What rules should guide the immigration process (and how should these rules be enforced)?
How should we address the problems (social, political, and economic) that cause people to migrate from their home countries?
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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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1. (#1) 1/21, DC - Discussion on new U.S. asylum and refugee policies - [New Listing]
2. (#2) 1/21-24, Quito, Ecuador - Annual Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development
3. (#3) 1/21, Florence, Italy - Lecture on the democratic case for immigration in the EU
4. (#4) 1/23, DC- MPI webinar on employment services for refugees
5. (#5) 1/23, New York, NY - Report and discussion on statelessness in the U.S.
6. (#6) 1/23, Toronto - Discussion on Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime
7. (#7) 1/23, Canada/North America - Webinar on local strategies to support immigrant business and local prosperity
8. (#8) 1/24-24, Dubai, U.A.E. - EB-5 investors conference
9. (#9) 1/28, Toronto - Seminar on refugee rights, capabilities and legal empowerment - [New Listing]
10. (#10) 1/29, Brooklyn, NY - Lecture on threats posed by increased immigration enforcement
11. (#11) 2/3, San Diego - Seminar on emigrant political rights in Latin America
12. (#12) 2/4, Cambridge, MA - Seminar on the Lebanese response to the Syrian refugee influx- [New Listing]
13. (#13) 2/4, Toronto - Discussion on State responsibilities towards refugees under the 1967 Protocol to the 1951 Convention
14. (#14) 2/14, Los Angeles - Lecture on explaining state responses to refugees
15. (#15) 2/17-21, San José, Costa Rica - World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
16. (#16) 2/20-22, Charleston, SC - Conference on current trends in immigration research and activism
17. (#17) 2/24, San Diego - Seminar on the White Russian refugees and the development of American immigration and refugee law during the Great Depression
18. (#18) 2/27, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migrant lives at Israel’s margins
19. (#19) 2/28, Los Angeles - Conference on the Venezuela refugee crisis - [New Listing]
20. (#20) 3/2-4, DC - Certificate program course in international migration studies
21. (#21) 3/11-12, San Antonio - Annual border security expo
22. (#22) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary
23. (#23) 3/13, Los Angeles - Book discussion: Refuge Beyond Reach - [New Listing]
24. (#24) 3/27, DC - Society of Government Economists annual convention
25. (#25) 4/15-17, DC - Certificate program course on environmental displacement and migration - [New Listing]
26. (#26) 4/23, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on writing immigration history in an age of fake news
27. (#27) 4/24, Pittsburgh - Lecture on a comprehensive approach to the issue of immigration - [New Listing]
28. (#28) 4/27-28, Brussels - Annual conference on European immigration law
International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS)
4:00-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Intercultural Center Executive Conference Room, 7th Floor
Georgetown University
3300 Whitehaven St, NW
Washington DC 20007
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Description: Michael Knowles and Jason Marks will speak about new asylum and refugee policies implemented during the Trump administration. As members of the American Federation of Government Employees’ National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council 119, they have been outspoken in the media, Congress, and in Friends of the Court (Amicus Curiae) briefs. They support challenges to these policies, and protections for federal employees who have spoken out on these issues.
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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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CRS Seminar: Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
2:30-4:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2020
626 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
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Speaker: Anna Purkey, lawyer, Senior Research Associate and Summer Course Director at CRS
Description: This presentation will focus on Dr. Purkey’s book by the same title (Routledge, December 2019). The world today faces the prospect of larger and more protracted refugee situations than at any time in recent history. The challenge this presents requires a re-examination of the relationship of responsibility and obligation between refugees, aid providers and host states. The research presented here investigates the role that legal empowerment can play in changing the distribution of power in refugee situations and in helping to secure effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees in situations of protracted exile and encampment. Applying an original interdisciplinary theoretical framework that combines the capabilities approach with the fiduciary theory of public legal authority, this talk will touch upon questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps.
Anna Purkey is a lawyer, Senior Research Associate and Summer Course Director at CRS. Her research focuses on international refugee law and international human rights law with a special emphasis on protracted refugee situations and themes of human capabilities, legal empowerment, human dignity, governance, and transitional justice.
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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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Open Borders, Local Closures: Municipal Curfews and the Lebanese Response to the Syrian Refugee Influx
The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
12:30-2:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Building 9, 451
105 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Center for International Studies, Room E40-496
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Description: With the largest refugee population per capita in the world, Lebanon now hosts at least 1.1 million refugees alongside a local population of approximately four million. Up until late 2014, the Lebanese government maintained what has been called a policy of “no policy”: maintaining de facto open borders, little regulation of Syrians within its territory and refusing to build any formal camps to house the population. In light of this apparent state absence, municipalities emerged as the "frontline" actors in the governance of Syrians on Lebanese territory. Most prominently, municipalities across the country adopted restrictive curfews targeting Syrians.
This talk will explore her paper which seeks to explain why certain municipalities adopted curfews, while others did not? Drawing on evidence from an original dataset of spatial, demographic, electoral, and budgetary data on over 1000 Lebanese municipalities and 120 interviews and ethnographic evidence from a year of fieldwork, she finds that the variation in the implementation of municipal curfews targeting Syrians is explained not by factors related to the presence of Syrians themselves, such as demographic pressure and inter-ethnic dynamics, but rather by local electoral competition and the the spill-over effect of this competition on neighbouring areas. Contrary to much of the expectations in the literature on host-refugee dynamics and ethnic politics, she argues that local responses are driven primarily by local leaders’ need to project a sense of order to residents. In areas where neighbouring towns and villages have recourse to discriminatory curfews, mayors and municipal leaders
faced greater pressure to act, and curfews present a relatively low cost policy mechanism through which to alleviate fears and project authority.
Speaker:
Lama Mourad, postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, and a SSHRC-postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.
Lama received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. In 2018-2019, she was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She specializes in comparative politics and the politics of migration, with a regional focus on the Middle East
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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
York University
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 are still pending.]
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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
Description: During the Great Depression, states and localities expelled nearly a half-million ethnic Mexicans from the United States. Yet, in the midst of these removals, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) launched an initiative to reform the hardships surrounding federal deportation policy. In the process, it expanded the legal architecture by which undocumented Europeans could be legalized. Drawing upon a chapter from her second book project, Undocumented Immigration and Immigration Legalization in the United States, 1906-1986, Kang will describe a legalization program created for Russian immigrants and its implications for the development of US refugee and immigration policies.
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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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Conference on the Venezuela Refugee Crisis
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-3:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2020
Haines Hall 352
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
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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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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Author Meets Critics Event: Refuge Beyond Reach
UCLA Center for Study of International Migration
12:00-1:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
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Speaker:
Francisco Santos Calderon, Colombia Ambassador to the United States
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Lourdes Gouveia, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska
Fernando Lozano, UNAM (Mexico)
Boris Muñoz, The New York Times
Description: In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces how rich democracies have deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Drawing on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks, and interviews with asylum seekers, he finds that for ninety-nine percent of refugees, the only way to find safety in one of the prosperous democracies of the Global North is to reach its territory and then ask for asylum. FitzGerald shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of deterrence methods -- first designed to keep out Jews fleeing the Nazis -- that have now evolved into a pervasive global system of "remote control." While some of the most draconian remote control practices continue in secret, Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points and finds that a diffuse humanitarian obligation to help those in need is more difficult for governments to evade than the
law alone.
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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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[Conference agenda has not yet been announced]
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Certificate program course in International Migration Studies
XCPD-715 - Environmental Displacement and Migration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, April 15-17, 2020
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
C-204, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Course Description: Since the earliest history of humankind, people have migrated in response to environmental change. Today there is growing concern that human-induced climate change, coupled with human settlement patterns, will lead to far greater movements of people; some movement is likely to be voluntary as people look for better opportunities elsewhere in response to changing livelihoods. Some is likely to be involuntary – either anticipatory as people see the handwriting on the wall or reactive as people have no alternative but to move. Some will be spontaneous – in the case of Puerto Rico where hundreds of thousands of people left Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Some will be planned as in the case of Staten Island where people decided to move elsewhere, with government support, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Environmental displacement and migration are not just concerns for future generations; people are already moving. This course will begin with an examination of
environmental risk due to physical processes and then review the state of theoretical knowledge about patterns of migration. The course will then look at the socio-economic, political, security, and demographic factors that affect environmental displacement and migration as well as the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Understand the relationship between environmental phenomena and socio-economic factors as drivers of displacement and migration
* Analyze the relationship between environmental risk and mobility
* Understand the normative frameworks applicable to different types of internal and cross-border migration and displacement
* Explain basic concepts, such as vulnerability, risk, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation
* Identify different disciplinary approaches to environmental migration and displacement
* Recognize the different international institutional actors
Instructor: Elizabeth Ferris
Tuition: $1,195.00, 24 contract hours
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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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The Issue of Immigration in America: Moving Beyond Walls and Open Borders
4:30–6:00 p.m., Friday, April 24, 2020
Heinz College – Hamburg Hall A301
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Description: In the United States, the issue of immigration gives rise to controversy and conflict. This issue requires us to wrestle with challenging questions about many things, including:
Who should be admitted to the US as an immigrant (family members, skilled workers, etc.)?
How many people should the US admit as immigrants (should we increase, decrease or keep current levels)?
What rules should guide the immigration process (and how should these rules be enforced)?
How should we address the problems (social, political, and economic) that cause people to migrate from their home countries?
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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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