2.7. Migrations Programme

2.7. MIGRATIONS PROGRAMME

Migration processes have become one of the factors which most influence the social, political and cultural transformation of our society. The transnational dimension, inherent in the nature of migrations, acquires special importance in the scenario of the European Union.

The Migrations Programme desires to contribute to the development of debate and research, placing special emphasis on the construction of a European immigration policy and the construction of a new citizenry of a European dimension. Likewise, it aims to foster participation in European Union debates on immigration, and extend the debates, proposals and practices in the European sphere to the Catalan and Spanish societies.

For this, the Programme has such activities as the Migrations Forum and the Annual Immigration and Europe Seminar, publications like its Migrations Working Documents, the appendices of the CIDOB International Yearbook and monographs in the dcidob and Afers Internacionals journals.

Director of the Programmme Albert Serra Lecturer in the Department of Business Policy, ESADE

Co-ordinator Gemma Pinyol

With the collaboration of:

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EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION POLICY. THE THE REALITY OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN TRANSPOSITION OF EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES TO CATALONIA NATIONAL LEGISLATIONS Jordi Moreras. Anthropologist and Director of the Aurelia Álvarez. Permanent Lecturer in International Tr[à]nsits consulting firm on immigration issues. Private Law, University of Leon.

Although Spain has modified its immigration This report forms part of the lecture series, legislation considerably in the last few years, it is “Immigrant Religious Expression in a Secularised true that the process of incorporating European Context”, which focuses attention on a variable that directives which affect the free circulation of persons is little contemplated in immigration studies in into the Spanish legislation has practically not begun Spain. The objective of the series is to recompose yet. This report focuses on the study of the the existing debates on religious plurality and analyse transposition of the directives regarding family the role of the religious factor in the debate on the reunion and long-term residents, analysing the integration of immigration. This first report has as legislative framework currently in force in Spain, the an objective, on the one hand, that of recomposing degree of compatibility between it and these the debates that are generated today in Catalonia, directives and the eventual improvements and and by extension in Spain, with respect to religious changes that could be carried out in the time frames plurality and, on the other hand, that of analysing established by them for their incorporation into the how the religious factor fits into the debate on the Spanish legal system. integration of immigration and what the proposals are for regulating religious pluralism that have been MANAGEMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND formulated up until now. DIVERSITY. IMMIGRATION AND DECENTRALISATION REFUGEES AND OTHER HUMAN MOVEMENTS. Danielle Juteau. Permanent Lecturer, University of ASYLUM AND REFUGE IN THE EUROPEAN Montreal. UNION Carlos Boggio. Representative of UNHCR in Spain. In many countries, there exist two processes of multiculturality: that of multinationality and that Almost 55 years after its apparition, it is obvious which results from the arrival and stay of that the Geneva Convention is more necessary than immigration. Reflection is based on seeing that the ever and that it is important to defend the figure of admitting State and the admitting society do not asylum because it is going through a low point in necessarily coincide with each other, as occurs with the majority of countries of destination. This report the French-speaking Quebec inside the English- pays special attention to the situation of asylum and speaking Canada. This study aims to reveal how refuge in a Europe that is closing its borders, and self-government policies have related with those of it reflects on how the right to asylum in Europe has immigration management in Quebec over the last been affected by the debates existing on the limits few decades. of the welfare state, the ever lower percentage of recognition in asylum applications and the confusing of asylum-seekers with participants in other human movements which, as migratory flows, do not have

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of asylum-seekers with participants in other human SEMINARS AND LECTURES movements which, as migratory flows, do not have the same international protection guaranteed. MIGRATIONS FORUM 1. “IMMIGRATION AND SELF-GOVERNMENT: QUEBEC IN PERSPECTIVE” In Spain, there exist two processes of multiculturality: MIGRATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA that of multi-nationality and that which results from Gemma Pinyol. CIDOB Foundation. the arrival and stay of immigration. In this context, this Forum dealt with the concrete experience of This study aims to provide an overview of Quebec, where this dual membership also exists, contemporary migration history in South Africa. The and allows one to become familiar with the policies work pays special attention to the entry flows which of immigration management in the last few decades. have turned it into a tradition country of immigration: This reflection on the case of Quebec contributes from the European emigrants coming principally to opening a line of reflection which in the coming from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, to years will undoubtedly form part of the political the more recent movements featuring citizens of agenda in Catalonia. other African countries. It pays special attention to Danielle Juteau. Permanent Lecturer in Sociology, the role of apartheid in the elaboration of the University of Montreal. country’s migration policies and to the changes that Participant have occurred in them since the end of that regime Ricard Zapata-Barrero. Permanent Lecturer in in 1994. It also makes reference to the recent flows Political Science, Pompeu Fabra University. of qualified emigration that have opened a debate Organised by on brain drain in the country. Barcelona Provincial Council and the CIDOB Foundation. January 31, 2005. CIDOB Foundation. SYSTEMATISED MONITORING MIGRATIONS FORUM 2. “ASYLUM AND REFUGE MIGRATIONS IN SPAIN, 2004 PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES IN EUROPE” Commemorative session for World Refugee Day EU INITIATIVES ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM and, at the same time, a debate forum to offer the UNHCR view concerning the situation of asylum and refuge in Spain, in particular, and in the European Union, in general. It analysed how they have affected the debates on the limits of the welfare state and the confusing of asylum-seekers with participants in other human movements, such as economic immigration, and the right to asylum and the increasingly lower percentage of recognition of asylum petitions in European admitting countries.

44 Carlos Boggio. Representative of UNHCR- the United Aurelia Álvarez. Permanent Lecturer in International Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Spain Private Law, University of Leon. Participants Participants Anna Simó, Minister of Welfare and Family for the Miguel Pajares, Head of Immigration for CERES- Generalitat of Catalonia. CONC. AnnaTerrón, Delegate of the Government of the Organised by Generalitat of Catalonia in Brussels and Secretary- Barcelona Provincial Council and the CIDOB General of the Patronat Català Pro Europa. Foundation. Organised by September 28, 2005. CIDOB Foundation. ACSAR, the Catalan Committee for the UNHCR and the CIDOB Foundation. CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKING GROUP ON June 21. CIDOB Foundation. CO-DEVELOPMENT The objective of the different working meetings of this group is to arrive at a functional, consensus- based definition of the concept of co-development, utilising to this effect the materials elaborated by the European institutions and national experiences. A work agenda was established which had the objective of compiling the existing experiences regarding co-development in the local sphere in order to be able to know what is happening in the national sphere and to be able to share it with other European countries and with the European Union itself. The ultimate intention is to be able to establish Migrations Forum 2. “Asylum and Refuge Prospects and Challenges a pan-European lobby to influence the European in Europe” Carlos Boggio, Anna Simó, Anna Terrón and Josep Ribera Commission. Participants MIGRATIONS FORUM 3. “THE TRANSPOSITION Càritas; CECOT; CIDC-University of Girona; Creu OF THE EU DIRECTIVES ON IMMIGRATION: THE Roja Catalunya; CIDOB Foundation; Fundació DIRECTIVES ON FAMILY REUNION AND LONG- Pagesos Solidaris; GRAMC; GRIIP-Pompeu Fabra TERM RESIDENTS” University; Ibn Batuta; IEMed; MPDL. In this working session, held within the framework Organised by of the EMD-Migrations in Spain Dialogue, participants CIDOB Foundation within the framework of the debated on the state of the transposition of EU EMD-Migrations in Spain Dialogue. directives on family reunion and long-term residents May 25. CIDOB Foundation. to Spanish legislation. During the Forum, participants analysed the legislative framework in force in Spain, the degree of compatibility between it and the indicated directives, and the eventual improvements and changes that could be carried out for their incorporation into the Spanish legal system.

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MEETING OF THE EMD – MIGRATIONS IN SPAIN Co-ordinator DIALOGUE Jordi Moreras, Anthropologist and Director of the Annual meeting of the Spanish network of the EMD Tr[à]nsits consulting firm. With the participation of European Migration Dialogue, which brings together Manuel Delgado, Lecturer in Anthropology, University the most representative institutions of the civil of Barcelona. society in the area of immigration, in order to Organised by promote dialogue and the exchange of information CIDOB Foundation. on topics referring to immigration and integration. November 16. CIDOB Foundation. In this meeting, participants dealt with issues on the transposition of European directives to the Spanish legislation and co-development, among others. Participants ACSAR; Càritas Diocesana de Barcelona; CEAR- Catalunya; CECOT; CEDIME-UAB; Centro de Estudios sobre Migrations y Ciudadanía-Fundación Ortega y Gasset; CERES-CCOO; CIDC-University of Girona; Cruz Roja; CIDOB Foundation; Fundació Jaume Bofill; Fundació Pagesos Solidaris-Unió de Pagesos; GRIIP-Pompeu Fabra University; Study Group on Immigrant Religious Expression in a Secularised Context: The Reality of Religious Plurality in Catalonia Citizenship, Immigration and Minorities -University Manuel Delgado, Josep Ribera and Jordi Moreras of Valencia; IEMed; Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migrations-Universidad Pontificia WORKING GROUP ON THE REPORT, de Comillas; Médicos del Mundo; MPDL; PIMEC; “PROPOSALS FOR THE TRANSPOSITION OF THE Research Group on Migrations-UAB; Diversity and EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES ON FAMILY REUNION Citizenship Policy Service-Barcelona Provincial AND LONG-TERM RESIDENTS TO THE SPANISH Council; Autonomous University of Madrid. LEGISLATION” Organised by Debate meeting on the report drawn up by Miguel Fundación Ortega y Gasset and the CIDOB Pajares based on a study by Aurelia Álvarez. The Foundation. idea was to make comments and recommendations September 28, 2005. CIDOB Foundation reach the Spanish political authorities. Participants SERIES “IMMIGRANT RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION Aurelia Álvarez, University of Leon; Joaquín Arango, IN A SECULARISED CONTEXT”: THE REALITY OF Fundación Ortega y Gasset; Víctor Manuel Bellido, RELIGIOUS PLURALITY IN CATALONIA Junta de Andalucía; Ferran Camas, University of This first session served to reflect on the debates Girona; Ignasi Camós, University of Girona; Carlos that are generated today in Catalonia and Spain Campuzano, Spanish Parliament; Carmen Claudín, regarding religious plurality; the role that the religious CIDOB Foundation; Francina Esteve, University of factor plays in the debate on the integration of Girona; Conxita Font, Patronat Català Pro Europa; immigration, and the extent to which attention Carlos Giménez, Autonomous University of Madrid; should be paid to this in a secularised context. Mariona Illamola, University of Girona; David Moyá,

46 University of Barcelona; Guida Obrador, Barcelona Participants Provincial Council; Miguel Pajares, CERES-CONC; Eliseo Aja, Director, Institute of Public Law, University Gemma Pinyol, CIDOB Foundation. of Barcelona; Rosa Aparicio, Researcher, Instituto Organised by Universitario de Estudios sobre Migrations, Fundación Ortega y Gasset and CIDOB Foundation Universidad Pontificia de Comillas; Joaquín Arango, within the framework of the EMD-Migrations in Director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Ciudadanía Spain Dialogue. y Migrations, Fundación Ortega y Gasset; Víctor December 16. CIDOB Foundation. Manuel Bellido, Co-ordinator of the Integral Plan for Immigration in Andalusia, Junta de Andalucía; Lorenzo Cachón, Permanent Lecturer in Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Carles Campuzano, MP in the Catalan Parliamentary Group, Spanish Chamber of Deputies; Maria Luisa Casado, Technical Adviser for International Affairs, Directorate-General of Immigration, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs; Christina Castagnoli, Administrator, Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, European Parliament; Paolo Martino Cossu, Head Administrator, Directorate-General H – Justice and Home Affairs, Proposals for the Transposition of the European Directives on Family Reunion and Long-Term Residents to the Spanish Council of the European Union; Jordi García-Martínez, Legislation: Gemma Pinyol, Carmen Claudín, Aurelia Álvarez and Directorate B-Immigration, Asylum and Borders, DG Miguel Pajares Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission; Carlos Giménez, Director of the Migration and THIRD SEMINAR ON IMMIGRATION AND Multiculturality Programme, Autonomous University EUROPE SEMINAR: “IMMIGRATION AND of Madrid; Ricard Goma, City Councillor for Social CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS” Welfare, Barcelona City Government; Teresa Llorens, In this third edition, participants made a joint Head of the Diversity and Citizenship Policy Service, reflection and analysed the existing debates on the Area of Equality and Citizenship, Barcelona Provincial granting of a series of civil, economic, political and Council; Valsamis Mitsilegas, Lecturer in Law, Queen social rights to citizens of third countries residing Mary University, London; Imma Moraleda. Delegate in the European Union (which could be collected President, Area of Equality and Citizenship, Barcelona under the concept of “civic citizenship”), which in Provincial Council; Miguel Pajares, Head of large measure puts them on equal footing with the Immigration for CERES, CONC; Josep Ribera, Director, citizens of member states. Reference was made to CIDOB Foundation; Eduardo Rojo, Director of the the processes of regularisation in the European Immigration, Rights and Citizenship Chair, University context, and consideration was given to the of Girona; Adela Ros, Secretary for Immigration, challenges still pending in European Union Generalitat of Catalonia; Consuelo Rumí, Secretary immigration policies. of State for Immigration and Emigration, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs; Ramon Sanahuja, Head

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PARTICIPATION IN of the Technical Cabinet for Immigration, Barcelona SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES City Government; Narcís Serra, President, CIDOB Foundation; Anna Terrón, Secretary-General, Patronat PRESENTATION OF THE “EUROPEAN CIVIC Català Pro Europa; Ricard Zapata, Permanent CITIZENSHIP AND INCLUSION INDEX” Lecturer in Political Science, Pompeu Fabra This first edition of an annual study is a pioneering University. work in the field of immigration in Europe, compiling Organised by a series of useful indicators for becoming familiar Barcelona Provincial Council and CIDOB Foundation. with and comparing the state of the question in December 15 and 16. CIDOB Foundation. different member states on issues such as integration and inclusion of people of a foreign origin with respect to the European average. Organised by British Council (Brussels), Foreign Policy Centre (London), Migration Policy Group (Brussels), Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and CIDOB Foundation. June 15. Casa de América, Madrid.

Third Immigration and Europe Seminar: “Immigration and Citizenship Rights” Jordi García-Martínez, Anna Terrón, Narcís Serra, Eliseo Aja and María Luisa Casado

Adela Ros, Consuelo Rumí, Imma Moraleda and Josep Ribera

48 SMIAM PROJECT Presentation of the project SMIAM-Skilled Migrants Integration Assessment Model in which 22 European Union countries participated and which aims to assess the degree of integration of the qualified immigrants residing in the European Union through a series of variables. The project is directed by the LSC-Laboratotio di Scienze della Cittadinanza and partially funded by the European Commission’s INTI programme. The CIDOB Foundation forms part, Presentation of the “European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion together with the GRIIP- Grup de Recerca sobre Index” Alex Balch, Joaquín Arango and Jan ImmigracióNiessen i Innovació Política at Pompeu Fabra University, of the steering group, SMEN-Skilled Migrations European Research and Policy Network EUROPEAN MIGRATION DIALOGUE: FUTURE (SMEN), which participates in the SMIAM project. PROSPECTS OF THE EMD Organised by Although the INTI funding that the European Union LSC- Laboratotio di Scienze della Cittadinanza. had devoted to the EMD-European Migration October 5. Brussels. Dialogue had come to an end, the different national partners, among them the CIDOB Foundation, expressed their desire to continue with the project. Publication of the report, “Current Immigration Debates in Europe- Spain”, as part of the publication, “Current Immigration Debates in Europe”, which examines the political and legislative changes in immigration policy and the existing debates on immigration, integration and brain drain in 16 countries of the European Union countries. Organised by Migration Policy Group. September 26. Brussels.