Cicero Foundation: Integrating Migrants and Asylum Seekers in the EU
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below information on an international seminar by the Cicero Foundation.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
INTEGRATING MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
LEARNING FROM BEST PRACTICES
International Seminar for Experts in the series Great Debates
organised by the Cicero Foundation (Code: GD 2871)
Venue: Maison de l’Amérique Latine
217, boulevard Saint-Germain
75007 PARIS
Date: 12 – 13 June 2008
Language: English
P R O G R A M M E
Thursday, 12 June 2008
9.30 - 9.40 Welcome and Introduction
9.40 - 10.30 Prof. Dr. Justus VEENMAN
Professor of Economic Sociology
Department of Economics
Erasmus School of Economics
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Co-author of i.a “Integrating Immigrants in the Netherlands:
Cultural Versus Socio-Economic Integration”, Ashgate 2003
”Migrant Workers on the Contemporary Flexible
Labour Market: The Case of the Netherlands”
10.30 - 10.50 Break
10.50 – 11.40 Professor Christian JOPPKE
Professor of Political Science,
Graduate School of Government
American University of Paris
Author of i.a. “Selecting by Origin”,
Harvard University Press, 2005
“Comparing the Integration of Migrants of Muslim Origin
In the Different EU Member States: Looking for Best Practices”
11.40 - 12.30 Prof. Dr. Simon PATRICK
National Institute of Demographic Studies INED
Paris
Board Member of Network of Excellence IMISCOE
(International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion
in Europe)
“How to Tackle Discrimation of Migrants on the Labour Market? The French Case”
12.30 Lunch
14.10 – 15.00 Mr. Peter VERHAEGHE
Caritas Europe
Brussels
Migration Officer
“Towards a EU-Wide Implementation of Common Basic Principles on Immigrant
Integration?”
____________________________________________________________________________
15.00 – 16.00 WORKSHOPS
Workshop I:
Comparing the Different National Policies
• Is Multiculturalism Dead?
• What are the Countries that are most Successful
In Integrating Migrants? Why?
• The New Stress on Obligations of Migrants:
An Overreaction after Earlier Permissiveness?
• How to Cope with Negative Popular Reactions
to Migrants?
• Multiculturalism Versus Assimilation:
A False Choice?
• The Integration of Migrants in the New EU
Member States
• The Impact of Islamist Groups on the Integration of Muslims in Europe
Workshop II:
European Immigration Policy
• The End of the ‘Zero-Immigration’ Policy?
• Creating a Common Legal Framework
for Accepting Migrants in Europe?
• The Lisbon Treaty Provisions on Asylum and Migration Policy
• Migrants and the Perspectives of Citizenship
• Enhancing a Pro-Active Immigration Policy by Introducing Quotas for Certain Categories of Workers
• Regularisation of Irregular Immigrants: How Should it be Applied in order to Avoid Negative Effects?
16.00 - 16.20 Break
16.20 - 17.10 Mr. Florian FORSTER
Chief of Mission, France
International Organization for Migration IOM
“How to Respond to Growing Migration Pressures
in an Expanding European Union?”
17.10 End of the First Day
Friday, 13 June 2008
9.30 - 10.20 Professor Hervé LE BRAS
Director of Laboratory of Historical Demography
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
EHESS, Paris
“Integrating Migrants in France:
The End of ‘Assimilation’ Policies?”
10.20 – 10.40 Break
10.40 – 11.30 Mr. Marcel H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
”The Integration Debate in the Netherlands after Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From ‘Anti-Migrant-Populism’ back to ‘Tolerant Realism’?”
11.30 – 12.20 Mr. Arne KALLIN
Swedish Embassy, Paris
“Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Sweden –
Recent Changes in the Swedish Approach”
12.30 Lunch
15.30 – 16.00 WORKSHOPS
Workshop III:
What Role do the School, Work, and the Media Play
in the Integration of Migrants?
• The Role of Migrant Community Organisations in
Integrating or Segregating Migrants
• Stimulating the Participation of Migrants in the Labour Market: Do We Need Special Measures?
• Hidden and Open Discrimination on the Labour Market: How Open is the Public Service Compared with the
Private Sector?
• Improving the Skills and Educational Level of Migrants: How?
• First, Second, and Third Generation:
What are the Changes in Integration?
• Integrating Migrants: The Role of the Media
16.00 – 16.20 Break
16.20 – 17.10 Dr. Danny SRISKANDARAJAH
Institute for Public Policy Research IPPR, London
Director of Research Strategy
Head of Migration, Equalities and Citizenship Team
“Do Migrant Community Organisations Help Integrate
Migrants or do they Foster Segregation? The Example of Britain”
17.10 - 17.20 Conclusions and Evaluation
17.20 End of the Seminar