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Workers Without Borders: Rethinking Economic Migration


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Day 1: Tuesday 18 March, 2008

 

Chair of the day: Prof. Hildegard Schneider (Faculty of Law,

Maastricht University)

09.00-
09.30

Registration

 

09.30 -
12.00
Opening and trends in international migration

 Welcome by Prof. Chris de Neubourg
(Academic Director MGSoG)
Prof. Khalid Koser (The Brookings Institute)

Prof. Hildegard Schneider (Faculty of Law, Maastricht University)
 

12.00 –
13.00
Lunch
13.00 –
17.30
Migration management

Ms. Sandra Pratt (European Commision, DG for Justice,
Freedom and Security)
Dr. Meera Sethi, (IOM)

Prof. Rita Süssmuth (former President of the German
Federal Parliament and former Federal Minister for
Family Affairs, Women, Youth and Health)

Prof. Jaap Dronkers (EUI)
 

17.30 -
19.00
Debate: Brain drain: ethical issues related to labour migration, including an academic introduction of 30-45 minutes, followed by 45 – 60 minutes debate.

Moderator: Dr. Jo Ritzen
Introduction to the debate:

Prof. Dr. Oded Stark, Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt, and Vienna; Warsaw University; Warsaw School of Economics; ESCE Economic and Social Research Center, Cologne and Eisenstadt

 

 


 

20.00 Dinner, with diner speaker Dr. Nebahat Albayrak, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
 

Day 2: Wednesday 19 March, 2008


Chair of the day: Prof. Dr. Chris de Neubourg,

Academic Director MGSoG

9.00 -
12.00
Remittances
 

Dr. Samuel Munzele Maimbo (Worldbank)
Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University)

Prof. Chris de Neubourg (MGSoG)
 

12.00 –
13.30
Lunch
13.30 –
17.30  
Migration and development


Prof. Dr. Oded Stark
Prof. Dr. Oded Stark, Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt, and Vienna; Warsaw University; Warsaw School of Economics; ESCE Economic and Social Research Center, Cologne and Eisenstadt
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Docquier (IRES, Catholoc
 University of Louvain)             Prof. Dr. Hillel Rapaport, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Hein de Haas (Oxford University)
 
 

17.30 Closing Drink  

                              

 





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