16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes
16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes
EDITION Presidency of the Government of the Azores Regional Secretary of the Presidency Regional Department for the Communities
DESIGN, LAYOUT AND PRINTING Bizex Projectos
CIRCULATION 750
September 2011
4 CONTENT
INTRODUCTION 04
SOCIAL EVENTS 12
STUDY TOURS 18
PLENARY PROGRAMME 26
PLENARY PROGRAMME BIOGRAPHIES 36
WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE 52
WORKSHOPS 13 SEPTEMBER 60
WORKSHOPS 14 SEPTEMBER 72
WORKSHOPS 15 SEPTEMBER 84
POSTER TITLES 96
GENERAL INFO 98
NOTES 109
5 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes
THE AZORES IN THE WORLD ROUTES
It is with great pleasure that I welcome to the Azores all the participants in the 16th International Metropolis Conference.
The Azores, port of departure and of arrival of migrants since the fifteenth century, in the coming days will become the main stage of the global debate on the new challenges of human mobility in a truly interdisciplinary dimension before an increasingly interdependent world subjected to the economic and trade consequences of globalization.
As many of you must know, the Azores, in their privileged geographical condition, have always been a reference site in the North Atlantic, assuming over the centuries a strategic role in the relations between America and Europe and Africa. At this intersection of peoples and cultures, the Azorean forged their own and unique identity, based on the settlement of communities spread over nine islands, but united in their sense of society with more than five centuries of history.
Emigration is also part of the history of the Azores. A number of destinations was chosen by the Azorean people as their new living space, with particular emphasis on North America, driven by diverse motives. Azorean communities abroad are solid and successful, while keeping, at the same time, a strong attachment and closeness to their origins, preserving a heritage from the past and participating actively in the development of the present.
In the last decade of the twentieth century we have also become a safe haven for some communities, promoting the region as an attractive environment, aware of the size of migration. Our immigrants, in their cultural richness and diversity, assumed themselves as active participants in the life of each of our islands, where interculturality has conquered its own space, thus contributing to social cohesion of the Azores.
These are the reasons that underlie the Azores as a natural stage for discussions on human mobility to be held within the 16th International Metropolis Conference. Here you will have the opportunity to learn a new migratory dynamics coupled with a regional transnationalism, see how the integration of new migrants in society can be promoted, though enhancing their active
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participation in the land of origin, understand the dynamics of associations in communities abroad, but linking them to local associations, and see the importance of immigration on society as a key factor in an open and tolerant society.
This is therefore the right time for reflection on key issues affecting our planet, including the effects of large-scale human mobility, the centrality of economies, globalization, and the unconditional defense of human rights.
I hope that your participation in the 16th International Metropolis Conference in this era of great global change enriches the different perspectives of the future of migration.
Finally, I would like to reinforce the welcome to the Azores, wish you all a good stay with us and express the wish of success for this initiative.
Carlos César The Sete Cidades Crater Lake - one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Portugal President of the Government of Azores
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WELCOME MESSAGE
I take great pleasure in being able, on behalf of the Metropolis International Steering Committee, to welcome you to the 16th International Metropolis Conference. We at Metropolis are very grateful to the Government of The Azores for hosting us, and we are delighted to be back in Portugal whose fortunate guests we were in 2006 for our conference in Lisbon. Although we are back in Portugal, we are back with a difference. This conference marks our first in a territory of emigration, one that has more than half of its people living in other countries. The Azores has a rich migration history as a sending and transit society and more recently as host to others who are arriving in the search for a better life. We hope that you are able to take in some of this rich experience and apply it to your own work on migration and the integration of migrants. As with each of our events, this year’s conference will highlight what we hope are fully contemporary topics that will stimulate new ideas about the phenomena associated with modern migration. The Metropolis model places a premium on bringing the policy, academic, and civil society sectors together to confront these issues seriously and to generate ideas, analysis, and advice of lasting value.
Over the course of most of world history, international migration has been unregulated; it is only relatively recently that states have established mechanisms to manage migration. Perhaps as a consequence, migration has at times become a source of anxiety for governments and their citizens over the past 100 years as the desire to manage it has both met with high expectations by the citizenry and only partial success in reality. Today we see both governments and publics concerned about modern migration flows, including irregular flows, concerned about what they see as inadequate social and economic integration, concerned that deepening diaspora relations weaken social cohesion, and facing problematic inter-ethnic relations. These are matters to take seriously, and our job at Metropolis is to understand these phenomena, understand these concerns, and find solutions that enhance the benefits of international migration to our societies, our economies, our cultures, to the migrants, and to their homelands.
2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan who coined the term ‘global village’. Many of the sessions that this conference offers will strike to the heart of the idea of a global village, be they about migration amongst countries that have
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integrated their economies, about diaspora to the world, especially when their electorates are relations, about transnational identities and the worried. More is at stake than immediate political growing impact of social networking websites, life fortunes. They must earn the trust of their citizens in modern multi-ethnic cities, or about migration to take difficult and what might even appear to be between islands or countries in the global counterintuitive decisions about migration when South. Modern technology has transformed their economies are lagging. how migration takes place, how migrants relate both to their societies of destination and their Our hope at Metropolis is that the information societies of origin, and how they make decisions that our conferences offer, the exchanges of about their future places of residence and their views and experiences amongst the people of national, cultural, and religious affiliations. our countries, will help to bolster this confidence Understanding immigration and immigrant and allow governments to take decisions, some integration in the future will require us all to of them difficult, that will serve their people understand how these are affected by modern well into the future. The experiences of all communications and information technologies. countries participating in this conference will serve to enlighten us about decisions to be made A better understanding of how modern in our own. Although The Azores are a small migration and integration take place should help society, their openness to the world beyond governments with concerns about migration their borders will be instructive to the rest of resist the urge to close ranks in the interests us. For example, The Azores take seriously the of national self-protection, acts that in the management of their relations with their global long run may well prove to be self-defeating. expatriate community. Governments elsewhere, Especially with today’s confluence of ageing including those of fully developed countries Western societies experiencing demographic that have yet to recognize the potential in their and economic stagnation, rising economies and expatriate communities, will have much to learn powers in the rapidly developing countries of the from the Azorean experience in enhancing their world, and growing numbers of well-educated economic standing by opening their society people in countries whose economies are not yet to those outside. We are very excited about able to employ them, we need to emphasize the the discussions at this conference and aspire advantages of societies that are open to trade in to making a constructive contribution to the goods, services, and ideas, and to the movement worldwide debate about international migration of people. We will all be better off in open than in and the diversity that it brings to our populations, closed societies. But this openness, especially in a contribution that we will continue to make at countries experiencing economic and even geo- our conference next year in Beijing, China. political inertia, requires political courage and courage amongst the citizenry, requires confidence in a society’s fundamental values and its ability to retain them even when open to the world’s influences, requires confidence in the future. Howard Duncan Governments must lead responsibly and with Executive Head credibility in opening their societies and economies Metropolis
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WELCOME MESSAGE
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Ponta Delgada, Azores for the 16th International Metropolis Conference.
Five years after the 11th International Metropolis Conference, held in Lisbon in October 2006, the annual conference of the Metropolis Project returns to Portugal, being the first time it takes place in an island society.
In 2011, three years after the outburst of the most serious global economic crisis during the last eighty years, the 16th International Metropolis Conference, with “Migration Futures – perspectives on global changes” as its theme, intends to discuss the geopolitical and economic trends that are emerging and place the issue of international migration in this new context.
Within this broad perspective, the conference organizers have decided to strengthen the topics of emigration and its impacts on origin societies (through the analysis of homelands or through the networking strategies that benefit from new technologies and take the form of diasporic relations). In addition, particular attention will be given to migratory movements occurring in places that are changing in the global spatial order, such as in several islands and states from the “developing south”.
Special attention is also devoted to migration in economically integrated macro-regions, not only because this process challenges the traditional classification and position of immigrants but also due to the pressure these areas are facing in the present re-shaping of political and economic conditions. Finally, the role of metropolis as “carrefours” and destinations of migrants and the relationship between ageing and migration are two socio- geographic topics that have been considered essential in the present urbanized and progressively “older” world.
We are very fortunate to have so many talented and well recognized speakers in the plenary sessions, as well as a wide range of highly-focussed workshop sessions on topics related to the plenaries.
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We believe that this conference will provide an In 2011, three years after the excellent occasion to engage in highly relevant and much-needed policy debates as well as to outburst of the most serious develop new research areas. global economic crisis during We would like to offer you a week of high the last eighty years, the scientific value, intense discussion, exchange of knowledge and a truly memorable visit to 16th International Metropolis the beautiful city of Ponta Delgada and S. Miguel Island. Conference, with “Migration Futures – perspectives on global changes” as its theme, intends to discuss the geopolitical and economic trends that are emerging and place the issue of international migration in this new context.
Maria Lucinda Fonseca Chair of the Scientific Committee (Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon)
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 8.00 8.00 Check in and on-site registration Check in and on-site registration
STUDY TOUR 1 8.45 > 9.15 | Opening address Immigration and Integration Carlos César Time: 10h30 – 15h30 His Excellency the President of the Government of the Azores Howard Duncan Metropolis Project STUDY TOUR 2 9.15 > 9.45 Deportation: two worlds, one (re) integration Keynote Speaker Time: 10h30 – 15h30 William Lacy Swing IOM General Director – SWITZERLAND
STUDY TOUR 3 9.45 > 10.00 Azorean Emigration: Break
PROGRAMME the History of a People 10.00 > 11.15 Time: 10h30 – 15h30 Plenary Session 1 GLOBALIZATION AND MIGRATION STUDY TOUR 4 IN THE SOUTH Returning: in the border of belonging > Binod Khadria Time: 10h00 – 16h30 Jawaharlal Nehru University – INDIA > Helion Póvoa Neto STUDY TOUR 5 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – BRAZIL > Nicola Piper Azorean Refugee Act Arnold Bergstraesser Institute – GERMANY Time: 07h00 – 20h15 > Chair: Ahmet Icduygu Koç University – TURKEY MEETING POINT 11.15 > 11.45 Portas do Mar Coffee Break
11.45 > 13.15
Plenary Session 2 AGEING AND MIGRATION > Ayumi Takenaka Bryn Mawr College – USA > Dowell Myers University of Southern California – USA > Hania Zlotnik Population Division, United Nations > Rainer Münz Erste School of Banking and Finance – AUSTRIA > Chair: Rinus Penninx Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies THE NETHERLANDS
13.15 > 14.30 Lunch
14.30 > 16.00 Workshops
16.00 > 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 > 18.00 Workshops
18.30 > 19.00 TEATRO MICAELENSE Presentation of the book Between two worlds: emigration and return to the Azores UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES (Venue: Exhibition Area – Teatro Micaelense)
ESCOLA ROBERTO IVENS 18.30 > 21.00 19.00 > 22.00 Welcome Reception Azorean Cultural Evening PORTAS DO MAR (Venue: Batalha Golf Course) (Venue: Teatro Micaelense)
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 8.00 8.00 8.00 Check in and on-site registration Check in and on-site registration Check in and on-site registration
9.30 > 11.00 9.30 > 11.00 9.00 > 10.15
Plenary Session 3 Plenary Session 5 Plenary Session 7 MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY IN INTEGRATED FOSTERING TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES > Elizabeth Thomas-Hope ECONOMIC SPACES THROUGH INTERNET AND SOCIAL The University of the West Indies – JAMAICA > Aniceto Orbeta NETWORKING WEB SITES > Gilberta Rocha Philippine Institute For Development Studies > Alden Habacon University of Azores – PORTUGAL PHILIPPINES Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, > Russell King > António Vitorino University of British Columbia – CANADÁ Sussex Centre for Migration Research Lawyer and former European Commissioner for Justice > Dwaine Plaza UNITED KINGDOM and Home Affairs – PORTUGAL Oregon State University – USA > Teena Pulu > Demetrios Papademetriou > Jennifer Brinkerhoff Auckland University of Technology – NEW ZEALAND Migration Policy Institute – USA George Washington University – USA > Chair: Richard Bedford > Philippe Legrain > Chair: Howard Duncan University of Waikato – NEW ZEALAND European Commission Metropolis Project – CANADA > Chair: Andrés Rozental Former Mexican Deputy Minister of Foreign Affair MEXICO
11.00 > 11.30 11.00 > 11.30 10.15 > 10.45 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11.30 > 13.00 11.30 > 13.00 10.45 > 12.00
Plenary Session 4 Plenary Session 6 Plenary Session 8 THE EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE EMIGRATION LIVING IN MULTICULTURAL CITIES: MAINTAINING RELATIONS WITHIN THE ON HOMELANDS INTERETHNIC RELATIONS AND DAILY LIFE DIASPORAS > Dilip Ratha > Maria Lucinda Fonseca > André Bradford Migration and Remittances Unit, World Bank – USA University of Lisbon – PORTUGAL Government of Azores – PORTUGAL > Elaine Levine > Mary Onyango > Rainer Baubock Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – MEXICO Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission European University Institute – ITALY > Hein de Haas KENYA > Zhang Xiaomin International Migration Institute, University of Oxford > Wako Asato Chinese Academy of Social Sciences – CHINA UNITED KINGDOM Sasakawa Peace Foundation – JAPAN > Chair: José Carlos Teixeira > Imelda Nicolas > Wei Li University of British Columbia – CANADA Commission on Filipinos Overseas – PHILIPPINES Arizona State University – USA > Chair: Pedro Bicudo > Chair: Jan Rath > Journalist – PORTUGAL University of Amsterdam; Co-Chair of International 12.00 12.45 Metropolis Project – THE NETHERLANDS Final Keynote José Maria Neves Prime Minister of Cape Verde
13.00 > 14.30 13.00 > 14.30 12.45 > 13.00 | Closing session Lunch Lunch Announcement of the 17th International Metropolis Conference - Beijing 2012
14.30 > 16.00 14.30 > 16.00 Workshops Workshops
16.00 > 16.30 16.00 > 16.30 Coffee Break Coffee Break
16.30 > 18.00 16.30 > 18.00 Workshops Workshops
18.00 > 19.00 Poster Sessions
19.00 > 21.00 19.45 > 22.00 Sudent Evening Closing Dinner (Venue: University of the Azores) (Venue: Portas do Mar) Free Evening
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SOCIAL EVENTS 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Monday, 12 September 18:30 > 21:00
WELCOME RECEPTION
The Regional Secretary of the Presidency, Government of the Azores, cordially invites you to attend the Welcome Reception at Batalha Golf Course.
Designed by Cameron Powell in 1986, Batalha Golf Course offers 27 holes of golf laid out over 120 hectares, with its magnificent setting, nestling on the skirts of the surrounding hills and with sweeping views to the ocean – has large flowing greens, wide and generous fairways and sinuously contoured bunkers.
The facility, situated on the north coast of São Miguel island, just 10 minutes from the centre of Ponta Delgada, opened to the public in 1993 and its sumptuous clubhouse offers a unique setting for social events.
During this reception, you will have the opportunity to watch the performance of a traditional folklore group from São Miguel island.
Address Rua do Bom Jesus, Aflitos 9545-234 Fenais da Luz Azores, Portugal
Fotos: Rui Medeiros
Note The Meeting Point will be at Portas do Mar at 6:00 p.m.
16 SOCIAL EVENTS Tuesday, 13 September 19:00 > 22:00
AZOREAN CULTURAL EVENING
The Regional Director for the Communities, Government of the Azores, cordially invites you to attend the Azorean Cultural Evening at Teatro Micaelense.
In this reception you will have the opportunity to taste Azorean traditional food, and watch the performance of two Azorean music groups.
Before that, you are welcome to attend the presentation of the book Between two worlds: emigration and return to the Azores, which will be held at the Exibition Area, at Teatro Micaelense, beginning at 6.30 p.m.
Quintet Diáspora Singing Group Belaurora Terceira island São Miguel island
Diáspora is a music project formed in 2010 by Belaurora is formed entirely by amateur teachers from Tomás de Borba School (former musicians. They are dedicated to assemble, Music School of Angra do Heroísmo). Their initial research, study, prepare and divulge the Azorean goal was to value the Azorean traditional music traditional music. They have released ten albums and take it beyond Azorean borders. and a DVD. Their most recent work, which celebrates their Silver Anniversary, is called One of the present offerings of the group is the “Da Maior e da Mais Alta”. conjunction of the regional instrument with other unusual instruments in this kind of music, such as the transverse flute, to try to obtain new harmonics and sonorities in an erudite and mature dialogue that the traditional interpretations cannot provide.
Note The Azorean Cultural Evening starts at 7:00 p.m. with a cocktail followed by the musical performances at 8:30 p.m.
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STUDENT EVENING
The Organizers of the 16th International Metropolis Conference offer the opportunity to all the students attending the Conference to participate in this event.
This gathering will take place at the University of the Azores, at 7:00 p.m. (after Poster Sessions).
Students will have the opportunity of exchanging ideas, knowledge and experience among each other.
They will also have the opportunity of watching a moment of musical entertainment, with TAUA – Tuna Académica da Universidade dos Açores.
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CLOSING DINNER
His Excellency the President of the Government of the Azores cordially invites you to attend the Closing Dinner, which will be held at Pavilhão do Mar – Portas do Mar on Thursday, from 7:45 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Portas do Mar
Portas do Mar is a reference and statement of the Azores in the national and international tourism. A new leisure and diversified market area to serve locals and visitors, providing a pleasant experience in the Atlantic, with the Azorean label.
Portas do Mar was inaugurated on July 5, 2008 with the purpose of improving Ponta Delgada’s seafront by converting it into a space of leisure, comfort and into an attractive location on the island of São Miguel.
This new development is physically connected to the old marina of Ponta Delgada and its respective services. We highlight the broad range of shops located in the commercial galleries, such as the diverse gastronomy restaurants, bars, areas with other services such as a bank agency, Azorean craftsmanship, gift shop, travel agency, rent-a-car, beauty center, pharmacy, cosmetics and fragrance shop, sporting goods, whale watching, and other activities.
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STUDY TOURS 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes
STUDY TOUR 1 IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
Description
On this tour, you will have the opportunity to become familiar with the work of the Government of the Azores and several non-governmental organizations – Association of the Immigrants in the Azores and the Immigrant Support Community Center, developed in favor of the immigrant community residing in the Azores.
Traditionally a region of emigration, the Azores have experienced a reversal of that trend during the last decade. Immigration phenomenon stood out in the Azorean Archipelago after 1998, when an earthquake occurred on Faial Island. The reconstruction of the damages caused by the earthquake, the increasing construction of new hotels and the development of tourist activities, the improving quality of life and even the spirit of adventure, transformed the Azores into an attractive region. Venue Village of Sete Cidades, near one of the Seven Natural However, integration into Azorean society is Wonders of Portugal, the Lagoa das Sete Cidades. a determining factor in the welfare of each immigrant and contributes to the social cohesion Meeting Point of the islands. Portas do Mar
Time 10h30 – 15h30 (duration – 5 hours)
Clothing Casual, with comfortable shoes.
THE VISIT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.
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STUDY TOUR 2 DEPORTATION: TWO WORLDS, ONE (RE) INTEGRATION
Description
On this tour, you will have the opportunity to become familiar with the work of the Government of the Azores and several non-governmental organizations – Regional Association of Socio- Cultural Rehabilitation and Integration of the Azores and the Association Novo Dia, created to assist deported citizens.
Over the last two decades, the Azores have been hosting Portuguese citizens of Azorean origin that were deported from their foster countries, especially from the U.S. and Canada, where they had lived most of their lives. This phenomenon of compulsive return to the Region had a higher incidence in 1996, when the U.S. proclaimed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Venue With this, the Government of the Azores soon Quinta do Priôlo and diverse occupational and training created a support system for these citizens, relying places aimed at these citizens. on non-governmental organizations from the Azores and from the host countries (U.S. and Canada). Meeting Point Portas do Mar
Time 10h30 – 15h30 (duration – 5 hours)
Clothing Casual, with comfortable shoes.
THE VISIT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.
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STUDY TOUR 3 AZOREAN EMIGRATION: THE HISTORY OF A PEOPLE
Description Canada was the last great destination of Azorean emigration. It began mainly in 1953, and it On this tour, you will have the opportunity to occurred mostly due to bilateral agreements become familiar with the history of Azorean between Portugal and Canada regarding the emigration since its origin to the present day, arrival of emigrants to the country. by visiting the Emigration Museum, in Ribeira Grande, and watching a dance performance at Teatro Ribeiragrandense.
It is believed that Azorean emigration began with the settlement of the islands in the XV century. However, regular emigration only began two centuries later.
The first great destination of Azorean emigration was Brazil, especially South Brazil, in 1747. During the latter years of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, there was a large migration flow to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Chronologically, the U.S. was the second great Venue destination during the second half of the XVIII City of Ribeira Grande. century. Bermuda was the third great destination of Azorean emigration, beginning in 1849. Meeting Point Portas do Mar Hawaii, an American state in the Pacific, was the option for many Azoreans during the latter years Time of the XIX Century. The life style in the Azorean 10h30 – 15h30 (duration – 5 hours) archipelago and the economic crises lived back then, caused by the decline of orange production Clothing and the decline of the market, led many Azoreans Casual, with comfortable shoes. to Hawaii where the labor conditions were more compelling. THE VISIT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.
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STUDY TOUR 4 RETURNING: IN THE BORDER OF BELONGING
Description
During the last five decades, roughly two hundred thousand Azoreans have emigrated to destinations such as Bermuda, Canada and the United States of America.
It is estimated that about ten thousand Azoreans have returned to the islands for various reasons. It is possible to define two types of returnees: the elderly (those who are retired) and those of working age.
During this tour, you will have the opportunity to become familiar with the profile of the returned emigrant, his / her reasons for departure and return, as well as several integration processes that he / she has been through.
The Regional Department for the Communities – Government of the Azores and the Center of Social Studies of the University of the Azores, organizers Venue of the study "Returned Emigrant to the Azores", will Village of Furnas, one of the most visited natural present this study. beauty places on S. Miguel Island.
Meeting Point Portas do Mar
Time 10h30 – 16h30 (duration – 6 hours)
Clothing Casual, with comfortable shoes.
THE VISIT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.
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STUDY TOUR 5 AZOREAN REFUGEE ACT, PASTORE-KENNEDY ACT OF 1958
Description
On this tour, you will have the opportunity to travel to Pico and Faial Islands. After a 45 minutes flight, you will disembark on Pico Island – one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Portugal – where you will be able to visit the Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004. A 30 minute boat trip will take you to Faial Island, where you will visit the Interpretation Center of Capelinhos. Between 1957 and 1958, the population of Faial Island was affected by the eruption of Capelinhos Volcano, which destroyed a great part of the island.
In September of 1958, the Azorean Refugee Act allowing the concession of hundreds of U.S. entry Faial visas to the victims of Faial Island was approved. This special measure was due to the influence of the Azorean Community residing in the U.S. who gathered the support of U.S. senators, John O. Pastores (from Rhode Island) and John Kennedy Venue (from Massachusetts), at a time when restrictive Pico and Faial Islands immigration laws were in force in that country. Meeting Point Portas do Mar
Time NOTE: 07h00 – 20h15 (duration – 13h15 hours) This tour has an additional fee of 120,00€ and the maximum of 60 participants. If the tour is canceled Clothing due to weather conditions or if it does not fill the Casual, with comfortable shoes. minimum number of participants required, the registered participants will be reimbursed. THE VISIT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.
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Volcanic Landscape of Pico Island - one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Portugal Pico
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PLENARY SESSIONS 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, 13 September 9:15 > 11:15
Plenary Session 1 GLOBALIZATION AND MIGRATION IN THE SOUTH
A comprehensive understanding of international Keynote migration requires an understanding of South- South migration flows, flows that tend to be > William Lacy Swing neglected by the migration research and policy IOM General Director communities in the global North. This includes SWITZERLAND past Metropolis conferences which have emphasized flows from the South to the North. Speakers South-South migration is vast, comprising over a third of all international migration, and brings > Binod Khadria with it characteristics that are not necessarily Jawaharlal Nehru University predominant in flows to the world’s wealthier INDIA states. This session will examine South- South migration, paying particular attention > Helion Póvoa Neto to the effects of globalization, urbanization, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro demographic trends, and economic development BRAZIL on these flows of people. Our speakers will also turn their attention to the potential effects of > Nicola Piper South-South migration trends on migration to Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and from the countries of the global North. GERMANY
Chair
> Ahmet Icduygu Koç University TURKEY
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Plenary Session 2 AGEING AND MIGRATION
In March, 2000, the United Nations Population Speakers Division released a report, “Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and > Ayumi Takenaka Ageing Populations?” which focused the world’s Bryn Mawr College attention on the prospect of population decline USA and population aging in many developed countries. Interest in this topic has extended far > Dowell Myers beyond migration circles to encompass economic University of Southern California policy makers and foreign policy specialists, USA some of whom see population decline and aging as paving the way for long-term economic decline > Hania Zlotnik and steadily waning geo-political influence. The Population Division implications are now seen as far greater than the United Nations viability of pension plans and the size of labour forces. This panel will ask: > Rainer Münz Erste School of Banking and Finance > What constitutes desirable population growth? AUSTRIA > Is it sufficient simply to replace the current generation? Chair > What are the geo-political, economic, and social implications of below-replacement fertility? > Rinus Penninx > Can countries with below-replacement Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies fertility prosper politically and grow THE NETHERLANDS economically? > What is the role and impact of international migration in the context of aging populations?
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Plenary Session 3 MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ISLANDS
With the Azores as the host of the 16th Speakers International Metropolis Conference, we have the opportunity to consider migration from > Elizabeth Thomas-Hope the perspective of an island territory with a The University of the West Indies long history of emigration. Although we often JAMAICA think of islands as places from which migrants come, they are also often destinations for > Gilberta Rocha other islanders (consider the large number of University of Azores Azoreans who went to Bermuda and Hawaii, PORTUGAL those who have moved among the South Pacific Islands, and those who have moved among the > Russell King Caribbean islands). Because of their relatively Sussex Centre for Migration Research small populations, islands may feel the effects UNITED KINGDOM of emigration upon their economies, cultures, languages, and traditions more strongly than > Teena Pulu other source countries, whether these effects Auckland University of Technology be positive or negative. Islands are also transit NEW ZEALAND or gateway points for migrants and travellers, and have recently become, in some cases, Chair destinations for illegal migration to the country of which the island is a territory, as is the case > Richard Bedford with the Canary Islands, or where the island is University of Waikato conveniently situated for a secondary migration NEW ZEALAND to the ultimate destination, as is the case with Malta. The speakers on this panel will take us through the fascinating case of island migration and the growing recognition that this is receiving in contemporary discussions of internationally managed migration.
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Plenary Session 4 THE EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE EMIGRATION ON HOMELANDS
The Global Forum on Migration and Speakers Development is one of a number of testaments to the importance of the effects of large-scale > Dilip Ratha emigration on homelands, a recognition that Migration and Remittances Unit, World Bank these effects constitute both benefits and costs USA to homeland societies, and an expression of the hope that these effects can be managed > Elaine Levine for the overall betterment of homeland, host, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and migrant. Long dominated by the brain MEXICO drain and remittance discussions, homeland effects run much more broadly to encompass > Hein de Haas changes to homeland culture, the structure of International Migration Institute, University of Oxford the economy, and even fundamental changes to UNITED KINGDOM higher education. The latter can be seen in those areas characterized by education for export, > Imelda Nicolas where curricula can be altered to meet a foreign Commission on Filipinos Overseas market, sometimes leaving local needs for higher PHILIPPINES learning less well met. Chair This session will look at the challenges and opportunities associated with emigration and its > Pedro Bicudo effects on cultural values and practices, gender Journalist relations, and consumption habits as well as PORTUGAL on the more often discussed matters related to economic and socio-political development.
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Plenary Session 5 INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY IN INTEGRATED ECONOMIC SPACES
Many commentators have noted the disparity Speakers between the trend towards liberalized trade in goods and services and the increasing restrictions > Aniceto Orbeta that have been placed on the movement of people Philippine Institute For Development Studies in most of the world. Proponents of liberalized PHILIPPINES migration point to the economic benefits that would arise and opponents counter with claims > António Vitorino that open migration would cause severe harm Lawyer and former European Commissioner for Justice to national security and other national interests. and Home Affairs A half way point is occupied by the European PORTUGAL Union with its liberal policy for labour migration among member states. Although migration has > Demetrios Papademetriou been opened up to citizens of EU member states, Migration Policy Institute migration from countries outside the union USA remains highly restricted. > Philippe Legrain This session will look at how the EU has managed European Commission to open up mobility of persons while other regions with economic co-operation agreements Chair such as NAFTA, Mercosur, and ASEAN have not embraced liberalized migration to the same > Andrés Rozental extent. Speakers will ask whether liberalized Former Mexican Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs labour migration confers an advantage to MEXICO trade and customs unions such as these and whether they bear significant costs in the form of diminished national security, social cohesion, or drains on the welfare state.
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Plenary Session 6 LIVING IN MULTICULTURAL CITIES: INTERETHNIC RELATIONS AND DAILY LIFE
Two of the defining characteristics of recent Speakers large-scale international migration have been the cultural, racial, and religious heterogeneity > Maria Lucinda Fonseca of immigrant populations and migrants’ strong University of Lisbon preference for urban settlement. Along with the PORTUGAL growth of diversity in big cities all over the world, there has been increasing and heated debate > Mary Onyango about multiculturalism and the demands of Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission integration and social cohesion in many countries KENYA in both the global North and the global South. Public support for multiculturalism has collapsed > Wako Asato in many countries and weakened in even the Sasakawa Peace Foundation traditional settler societies of the West from JAPAN which the ideas originally came. > Wei Li Of course, it will be the large cities that attract Arizona State University migrants that most feel the effects of high levels USA of diversity. Not only are diversity levels higher in the cities than in rural areas, but in some Chair cases they are home to ethnic enclaves that are growing in size and economic and cultural > Jan Rath strength. This panel will look at how modern University of Amsterdam; Co-Chair of International highly-multicultural cities will best achieve an Metropolis Project adequate measure of social cohesion for their THE NETHERLANDS own social and economic prosperity and how such cities can best bring about effective and peaceful mutual engagement amongst their mainstream and minority populations.
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Plenary Session 7 FOSTERING TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH INTERNET AND SOCIAL NETWORKING WEB SITES
In the last decade, the internet and social Speakers networking websites have become new and powerful global phenomena, propelling young > Alden Habacon companies such as Facebook to the ranks of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, the most valuable companies in the world. University of British Columbia This plenary session will look at how social CANADÁ networking facilities are used by migrants, their families, their friends, and their business > Dwaine Plaza and other associates to maintain ties and the Oregon State University extent to which these technologies preserve USA the identities of transnational communities. The past fifteen years have witnessed a great > Jennifer Brinkerhoff deal of research on transnationalism and how George Washington University transnational identities have strengthened, some USA to the point that they are seen as threatening immigrant integration into the mainstream Chair of a society. Although research has regarded globalization technologies as underpinning > Howard Duncan these social developments, there has been Metropolis Project little work directly about how social networking CANADA technologies are used in the preservation of transnational identities. Our speakers will represent not only the research community but will include users of these technologies and representatives of the industry.
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Plenary Session 8 MAINTAINING RELATIONS WITHIN THE DIASPORAS
Governments are taking a closer look at their Speakers expatriate or diaspora populations as the members of these groups become better able to > André Bradford maintain relations with one another in a deeper Government of Azores way, thanks to the technologies and other PORTUGAL opportunities associated with globalization. Diaspora relations embody homeland cultures, > Rainer Baubock economic relations, political relations, as well European University Institute as social and family ties, but they also offer ITALY governments the means to promote their national interests abroad and enhance their image > Zhang Xiaomin internationally (all of this assuming that the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences diaspora maintains a loyalty to the homeland). CHINA Diasporas have the potential not only to channel financial remittances, foster trade and business Chair development, stimulate innovation and the circulation of skills, but also to transfer ideas of > José Carlos Teixeira political, social, and cultural change. Thus, a core University of British Columbia idea in the current discussion is that governments CANADA and international agencies ought to work closely with diasporas, given their potential contribution Final Keynote to the development of home countries as well as to the successful integration of their country > José Maria das Neves fellows in the host societies. Prime Minister of Cape Verde CAPE VERDE This session will look at what governments do or could do in this regard, why some governments actively engage their diasporas while others do not, and the benefits of diaspora management.
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plenary session 1 Speakers GLOBALIZATION AND MIGRATION IN THE SOUTH > Binod Khadria Jawaharlal Nehru University Keynote INDIA
Professor of Economics and Education, and Chairperson of Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Director of the International Migration and Diaspora Studies (IMDS) Project, co-sponsored by Government of India. His publications include The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second-Generation Effects of India's Brain Drain (Sage, 1999). He is Deputy Chair (South Asia) and Regional Coordinator (India) at Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN). He launched the India Migration Report in 2009 (distributed by CUP India; now in second reprint). The next issue in the sequel is India Migration Report 2010-11: The Americas.
> Helion Póvoa Neto Federal University of Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL
Geographer (Pontifical Catholic University – Rio de Janeiro), holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate in Human Geography, from the University of São Paulo. His postdoctoral years were spent in the Centre for Migration Studies in Rome (Centro Studi Emigrazione – Roma). He is a Professor in the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He’s the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Group of Migration Studies. His publications include: A Experiência Migrante (2010), Mundos em Movimento (2007) and Cruzando Fronteiras Disciplinares (2005). He’s also a member of the editorial council of these magazines: Cadernos IPPUR (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Travessia – Revista do Migrante (Centre for Migration
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Studies, São Paulo) and Revista Interdisciplinar da Challenges of Emigration and Immigration, with Mobilidade Humana (Scalabrinian Centre of Migration Kemal Kirişci (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2009) Studies, Barsília). and Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism, with Pirkko > Nicola Piper Pitkänen ve Deniz Sert (Springer, 2011). Arnold Bergstraesser Institute GERMANY plenary session 2 Nicola Piper is Senior Research Fellow at the Arnold AGEING AND MIGRATION -Bergstraesser-Institute in Freiburg, Germany. She has published extensively on migrant rights, global Speakers governance of migration and migrant rights issues in multiple empirical settings. She is editorial > Ayumi Takenaka board member of the international peer-reviewed Bryn Mawr College journal Refugee Survey Quarterly. Among her USA latest publications are the edited volumes New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihoods, Ayumi Takenaka is an Associate Professor of Rights, and Entitlements (Routledge, 2008), South- Sociology at Bryn Mawr College (USA) and at South Migration: Implications for Social Policy and the Center for the Study of Social Stratification Development (with Katja Hujo, Palgrave Macmillan, and Inequality, Tohoku University (Japan). She is 2010) and the co-authored book Critical Perspectives on primarily interested in investigating the relationship Global Governance: Rights and Regulation in Governing between immigration, social mobility, and identities. Regimes (with Jean Grugel, Routledge, 2007). Her current projects include: (1) the global mobility of skill and the role of policies and businesses; (2) social mobility of immigrants in Japan in comparative Chair perspective; and (3) the re-migration of immigrants from Japan and Western Europe to the U.S. > Ahmet Icduygu Koç University > Dowell Myers TURKEY University of Southern California USA He received his PhD in Demography from the Australian National University in 1991. He is Dowell Myers is a Professor in the USC School of currently Professor of International Relations Policy, Planning, and Development and director of and the Director of the Migration Research the Population Dynamics Research Group. Dr. Myers Program at Koc, University in Istanbul. His recent holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of research interest includes irregular migration, Technology (MIT) and has an undergraduate degree in transnationalism, ethnicity and nationalism, Anthropology from Columbia University. In the last 5 citizenship and civil society. In addition to his years, Myers has received awards for the best book on numerous articles in scholarly journals, he has two immigration (Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New recent edited books: Land of Diverse Migrations: Social Contract for the Future of America, Russell Sage,
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New York, 2007), best article of 2008 (“Aging Baby (HWWI). He is an expert on population change, Boomers and the Generational Housing Bubble”), and international migration and demographic aging, their the Haynes award for greatest research impact. economic impact and their implications for retail banking and social security systems. He studied > Hania Zlotnik at Vienna University, where he earned his PhD in Population Division 1978. In 1979, he joined the Austrian Academy of United Nations Sciences. Until 1992 he was director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. Hania Zlotnik is the Director of the Population Between 1992 and 2003, he was head of the Division of the United Nations. She is a well-known Department of Demography at Humboldt University, demographer who has spent a major part of her Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Universities career working on international migration. A citizen of of Bamberg (1986), University of California at Mexico, she studied mathematics at the Universidad Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997-98), Frankfurt (1988), Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and holds Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Vienna (2001-02) and Zurich a Ph D from Princeton University. She joined the (1992). He also was Senior Research Fellow at the Population Division in 1982 and directed its Mortality Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical and Migration Section from 1993 to 1999. Her work University, Vienna (2001-2002). Currently he teaches has contributed to better estimates of international at the University of St. Gallen. migration worldwide and to the improvement of statistics on international migration. As Director of Rainer Münz has worked as consultant for the the Population Division, she was responsible for the European Commission, the OECD and the World substantive preparation of the High-level Dialogue Bank. He served as an advisor to the Greek (2003), on International Migration and Development that Dutch (2004) and Slovene (2008) EU presidencies. the General Assembly conducted in 2006. She is In 2000-01 he was member of the German commission the author of numerous research papers and books. on immigration reform (Süssmuth commission). She has edited or written several reports published Between 2008 and 2010 he was Member of the high by the United Nations and is the author of over 35 level “Reflection Group Horizon 2020-2030” of the articles published in books or refereed journals. Her European Union (so-called EU.“Group of the Wise”). best known works include books on international migration statistics and demographic estimation Rainer Münz is member of several boards and techniques, overviews of international migration advisory boards; among them: Center for Migration, trends worldwide, and works on the analysis of Integration and Citizenship at Oxford University female migration. (COMPAS, Oxford, UK), European Policy Centre (Brussels), European Forum Alpbach, Institute > Rainer Münz for the Danube region and Central Europe Erste School of Banking and Finance (Vienna), International Metropolis Project (Ottawa AUSTRIA – Amsterdam), International Organization for Migration (IOM, Geneva), SOT Accountants (Vienna- Rainer Münz is Academic Director of Erste School of Graz-Munich), VBV Pension Insurance (Vienna), Banking and Finance (Erste Group) and Senior Fellow STUWO AG (Vienna), Vienna City Museum, World at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics Demographic and Aging Forum (WDA, St. Gallen).
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Chair plenary session 3 MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT > Rinus Penninx OF ISLANDS Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies THE NETHERLANDS Speakers
Rinus Penninx is Professor of Ethnic Studies. He was > Elizabeth Thomas-Hope founder and director of the Institute for Migration The University of the West Indies and Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the University of JAMAICA Amsterdam (1993-2005). From 1999 to 2009, he was also co-chair of International Metropolis. Since 2004, Dr. Thomas-Hope, D.Phil. (Oxon.) was the first holder he is coordinator of the Research Network IMISCOE. of the James Seivright Moss-Solomon (Snr.) Chair of He has written for many years on migration and Environmental Management at the University of the integration and related policies. His report "Ethnic West Indies (1993-2010). She was also Head of the Minorities" (1979) for the Dutch Scientific Council Department of Geography & Geology (1999 -2005) for Government Policy (WRR) formed the starting and Director of the Environmental Management Unit point for integration policies in the Netherlands. at the UWI, Mona (1997-2010).
His recent publications in English include Her books include: Explanation in Caribbean "Newcomers: Immigrants and their descendants in Migration Perception and the Image: Jamaica, the Netherlands 1550-1995" (with Jan Lucassen), Barbados and St. Vincent (London, Macmillan, Het Spinhuis Publishers 1997; "Immigrant 1992); Impact of Migration in the Receiving Integration: the Dutch case" (with Hans Vermeulen), Countries: The United Kingdom (Geneva, IOM, Het Spinhuis Publishers 2000; "Trade Unions, 1994) and Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Immigration and Immigrants in Europe 1960-1993" Migration and Diaspora (Kingston, Ian Randle (with Judith Roosblad), Berghahn Books 2000; Publishers, 2009). In 2011, Professor Thomas-Hope "Western Europe and its Islam’"(with Jan Rath, authored “People on the Move: Managing Migration Kees Groenendijk and Astrid Meyer), Brill 2001; in Today’s Commonwealth” the second report "Citizenship in European Cities" (with Karen Kraal, of the Ramphal Commission on Migration and Marco Martiniello and Steve Vertovec), Ashgate Development. 2004; "The dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe" (with Maria Berger and Karen > Gilberta Rocha Kraal), AUP-IMISCOE-series 2006. University of Azores PORTUGAL
Gilberta Pavão Nunes Rocha, Professor in the University of Azores, holds a doctorate in Social Sciences. She has published works in areas such as Demographic Dynamics, Migrations and the Ageing of the Population, both in the country and abroad. She also has studies about Family and Gender.
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She is the Director of the Centre for Social Studies in the South Pacific. She is a lecturer in Pacific of the University of Azores (CES-UA), Coordinator development and a post-doctoral fellow at Auckland of Master’s Degree on Social Sciences and member University of Technology, the city which is home to of the General Council, all in the University. She the largest Pacific Islander population in the world. is a member of several scientific associations. From 2002 to 2010, she was on the Governing bodies of the Portuguese Association of Sociology Chair and today she is on the Consultative Council of the Association. Since 2001, she has been the > Richard Bedford President of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese University of Waikato Association of Demography. NEW ZEALAND
> Russell King Professor Richard Bedford QSO, FRSNZ is Pro Sussex Centre for Migration Research Vice-Chancellor Research at Auckland University of UNITED KINGDOM Technology and Professor of Population Geography in the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Russell King is Professor of Geography at Analysis (NIDEA) at the University of Waikato. He the University of Sussex and Director of the is a specialist in migration research and since the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. He has mid-1960s he has been researching processes of longstanding research interests in migration, in population movement in the Asia-Pacific region. He all its various forms, and in the study of islands. is a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee He is the co-editor of the book 'Small Worlds, on Official Statistics (ACOS), and an adviser to the Global Lives: Islands and Migration' (Pinter 1999) Department of Labour on the Recognised Seasonal and many other books and articles on migration, Employment (RSE) work policy and the Longitudinal regional development, integration and identity. His Survey of Immigration: New Zealand (LisNZ). most recent books have been 'The Atlas of Human Migration' (Earthscan 2010) and a co-authored plenary session 4 book on 'Remittances, Gender and Development in Albania' (IB Tauris 2011). He is the Editor of the THE EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE 'Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies'. EMIGRATION ON HOMELANDS
> Teena Pulu Speakers Auckland University of Technology NEW ZEALAND > Dilip Ratha Migration and Remittances Unit, World Bank Dr Teena Brown Pulu is a Pacific anthropologist USA specializing in autoethnography. Her field research unfolds transnational tales by three generations Dilip Ratha is a Lead Economist and the Manager of Tongans settled in Auckland, America and of the Migration and Remittances Unit at the World Australia. Teena explores how Tongans overseas Bank in Washington, DC. He acts as a focal point for sustain connectedness to their ancestral islands the Bank’s activities and international partnerships
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on migration and development. Mr. Ratha also leads development and globalisation, primarily from the the Migrating out of Poverty research consortium, a perspective of migrant-sending societies. He did multidisciplinary collaboration among six universities extensive fieldwork in the Middle East and North and research institutions in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Africa and, particularly, Morocco. Hein de Haas He has advised many governments and international has a PhD in Social Sciences (Radboud University forums including the Global Forum on Migration and of Nijmegen, the Netherlands), an undergraduate Development, the Global Remittances Working Group, degree in Cultural Anthropology and an MA (cum and World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council laude) in Human and Environmental Geography on migration. His expertise includes migration, (University of Amsterdam). remittances, and innovative financing. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a regional economist for Asia Before joining IMI in 2006, Hein de Haas held at Credit Agricole Indosuez, Singapore; an assistant researcher and lecturer positions at the Radboud professor of economics at the Indian Institute of University of Nijmegen and the University of Management, Ahmedabad; and an economist at the Amsterdam, and was a visiting fellow to the Forced Policy Group, New Delhi. He has a PhD in Economics Migration and Refugees Studies programme of the from the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. American University of Cairo. For several years, he has taught migration theory at the University > Elaine Levine of Maastricht. He acted as consultant or advisor Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico to governments and international organisations MEXICO including the UK Government Office of Science, EU, UNDP, UNRISD, IOM and Oxfam. Elaine Levine is a native of Atlanta, Georgia who has lived and worked in Mexico City since the late 1960s. She > Imelda Nicolas is a researcher/professor at the National Autonomous Commission on Filipinos Overseas University of Mexico’s Center for Research on North PHILIPPINES America (CISAN). She holds a B.A. in Economics from Goucher College and a Ph. D. in Economics from the Secretary Imelda M. Nicolas is the newly appointed UNAM. She teaches regularly in the UNAM’s graduate Chairperson of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas program in Political and Social Sciences and was a (CFO) under the Office of the President of the visiting professor at the University of Salamanca in Spain Philippines. Since 1980, the CFO has been mandated in 2009. Her research centers on Mexico-US migration to maintain strong and beneficial ties between the and the socioeconomic status of Mexicans and other country and Filipino communities throughout the Latinos in the US. She has published extensively on world and to promote and protect the welfare, the these topics and related issues. interests and well-being of Filipinos overseas.
> Hein de Haas By now, there are approximately 9 million overseas International Migration Institute, University of Oxford Filipinos spread out in 210 countries, almost half UNITED KINGDOM of them permanent residents while the other half are composed of overseas Filipino workers with the Hein de Haas's research focuses on the linkages balance composed of Filipinos who are “irregular” between migration and broader processes of human in status.
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As CFO's new chairperson, Secretary Nicolas takes She is a businesswoman who has done business a more pro-active role for and with all overseas in the Philippines, in the United States, Australia, Filipinos, whether working or living in other Hongkong, Guam and China. She was Vice-president countries, to maximize the development potential for Development of TLC Beatrice International of international migration while at the same time to Holdings Inc, a New York-based multinational minimize migration's significant social costs. company. She is the current chair of the Women’s Business Council of the Philippines. Secretary Nicolas is guided by the new CFO Vision: A community of well-respected and proudly She graduated with highest honors at St. Theresa’s competitive Filipinos overseas who contribute College, Manila and took M.A. Units in Arts History significantly to the productivity and well-being at Columbia University. of the countries where they live or work while maintaining strong political, economic, and cultural She has been a lifetime advocate for women’s rights ties with the Philippines, and driven by the new and good governance. She was the head of the CFO Mission: Be the Philippines' premier institution Philippine delegation during the 10th anniversary of in promoting policies, programs, and projects with the Beijing UN Conference on Women held in 1995. Migration and Development as a framework for the strengthening and empowerment of the Filipino overseas community. Chair
Prior to her appointment to the CFO, she was > Pedro Bicudo former Secretary of the National Anti-Poverty Journalist Commission (NAPC), former Chairperson of the PORTUGAL National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), and Presidential Assistant helping cabinet Pedro Albergaria Bicudo began his college studies secretaries in monitoring implementation of major at the University of the Azores where he obtained government-funded infrastructures. his bachelor’s degree in Geography in 1981. He graduated in Geography at the University of Coimbra She was also a Founding Trustee of BISYON 2020, a and achieved his Master’s in Journalism at the non-government organization/private sector group Northeastern University of Boston in 1999. of people which aims to be a funding conduit for anti-corruption programs and projects. Bisyon2020 He has been the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal- organized the 1st and 2nd Integrity and Human Açores director since 2007. In the past years, he was Rights Conference in the Philippines, 2009 and 2010. correspondent and head of Washington Delegation of RTP; correspondent for RTP Açores, United States; She was founding Trustee/Treasurer of INCITE GOV, contributor for RDP Açores, New England; and International Center for Innovation, Transformation editor-in-chief of “O Jornal”- Fall River. and Excellence in Governance, a non-government organization geared towards reform in governance, with Pedro Bicudo was a college professor at the special and holistic perspective on the critical and crucial University of Massachusetts (guest lecturer, part- connection among politics, governance and democracy. time) where he taught Journalism. He was also a
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plenary session 5 guest instructor of Journalism, 2004-11, at the US Department of State. In Portugal, he was a high INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY IN school Geography teacher in several schools. INTEGRATED ECONOMIC SPACES
Between 1996 and 2000 he founded and developed Speakers the project of RTPi- North America Delegation at the University Of Massachusetts (UMASS), and between > Aniceto Orbeta 1989 and 1994 he started-up and managed the Philippine Institute For Development Studies Promedia Audiovisuals company. PHILIPPINES
Amongst his congress publications and papers Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. is Senior Research Fellow at the following stand out: Ethnic Media: Reporting the Philippine Institute for Development Studies. in Portuguese (MAR/11, Rhode Island College, His research interests include applied economic Providence, Rhode Island); Violence on TV (ABR/10, modeling, impact evaluation, social sector issues, AJOC, Praia, Cape Verde); Information on Regional and information and communication technologies. Television (OUT/05, Azorean Forum, P. Delgada); He did post-doctoral studies at Harvard University Journalism and elections (JUN/04, AJOC-National and has a Ph.D. in Economics at the School of Library, Praia, Cape Verde); Semiotics of the Economics, University of the Philippines. He has Television-Show and Social Process ( MAR/04, reviewed articles for the Asian Development Review, Casa dos Açores, Lisbon); Television – University Asia Pacific Migration Journal, Asian Economic Partnership: the RTPi- UMASS protocol (JAN/02, Journal, Journal of Developing Studies, and Journal of II Azorean Journeys , Lisbon); Ethnic Media and Philippine Development. He has been a consultant Political Empowerment (SET/99, Portuguese- to the ADB, World Bank, AusAID, and the ILO. American Symposium, University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth), Voices in the Ghetto: The Portuguese- > António Vitorino American Ethnic Media (MAI/96, IV Ethnic Media Lawyer and former European Commissioner for Justice Forum, Northeastern University, Boston); Ethnicity, and Home Affairs Media and the American Mosaic (ABR/95, VI PORTUGAL Portuguese-American Symposium, San Jose); The Challenge of Survival: The Portuguese-American Born in Lisbon, in 1957. Law degree by the University Media (Publication, NOV/94 ”III Congress of the of Lisbon Law School, 1981. Masters Degree in Legal Azorean Communities”); 30 Years of Azorean and Political Science, 1986. Emigration: 1950-80 (Thesis of his Graduate degree in Geography, University of Coimbra, 1985). Member of the Bar Association since 1982. Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon Law School As a journalist he covered major events such as since 1982. Invited Professor at the Universidade the US Presidential Elections, 2000 and 2004; the Nova de Lisboa Law School since 2008. Member of September 11 attack on the Pentagon and New Parliament from 1980 until 2006. Secretary of State York; the Iraq War (Washington); the United Nations for Parliamentary Affairs (1983-1985). Secretary World Summit, 2000 to 2004; the OPEC Summit of State of the Government of Macau (1986-1987). 2001-Caracas. Judge of the Portuguese Constitutional Court
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(1989-1994). Member of the European Parliament Council on Migration. Dr. Papademetriou has been (1994-1995). Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Chair of the Migration Committee of the Organization Defence (1995-1997). European Commissioner for for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Justice and Home Affairs (1999-2004). Vice-President Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the of Portugal Telecom Internacional (1998-1999), US Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Chairman of the Board of the General Meeting of Labor’s Immigration Policy Task Force; and Executive Banco Santander Portugal (1998-1999) and of Banco Editor of the International Migration Review. Dr. Santander Totta since 2005. Non Executive Director Papademetriou has published more than 250 books, of Siemens Portugal, Chairman of the Board of the articles, monographs, and research reports on General Meeting of Finpro SGPS,SA, Chairman of the migration topics and advises senior government and Board of the General Meeting of Brisa, Chairman of political party officials in more than 20 countries the Board of the General Meeting of Novabase. (including numerous European Union Member States while they hold the rotating EU presidency). Partner of Gonçalves Pereira, Castelo Branco & Associados since December 2005. > Philippe Legrain European Commission Specialist in Community Law and Public Law. Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed thinker Author of several works on Constitutional law, and communicator. His second book, Immigrants: Political Science, Community Law, both in Portugal Your Country Needs Them (2007), was shortlisted and abroad. for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Following the publication of Aftershock: Reshaping Member of the Portuguese Bar. the World Economy After the Crisis (2010), European Commission President José Manuel Barroso > Demetrios Papademetriou appointed him as principal adviser and head Migration Policy Institute of the analysis team at the Bureau of European USA Policy Advisers. Previously visiting fellow at LSE and commentator for, among others, the FT, the Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the President and Co- Guardian, BBC TV and radio, he has also been Founder of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). He economics correspondent for The Economist and is also the convener of the Transatlantic Council on special adviser to WTO director-general Mike Moore. Migration and its predecessor, the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and Integration (co-convened with the Bertelsmann Stiftung). The Council is Chair composed of senior public figures, business leaders, and public intellectuals from Europe, the United > Andrés Rozental States, and Canada. Dr. Papademetriou is also the Former Mexican Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Co-Founder and International Chair Emeritus of MEXICO Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities. He also serves as Andrés Rozental was Mexico’s Ambassador to Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997. He was
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plenary session 6 a career diplomat for more than 35 years, having served his country as Deputy Foreign Minister LIVING IN MULTICULTURAL CITIES: (1988-1994), Ambassador to Sweden (1983-88), INTERETHNIC RELATIONS AND DAILY LIFE Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations in Geneva (1982-83), as well as in various Speakers responsabilities within the Mexican Foreign Ministry and abroad. Since 1994, he holds the lifetime rank > Maria Lucinda Fonseca of Eminent Ambassador of México. University of Lisbon PORTUGAL Currently, Ambassador Rozental holds non- executive Board positions in several important Professor Fonseca is a Full Professor in the multinational corporations in Brazil, the United Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the States, France, the United Kingdom and México, University of Lisbon (IGOT-UL) and coordinator of as well as being active in a number of non- the MIGRARE - Migration, spaces and societies governmental organizations and projects relating research group at the Centre for Geographical to global governance, migration policy, climate Studies (CEG) at the same university http://www. change, Latin American politics and democracy ceg.ul.pt/migrare. She is a member of the Steering promotion. He is currently a Senior Nonresident Committee of the International Metropolis Project. Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Advisor She is presently both coordinating and participating to Chatham House in London, a Board member in several international research projects, such as of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute GEITONIES - Generating Interethnic Tolerance and and a Trustee of the Migration Policy Institute Neighbourhood Integration in European Urban in Washington, D.C. He serves as a Governor of Spaces, funded by the European Union (FP7) and Canada’s International Research Development THEMIS – Theorizing the Evolution of European Centre (IDRC) since 2008 and has been a member of Migration Systems, funded by the NORFACE CIGI’s International Advisory Board since 2002, and Research Programme on Migration. of its Operating Board since late 2010. Professor Fonseca has published widely in both He was the Founding President of the Mexican Portugal and abroad. Her most recent publications Council on Foreign Relations, established in 2001. include Saúde e Imigração: Utentes e Serviços na área de influencia do Centro de Saúde da Graça, 2010 Ambassador Rozental obtained his profesional (co-author); “Housing conditions and immigrant’s degree in international relations from the integration in Portugal: Challenges and policies”, Universidad de las Américas in México, and his in Vitorino, A. (Coord.) – Migration: Opportunity or Master’s in International Economics from the threat? - Housing and health in the integration of University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of four immigrants (2009); Cities in movement: Migrants books on Mexican foreign policy and of numerous and urban governance, 2008 (Ed.); Defining ‘family’ articles on international affairs. He has been a and bringing it together: The ins and outs of family foreign policy advisor to Presidents Vicente Fox and reunification in Portugal” in: Grillo, Ralph (Ed.) – The Felipe Calderón of Mexico. Family in Question Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe (2008), IMISCOE-AUP (co-author).
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> Mary Onyango (Asian Pacific American Studies), and School of Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in the KENYA Arizona State University, USA. Her research foci are immigration and integration, and transnational Mary Onyango is the Vice-Chairperson of the connections. She is the author or [co-]editor of National Cohesion and Integration Commission four scholarly books, and 70 other academic in Kenya. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce publications. She is the Chair of the US Census (Accounting) degree from the University of Nairobi, Bureau’s Asian Advisory Committee, the North Masters in Public Health from Kenyatta University American Director for the International Society of and an MBA (Finance) from Maastricht University Studying Chinese Overseas, and one of the inaugural in the Netherlands. A Chartered Public Accountant class of the National Asia Research Associates (the and a member of the Institute of Certified Public National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Accountants of Kenya with a career spanning over Wilson International Center for Scholars). 25 years at senior management in the Public Sector she has also previously served in the Management Boards of several private and government owned Chair institutions. Ms. Onyango is also extensively involved in public interest work and sits on the > Jan Rath boards of several charities and civil society University of Amsterdam; Co-Chair of International organizations. Metropolis Project THE NETHERLANDS > Wako Asato Sasakawa Peace Foundation Jan Rath received his MA degree in Cultural JAPAN Anthropology and Urban Studies and his PhD from Utrecht University. He is currently Professor of Urban Wako Asato is an Associate Professor from Graduate Sociology, the Head of the Department of Sociology School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan. He has and Anthropology, Associated Member of the been conducting research on demographic change Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at and migration in East and Southeast Asia especially the University of Amsterdam. Jan Rath is, moverover, intertwining between care deficit and migration the European Co-Chair of the International of nurses, careworkers, household workers, and Metropolis Project. He has published multiple books marriage migrants. He has edited a book the fall of and articles on various topics including racism, closed country, Japan in 2011 (in Japanese). religion, politics, entrepreneurship, and public space. http://www.janrath.com > Wei Li Arizona State University USA
Wei Li received her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Southern California and currently a Full Professor at the School of Social Transformation
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plenary session 7 via the Internet A Content Analysis of the Websites FOSTERING TRANSNATIONAL Constructed by Second Generation Caribbean-Origin IDENTITIES THROUGH INTERNET Students in Post–Secondary Institutions”; (2009) AND SOCIAL NETWORKING WEB SITES “Queerness in the Transnational Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora”; and (2008) “Transnational Return Speakers Migration to the English Speaking Caribbean”
> Alden Habacon > Jennifer Brinkerhoff Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, George Washington University University of BC USA CANADA Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff is Professor of Public Alden E. Habacon is an accomplished diversity and Administration and International Affairs at the inclusion specialist, recently appointed as Director, George Washington University, and co-Director of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development GW’s Diaspora Research Program, a multidisciplinary for the University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to program on diasporas, identity, policy and UBC, Alden was the Manager of Diversity Initiatives development. She has advised, provided training for CBC Television, where he has worked on the and conducted commissioned research for a range development and implementation of CBC's national of governments and institutions. Her publications diversity strategy and some 300 diversity initiatives include six books, four co-edited journal issues across Canada. He is a sought-after speaker and and over fifty-five articles and book chapters. consultant in the area of interculturalism in Canada, She authored Digital Diasporas: Identity and diversity in media and strategic hiring. Alden is also Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University the founder and Publisher of Schema Magazine Press, 2009), edited Diasporas and Development: (SchemaMag.ca), and the co-founder of the Asian Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Canadian Journalists Association in Vancouver. 2008), and edits the Lynne Rienner Publishers book series on Diasporas in World Politics. > Dwaine Plaza Oregon State University USA Chair
Dwaine Plaza is Professor of Sociology at Oregon > Howard Duncan State University in the School of Public Policy. He Metropolis Project completed a doctorate at York University in Canada in CANADA 1996. He went on to do a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University in England in 1997. Since Howard Duncan received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1997 he has lived in Corvallis, Oregon but continues 1981 from the University of Western Ontario where to do research on immigration, acculturation, and he studied the history and philosophy of science. He policy issues particularly for the Caribbean immigrant was a post-doctoral fellow there and subsequently population in Canada. His most recent publications taught philosophy at the University of Ottawa and include: (2009) “Transnational Identity Maintenance the University of Western Ontario.
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In 1987, Dr. Duncan entered the field of consulting in His activity in the Executive began in 2000, as strategic planning, policy development and program adviser for the press of the secretary for the evaluation. In 1989, he joined the Department of Environment. In his journalist's career, he stood Health and Welfare in Ottawa where he worked in out in Diário de Notícias newspaper (Lisbon) and in program evaluation, strategic planning, and policy. His Açoriano Oriental newspaper (Ponta Delgada), where final year at Health Canada was spent managing the he fulfilled the office of assistant of the publishing department's extramural policy-research program. director of Açormedia. He, also, contributed to the condition of columnist and political commentator In 1997, Howard joined the Metropolis Project as with several organs of the Press. its International Project Director, and became its Executive Head in 2002. He has concentrated on He practices, since 2006, the office of coordinator of increasing the geographic reach of Metropolis, the Permanent Commission of the Socialist Party / enlarging the range of the issues it confronts, and Azores and he was elected member to the Regional increasing its benefits to the international migration Parliament in 2004 and 2008. policy community by creating opportunities for direct and frank exchanges between researchers, > Rainer Baubock practitioners, and policy makers. European University Institute ITALY
plenary session 8 Rainer Bauböck holds a Chair in Social and Political MAINTAINING RELATIONS Theory at the Department of Political and Social WITHIN THE DIASPORAS Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence. He taught previously at the Universities of Vienna, Speakers Innsbruck Central European University, Yale, Pompeu Fabra, Bristol, Malmö and was a fellow in Princeton > André Bradford and Warwick. In November 2006, he was awarded Government of Azores the Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation PORTUGAL for his work on immigration and social cohesion. His fields of research are normative political theory André Jorge Dionísio Bradford was born in Ponta and comparative research on citizenship, European Delgada on 30 November 1970. integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights. He is co-director of the EUDO observatory on He graduated in Social and Cultural Communication from citizenship at: http://eudo-citizenship.eu. the College of Human Sciences of the Political Studies Institute from the Catholic University. He attended the > Zhang Xiaomin Masters in Political Theory and Science and the 2nd year Chinese Academy of Social Sciences of the Law degree at the same university. CHINA
He integrates the Office of the President of the ZHANG Xiaomin, MA, Drama, Movie and TV Studies, Government since 2001, first as adviser for External Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Now Assistant Cooperation, then as adviser for Political Affairs. Professor at Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology,
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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Focus on Visual He is the author/co-author of five books: Carlos Anthropology and inner Migration in China. Teixeira (1999). Portugueses em Toronto: Uma Comunidade em Mudanca. Acores: Direccao Regional Member of the organizing committee for international das Comunidades; Carlos Teixeira and Victor M. congresses and conferences, such as the: 16th IUAES P. da Rosa (2000). The Portuguese in Canada: Congress, 2009, Metropolis Inter-Conference on From the Sea to the City. Toronto: University of 2010, May, 22-24 held in Beijing, etc. Toronto Press; Carlos Teixeira and Victor M. P. da Rosa (2009). The Portuguese in Canada: Disporic Panel presentation “Business of the Ecological Challenges and Adjustment. Toronto: University of Migrants from the Source Region of the Three Rivers Toronto Press (Second Editon); Armando Oliveira and in Qinghai, China Qinghai Ecological Migrants” in Carlos Teixeira (2004). Jovens Portugueses e Luso- Antalya, Turkey 2010 IUAES Inter-Congress. Descendentes no Canada: Trajectorias de Insercao em Espacos Multiculturias. Oeiras, Portugal: CELTA. “The New Generation Migrant Workers in Labour Market in China” Workshop presentation for the Special Forum on China, Third Workshop of the Final Keynote Co-Reach Project on “Migration, Labor Market and Ethnicity, Comprarative Studies among Germany, > José Maria das Neves Holand, France, UK and China” Paris, 2010. Prime Minister of Cape Verde CAPE VERDE Winner of special Award for Canadian studies, 2011. José Maria da Neves attended primary school in Assomada and went to Domingos Ramos High Chair school in Praia city.
> José Carlos Teixeira He graduated in Public Administration at the School University of British Columbia of Business Administration of Sao Paulo, Getúlio CANADA Vargas Foundation in 1986.
Born – 18/10/1959 - Ribeira Grande, S. Miguel, Professional experience Acores. B.A. and M.Sc. at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Ph.D. York University (Ontario, Canada). Between 1987 and 1990 he worked at the General Directorate for Research and Administrative Jose Carlos Teixeira is an Associate Professor Reform, Ministry of Public Administration (Head at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan of Government) and coordinated various projects (Canada). Teixeira’s research interests are in in the areas of human resources, simplification housing for immigrants and refugees, urban of documents and Administrative Procedures and and social geography, with an emphasis on Restructuring of Public Utilities; migration processes, community formation, urban neighourhood change, ethnic entrepreneurship, and In 1988 and 1989 he was the Director of the social structure of North American cities. the Center for Training and Development -
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Administrative CENFA and he was an instructor On January 14th, 2001 he wins the election for Prime in the areas of Organizational Theory, Leadership Minister, having been nominated by the President, and Conflict Management; Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro.
Between 1991 and 1996 he worked as a technician On February 1st, 2001 he took the post of prime at the Ministry of Public Administration and minister. was a consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, and various public and private companies in the During his tenure, he also held the functions of fields of organizational and human resources Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance and management; Planning.
He is now part of the Institute of Education (ISE) - On January 22nd, 2006, was re-elected Prime Professor of Management. Minister of Cape Verde.
Political activities Honorary degrees
In 1977 he joined the Amilcar Cabral African Youth · Award of Merit "Marechal Floriano Peixoto", the (JAAC) at the Domingos Ramos High school, where Governor of the State of Alagoas, Brazil, August he held leadership roles; 18th, 2005. · Order "Ruby Cross" awarded by the Charitable In 1979 and 1980 he was the First Secretary of JAAC Foundation "Patrons of The Century" for the in Santa Catarina; enormous contribution to the revival and continuation of the peace, greatness of spirit and Between 1980 and 1982 he served as First Secretary disinterested generosity, May 3th, 2006. of JAAC in the region of Santiago; · Honorary Doctorate degree in Law from the University of Rhode Island, May 17th, 2009. In 1989 he was elected General Secretary of JAAC · Honorary Doctorate degree in Social Science and and carried out those tasks until 1991; Humanities, University Candido Mendes - Rio de Janeiro on October 14th, 2009. in 1996 he was elected Deputy, he served as · Great Cross of the Order of Rio Branco, assigned Chairman of the Public Administration, Local by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Government and Regional Development and he was November 27th, 2009. Vice - chairman of the National Assembly; · Distinction for the work he has done for the development and affirmation of Cape Verde in He ran for president of the PAICV in 1997 and led the world, attributed by Youth Pictures of Santa within party the sensitivity J, which has become an Catarina, February 6th, 2010. alternative to the leadership of Pedro Pires. · Distinction for outstanding dedication and invaluable contribution to the most vulnerable, He was elected Mayor of Santa Catarina in the given by the World Food Program, the September year 2000. He won the Congress and was elected 7th, 2010. President of the PAICV.
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WORKSHOPS 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes WORKSHOP SCHEDULE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Building location is Ponta Delgada Campus, University of Azores: SHSC = Social and Human Sciences Complex SC = Scientific Complex
> 14.30 – 16.00
WORKSHOP TITLE ORGANISER(S) LENGTH BUILDING + NUMBER ROOM LOCATION
International students and their transition to highly-skilled Rana Aydin SC WS101 90 mins migrants Brooke Sykes Sala 2
Islands migration in transition: the Mediterranean, North SC WS102 Nicola Piper 90 mins Atlantic and South Pacific experiences Anf I
Mona Marshy SHSC WS103 Youth strategies and experiences of migration and integration 90 mins Lesley Voellmecke Sala 2.4
The integration of an established immigrant group: SC WS104 Fernando Nunes 90 mins Portuguese-Canadians and Portuguese-Americans Youth Anf III
Melissa Kelly Competition for skilled immigrants: Choice of countries and SHSC WS121 Barry Edmonston 90 mins successful adaptation Sala 2.5 Anne Gueller-Frey
The integration of Azoreans and their political identity in SC WS127 Eva Millona 90 mins Massachusetts Sala 5
> 16.30 – 18.00
WS/RT TITLE ORGANISER(S) LENGTH BUILDING + NUMBER ROOM LOCATION
SHSC WS122 Technological change and global migration futures Hein De Haas 90 mins Anf 1.3
Madine VanderPlaat SC WS123 Fragmented families and children left behind 90 mins Giovanni Giulio Valtolina Anf II
Madine VanderPlaat SHSC RT124 On the waterfront: Global migration and port cities 90 mins Terry Murphy Sala 2.4
Fostering interethnic collaboration and addressing Clea Schmidt SC WS126 90 mins discrimination in immigrant-receiving schools Jens Schneider Anf III
Elmano Costa Azores to California: Mixing tears with milk and honey – a SC WS112 Jennifer Helzer 90 mins transgenerational evolution Sala 5 Elizabeth Bett.-Machado
Baukje Prins SC WS314 Strangers in everyday plural society: live and let live together 90 mins Vincent Smit Sala 2
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WORKSHOP TITLE ORGANISER(S) LENGTH BUILDING + NUMBER ROOM LOCATION
From perceptions to policy: Using public perceptions of Chris Attwood SC WS108 180 mins migration to inform policy development Astrid Ziebarth Anf IV
Lucinda Fonseca Living in inner-city (multi)ethnic neighbourhoods: Housing, SC WS109 Carlos Teixeira 180 mins businesses and interethnic relations Anf V Rui Carvalho
Denise Spitzer SC WS110 Transnational families: Challenges and change 180 mins Sara Torres Anf VI
Marko Valenta SHSC WS111 Muslim immigrants in European multicultural environments 180 mins Zan Strabac Anf 1.4
Maria João Guia SC WS113 Crimmigration effects on Southern societies 180 mins Juliet Stumpf Sala 6
Chedly Belkhodja SHSC WS114 Understanding and resolving the fear of multiculturalism 180 mins Elke Winter Sala 2.3
Gilberta Rocha SC WS116 Return migration and deportation: Processes and challenges 180 mins Eduardo Ferreira Sala 7
Pablo Mateos Segregation in discussion: Comparing perspectives, policies Jordi Bayona SHSC WS117 180 mins and actions Sonia Arbaci Sala 1.5 Jorge Malheiros
Miriam Santos SHSC WS118 Diásporas em Diálogo 180 mins Maria Catarina Zanini Sala 2.1
Highly-skilled international migration: Immigration, return SHSC WS119 Wei Li 180 mins migration, and onward migration Anf 1.2
Kirsten Lauritsen SHSC WS120 Children in exile: Interethnic relations and daily life 180 mins Berit Berg Sala 2.2
57 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes WORKSHOP SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Building location is Ponta Delgada Campus, University of Azores: SHSC = Social and Human Sciences Complex SC = Scientific Complex
> 14.30 – 16.00
WS/RT TITLE ORGANISER(S) LENGTH BUILDING + NUMBER ROOM LOCATION
Solutions to the demographic challenge: Immigration or SC WS201 Martin Hewitt 90 mins increased employment among vulnerable groups Sala 2
Synnøve Bendixsen Dynamics between migration controls and access to welfare SC WS202 Ursula Trummer 90 mins for non-EU citizens Sala 5 Eva Haagensen
Rosa Simas SC WS204 Generational dynamics and challenges of today Graça Castanho 90 mins Sala 6 Manuela Marujo
Negotiating multiculturalism, multilingualism and multiple SHSC WS205 Emanuel da Silva 90 mins identities in Toronto and Ponta Delgada Anf 1.2
Exclusion, exploitation and vulnerable migrant workers SC WS206 John Wrench 90 mins in Europe Anf IV
Integration, identity, and connections between the North Carlos Teixeira SC WS207 90 mins American Diaspora and Portugal Irene Maria F. Blayer Anf I
Exporting goods, exporting workers? A comparative study SC WS208 of labour migration and export processing zones in Mexico Jenna Hennebry 90 mins Anf VI and Morocco
Patrick Hunter Future research directions on barriers to housing faced by SHSC RT209 Nancy Baker 90 mins newcomers Sala 2.3 Pamela Huber
> 16.30 – 18.00
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SC WS219 Global migration futures: findings and strategic responses Hein De Haas 90 mins Anf I
Sandra Silva Second-generation Portuguese and diaspora (Part I): SC WS221 Emanuel da Silva 90 mins Transnational lives Sala 2 João Sardinha
Intergenerational transmission and ties across frontiers: Ana Gherghel SC WS222 90 mins The case of Portuguese migration Josiane Le Gall Anf III
Intersectionality and multiple discrimination in access to SHSC WS224 Ludovica Banfi 90 mins services in Europe Sala 2.3
Belonging linked through immigrant art and accessing Khan Rahi SHSC WS115 90 mins cultural institutions Pierre Wilson Anf 1.2
Anne Gueller-Frey SC WS125 Fostering connection and integration through the Web 90 mins Stephan Schiele Anf VI
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Michèle Vatz Laaroussi SC WS210 The peripheries of immigration: Policies, practices and issues Chedly Belkhodja 180 mins Anf V Claudio Bolzman
Political participation of migrants: A possible contribution to Jorge Malheiros SC WS211 180 mins non-hegemonic globalization? Ana Paula Beja Horta Sala 1.5
Transnational attachments and experiences of settlement Deborah Tunis SHSC WS212 180 mins and integration Ann H. Kim Anf 1.4
Brazilian migration in Europe: The role of communication Sonia Pereira SC WS213 180 mins within the Brazilian Diaspora Leonardo Cavalcanti Sala 2.1
Diasporas in the age of globalization: Power, identity and SC WS214 James Frideres 180 mins internal dynamics Sala 2.2
Religious pluralism and immigration in contemporary society: Jennifer McGarrigle SC WS215 180 mins Social, political and historical considerations Jared Larson Sala 2.4
Two-way integration in Finland: E-services, information desks SC WS216 Paula Kuusipalo 180 mins and personal guidance Anf II
Immigrant businesses: The paradox of migrants’ economic Shahamak Rezaei SC WS217 integration and consequences of their informal economic 180 mins Marco Goli Sala 2.5 practices for policymakers
Innovative health services for migrants: From theories Ritika Dhall SC WS218 180 mins to practice Bernadette Nirmal Kumar Sala 7
Under-explored aspects of emigration: observations from Samantha Dowling SC WS225 180 mins developed countries Rosemary Murray Sala 9
59 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes WORKSHOP SCHEDULE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Building location is Ponta Delgada Campus, University of Azores: SHSC = Social and Human Sciences Complex SC = Scientific Complex
14.30 – 16.00
WS/RT TITLE ORGANISER(S) LENGTH BUILDING + NUMBER ROOM LOCATION
Wendy Searle SC WS301 Refugee integration: how far have we come? 90 mins Gareth Mulvey Anf VI
Preventing forced marriage: Scandinavian measures, Solfrid Lien SC WS302 90 mins experiences and challenges Merete Munch Sala 5
Keeping the faith: New developments in the interfaith youth SHSC WS303 Josée Makropoulos 90 mins movement Anf 1.2
Portuguese-Canadian and Portuguese-American Seniors: SHSC WS305 Fernando Nunes 90 mins A social determinants of health approach Sala 2.3
Economic integration of immigrants in host nations: some SC WS306 Syed Ather H. Akbari 90 mins outcomes and models of best practices Anf I
Carlos Teixeira Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities: The SHSC WS307 Wei Li 90 mins Authors meet the critics Anf 1.3 Audrey Kobayashi
SHSC RT308 In Retrospect: The Canadian Metropolis Centres of Excellence Madine VanderPlaat 90 mins Anf 1.4
Immigrant and diaspora experiences of exclusion: the Roma, Lesley Voellmecke SC WS223 90 mins Iranian seniors, and Palestinian artists Mona Marshy Anf IV
> 16.30 – 18.00
WORKSHOP TITLE ORGANISER(S) LENGTH BUILDING + NUMBER ROOM LOCATION
Opportunities and challenges of life in multiethnic and SC WS320 Sharon Lee 90 mins multicultural cities Sala 5
Lesley Voellmecke SHSC WS321 African migration dynamics and strategies 90 mins Mona Marshy Sala 2.3
Pluralisme et citoyenneté: Enjeux et défis pour les grands Myrlande Pierre SC WS323 90 mins centres urbains Ibrahima Guisse Anf IV
Elmano Costa The Portuguese-American Citizenship Project: A tripartite SHSC WS304 James McGlinchey 90 mins collaboration for community empowerment Anf 1.3 Antonio Borba
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> 14.30 – 18.00 [Double session]
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Innovations in integration, Mischa Davison SC WS310 Part I – Foundational issues and perspectives Anahit Falihi 180 mins Anf III Part II – Programming and practice Beulah Gana
Ricard Morén-Alegret SC WS311 Immigrants’ integration and sustainability in small towns 180 mins Lucinda Fonseca Sala 6
Maria João Hortas Education, training and integration in multicultural urban SC WS312 Celia Martins 180 mins contexts Sala 7 Alfredo Dias
Samantha Dowling Irregular migration: perspectives from both countries of SC WS313 Katerina Kratzmann 180 mins origin and destination Anf V Ophélie Tardieu
Beatriz Padilla Labour market strategies of Latin American women SHSC WS315 Jorge Malheiros 180 mins immigrants: The case of Ibero-America Sala 2.1 Manuela Mendes
Sandra Silva Second-generation Portuguese and diaspora (Part II): SC WS316 Emanuel da Silva 180 mins Identity in question Sala 2 João Sardinha
Integration policies in times of economic crises: Catarina Reis Oliveira SC WS317 180 mins New challenges for intercultural societies? Roberto Carneiro Anf II
Unauthorized migration and the diasporas: Maria João Guia SHSC WS318 180 mins Examining the rights of immigrants Juliet Stumpf Sala 2.2
Godfrey Baldacchino SHSC WS319 Island migration: Dynamics and tensions 180 mins Gilberta Rocha Sala 2.5
61 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, September 13th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 101 International students and their transition to highly-skilled migrants
BUILDING SC - Scientific Complex ROOM Sala 2
More students than ever before are pursuing their studies abroad. While many of these students will return to their home country after graduation, some will remain in their country of study or migrate on to a third country and make the transition from ‘international student’ to ‘highly-skilled migrant’. What factors influence the post-study migration decisions of these students? What role do government measures to attract and retain international students play? This workshop explores these questions, incorporating the perspectives of individual students and policymakers.
ORGANIZER(S) > Rana Aydin, Stiftung Mercator (Germany) · [email protected] > Brooke Sykes, Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (Germany)
CHAIR > Michael Schwarz, Stiftung Mercator (Germany)
PARTICIPANTS > Jan Niessen, Migration Policy Group (Belgium) · Legal Measures to Admit and Attract International Students: A European Comparison • Wei Shen, Ecole Superior des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (France) · To Leave or Not To Leave? Dilemmas of Chinese Students Abroad Before and After the Financial Crisis • Brooke Sykes, Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (Germany) · The Post-Study Migration Plans of International Students in Germany: Who stays, who goes, and why? • Irene Jansen, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (Germany) · Mixed Messages: International Higher Education Marketing in Times of Demographic Changes • Stephanie Shatilla, Goverment of Ontario (Canada) · Fuelling the Knowledge Economy: International Students in Ontario
Workshop 102 Islands Migration in Transition: the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and South Pacific experiences
BUILDING SC - Scientific Complex ROOM Anf. 1
The recent political unrest in North Africa has once again focused the political spotlight onto mixed flows of migrants journeying northward across (and increasingly around) the Mediterranean Sea. Having joined the EU in 2004, the small, island states of Malta and Cyprus have since found themselves on the frontier of Europe, facing new flows of immigration and transit migration. Historically, migration has taken place from Mediterranean and North Atlantic islands to traditional settlement countries such as New Zealand, a large island itself. In more recent history, Pacific Islanders have constituted a significant group of immigrants there. This workshop examines the consequences of this relatively new migration phenomenon for the two European islands in comparison to historical and recent migration of islanders to New Zealand.
ORGANIZER > Nicola Piper, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Germany) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Nicola Piper, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Germany)
PARTICIPANTS > Bozena Sojka-Koirala, Swansea University, Wales (United Kingdom) · New Migration and Racism in Cyprus • Cetta Mainwaring, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · Centering on the Margins: Migration Controls in Malta and Cyprus • Helen Jardine-Stead, Waitaki District Councillor · Islands to Islands - Azores to Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Workshop 103 Youth strategies and experiences of migration and integration
BUILDING SHSC - Social and Human Sciences Complex ROOM Sala 2.4
Presenters will examine the multifaceted identity negotiations of Latina females in Toronto public schools, the impact of multicultural education projects from the perspective of student leaders, and parents’ strategies of ethnic socialization from the perspective of their children of Moroccan and Turkish origin in Holland. Data on Norwegian children with immigrant parents will also be analyzed, along with impacts of changes to family composition during the settlement period on youth with refugee backgrounds in Melbourne.
ORGANIZER(S) > Mona Marshy, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada · [email protected] > Lesley Voellmecke, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
PARTICIPANTS > Cristina Guerrero, University of Toronto (Canada) · Transnationalism, Identity, and Integration in the Schooling of Immigrant Latinas in Toronto • Darren Lund, University of Calgary (Canada) · Fostering Welcoming Communities by Resisting Backlash: Learning from Student Leaders • Trees Pels, VU University (Netherlands) · Ethnic Socialisation and Proneness to Ethnic Conflict in Dutch Minority and Majority Youth • Minja Tea Dzamarija, Statistics Norway (Norway) · Children and Young Adults with Immigrant Parents in Focus • Celia McMichael, La Trobe University (Australia) · Resettlement and Social Inclusion: Resettled Youth with Refugee Backgrounds in Melbourne, Australia
Workshop 104 The integration of an established immigrant group: Portuguese-Canadians and Portuguese-Americans Youth
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This workshop will explore the notion of the successful integration of a long-established, predominantly working-class immigrant group by examining the situation of Portuguese youth in Canada and the United States. The implications for government policy and practice relating to settlement, integration, education, youth justice and health will be discussed. In addition, the consequences for maintenance of relations with the homeland will be discussed, particularly as they relate to the Azorean archipelago.
ORGANIZER > Fernando Nunes, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada) · [email protected]
PARTICIPANTS > Maria Gloria de Sa, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (United States) · Recent Socio-demographic Changes among the Portuguese in the US and their Consequences for the Future of the Group • Fernando Nunes, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada) · Attitudes Towards Schools, Schooling and Post-secondary Education, Amongst Portuguese-Canadian Youth • Robert Kenedy, York University (Canada) · Civic and Political Participation of Portuguese-Canadian Youth: An Examination of Multicultural and Transnational Connections • Helena S. Marques, Immigrants' Assistance Center, Inc. (United States ) · The Deportation of Young Luso-Americans
63 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, September 13th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 121 Competition for skilled immigrants: Choice of countries and successful adaptation
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Despite their potential contribution to labour markets and national economies, many skilled migrants continue to face integration challenges. Furthermore, for many, migration causes a gap in their professional CV and career. This workshop examines why skilled immigrants choose one country over another, and how well skilled immigrants adapt in their new countries. It also explores how the individual qualifications and competencies of migrants can best be developed and promoted. Panellists will discuss important integration issues for highly-qualified migrants in Australia, New Zealand and several countries in Europe and the Americas.
ORGANIZER(S) > Melissa Kelly, Uppsala University (Sweden) · [email protected] > Barry Edmonston, University of Victoria (Canada) > Anne Gueller-Frey, Tür An Tür Integrationsprojekte GGmbH (Germany)
CHAIR > Barry Edmonston, University of Victoria (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Lucia Bogus, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo and Susana Pasternak, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil) · International Mobility and Globalization: Recent Migration of Skilled Professionals to São Paulo Metropolis • Andreas Renner, University of Augsburg (Germany)) · Bridging the Gaps: Integration through Further Vocational Qualification • Kræn Blume Jensen, Danish Institute Of Governmental Research (Denmark) · Utilization of Immigrants' Qualifications • Kaisu Koskela, University Of Helsinki (Finland) · Skilled Migrants in Finland: Issues with Adaptation
Workshop 127 The integration of Azoreans and their political identity in Massachusetts
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This workshop will explore the diaspora’s role on integration pathways between newcomers and host countries, using naturalization within the Azorean population in Massachusetts as an example. This workshop will involve a comparative analysis of the US and EU states regarding: 1) best practice models for increasing citizenship among eligible populations, 2) how a host country may feel threatened by a trend towards transnational identity, 3) how access to departed countries through the media may deter newcomers from local civic engagement, and 4) how to ensure newcomers’ voices are heard in a representative democracy by legitimizing their role in the body politic.
ORGANIZER > Eva A. Millona, Massachusetts and Immigrant Refugee Advocacy Coalition (United States) · [email protected]
PARTICIPANTS > Eva A. Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts and Immigrant Refugee Advocacy Coalition (United States) · Naturalization and Civic Engagement within an established immigrant community • Paulo Pinto, Executive Director of Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (United States) · New Bonds and Historic Connections: the Azoreans of Massachusetts • Westy Egmont, Co-Chair of Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Council on Refugees and Immigrants, Professor of Social Policy, Boston College (United States) · Integration and Transnational Identity • Maria da Graça Castanho, Government of the Azores (Portugal) · Maintaining ties: the government and the diaspora of the Azores
64 WORKSHOPS Tuesday, September 13th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 108 From perceptions to policy: Using public perceptions of migration to inform policy development
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In many western societies migration has consistently been a big factor in the public’s mind. Public opinions on migration play a critical role in the development of government migration policies. And yet, public opinions are rarely clear cut and differ by a host of demographic factors, in time and place. And people’s views on migration are often internally inconsistent. There is a lack of evidence on what actually drives public perceptions on migration and, hence, what can be done to influence perceptions. This workshop aims to:1) compare and contrast public opinions on migration in the participating countries; 2) develop an understanding of what drives public opinions of migration in the participating countries; and 3) examine how public opinions are used to inform policy development at local and national levels.
ORGANIZER(S) > Chris Attwood, UK Home Office (United Kingdom) · [email protected] > Astrid Ziebarth, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Germany)
CHAIR > Jon Simmons, UK Home Office (United Kingdom)
PARTICIPANTS > Astrid Ziebarth, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Germany) · Transatlantic Trends in Perceptions of Migration • Chris Attwood, UK Home Office (United Kingdom) · View from the Streets: Public Perceptions of Migrants in the UK • Wendy Searle, Department of Labour (New Zealand) · Community Attitudes Towards Immigrants in New Zealand • Justyna Frelak, Institute of Public Affairs (Poland) · Perceptions of Poles Abroad • Bernd Parusel, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Germany) · Political Repercussions of Recent Debates on Migration and Integration in Germany • Baukje Prins, The Hague University for Applied Sciences (Netherlands) · Dutch Debate on Immigrant Integration: From New Realism to Mainstreaming Islamophobia
Workshop 109 Living in inner-city (multi)ethnic neighbourhoods: housing, businesses and interethnic relations
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This workshop will provide a comparative forum where different perspectives and case-studies (from both Europe and North America) will be presented on the local impacts of the last decades’ global socioeconomic transformations in inner-city (multi)ethnic residential neighbourhoods. This workshop will focus on three main aspects of change: i) residential revitalization and immigrants’ (lack of) access to housing; ii) local entrepreneurship and ethnic businesses; and iii) social and ethnic mix and interethnic relations.
ORGANIZER(S) > Lucinda Fonseca, Centre of Geographical Studies - University of Lisbon (Portugal) · [email protected] > Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia – Okanagan (Canada) > Rui Carvalho, CEG - University of Lisbon (Portugal)
CHAIR > Lucinda Fonseca, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
DISCUSSANT > Jorge Malheiros, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia – Okanagan (Canada) · The Impact of Gentrification in Toronto's "Little Portugal” • Khan Rahi, Canadian Community-Based Research Network (Canada); and Surrendra Santokhi, City of The Hague (Netherlands) · The Impact of Local Revitalization Strategies on Immigrant Enclaves: A Comparative Policy Review of Two Cities • Harald Bauder and Isabel Ritchie, Ryerson University (Canada) · Toronto's "Little India" at the Cross-road: Revitalization or Decline • Sandeep Agrawal, Ryerson University (Canada) · Who among South Asians does better in the Canadian economy; Indians, Pakistanis or Sri Lankans? • Joaquina Pires, Ville de Montréal (Canada) · Le rôle de deux piliers de la vie associative des immigrants portugais dans la revitalisation du quartier Saint-Louis de Montréal • Manuela Mendes, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (Portugal) · Between the Tradition and the Exotic: Diversity and Sociability in the Mouraria Neighbourhood (Lisboa) • Rui Carvalho and Luis Mendes, University of Lisbon (Portugal)On Marginal Gentrification and Social and Ethnic Mix: Theory and Evidence from a Multi-ethnic Neighbourhood in the City of Lisbon • Ade Kearns and Elise Whitley, University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) ·"Time solves everything"? The Social Integration of "New Migrants" within Very Deprived Communities 65 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, September 13th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 110 Transnational families: Challenges and change
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How are family/kin networks sustained under diasporic conditions? How do diasporic conditions alter family/kin relations? And, what are the implications of these transnational realities for the well-being of family members? Using examples from Canada, Australia and Scandinavia, we will explore the changes and challenges experienced by Filipino, Somali and Tamil families in diaspora, and consider the policy interventions that could be implemented to enhance their integration and well-being.
ORGANIZER(S) > Denise Spitzer, University of Ottawa (Canada) · [email protected] > Sara Torres, LAZO (Canada)
CHAIR > Denise Spitzer, University of Ottawa (Canada)
DISCUSSANTS > Noreen Berkes, Alberta Employment & Immigration (Canada) > Josephine Pallard, Changing Together: A Centre for Immigrant Women (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Celia McMichael, Latrobe University (Australia) · Negotiating Family, Navigating Resettlement: Family Connectedness Amongst Resettled Youth with Refugee Backgrounds Living in Melbourne, Australia • Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, University College of Lillehammer (Norway) · Maintaining Tamil Relations: Tensions Between Generations and Kin in Diaspora • Johanna Malmi, Institute of Migration (Finland) · Somali Families’ Transnational Connection-keeping in their Diasporic Life and their Feelings about Lived Urban Space • Denise Spitzer, University of Ottawa (Canada) · Lives in Transition: Filipino Youth in Canada • Sara Torres, Latin American Women's Support Organization (Canada) · Filipino Identities in the Canadian Diaspora
Workshop 111 Muslim immigrants in European multicultural environments
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Muslim immigrants often live in large, multicultural cities and are involved in daily interactions with members of non- Muslim immigrant groups. In these interactions, Muslim immigrants are involved in multiple identity negotiations and styles of clothing. Both immigrant background and Muslim religious affiliation may be emphasized or downplayed through verbal and non-verbal communication. This workshop will focus on social position, islamophobia and identity negotiations of Muslim immigrants, using a broad spectrum of analytical approaches.
ORGANIZER(S) > Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) · [email protected] > Zan Strabac, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
CHAIR > Zan Strabac, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
DISCUSSANT > Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University (Sweden) · Islamophobia in Sweden • Zan Strabac and Marko Valenta, University Trondheim TBS/NTNU (Norway) · Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants: Evidence from Four Countries • Dario Padovan, University Torino (Italy) · Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in Italy • Alfredo Alietii, University Torino (Italy) · Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in Italy • Susan Wiltshire, Leeds University and Susan McVie, Edinburgh University (United Kingdom) · Experience of Discrimination, Social Marginalization and Violence among Muslim and Non-Muslim Youth
66 WORKSHOPS Tuesday, September 13th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 113 Crimmigration effects on Southern societies
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Noncitizens in the United States face an expanding crimmigration paradigm where criminal law and immigration law intersect. Conduct that was previously civil has become criminal, more minor crimes trigger deportation, and enforcement has merged. U.S. crimmigration law greatly increased deportations, including deporting many Azoreans who settled there as children. This panel will address whether crimmigration may find fertile soil in Europe and discuss the tension in the EU between penalizing and integrating.
ORGANIZER(S) > Maria João Guia, Centre for Social Studies (Portugal) · [email protected] > Juliet Stumpt, Lewis & Clark Law School (United States )
CHAIR > Juliet Stumpt, Lewis & Clark Law School (United States )
DISCUSSANT > Stephen Legomsky, Washington University School of Law (United States )
PARTICIPANTS > Juliet Stumpt, Lewis & Clark Law School (United States ) · The Two Faces of Crimmigration Law: Criminal Deportation and Illegal Migration • Maria João Guia, Centre for Social Studies (Portugal) · The Crimmigration Control vs. Human Rights • Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University (United States) · The Disappearing Rights of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States • Maria da Graça Castanho, Regional Directorate of Community (Portugal) · The Wide Scope of Immigration in the Azores: Their Relationship with Crime • Robert Koulish, University of Maryland (United States ) · The Governmentality of Electronic Detention in the Immigration Context
Workshop 114 Understanding and Resolving the Fear of Multiculturalism
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In this workshop, we will develop a better understanding of the critique of multiculturalism, drawing on different types of research in Canada and Europe. We will also contrast negative political and media discourses about multiculturalism with the perspectives from the policy sector and NGOs who seem to advance a more positive and pragmatic analysis of multicultural practices in welcoming and integrating immigrant communities in Canada and Portugal.
ORGANIZER(S) > Chedly Belkhodja, Université de Moncton (Canada) · [email protected] > Elke Winter, Université d'Ottawa (Canada)
CHAIR > Terry Murphy, Saint-Mary's University (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
PARTICIPANTS > Chedly Belkhodja, Université de Moncton (Canada) · Reaction to Diversity. La nouvelle sensibilité conservatrice au Québec (Canada) • Elke Winter, Université d'Ottawa (Canada) · Canadian Multiculturalism at the Crossroads? The Rise and Fall of an International Trendsetter • Ashraf Ghanem, Population Growth Secretariat, Government of New Brunswick (Canada) · Multiculturalism in a Canadian Province: the Case of New Brunswick • Paulo Senra, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, (Portugal) · No Muslims Allowed: the Decay of Pluralism in the West • Matteo Guianni, University of Geneva (Switzerland) · Against Multiculturalism but for Democracy? The Integration of Muslims in Contemporary Switzerland • Björn Fryklund, Malmö University (Sweden) (tbc) • Paul Spoonley, Massey University (New Zealand) · The Politics of Exclusion : Tea-Party Nationalism and the Contemporary Rhetoric Concerning Immigrants in Obama’s America
67 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, September 13th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 116 Return migration and deportation: Processes and challenges
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This workshop discusses processes related to return migration and its challenges for policy-makers and society in general. The first part of this workshop intends to identify the different profiles of the returnees, the processes of decision-making around the decision to return and the main factors that explain them. The second part considers the ways returnees negotiate multiple identities with their “homeland(s)” from both individual and collective viewpoints.
ORGANIZER(S) > Gilberta Rocha, University of the Azores (Portugal) · [email protected] > Eduardo Ferreira, University of the Azores (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > João Sardinha, Universidade Aberta (Portugal) · Leaving 'Home' to go 'Home': The 'Return' to Portugal of Second-Generation Portuguese- Canadians and Portuguese-French • António João Saraiva, Universidade Aberta (Portugal) · Beyond Words: Film and New Media in the Azorean Emigration • Miguel Moniz, Lisbon University Institute (Portugal) · Migrant and Deportee Displacement and Belonging • Ana Teresa Alves, University of the Azores (Portugal) · The Representation of Azorean Deportees in the Local Media: A Linguistic Analysis of the News about Deportees in Açoriano Oriental • Eduardo Ferreira and Derrick Mendes, University of the Azores (Portugal) · Emigration and Return to the Azores • Telma Silva, Government of the Azores (Portugal) · Azorean Deportees: Strangers in their Homeland • Jessica Chicco, Center for Human Right and International Justice (United States) · Returning to the U.S. after Deportation: Hopes & Hurdles • Alzira Silva, Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Portugal) · Paths of Deportation to the Azores
Workshop 117 Segregation in discussion: Comparing perspectives, policies and actions
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The issue of residential segregation has gained prominence in the academic and political spheres. If in Latin America residential segregation is discussed in a context dominated by security and eventually neighbourhood cohesion, in Europe and North America it is assumed as a negative process due to its alleged relationship with the lack of integration. In this workshop, we aim to discuss the factors behind residential segregation in different spatial contexts as well as the various policy responses to this process, namely the impacts of ethnic mix.
ORGANIZER(S) > Pablo Mateos, University College London (United Kingdom) · [email protected] > Jordi Bayona, Universidad de Barcelona (Spain) > Sonia Arbaci, University College London (United Kingdom) > Jorge Malheiros, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
CHAIRS > Jesus Leal and Marta Dominguez, Dep. Sociologia - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) > Sonia Arbaci, University College London (United Kingdom)
DISCUSSANTS > Paulo Mendes, Associação de Imigrantes nos Açores (AIPA) (Portugal) > Pablo Mateos, University College London (United Kingdom)
PARTICIPANTS > Rui Antonio Carvalho, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Marginal Gentrification, Segregation and Social relations in Lisbon Neighbourhoods • Jorge Malheiros, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Approaching the Links between Internal Mobility and Socio- spatial Segregation: Readings from the Case of Lisbon Immigrants • Sonia Arbaci, University College London (United Kingdom) · Mixed tenure Neighbourhoods in London: Policy Myth or Effective Device for Social Mobility? • Pablo Mateos, University College London (United Kingdom) · Socio-economic Segregation in Latin American cities: A Geo-demographic Approach in Mexico City • Jesus Leal and Marta Dominguez, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) · Urban Changes, Social Inequality and Segregation in Madrid • Jordi Bayona, Dep. Geografia Humana, University of Barcelona (Spain) · Foreign Population in Barcelona: The Evolution of concentration and Segregation Patterns (2001-2009) • Pau Serra del Pozo, Open University of Catalonia (Spain) · Do Migrants’ Businesses Reinforce Residential Segregation? Ethnic Centralities in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
68 WORKSHOPS Tuesday, September 13th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 118 Diásporas em Diálogo
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Diásporas em Diálogo - O objetivo desse workshop é pensar as relações diaspóricas na longa duração, discutindo os diferentes matizes do deslocamento humano, comparando e relacionando os diferentes processos diaspóricos, nas suas múltiplas facetas. This workshop will be in Portuguese.
ORGANIZER(S) > Miriam Santos, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro - Nucleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios (Brasil) · [email protected] > Maria Catarina Zanini, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brasil)
CHAIR > Miriam Santos, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
DISCUSSANT > Beatriz Padilla, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Giralda Seyferth, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) · Associações protecionistas, empresas colonizadoras e a imigração alemã no Brasil • Maria Catarina Zanini, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brasil) · Italianos al estero: as relações da Itália com os emigrados italianos e seus descendentes • Joana Bahia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) · De Miguel Pereira a Berlim. A presença da religiosidade afro brasileira na Alemanha • Cristiana Bastos, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) · Corpos em viagem com epidemias na bagagem: saúde, política, fronteira • Francesco Vacchiano, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal) · Os confins no corpo: experiência, subjectividade e incorporação nos itinerários dos jovens migrantes marroquinos a Europa • Bianka André, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (Brasil) · De perto e de longe: o imaginário juvenil na diáspora
Workshop 119 Highly-skilled international migration: Immigration, return migration, and onward migration
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This workshop addresses the massive transfers of highly skilled international migrants (especially the Chinese and Indian) between the world’s fastest growing economies and the major receiving countries in the Pacific Rim, as well as analyzing how such migration dynamics contribute to migration decision making. Presenters from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US will review and synthesize existing research, available statistics, and current policy settings and present the results of data collection and analysis to learn more about migrants’ responses to the economic, social and political environments.
ORGANIZER > Wei Li, Arizona State University (United States ) · [email protected]
CHAIRS > Binod Khadria, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) > Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's University (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Paulo Teves, GER - Gabinete de Emigração e Regressos (Emigration and Returning Bureau) (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Graeme Hugo, The University of Adelaide (Australia) · The Australia-Asia skilled Migration System: Reciprocity, Return and Circular Migration • Richard Bedford, University of Waikato and Auckland Technology University; Elsie Ho, University of Auckland; Robert Didham, Statistics (New Zealand) · Contemporary Indian and Chinese Migration to New Zealand: Challenges and Opportunities into the Second Decade of the 21st Century • Paul Spoonley, Massey University (New Zealand) · Skilled Asian Immigrants: Instrumental Approaches to Location and Labour Market Engagement • Elaine Ho, University of Leeds (United Kingdom) · Goodbye Canada, hello (again) China: Mainland Chinese ‘return migration’, trends and outcomes • Wei Li, Arizona State University (United States); and Lucia Lo, York University (Canada) · Highly-skilled Chinese and Indian Migration: US and Canada Compared • Wan Yu, Arizona State University (United States ) · Brain Circulation of Global Talents: Student Migrants between China and the U.S
69 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, September 13th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 120 Children in exile: Interethnic relations and daily life
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This workshop will discuss subjects related to children in exile (refugees and other migrants); their expectations, experiences, lives and life strategies. This workshop will present research and experiences that highlight challenges and dilemmas for how children are treated by the host society, but also on how children in exile handle and interpret their own lives.
ORGANIZER(S) > Kirsten Lauritsen, University College of Nord-Trondelag (Norway) · [email protected] > Berit Berg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
CHAIR > Kirsten Lauritsen, University College of Nord-Trondelag (Norway)
DISCUSSANT > Berit Berg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Berit Berg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) · A Life on Hold – Children in Reception Centres for Asylum Seekers • Kirsten Lauritsen, University College of Nord-Trondelag (Norway) · Small Children in Norwegian Reception Centres for Asylum Seekers: Special Care or Equal Rights? • Giovanna Fassetta-Guariento, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Scotland) · Through the Eyes of Others: Children of International Labour Migrants and Symbolic Violence • Karin Fathimath Afeef, Save the Children (Sweden) · Supporting Young Migrants through Cross-Sectoral Collaboration: Experiences from the Norwegian Red Cross • Veronica Paulsen and Stina Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) · Unaccompanied Minors’ Situation in Norway
70 WORKSHOPS Tuesday, September 13th 16h30 > 18h00
Workshop 122 Technological change and global migration futures
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How will future technological change affect the volume, composition and direction of global migration, particularly within and from the developing world? Although it is often argued that technological advancements have spurred migration, the actual impact of technological changes on migration is much more ambiguous, as technology also facilitates trade, off-shoring, distance working, and commuting, which may have a migration-reducing effect. To explore these issues, this panel uses an approach that was developed through the International Migration Institute’s Global Migration Futures project to examine the impact of technological change on future migration as well as the implications of future changes in global migration trends and patterns on technological change.
ORGANIZER > Hein de Haas, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Hein de Haas, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
PARTICIPANTS > Abdirashid Duale, Dahabshiil (Somalia) · Information and Communication Technologies, Remittances, and Future Global Migration • Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Formerly of Employment and Migration, International Labor Organization (ILO) (India) · Production Systems, Labor Markets, and Future Global Migration
Workshop 123 Fragmented families and children left behind
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Over the last thirty years there has been an increased recognition among migration researchers of the emergence of “astronaut families” and “satellite children”. Approximately 500,000 children in Europe currently have one or both parents migrated abroad. Drawing on experiences in Canada and Europe the objective of this workshop is to explore the impact such migration strategies have on the well-being of children and the implications this has for policy and practice.
ORGANIZER(S) > Madine VanderPlaat, Saint Mary's University (Canada) · [email protected] > Giovanni Giulio Valtolina, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
CHAIR > Madine VanderPlaat, Saint Mary's University (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Laura Zanfrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) · Chasing Rainbows: Expectations of Young Filipino Children Left Behind • Pauline Gardiner Barber, Dalhousie University (Canada) · Migration and Family Fracture: Does Social Class Matter? • Giovanni Giulio Valtolina, ISMU (Foundation for Initiatives & Studies on Multi-ethnicity) (Italy) · Children Left Behind- Family Interactions and Psychological Well-Being: an Overview
71 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Tuesday, September 13th 16h30 > 18h00
Workshop 124 On the waterfront: Global migration and port cities
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The objective of this roundtable is to explore the impacts of global migration patterns specifically as they relate to port cities, both those that serve as a point of departure and those which provide a point of entry. Over the past 60 years the role of port cities has changed dramatically but little attention has been paid to their current role in international migration.
ORGANIZER(S) > Madine VanderPlaat, Saint Mary's University (Canada) · [email protected] > Terry Murphy, Saint Mary's University (Canada)
CHAIR > Madine VanderPlaat, Saint Mary's University (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Terry Murphy, Saint Mary's University (Canada) • Alina Esteves, University of Lisbon (Portugal) • Shirley Cuillierrier, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Canada) • João Ataide, European Migration Network (EMN) (Portugal) • Alfredo Dias, MIGRARE (Portugal)
Workshop 126 Fostering interethnic collaboration and addressing discrimination in immigrant-receiving schools
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High levels of immigration in Canada and Europe present unique opportunities for education systems to challenge discrimination towards minority groups and to foster interethnic collaboration in ways that promote academic and social success for all learners in schools. NGO and academic workshop contributors from Germany and various parts of Canada analyze educational policies, practices, and research addressing cultural, linguistic, and racial diversity from constructivist and critical theoretical perspectives.
ORGANIZER(S) > Clea Schmidt, University Of Manitoba (Canada) · [email protected] > Jens Schneider, Association for Intercultural Communication and Education (Germany)
CHAIR > Clea Schmidt, University of Manitoba (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Jens Schneider, Association for Intercultural Communication and Education (Germany)
PARTICIPANTS > Clea Schmidt, University of Manitoba (Canada) · Diversifying the Teaching Profession: A Strategy for Anti-Discriminatory Education • Jens Schneider, Association for Intercultural Communication and Education (Germany) • Sandra Melo, St. James Assiniboia School Division (Canada) · Canadian Perspectives on the Inclusion of Newcomers: One teacher's experience from the Province of Manitoba • Antoinette Gagne, University of Toronto (Canada) • Benjamin Bach, Open Society Foundation (United Kingdom)
72 WORKSHOPS Tuesday, September 13th 16h30 > 18h00
Workshop 112 Azores to California: Mixing tears with milk and honey – a transgenerational evolution
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California has 360,000 people of Azorean heritage. Azorean immigrants settled in agricultural regions of the state and have come to dominate the dairy industry. Yet, the road to economic well-being involved a cultural and economic evolution sprinkled with early periods of economic struggle and cultural estrangement. This workshop presents data from the 2010 census and matches this with ethnographic studies conducted in the Azorean heritage communities of the state.
ORGANIZER(S) > Elmano Costa, Valley Area Living Enabling Resources (VALER) (United States ) · [email protected] > Jennifer Helzer, California State University, Stanislaus (United States ) > Elizabeth Bettencourt-Machado, California State University, Stanislaus (United States )
PARTICIPANTS > Elmano Costa, Valley Area Living Enabling Resources (VALER) (United States ) · The Portuguese-American Community in California – Triumph in the Midst of Hardship • Jennifer Helzer, California State University, Stanislaus (United States ) · Emergence of an Azorean Cultural Landscape in Central California • Elizabeth Bettencourt Machado, California State University, Stanislaus (United States ) · The New Blue Islands: The Azorean Cultural Landscape of the California Central Valley • Rosa Simas, University of the Azores (Portugal) · Azorean-California Women: Diversity within a Common Heritage
Workshop 314 Strangers in everyday plural society: live and let live together
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Many city dwellers like to live in metropolitan areas because the strong ties of private familiarity are replaced by the weaker ties of public familiarity. In this session, findings from quantitative and qualitative research about the dynamics of encounters between strangers in everyday life in multicultural cities will be compared with the results of policy projects aimed at improving the quality of everyday life in metropolitan areas.
ORGANIZER(S) > Baukje Prins, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) · [email protected] > Vincent Smit, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
CHAIR > Baukje Prins, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
PARTICIPANTS > Baukje Prins, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) · The blessings of big city life: How to foster democratic virtues and public familiarity • Vincent Smit, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) · Strength and stress: Young people in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in The Hague • Jonathan Bannister and Ade Kearns, University of Glasgow, ( United Kingdom) · The Foundations and Functions of Tolerance in the Urban Realm • Mei Ling Liem, Municipality of Amsterdam (Netherlands) · Citizenship & civility in Amsterdam: Opening up the multicultural debate to create new strategies for integration
73 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Wednesday, September 14th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 201 Solutions to the demographic challenge: Immigration or increased employment among vulnerable groups
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Different strategies have been presented as solutions to the demographic challenge of a relative decline in the working- age population. One strategy is to increase immigration in order to get an influx of younger people in order to increase the active part of the population. Another strategy is to increase the employment rate of the population.The workshop aims to discuss research and policy changes relating to these two strategies.
ORGANIZER > Martin Hewitt, Ministry of Labour (Norway) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Martin Hewitt, Ministry of Labour (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Oriol Homs, Centre for European Initiatives and Research in the Mediterranean (Spain) · Migration and the Demographic Challenge • Bjørn Halvorsen, Nordic Center for Welfare and Social Issues (Norway) · Increased Employment amongst Young People - A Nordic Perspective
Workshop 202 Dynamics between migration controls and access to welfare for non-EU citizens
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This workshop will discuss the complex dynamics between migration controls and access to welfare for non-EU citizens and/or irregular migrants, and how the lack of legal standing produces marginalization in various aspects of migrants’ life, differently affecting the lives of men/women, adults/children. Looking at various cases in Europe and beyond, presenters will consider the policies and practices producing exclusion of migrants, the economic aspects thereof, and the role of Diaspora in improving the migrant’s conditions.
ORGANIZER(S) > Synnøve Bendixsen, IMER Bergen, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (Norway) · [email protected] > Ursula Trummer, Center for Health and Migration, Vienna, and University of Vienna (Austria) > Eva Haagensen, Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (Norway)
CHAIR > Christine M. Jacobsen, IMER Bergen, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Ursula Karl-Trummer, Center for Health and Migration, Vienna, and University of Vienna (Austria) · Legal Frameworks and Related Practices: Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in the 27 EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland • Nils Olav Refsdal, Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (Norway) · Migration Control Through Rules and Procedures- the Process of Becoming Irregular • Synnøve Bendixsen, IMER Bergen, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (Norway) · ‘We refuse to be silenced': Irregular Migrants' Struggle for Recognition • Chiara Pussetti, University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal) and Vitor Barros, King's College (United Kingdom) · Povernmentality: Migration and the Ethnopolitics of Care
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Workshop 204 Generational dynamics and challenges of today
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As change happens in contemporary life at progressively greater speed the generation gap has become generation gaps and the life experience of each generation diverges in many aspects while overlapping in others. Highlighting this generational dynamic, which is a vital aspect of the migration experience, this workshop focuses on key challenges that societies face today such as the introduction of new technologies, the treatment of the elderly, and the handling of gender and environmental issues.
ORGANIZER(S) > Rosa Simas, University of the Azores (Portugal) · [email protected] > Graça Castanho, Regional Government of the Azores (Portugal) > Manuela Marujo, University of Toronto (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Rosa Simas and Licinio Tomas, University of the Azores (Portugal) · Shifting to Gender and Environmental Issues • Graça Castanho, Regional Government of the Azores (Portugal) · Deportees and the Families Left Behind • Deolinda Adão, University of California, Berkeley (United States) · Growing up Azorean in California • Suzana Caldeira, University of the Azores (Portugal) · Dating without Violence • Catarina Guimarães and Nuno Nunes, Center for the Study of Gerontology and Tanatology (Portugal) · Caring for the Elderly in the US and Canada • Manuela Marujo, University of Toronto (Canada) · Using the Internet between Generations
Workshop 205 Negotiating multiculturalism, multilingualism and multiple identities in Toronto and Ponta Delgada
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This workshop explores the complex negotiations of ethnolinguistic difference in the most multicultural cities in Canada and the Azores. The experiences presented draw from ethnographic research on identity construction among youth from Toronto's Latin American, Italian and Portuguese communities as well as among immigrants in Ponta Delgada. How do their multiple languages, cultures and identities challenge the essentialist ideologies of the nation-state? What are the implications in terms of integration, education and social cohesion?
ORGANIZER > Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Julie Byrd Clark, University of Western Ontario (Canada) · Exploring multilingualism and Italianità through the linguistic practices of Italian Canadian youth in Toronto • Cristina Guerrero, University of Toronto (Canada) · Transnationalism and diaspora in the schooling of Latinas in Toronto • Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto (Canada) · Inclusion and exclusion within multicultural Toronto: Portuguese-Canadian youth negotiating monolithic ideologies of language and identity • Paulo Mendes, Associação dos Imigrantes nos Açores (AIPA) (Portugal) · The inter and intra-ethnic relations of immigrants in the municipality of Ponta Delgada and their impact on the integration process
75 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Wednesday, September 14th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 206 Exclusion, exploitation and vulnerable migrant workers in Europe
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This workshop focuses on categories of migrants whose exposure to exploitation is intensified through their legal insecurity. These include irregular migrant domestic workers, a sector covered by few international labour standards, and asylum seekers in Norway, where authorities have introduced restrictions on their access to the labour market. The workshop also addresses the general area of discrimination on grounds of nationality, a ground which remains legally permissible under EU law.
ORGANIZER > John Wrench, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Norway) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Berit Berg, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Ludovica Banfi, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (Austria) · Irregular domestic workers: labour rights in theory and in practice • Kristin Thorshaug and Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Norway) · The exclusion of asylum seekers from the Norwegian labour market • John Wrench, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Norway) · Discrimination in access to employment on grounds of nationality in the EU
Workshop 207 Integration, identity, and connections between the North American Diaspora and Portugal
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In this workshop we will analyse the maintenance of an Azorean identity through an interpretation of the discourse by immigrants and Portuguese youth (second/third generations) interviewed in Portuguese communities in U.S.A., Canada as well as in the Azores ( returnees).
ORGANIZER(S) > Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia – Okanagan (Canada) · [email protected] > Irene Maria F. Blayer, Brock University (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Irene Maria F. Blayer, Brock University (Canada) · ‘Emigrant’ narratives in interplay of language, culture and memory: Luso-Canadian patterns • Dulce Maria Scott, Anderson University (United States ) · Luso-descendants: Identity, Acculturation and Integration in America and connections to Portugal • Alzira Silva, Government of Azores (Portugal) · Vivencias de exclusao • Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia – Okanagan (Canada) · Luso-Canadians in Montreal and Toronto: What generation? What future?
76 WORKSHOPS Wednesday, September 14th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 208 Exporting goods, exporting workers? A comparative study of labour migration and export processing zones in Mexico and Morocco
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This workshop brings together an international research team from Morocco, Spain, the United States and Canada to examine the way in which export-processing areas in Mexico and Morocco serve as migration hubs . The workshop explores the way these hubs bring together internal migrants with those looking to migrate internationally, creating a fascinating network of migration flows and labour relations (and the organizations that surround them), layered with complex gender, race and class relationships. This workshop will be in English and Spanish.
ORGANIZER > Jenna Hennebry, International Migration Research Centre (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Kathy Kopinak, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Nicola Piper, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Germany)
PARTICIPANTS > Jenna Hennebry, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) · From "Hedema" to "Zemagria" - From Workers to Migrants: Exploring Internal and International Migration Strategies in Morocco's Export Processing Areas • Kathryn Kopinak, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) · Comparing the Impact of Wages, Geopolitics, and Skill Acquisition on Migration of Maquila Workers from Mexico to the US and from Morocco to Spain • Antonio Trinidad, Universidad de Granada (Spain) · La construcción social de una realidad socio-laboral: los elementos explicativos del proceso de relocalización industrial en Marruecos y México • Rosa M. Soriano-Miras, Departamento de Sociología. Universidad de Granada, (Spain) · La mutación socioeconómica de la relocalización industrial transfronteriza, y sus efectos en la migración interna e internacional: El caso de Tanger- Tetuan (Marruecos) y Tijuana (México) • Félix Fernández Castaño, Ayuntamiento de Granada (Spain) · Propuestas de actuación dirigidas a la integración social de la población inmigrante impulsadas desde gobiernos locales en España: El caso de la ciudad de Granada • Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California (United States ) · Organizing Consent or Mobilizing for Workers' Rights?: Non-profit Organizations in Export Production Zones of Tangiers
Roundtable 209 Future research directions on barriers to housing faced by newcomers
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Housing plays a strong role in the social and economic integration of immigrants and refugees. Yet newcomers face great challenges in securing affordable and appropriate housing and are at risk of becoming homeless. The discussion will focus on knowledge gaps from the perspective of researchers, service providers, and policy makers. These gaps will be used to map a way forward for research in this area.
ORGANIZER(S) > Patrick Hunter, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, (Canada) · [email protected] > Nancy Baker, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (Canada) > Pamela Huber, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (Canada)
CHAIR > Tim Foran, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Tim Foran, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (Canada) • Daniel Hiebert, University of British Columbia (Canada) • Christine Walsh, University of Calgary (Canada) • Rosine Kaley, Action - Logement Ottawa (Canada) • Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University (Sweden)
77 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Wednesday, September 14th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 210 The peripheries of immigration: Policies, practices and Issues
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L'atelier s'intéressera aux politiques et pratiques liées à l'immigration dans des espaces non traditionnels et peu encore étudiés comme les territoires du Nord Canadien, les communautés linguistiques minoritaires, les régions et provinces habituellement homogènes et à faible démographie, certains milieux ruraux, les iles comme les Açores. On visera à cerner les spécificités de ces nouvelles destinations migratoires et des trajectoires des migrants qui s'y installent ainsi que les enjeux politiques et sociaux qu’elles soulèvent. This workshop will be in French and English.
ORGANIZER(S) > Michèle Vatz Laaroussi, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) · [email protected] > Chedly Belkhodja, Université de Moncton (Canada) > Claudio Bolzman, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale ES So (Suisse)
CHAIR > Ashraf Ghanem, Secrétariat à la croissance démographique, Gouvernement du Nouveau Brunswick (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Geoffrey Balchino, University of Prince Edward Island and Lucille Guilbert, Université Laval (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Marguerite Cassin and Catherine Mc Keigan, Dalhousie University (Canada) • Helene Cardu, Université Laval (Canada) · Immigrant Women Managers in Québec: Professional Trajectories and Work Integration Strategies • Chedly Belkhodha, Université de Moncton Nouveau Brunswick (Canada) • Alina Esteves, Dora Sampaio, and Rui Carvalho, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Moroccan Immigration in Rural Areas of the Algarve (Portugal): Some Exploratory Results • Christophe Trainel, Université de Moncton (Canada) • Marilyn Steinbach, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) · The Socio-academic Integration of Adolescents in a Region of Quebec • Michèle Vatz Laaroussi and Bolzman Claudio, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) • Sylvia Kasparian, Université de Moncton (Canada) • Teeba Alsafar, Memorial University (Canada)
Workshop 211 Political participation of migrants: A possible contribution to non-hegemonic globalization?
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Due to their specific situation, migrants are one of the few non-hegemonic groups that develop socio-economic and political strategies – and often claims – at both local and transnational levels. Taking into consideration that negative effects of globalization upon fragile communities require innovative social responses and that the effectiveness of these can only be achieved through multiscale strategies, this workshop will focus on immigrants’ civic and political actions – local and translocal- as examples of potential resistance practices. This workshop will be in English and Portuguese.
ORGANIZER(S) > Jorge Malheiros, CEG - Institute Of Geography and Spatial (Portugal) · [email protected] > Ana Paula Beja Horta, CEMRI - Universidade Aberta (Portugal)
CHAIR > Paulo Mendes, AIPA - Associação dos Imigrantes nos Açores (Portugal)
DISCUSSANT > Jorge Malheiros, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Anibal Pires, Portuguese Communist Party-Azores (Portugal) · Directos políticos dos imigrantes - o pensamento e a acção política face à cidadania plena dos imigrantes • Joaquina Pires, Comunidade Portuguesa-Ville de Montreal (Canada) · Participaçao politica ou cidadania activa? O caso da diaspora portuguesa do Québec • Ana Paula Beja Horta, Universidade Aberta Lisboa (Portugal); and Jorge Malheiros, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Political participation and civic engagement amongst migrants in Portugal • Beatriz Padilla and Giulio Mattiazzi, University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal) · Political Actors, Civil Society and Electoral System: Reparatory Action or New Form of Political Citizenship? The cases if Italy and Brazil • Giralda Seyferth, Museu Nacional/Universidad Federal do Rio Janeiro (Brazil) · Etnicidade, Imigração e Política no Brasil do início do século XX • Joana Bahia, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) · Gender memories: the construction of an imaginary ídischkeit in Brazil • Leticia Calderon Chelius, Instituto Mora (Mexico)
78 WORKSHOPS Wednesday, September 14th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 212 Transnational attachments and experiences of settlement and integration
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The purpose of the workshop is to develop a holistic picture for understanding the motivations and experiences of migrants in the process of settlement and integration in the context of transnationalism and maintaining relations within the diasporas.
ORGANIZER(S) > Deborah Tunis, Citizenship and Immigration Canada Canada) · [email protected] > Ann H. Kim, Department of Sociology, York University (Canada)
CHAIR > Deborah Tunis, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Manying Ip, University of Auckland (New Zealand) · The Chinese in New Zealand: The Internet as a Transnational Virtual Homeland • Giuseppe Scotto, University of Sussex (United Kingdom) · The Italian network in London from past to present days • Anna Ferro and Marzia Sica, Fondazioni Africa (Italy) · Involving the Diaspora through Co-participative Programs: The importance of Building Transnational Partnership at Institutional and Non-institutional Level • Denise Spitzer, University of Ottawa (Canada) · All in the Family: Chain Migration, Global Care Chains and the LCP • Howard Ramos and Yoko Yoshida, Dalhousie University (Canada) · The Role of Spouses and Children in Immigrant Settlement outside Montréal, Toronto, and Vancouver • Beba Svigir, Calgary Immigrant Women's Association (CIWA) (Canada) · Ethnic Diasporas in Calgary: Managing Home and Host Country Expectations • Huiyao (Henry) Wang, Harvard Kennedy School (United States and China) · Chinese Educated Returnees: Their Circulation and Impact on China’s Globalization • Ann Kim, York University (Canada) · Understanding the Link between Transnationalism and Integration in Canada: The Case of Migrant Families from South Korea
Workshop 213 Brazilian migration in Europe: The role of communication within the Brazilian Diaspora
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This workshop intends to discuss the specificities of the recently constituted flow of Brazilian migrants to Europe by drawing on the research and experience of academics, NGO representatives and members of governmental agencies from both Brazil and destination countries in Europe. We will build on the experience of this recent immigration flow and the settlement patterns of these immigrants in European countries to reflect upon the character of contemporary migration in Europe, its consequences and future directions.
ORGANIZER(S) > Sonia Pereira, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (Portugal) · [email protected] > Leonardo Cavalcanti, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
CHAIR > Silvia Nuñez, Universidad Autonoma de México (México)
PARTICIPANTS > Helion Povoa Neto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) · Involvement of the Brazilian State in the Organization of Forms of Dialogue with the Brazilian Diaspora • Sonia Pereira, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (Portugal) · The Role of Pioneers in Brazilian Migration to Europe: A Discussion Around the Cases of Portugal, United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Norway • Leonardo Cavalcanti, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) · Between Poços de Caldas (Minas Gerais) and Mount Vernon (New York): An Approach to the Brazilian Transnational Ties • Gustavo Behr, Casa do Brasil de Lisboa (Portugal) · Importance of Social Movements and Organized Civil Society for the Communities and the Consolidation of the Dialogue between Brazilian migrants in Europe and Governmental Organizations • Laercio Silva, Conselho de Representantes de Brasileiros no Exterior (United Kingdom) • Maria das Graças Brightwell (United Kingdom) · London's Brazilian Flavour: Commerce, Consumption and the Transnational Geographies of Food
79 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Wednesday, September 14th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 214 Diasporas in the age of globalization: Power, identity and internal dynamics
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Presentations will look at how the role of the hostland shapes diasporic identity and the links between their relationship with the hostland and amongst other diasporas and the internal dynamics of the diaspora community. Implications for social cohesion, conflict and integration will be explored.
ORGANIZER > James Frideres, University of Calgary/Immigrant Services Calgary (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Tom Denton, Hospitality House Refugee Ministry (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Mona Marshy, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada| (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Lloyd Wong, University of Calgary (Canada) · Transnational Citizenship: Civic Participation and Sense of Belonging to Canada • Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria (Canada) · Religion and Integration in Diasporic Settings • Yolande Cohen and Yann Scioldo Zurcher, Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) · Juifs marocains entre France, Quebec et Israel (1948- 1981) • Shibao Guo, University of Calgary (Canada) · Globalizing of Migration: The Role of Education as a Mediating Force in the Chinese Diaspora in Canada • Jim Frideres, University of Calgary/Immigrant Services Calgary (Canada) · The Use of Media by Diasporas • Katrina Jurva, University of Helsinki (Finland) · Returning to the Homeland: Ethnic Returning Migrants in Finland • Dulce Maria Scott, Anderson University (United States) · Visits to Portugal as a factor in the Maintenance of a Portuguese ethno-cultural identity in the United States • Fariborz Birjandian, Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (Canada) · Finding Your Way in a Diasporic Community
Workshop 215 Religious pluralism and immigration in contemporary society: Social, political and historical considerations
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This workshop responds to the growing policy interest in the increasing religious diversity apparent in contemporary societies due to immigration. It explores the intersection between religion (both institutional and everyday) and integration in different contexts, as well as the challenges that conflicts between religious and secular identity pose for policy in practice and in socio-legal terms more generally. Case studies from Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Canada and the UK examine these themes across broad interdisciplinary domains.
ORGANIZER(S) > Jennifer McGarrigle, Centro de Estudos Geográficos - Inst. Geografia E Ordenamento Do Território (Portugal) · [email protected] > Jared Larson, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Venetia Evergeti, University of Surrey (United Kingdom) · Continuity and change: religious diversity among indigenous and immigrant Muslims in Greece • Olivia Sheringham, Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom) · Faith across Borders: The Role of Religion in the Everyday, Transnational Lives of Brazilians in London and ‘Back Home’ • Jared Larson, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) · The Limits of Religious Freedom Laws in Democratic Spain and Portugal in Light of Contemporary Immigration • Jennifer McGarrigle, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) · Religious Minorities in Lisbon: Socio-spatial Integration • Fernando Mata, Canadian Heritage (Canada) · Religion-mix Growth in Canadian Cities: A Look at 2006 to 2031 Projections Data
80 WORKSHOPS Wednesday, September 14th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 216 Two-way integration in Finland: E-services, information desks and personal guidance
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This workshop will introduce the revised Integration Act and its implementation through the lens of the development work of the European Social Fund programme. With the new legislation, a variety of new tools are introduced to assist during the initial integration period in order to enhance integration into Finnish society. In the workshop, we will present practical examples of local models of information desks providing personal information and guidance services in several languages along with e-services. We welcome and promote discussion about the interpretation of the concept of two- way integration and the practises of the integration process in different contexts.
ORGANIZER > Paula Kuusipalo, The Ministry of the Interior (Finland) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Howard Duncan, Metropolis Project (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Paula Kuusipalo, The Ministry of the Interior (Finland)
PARTICIPANTS > Juha-Pekka Suomi, The Ministry of the Interior (Finland) · The New Integration Act: Towards Flexible and Efficient Integration in Finland • Paula Kuusipalo, The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (Finland) · Welcome to Finland! Developing a National Model of Initial Guidance and Orientation Services in Finland • Jiuliano Prisada, The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (Finland) · Initial Guidance and Orientation Services in Finland: Case Employment Services • Henna Lindroos, The City of Kuopio (Finland) · Initial Guidance and Orientation Services in Finland: Case City of Kuopio • Tuomas Martikainen, The University of Helsinki (Finland) · Challenges of Two-way Integration in Finland • Rinus Penninx, IMISCOE (Netherlands) · Old and New Migration Countries: Integration Processes in European Comparative Perspective
Workshop 217 Immigrant businesses: The paradox of migrants’ economic integration and consequences of their informal economic practices for policymakers
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Migration leads, usually with significant time lag, to formation of immigrant businesses in recipient countries. In its narrowest sense, an immigrant business may simply be defined as a firm owned by an immigrant . Immigrant businesses’ economic activities and practices can in general be divided into “formal” or “informal” activities. Immigrant businesses engaged in informal economic activities are, on the one hand, by definition a breach of the law and may undermine the moral and legal underpinnings of the host country. On the other hand, informal activities may provide immigrants with better economic opportunities. Many policymakers in the host societies currently find themselves caught on the horns of this dilemma and are looking for a way out that will uphold the overall legal framework and, at the same time, not stifle the rise of immigrant businesses.
ORGANIZER(S) > Shahamak Rezaei, Roskilde University, Department of Society and Globalisation (Denmark) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Shahamak Rezaei, Roskilde University (Denmark)
DISCUSSANT > Ivan Light, UCLA (United States )
PARTICIPANTS > Shahamak Rezaei, Roskilde University, Department of Society and Globalisation (Denmark) · The dual labour market, immigrant entrepreneurs and consequences of their informal economic activities seen in a Nordic welfare state perspective • Marco Goli, Metropol University College, Copenhagen (Denmark) · The Danish labour market model and informal economic activities of self-employed migrants • Leo Paul Dana, GSCM Montpellier Business School (New Zealand) · Causal variables affecting entrepreneurship among migrants • Benson Honig, McMaster University (Canada) · Return migration and the impact of structural holes • Ivan Light, UCLA (United States ) · Immigrants in international trade • Maroun Aoun, IFS organization to protect and promote migrant entrepreneurs (Sweden) · Immigrant entrepreneurship, between reality and policies • Shahriar Shams Ili, Copenhagen Municipality (Denmark) · The paradox of start up and growth seen from policymakers’ point of view 81 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Wednesday, September 14th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 218 Innovative health services for migrants: From theories to practice
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Public services have tremendous importance for millions of individuals across the globe. Access and equity in public services for migrants is highly contested, difficult to practice and has enormous consequences for equality, citizenship and inclusion. By bringing an informative overview of research and best practices in the UK and Norway (with particular focus on health services), this workshop will provide the basis for an intelligent and lively debate on implementing innovative practices easily and efficiently.
ORGANIZER(S) > Ritika Dhall, Directorate of Integration and Diversity (Norway) · [email protected] > Bernadette Nirmal Kumar, Centre for Minority Health Research (Norway)
CHAIR > Ritika Dhall, Directorate of Integration and Diversity (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Ritika Dhall, Directorate of Integration and Diversity (Norway) · Introduction to Innovative Health Services for Migrants • Surinder Sharma, Department of Health (United Kingdom) · Tackling Heath Inequalities and Promoting Equality in Health in the UK and Lessons for Other European Countries • Bernadette Kumar, Centre for Minority Health Research (Norway) · Developing Standards for Equity in Norwegian Health Care for Migrants – Challenges and Opportunities • Raj Bhopal, University of Edinburgh (Scotland) · Innovative practices in achieving equity in health services in Scotland
Workshop 225 Under-explored aspects of emigration: observations from developed countries
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An expanding Europe, with developing technology, globalisation and the economic recession has seen changes in emigration patterns. Interest in emigration stems both from its contribution to net migration and the challenges it brings for sending countries - not only amongst developing countries, but also those regarded as more developed or as destination countries. This workshop will examine the emerging themes in the field of emigration, including impacts on sending countries and of expatriate groups abroad.
ORGANIZER(S) > Samantha Dowling, UK Home Office (United Kingdom) · [email protected] > Rosemary Murray, UK Home Office (United Kingdom)
CHAIR > Philip J. O'Connell, European Migration Network, Economic and Social Research Institute (Ireland)
DISCUSSANT > Russel King, Sussex Centre for MIgration Research (United Kingdom)
PARTICIPANTS > Rosemary Murray, UK Home Office (United Kingdom) · Bye Bye Blighty! - Ditching the umbrella and other reasons for emigrating from the UK • Philip J. O'Connell, European Migration Network, Economic and Social Research Institute (Ireland) · Where did Paddy, Pawel and Peng go next? Migration Patterns of Celtic Tiger Young and other Residents of the Irish Habitat • Audra Sipaviciene and Mantas Jersovas, International Organisation for Migration , Vilnius/ EMN Lithuania (Lithuania) · Skype is not enough: How emigration impacts family life • Telma Silva, Government of the Azores (Portugal) · From island to island: the Azorean emigration to Bermuda • Berad Parusel, EMN Germany/Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Germany) · New mobility trends outstripping German Gemüthchkert? Patterns of emigration in Germany.
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Workshop 219 Global migration Futures: findings and strategic responses
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What will drive future global migration? What will be the main changes in future migration patterns and trends? This panel presents the findings from the International Migration Institute’s Global Migration Futures project, a two-year project that uses an innovative scenario methodology, traditionally used in the private sector, to develop a comprehensive perspective on future international migration.
ORGANIZER > Hein de Haas, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · [email protected]
DISCUSSANT > Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex (United Kingdom)
PARTICIPANTS > Hein de Haas, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · Megatrends and key certainties for future international migration • Simona Vezzoli, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · Using scenarios to study future international migration • Ayla Bonfiglio, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · Key uncertainties for future international migration
Workshop 221 Second-generation Portuguese and Diaspora (Part I): Transnational lives
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In a transnational world, where people, capital, cultures, and other social constructs circulate across borders, the children of (im)migrants provide a critical perspective on global diasporic relations. This two-part workshop examines the experiences of second-generation Portuguese youth in diverse diasporic spaces where their identities are in question and where they negotiate transnational lives and networks. How do they create their own spaces and repertoires of belonging as local and (trans)national powers compete for their allegiance?
ORGANIZER(S) > Sandra Silva, Centre for Geographical Studies, IGOT-UL (Portugal) · [email protected] > Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto (Canada) > João Sardinha, Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais, UAb (Portugal)
CHAIR > Sandra Silva, Centro de Estudos Geograficos, IGOT-UL (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Aline Schiltz, Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg) · Second-generation Portuguese of Luxembourg • Antonio Xavier, Universidade de Evora (Portugal) · The Portuguese and the cultural diffusion in Venezuela • Emmanuelle Afonso, O.L.D.- Observatorio dos Luso Descendentes (Portugal) · Luso-descendants and the importance of uniting: the challenges of those who stay and those who return
83 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Wednesday, September 14th 16h30 > 18h00
Workshop 222 Intergenerational transmission and ties across frontiers: The case of Portuguese migration
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In this workshop, we discuss how intergenerational transmission of cultural values, language, family commitments or social involvement influences the maintenance of ties and practices connecting Portuguese descendants in Canada and the United States with their parents’ homelands (continental Portugal and the Azores).
ORGANIZER(S) > Ana Gherghel, Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade dos Açores (Portugal) · [email protected] > Josiane Le Gall, Centre de Santé et Services Sociaux de la Montagne (Canada)
CHAIR > Josiane Le Gall, Centre de Santé et Services Sociaux de la Montagne (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Ana Gherghel, Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade dos Açores (Portugal) · Maintaining Transnational ties over time. The case of Azorean Descendants in Quebec • Fernando Nunes, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax (Canada) · Cultural maintenance, Community Involvement and Schooling amongst Portuguese-Canadian Youth • Mario Moura, Associação de Emigrantes dos Açores (Portugal) · Portuguese there, Calafona here: Multiple identities of Portuguese Migrants • Rui Faria, Museu da Emigração Açoriana (Portugal) · Azorean Immigration: New ways to present to new generations
Workshop 224 Intersectionality and multiple discrimination in access to services in Europe
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The concept of intersectionality refers to the fact that people have many identities and belong to many groups with different needs. The interaction of the different grounds that define a person may also make them vulnerable to discrimination on the basis of more than one ground, a phenomenon called multiple discrimination. Building on different comparative research projects, the workshop will discuss how ethnic origin, disability and gender might create specific challenges when accessing social and health services.
ORGANIZER > Ludovica Banfi, EU Fundamental Rights Agency (Austria) · [email protected]
PARTICIPANTS > Ludovica Banfi, EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) (Austria) · FRA Project: Inequalities and Multiple Discrimination in Access to Healthcare • Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University (United Kingdom) · The Genderace Project: Understanding Multiple Discrimination based on Racialised Identities and Gender • Berit Berg, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Norway) · Lost in Translation: Interaction between Migrant Families with Disabled Children and the Service System
84 WORKSHOPS Wednesday, September 14th 16h30 > 18h00
Workshop 115 Belonging linked through immigrant art and accessing cultural institutions
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This comparative workshop addresses the role of art in fostering immigrant belonging and integration, examining immigrant art and cultural forms that reflect memory, express nostalgia, and interject critical discourse into dominant cultural contexts. Speakers will examine the vital role of cultural institutions in creating an access point and providing space for expressions and dialogue, and enhancing immigrant narratives. The critical role of artists and cultural institutions is important for researchers and policy makers to understand the links between immigrant narratives and integration.
ORGANIZER(S) > Khan Rahi, Canadian Community-Based Research Network (Canada) · [email protected] > Pierre Wilson, Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec (Canada)
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT > Khan Rahi, Canadian Community-Based Research Network (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Pierre Wilson, Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec (Canada) · Everything is gonna be alright • Sandra Silva, Centro Municipal De Cultura E (Portugal) · Promoting Integration through Social-Cultural Enhancement: Romani Art in Europe • Bram Ten Cate, Wageningen University (Netherlands) · How Have Residents’ Initiatives Led to an Unusual Design for Town Squares? • Pedro Calado, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Art, Innovation and Social Inclusion: A Triple Win?
Workshop 125 Fostering Connection and Integration through the Web
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Due to a lack of specialists and demographic change, more and more countries are dependent on the skills of immigrants. The challenge of integration policies is to manage immigration. How can skilled workers be recruited and hired? Internet Portals help immigrants to find reliable sources of information and can connect employers and skilled immigrants. Besides the introduction of available websites, this workshop will explore whether the given information is sufficient and how websites can support the integration process in attracting, hiring and training immigrants. This workshop will draw on experiences from Germany, Canada and Denmark.
ORGANIZER(S) > Anne Gueller-Frey, Tür an Tür Integrationsprojekte gGmbH (Germany) · [email protected] > Stephan Schiele, Tür an Tür Integrationsprojekte gGmbH (Germany)
DISCUSSANT > Stephan Schiele, Tür an Tür Integrationsprojekte gGmbH (Germany)
PARTICIPANTS > Anne Pawletta, Global Competences UG (Germany) · Web-based Information on Professional Recognition in Germany – Experience from the Website www.berufliche-anerkennung.de • Kelly Pollack, Immigrant Employment Council of BC (Canada) · Creating a One-stop-shop for Employers: Opportunities and Challenges • Mette Busk, Danish Labour Market Authority (Denmark) · Inform and Connect via the Internet • Stephanie Shatilla, Government of Ontario (Canada) · Fostering connection and Integration through the web: Ontario's Online Immigration Initiatives
85 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Thursday, September 15th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 301 Refugee integration: how far have we come?
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Research to date shows that refugees often face considerable challenges in their host country and have comparatively poor outcomes on a range of indicators of integration, particularly in terms of achieving economic independence. From studies undertaken using diverse approaches, in various contexts, and at different periods post-arrival, the workshop will seek to explore common learnings on factors that facilitate or act as barriers to refugee integration.
ORGANIZER(S) > Wendy Searle, Department of Labour (New Zealand) · [email protected] > Gareth Mulvey, Scottish Refugee Council (Scotland)
PARTICIPANTS > Wendy Searle, Department of Labour (New Zealand) · New Land, New Life: Refugee Integration and Pathways to Employment in New Zealand • Gareth Mulvey, Scottish Refugee Council (Scotland) · Integration and Belonging: the case of Refugees in Scotland • Andreas Cebulla, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (United Kingdom) · Refugees in the United Kingdom: An Analysis of ‘Integration’ using Longitudinal Data
Workshop 302 Preventing forced marriage: Scandinavian measures, experiences and challenges
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Being able to choose whether to marry and who to marry is a basic human right. Despite the fact that it is prohibited, some young people are pressured or forced to marry. The Scandinavian countries have all put combating forced marriages on their governments’ agendas. They are working towards the same goal – but have chosen different strategies and measures to reach it. This workshop presents experiences made and challenges encountered in the three countries.
ORGANIZER(S) > Solfrid Lien, The Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity (Norway) · [email protected];[email protected];[email protected] > Merete Munch, The Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi) (Norway)
CHAIR > Solfrid Lien, The Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity (Norway)
PARTICIPANTS > Farwah Nielsen, Ethnic Minority Women's Consulting (Denmark) · Challenges of Migration in Denmark: Methods and Projects for Combating Honour-related Issues • Merete Munch, Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity(Norway) · Combating Forced Marriage through Preventive Work in the Schools, Awareness Raising and Cooperation across Borders • Vilde Reichelt, Centre for Health, Dialogue and Development, The Church City Mission (Norway) · How to Work with Awareness Raising in the Face of Resistance
86 WORKSHOPS Thursday, September 15th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 303 Keeping the faith: New developments in the interfaith youth movement
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This workshop will examine ways in which youth in various countries are becoming involved in interfaith and intercultural activities. It will explore the range of issues and concerns motivating youth toward engagement across faith lines, as well as between religious youth and those who identify with secular worldviews. Participants will highlight examples of successful practice, discuss the challenges these initiatives are facing, and explore strategies for supporting and furthering this work.
ORGANIZER > Josée Makropoulos, Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Bruce Jamieson, Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Tom Sherwood, Carleton University (Canada) · “Walking Together Across the Bridges”: New Interfaith Activities in North American Youth and Young Adult Populations • Rachel Heilbron, Three Faiths Forum (United Kingdom) · Tools 4 Trialogue: Practical Strategies for Interfaith Youth Programming • Warwick Hawkins, Department for Communities and Local Government (United Kingdom) · Inter Faith Activity in England: A UK Government Perspective
Workshop 305 Portuguese-Canadian and Portuguese-American Seniors: A social determinants of health approach
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Portuguese-Canadian immigrant communities are today aging rapidly, a phenomenon that is accelerated by decreasing birthrates and increasing rates of intermarriage. Consequently, many Portuguese seniors now find themselves isolated due to poverty, language and cultural discontinuities. This workshop will apply a social determinants of health approach to an exploration of the situation of Portuguese-Canadian and Portuguese-American seniors. It will also focus on the role of government services and policy in meeting the needs of senior immigrants.
ORGANIZER > Fernando Nunes, Department Of Child & Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Fernando Nunes, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Paula Neves, Portuguese-Canadian National Congress (Canada) · The Viva Health Project: Social Determinants of Health Affecting the Portuguese-Canadian Community • Lucilia Prates, Massachusetts Senior Medicare Patrol Program- Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc.(United States ) · The Challenges Faced by Aging Immigrants • Elmano Costa, California State University Stanislaus (United States ) · Quem nos vai V.A.L.E.R.?” Providing Senior Services to Portuguese Immigrants in Rural California • Manuela Marujo, University of Toronto (Canada) · Portuguese-Canadian Immigrant Grandparents and their Grandchildren: Ties that bind
87 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Thursday, September 15th 14h30 > 16h00
Workshop 306 Economic integration of immigrants in host nations: some outcomes and models of best practices
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Issues of economic integration of immigrants have often surfaced in the public debate on immigration in western countries. This is because more immigrants now arrive in the west from less developed and culturally dissimilar non-western countries. Presentations in this workshop will focus on the outcomes of, and best practices adopted for, the economic integration of immigrants in the west. Evidence will be presented on Canada, Sweden and Norway. Presentations will provide inputs to public debate on immigration in host societies
ORGANIZER > Syed Ather H Akbari, Saint Mary's University (Canada) · [email protected]
PARTICIPANTS > Syed Ather H Akbari, Saint Mary's University (Canada) and Imamuddin Khoso, University of Sindh (Pakistan) · Labour Market Performance of South Asian Immigrants in Canada • Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University (Sweden) · Employment Integration of Third World Immigrants in Sweden Labour Markets • Zahra Moini, Norwegian Center for Multicultural Value Creation (Norway) · Creating Asset from Diversity- A Case Study Mobilizing for Value Creation as means of Integration of Immigrants
Roundtable 307 Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities: The Authors meet the critics
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American and Canadian scholars joined forces to compare immigrant geographies in Canadian and American cities. The co-editors of this book will be present to share their results, and discuss emerging immigration and integration trends in the two countries.
ORGANIZER(S) > Carlos Teixeira, University Of British Columbia – Okanagan (Canada) · [email protected] > Wei Li, Arizona State University (United States ) > Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's University (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia (Canada) · Wei Li, Arizona State University (United States) • Audrey Kobayashi, Queen’s University (Canada) • Howard Duncan, Metropolis Project (Canada) • Richard Bedford, Auckland University (New Zealand) • Binod Khadria, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
88 WORKSHOPS Thursday, September 15th 14h30 > 16h00
Roundtable 308 In Retrospect: The Canadian Metropolis Centres of Excellence
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In 2010 the federal government of Canada announced it would cease financial support for the Metropolis Project effective March 2012. This roundtable provides a forum within which to reflect on the legacy of the Metropolis Centres of Excellence, the regionally distributed research arm of the Project. How did the Centres evolve over time? What are the strengths and weaknesses and lessons learned? What is the future of immigration research in Canada?
ORGANIZER > Madine VanderPlaat, Atlantic Metropolis Centre (Canada) [email protected]
CHAIR > Madine VanderPlaat, Atlantic Metropolis Centre (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Paul Spoonley, Massey University (New Zealand)
PARTICIPANTS > Dan Heibert, Metropolis British Columbia (Canada) • Linda Ogilvie, Prairie Metropolis Centre (Canada) • Mehrunnisa Ali, CERIS -The Ontario Metropolis Centre (Canada) • Annick Germain, Centre Métropolis du Québec (Canada) • Chedly Belkhodja, Atlantic Metropolis Centre (Canada)
Workshop 223 Immigrant and diaspora experiences of exclusion: the Roma, Palestinian artists, and Iranian seniors
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Immigrant perceptions of exclusion and the strategies (social and narrative/artistic) they employ to counter their marginalization provide insight into processes of belonging and integration. This workshop will examine experiences of social and cultural exclusion on the part of the Roma population in Sweden and their access to healthcare, elderly Iranian immigrant seniors in Toronto and Montreal and their perceptions of different life stages such as old age, and diaspora Palestinian artists’ narratives of loss and transcultural belongings.
ORGANIZER(S) > Lesley Voellmecke, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada) · [email protected] > Mona Marshy, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Haideh Moghissi, York University (Canada) · Aging and the elder immigrants of colour • Margareta Popoola, Malmö University (Sweden) · Voices from a minority group: the Roma population’s experiences from healthcare in Sweden • Mona Marshy, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada) · Palestinian and other Arab artists in the West: Creating narratives and contesting discourses
89 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Thursday, September 15th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 310 Innovations in integration, Part I – Foundational issues and perspectives (14h30-16h00) Innovations in integration, Part II – Programming and practice (16h30-18h00)
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As urban environments throughout the world become increasingly diverse, communities are typically unprepared for the change. Responses at all levels are often ambivalent, paternalistic, and in some cases, openly resistant. This interactive workshop addresses the question of cultural integration and social inclusion in host communities, considering underlying issues of migration and cultural identity, barriers to full inclusion, and best practices, models, and policies for community change. Areas for further research will also be discussed.
ORGANIZER(S) > Mischa Davison, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada) · [email protected] > Anahit Falihi, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada) > Beulah Gana, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada)
CHAIR > Beulah Gana, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada)
DISCUSSANT(S) > Mischa Davison, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada) > Sadeq Rahimi, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Mischa Davison, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada) · This Bridge is a Two-way Street: Encouraging community 'buy-in' through Saskatoon Open Door's Cultural Bridging Program • Beulah Gana, Saskatoon Open Door Society (Canada) · SAISIA: the role of province-wide umbrella organizations in furthering integration and inclusion initiatives • Danielle Groleau, McGill University; Jewish General Hospital- Culture and Mental Health Unit (Canada) · The mystery of Hypermesis Gravidarum: When Migration, Motherhood and Identity intersect • Sadeq Rahimi, University of Saskatchewan (Canada) · Immigration and Community Integration in Saskatchewan: Whither Multiculturalism? • Parvin Ghorayshi, University of Winnipeg (Canada) · Diversity, Urban Governance, and Interculturalism: Lessons learned from Winnipeg’s Inner City • Sinela Jurkova, Calgary Multicultural Centre (Canada) · The role of ethno-cultural organizations in immigrant integration • Maria Zalesak, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology -Language instruction for Newcomers Unit (Canada) · Language Proficiency and Integration: Newcomer Supports within a Mainstream Educational Context • Saeed Rahnema, York University (Canada) · Patchwork vs. integrative multiculturalism: Muslims in Canada • Celia McMichael, La Trobe University (Australia) · Perspectives on social inclusion and integration: young people with refugee backgrounds in Melbourne, Australia • Marisa Cardeal-Casagrande, McMaster University (Canada) · Fostering Welcoming Communities through Local Immigration Partnerships in Ontario - A Capabilities Approach to understanding Local Innovation and Integration
90 WORKSHOPS Thursday, September 15th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 311 Immigrants’ integration and sustainability in small towns
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While the connection between international migration and metropolitan areas is a very relevant one, there is growing evidence of international migration becoming increasingly influential in more peripheral areas in OECD countries. In this workshop, several papers on relevant existing situations, experiences lived and policies implemented regarding immigration and sustainability in a variety of small towns will be presented. Concretely, papers will approach a variety of localities in Portugal, Greece, Spain, and Australia.
ORGANIZER(S) > Ricard Morén– Alegret, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) · [email protected] > Lucinda Fonseca, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
CHAIR > Ricard Morén– Alegret, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
DISCUSSANT > Lucinda Fonseca, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Alzira Silva, Azores Legislative Parliament (Portugal) · Immigration to Rural Areas in the Azores islands: A Policy Perspective • Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide (Australia) · Immigrants’ Integration and Sustainability in non-Metropolitan Australia • Charalambos Kasimis, Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) · Immigrant Integration and Socioeconomic Sustainability in Small Town areas in Greece: The Case of Zakynthos • Fatima Velez Castro, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) · Immigration and Regional Development in Low Density Territories: The Case of Alentejo (Portugal) and Extremadura (Spain) • Dora Sampaio, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) · International Retirement Migration in the Algarve: Exploring the Impacts on Local Labour Market Dynamics in a Context of Rural Revitalization • Albert Mas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) · Indicators of Sustainability in Roses (Alt Empordà, Spain); A Coastal Small Town with Different Types of Immigration • Sandra Fatoric, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) · Preliminary Approach to Climate Change Effects on Human Security and Migration in 'Aiguamolls de l’Empordà' area, Spain • Dawid Wladyka, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) · Immigrants’ Integration and Sustainability in an Ethnically Diverse Small Town: Exploring the Case of Castelló d’Empúries, Spain
Workshop 312 Education, training and integration in multicultural urban contexts
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In response to the challenges posed by diversity, a varied set of policies have been implemented to promote the integration of immigrant populations and urban cohesion. Formal and non-formal education are two areas of great relevance in promoting inter-ethnic relations, not only by taking into account the role played by the host society, but also the participation and involvement of different migrant communities aiming to find answers that fit their characteristics and facilitate the social integration of members and the community as a whole.
ORGANIZER(S) > Maria João Hortas, Inst. de Geografia e Orden. do Território - Centro De Estudos Geografico (Portugal) · [email protected] > Celia Martins, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território. Centro de Estudos Geográficos. Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) > Alfredo Dias, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território. Centro de Estudos Geográficos. Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Khan Rahi, Canadian Community-Based Research Network/University of Toronto (Canada) · Parenting in the Canadian Context • Philipp Schnell, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Urban and Regional Research (Austria) · Navigating the educational system: second generation Turkish immigrants in three European cities • Maria João Hortas, Célia Martins, Alfredo Dias, IGOT - University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Education and Immigration: migratory routes and school performance in Metropolitan Area of Lisbon"; "Non Formal Education: policies and practices for immigrant integration in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon • Georges Lemaitre, OCDE (France) · Parental education, immigrant concentration and student outcomes • Pedro Calado and Rosa Moniz, High Commission For Immigration And Intercultural Dialogue ACIDI (Portugal) · Delivering choices: communities, opportunities and the challenges of social inclusion • Mario Alves, ETNIA (Portugal) · Valuing cultural diversity and intercultural citizenship in central Lisbon
91 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Thursday, September 15th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 313 Irregular migration: perspectives from both countries of origin and destination
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There is typically a focus on destination countries when considering the consequences of irregular migration. This workshop, however, will explore the perspectives, impacts and management of irregular migration from both countries of origin and destination. Set in the framework of the European Migration Network study on irregular migration, the workshop will analyse the shift of migration control mechanisms from national to trans-national co-ordinations, the dynamic of working in partnership and challenges brought about by differing perceptions of irregular migration. This workshop will be in French and English.
ORGANIZER(S) > Samantha Dowling, Home Office Science, Migration and Border Analysis (United Kingdom) · [email protected] > Katerina Kratzmann, IOM (Austria) > Ophélie Tardieu, Ministère de l'intérieur (France)
CHAIR > Chris Attwood, UK Home Office (United Kingdom)
PARTICIPANTS > Frank Laczko, International Organisation for Migration (Switzerland) · Development, Irregular Migration and Trafficking: Developing Coherent Policy Approaches • Grant Calder, British High Commission Islamabad (Pakistan) and Sarah Speedie, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (United Kingdom) · UK-Pakistan initiatives in tackling irregular migration: views from home and abroad • Katerina Kratzman, International Organization for Migration (Austria) and Olivera Kovacevic,; Returnet (Serbia) · Return policies and cooperation to reduce irregular migration movements between Austria and Serbia • Emmanuel Mayer, Ministry of Interior (France) · Joint management of migration flows between France and Tunisia
Workshop 315 Labour market strategies of Latin American women immigrants: The case of Ibero-America
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Latin American migration has increased substantially in recent decades, with high levels of feminization. Taking into consideration the growth of women’s migration in the Ibero-american world as well as the particularities of their incorporation in various destination labour markets, this workshop aims to discuss issues such as the relevance of historical proximity in the generation of these migratory flows; the role played by language and religious-cultural proximity in their insertion in sectors such as domestic service or the importance of the “body+aesthetic” capital in the settlement of an ethnicized “beauty fulière".
ORGANIZER(S) > Beatriz Padilla, CIES-University Institute Of Lisbon (Portugal) · [email protected] > Jorge Malheiros, CEG - IGOT - University of Lisbon (Portugal) > Manuela Mendes, Faculty of Architecture, UTL (Portugal)
CHAIR > Beatriz Padilla, CIES-University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal)
DISCUSSANT > Gustavo Behr, Casa do Brasil (Lisbon) (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Manuela Mendes, Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Limits and Paths to the Socio-Professional Insertion of Brazilian Immigration in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area • Thais França, CES-Coimbra (Portugal) · Do you need a job? Be Beautiful, Be Smiley- Brazilian Women’s Labour Market Insertion Strategies • Lúcia Bógus, Pontificia Universidade Católica (Brazil) · Feminization of Migratory Flows and Entrepreneurship: The Trajectories of Portuguese Immigrants in Sao Paulo, Brazil • Jorge Malheiros and Beatriz Padilla, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · When Stigma Becomes a Resource: The Mobilization of Aesthetico-Corporal Capital by Female Brazilian Immigrants • Laura Oso, Universidade da Coruña (Spain) · Female Latin American Immigrants and Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Spain: Occupational Mobility Strategies and Empowerment • Suelda Albuquerque and Sofia Teixeira, –University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Female Entrepreneurship and return to the country of origin 92 WORKSHOPS Thursday, September 15th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 316 Second-generation Portuguese and Diaspora (Part Il): Identity in question
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In a transnational world, where people, capital, cultures, and other social constructs circulate across borders, the children of (im)migrants provide a critical perspective on global diasporic relations. This two-part workshop examines the experiences of second-generation Portuguese youth in diverse diasporic spaces where their identities are in question and where they negotiate transnational lives and networks. How do they create their own spaces and repertoires of belonging as local and (trans)national powers compete for their allegiance?
ORGANIZER(S) > Sandra Silva, Centre For Geographical Studies, IGOT-UL (Portugal) · [email protected] > Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto (Canada) > João Sardinha, Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais, UAb (Portugal)
CHAIR > Sandra Silva, Centro de Estudos Geograficos, IGOT-UL (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Frederica Gomes, Ryerson University (Canada) · Expressions of Portugueseness: Social Constructions of Ethnic Identities among Second Generation Portuguese-Canadian Youth in Toronto • David Pereira, University of Toronto (Canada) · Portuguese-Canadian male identities in Toronto: challenges and possibilities for mobility through educational achievement in multicultural Canada • João Sardinha, Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais (Portugal) · Physically in Canada, Spiritually somewhere above the Atlantic: Second and 1.5 Generation Portuguese-Canadians Narrate Sense of Identity and Belonging • Ângela Nunes, CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (FCSH/ UNL) (Portugal) · Almost unnoticed: voice, agency and protagonism among Portuguese children in Germany • Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto (Canada) · Positioning Portuguese-Canadian youth as inheritors of and investors in contested ethno-linguistic markets: Azorean vs (Mainland) Portuguese diasporas • Aníbal Pires, Deputy of the Regional Government of Azores (Portugal) · Integration and identity – How can policies (regional and national) contribute for the inclusion processes and foster new links to the cultural matrix of origin?
Workshop 317 Integration policies in times of economic crises: New challenges for intercultural societies?
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In recent years, several host societies experienced an economic crisis and changing political scenarios. Some European countries, previously with friendly integration policies, have shifted to unfavourable approaches to immigration . And new immigration countries, such as Portugal, become acknowledged in international rankings as having good practices with regards to integration policies. This workshop aims to discuss the impacts of the economic crisis and the funding cuts in states’ investment in immigrants’ integration and how parties politicise integration.
ORGANIZER(S) > Catarina Reis Oliveira, High Commission For Immigration And Intercultural Dialogue ACIDI (Portugal) · [email protected] > Roberto Carneiro, Portuguese Immigration Observatory (Portugal)
CHAIR > Catarina Reis Oliveira, High Commission For Immigration And Intercultural Dialogue ACIDI (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Rosário Farmhouse, High Commissioner, ACIDI (Portugal) · Consolidating integration policies in time of austerity: the Portuguese case • Demetrios Papademetriou, President and Board Member of Migration Policy Institute (United States) · How immigrants are faring/are likely to fare in the aftermath of the Great Recession: A transatlantic perspective • Elizabeth Collett, Migration Policy Institute (Belgium) · Investments in integration during an Age of Austerity • Paulo Mendes, Immigrant Association in the Azores (Portugal) · The crisis impact in the integration process of immigrants in Portugal • Rinus Penninx, International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) (Netherlands) · Economic crisis, politicization of migration and migrant policies: what relation? Some thoughts based on comparative observations • Christie Aghazarm, International Organization for Migration (Switzerland) · Economic Crisis and Migrants: The Right Time to Invest in Integration • Gabriella Lazaridis, University of Leicester (United Kingdom) · The impact of the recent economic crisis on international migration and security: the case of migrant women in Greece • Georges Lemaitre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (France) · Public opinion and migration: the impact of the crisis
93 16TH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE Migration Futures: Perspectives on global changes Thursday, September 15th DOUBLE WORKSHOPS 14h30 > 18h00
Workshop 318 Unauthorized migration and the diasporas: Examining the rights of immigrants
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The term diaspora derives from “dispersion”, refering to the forced or encouraged displacement of people. Populations of unauthorized migrants can be conceived of as a mass of displaced peoplewho bridge their sending and receiving countries, while at the same time experiencing exclusion from belonging in either society. We will examine legislation governing foreigners from several perspectives to identify the tools unauthorized immigrants may use to access law and justice in situations of inequity, exploitation, inequality, detention and victimization.
ORGANIZER(S) > Maria João Guia, University of Coimbra (Portugal) · [email protected] > Juliet Stumpf, Lewis & Clark Law School (United States )
CHAIR > Stephen Legomsky, Washington University School of Law (United States )
DISCUSSANT > Juliet Stumpf, Lewis & Clark Law School (United States )
PARTICIPANTS > Valsamis Mitsulegas, Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom) · The Criminalisation of Migration in the European Union • André Costa Jorge, Jesuit Refugee Service, (Portugal) · Advocating for Migrants (human) rights: The Jesuit Refugee Service Experience • Duarte Miranda Mendes, High Commission For Immigration And Intercultural Dialogue (Portugal) · Access to Rights in the Host Territories • Maria João Guia, University of Coimbra (Portugal) · The Illegality Stigma and the Role of State: Unauthorized Immigrants and their Access to Rights in Portugal • Alan Desmond, University College Cork (Republic of Ireland) · Irregular Immigrants in the EU: A Right to Regularisation? • João Campos, University of Coimbra (Portugal) · Prüm Decisions and Unauthorized Migration • Robert Koulish, University of Maryland (United States ) · Suspected Undocumented and Suspension of Mobility
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Workshop 319 Island migrations: Dynamics and tensions
BUILDING SHSC – Social and Human Sciences Complex ROOM Sala 2.5
Islands are intimately concerned with migration. Aspects of ‘island life’ usually have impact on the interaction of the ‘come heres’ with the ‘from heres’. Meanwhile, the lives of islanders are increasingly regional and circulatory, embedded in international relationships and affiliated to significant diasporas. This workshop provides a platform to critique the dynamics and tensions that specifically underscore island migrations. Presentations will focus on particular geographical flash points, including the Azores, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Hawai'i, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Prince Edward Island and Tonga.
ORGANIZER(S) > Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Prince Edward Island - Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Island Studies Programme (Canada) · [email protected] > Gilberta Rocha, University of the Azores (Portugal)
CHAIR > Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Murray Chapman, University of Hawaii (United States )
PARTICIPANTS > Jorge Malheiros, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · From Spatial Isolation to ‘Network Places’: Migration and Development in Small Archipelagic Worlds • Eduardo Ferreira, University of the Azores (Portugal) · Migration, Social Networks and Island: The Case of the Azorean Migration to Bermuda • Paulo Mendes, Azorean Immigrants Association (Portugal) · Modes of Incorporation of Immigrant Communities in an Insular Space: The Case of the Azores • Dirk Godenau, Universitat de La Laguna (Spain) · Migration in the Context of Islands: The case of the Canary Islands • Rose Marie Azzopardi, University of Malta (Malta) · Migration: Safety Valve or Resource Loss? A Case Study of the Maltese Archipelago • Nils Finn Munch-Petersen, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Denmark) · The Maldives: Out-Migration Due to ‘Successful’ Tourism Development • Richard Bedford, University of Waikato & National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (New Zealand) · I- Kiribati Settlers, Seafarers, Seasonal Workers, Students and Visitors: International Mobility of Atoll Dwellers in the Central Pacific • Teena Brown Pulu, University of Waikato (New Zealand) · We Don't Want Mixed Blood: Travelling Tales of the Half-Caste islander
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Workshop 320 Opportunities and challenges of life in multiethnic and multicultural cities
BUILDING SC – Scientific Complex ROOM Sala 5
Global migration is a key factor in increasing ethnic and cultural diversity in cities around the world. Can newcomers and established residents from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds in increasingly diverse cities get along, or are tension and conflict inevitable? This workshop offers perspectives from Canada, Finland, The Netherlands, and Portugal on opportunities and challenges for residents of multiethnic and multicultural cities, particularly for newcomers, and discusses implications for immigration, integration, and other public policies.
ORGANIZER > Sharon Lee, University of Victoria (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Sharon Lee, University of Victoria (Canada)
PARTICIPANTS > Sinela Jurkova, Calgary Multicultural Centre and University of Calgary (Canada) · Ethno-cultural organizations: Segregating and integrating effects • Kaisu Koskela, University of Helsinki (Finland) · Negotiating host society's categorizations: the case of skilled migrants in Helsinki • Natalia Rajewska, Youth Ambassadors of Integration in The Hague (Netherlands) · Multicultural segregation and impact on immigrant youths in The Hague • Paulo Senra, Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) · No Muslims allowed: the decay of pluralism in the west
Workshop 321 African migration dynamics and strategies
BUILDING SHSC – Social and Human Sciences Complex ROOM Sala 2.3
This workshop explores themes related to migration dynamics in several African countries. On the micro-level, migration may be undertaken as a livelihood strategy for individuals and families. But this migration also has an impact on the larger scale with implications for local and national development. One example of this is the role of diasporas and their contribution through remittances or the formation of migrant associations or migrant networks. This workshop will use case studies drawn from research focused on Guinea-Bissau, Somalia and Senegal in order to explore migration types and characteristics, migration and development and diasporas’ use of communication technologies transnationally to maintain communities.
ORGANIZER(S) > Lesley Voellmecke, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada) · [email protected] > Mona Marshy, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Canada) · [email protected]
CHAIR > Alexandre Abreu, Centro de Estudos Geográficos (Portugal)
PARTICIPANTS > Alexandre Abreu, Centro de Estudos Geográficos (Portugal) · The Political Economy of Migration and Development in Guinea-Bissau: a Tale of Two Villages • Anna Ferro, Cespi - Centro Studi Politiche Internazionali (Italy) · The role of diaspora and diaspora organizations between development in the origin country and integration in the country of residence: the case of the Senegalese migrants between Italy and Senegal • Johanna Malmi, Institute of Migration (Finland) · Somalian diaspora, transnational communication and placelessness
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Workshop 323 Pluralisme et citoyenneté: Enjeux et défis pour les grands centres urbains
BUILDING SC – Scientific Complex ROOM Anf. IV
Les grandes régions métropolitaines font face à une complexité d’enjeux liés aux transformations démographiques, socioéconomiques et à la diversification de la population. La présence croissante des migrants et des minorités ethniques et leurs besoins diversifiés soulèvent des défis interpellant directement la sphère municipale. Ces défis sont liés aux mécanismes d’intégration et d’inclusion, l’équité et la citoyenneté ainsi que la participation au sein des instances municipales. Quelles sont les réponses politiques et institutionnelles, locales ou nationales mises en œuvre dans l’articulation des relations interculturelles pour l’émergence d’une citoyenneté commune? Cet atelier sera un espace de réflexion croisée d’universitaires, de chercheurs et de praticiens, sur ces questions de gestion de la diversité dans des espaces publics où les rapports entre groupes majoritaires et minoritaires restent marqués par des clivages. This workshop will be in French and English.
ORGANIZER(S) > Myrlande Pierre, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne; UQAM (Canada) · [email protected] > Ibrahima Guisse, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Suisse)
CHAIR > Myrlande Pierre, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne; UQAM (Canada)
DISCUSSANT > Ibrahima Guisse, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Switzerland)
PARTICIPANTS > Pires Sonia, University of Lisbon (Portugal) · Pro-immigrant Political Mobilization in Portugal and Italy: The Role of Civil Society Actors • Arlindo Vieira, Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) (Canada) · Gestion de la diversité ethnoculturelle au Québec: la réalité métropolitaine • Ibrahima Guisse, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Switzerland) · Politiques migratoires et transnationalisme par le bas: Les mobilités empruntées des diplômés africains d’Europe • Myrlande Pierre, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne; UQAM (Canada) · Intégration et représentation des minorités racisées dans les grandes municipalités: Un état des lieux • Viola Krebs, Université de Lyon; ICVolunteers (Switzerland) · La situation des migrants à Genève
Workshop 304 The Portuguese-American Citizenship Project: A tripartite collaboration for community empowerment
BUILDING SHSC – Social and Human Sciences Complex ROOM Anf. 1.3
It is a common perception that Portuguese-American immigrants do not vote. To address this deficit , the Luso-American Foundation of Lisbon (FLAD) and the Government of the Azores funded the Portuguese-American Citizenship Project. Working with community clubs, associations, and churches, this Project has promoted American citizenship, voter registration, and voter participation. Pre- and post-election studies show that those who are citizens and registered to vote, vote with more frequency than the electorate in general.
ORGANIZER(S) > Elmano Costa, VALER (Valley Area Living Enabling Resources) (United States) · [email protected] > James McGlinchey, Portuguese American Citizenship Project (United States) > Antonio Borba, Portuguese American Citizenship Project (United States)
PARTICIPANTS > Jim McGlinchey, Portuguese-American Citizenship Project (United States) · Something from Nothing: You Gotta Have Something to Play in American Politics • Antonio Vicente, Luso-American Development Foundation (Portugal) · Portuguese-American Civic Participation – Historical Trends • Antonio Borba, Portuguese-American Citizenship Project (United States) · Now That We Know We Vote – What Next? - Identifying an Agenda for the Portuguese-American Community • Francisco Tavares, Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Azores) · Azorean Regional Government and Community Collaboration to Promote Emigrant Communities in the Diaspora • Helena Marques, Immigrants’ Assistance Center, Inc.(United States) · Political Influence and Deportation: The New England Case Study
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THEME: Maintaining relations within the Diasporas
> Irregular Migration and the Democratisation Process - A Postregular Challenge to the Nation State
Joselito Jimenez, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan), [email protected]
> Diaspora Knowledge Networks for Development
Anusha Sundaram, Ryerson University (Canada), [email protected]
> Identidade e Pertencimento na diáspora Uchinanchu
Yoko Nitahara Souza, UnB - Universidade De Brasília (Brazil), [email protected]
THEME: Living in multicultural cities: interethnic relations and daily life
> Different models of bilingual education in Arabic and Swedish
Berit Wigerfelt, Malmoö University (Sweden), [email protected]
> Networking the social mix - Pasifika networks in London, socialising and urban diversity
Fran Meissner, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Germany), [email protected]
> Migration, integration and cultural identity: Lebanese Christians in two multicultural cities
Yasmine Matar, Centre For Intercultural Communication And Interaction (Belgium), [email protected]
> Fuck the police and other images
Margareta Popoola, Malmö University (Sweden), [email protected]
> The Acculturation of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel
Shmuel Shamai, Golan Research Institute (Israel), [email protected]
THEME: International mobility in integrated economic spaces
> Migrant workers in nursing and trades in Canada
Alison Taylor, University Of Alberta (Canada), [email protected]
> Flexi-in-Security
Rica Agnes Castañeda (Spain), [email protected] • Jakob Hurrley, Multi Cultural Prague (Czech Republic) • Jose Jubilee Panelo (Singapore)
> Immigrants in Europe – Policies and Practices in The European Web Site on Integration
Sandra Silva, Centre For Geographical Studies, IGOT-UL (Portugal), [email protected]
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> Highly skilled Latin-American women in the Spanish labor market
Elisa Carolina Fernández Feijoo, Universidade Da Coruña (Spain)
THEME: Migration in the context of islands
> The exonome, paints the silent or invisible immigrant
Joao De Brito, Painter, Sculptor, Artist (United States), [email protected]
> Filipinos in Guam: Reconstructing ‘Homes’ and Migration Dreams
Valerie Yap, Department of Asian & International Studies (Hong Kong), [email protected]
THEME: Ageing and migration
> Remembrances of Country of Origin and Envisions About Aging in Canada
Nina Hrycak, Faculty Of Nursing (Canada), [email protected]
> Impact of immigration on ageing in Italy
Antonio Ricci, IDOS - Centro Studi E Ricerche (Italy), [email protected]
THEME: The fostering of transnational identities through Internet and social networking websites
> Promoting transnationality through social-cultural enhancement – The Project RomaniArt in Europe
Sandra Silva, Centro Municipal De Cultura E Desenvolvimento (Portugal), [email protected]
> The Evolution of Transnational Cultural Ecologies: The way forward for health care delivery in Canada
Sandy Isaacs, Public Health Agency Of Canada (Canada), [email protected]
THEME: Globalization and migration in the South
> Seasonal Labor Migration in Brazil’s Sugarcane Industry
Terry-Ann Jones, Fairfield University (United States), [email protected]
Wednesday, September 14th > 18h00 > 19h00 * Session with authors
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NAME BADGE
All registered delegates, members of the press, accompanying guests and exhibitors are requested to wear a conference name badge when attending conference activities and scheduled social events. The badge will function as a pass during the conference, granting access to the Teatro Micaelense and the University of the Azores.
Each registrant category is marked with the colours that represent each of the nine islands of the Azorean archipelago as follows:
São Miguel known as the green island due to its green Delegates, NGOs and students pastures and fields.
Flores known as the pink island due to a great profusion of Accompanying guests wild flowers especially hydrangeas, which have large blue or pink petals.
Santa Maria known as the yellow island due to the Speakers abundance of yellow broom on the island.
Faial known as the blue island due to the different colours of Organizing Committee blue that decorate the houses and that divide the fields and line the roadsides.
Corvo known as the black island due to the lava walls that Media divide its fields and pastures.
Graciosa known as the white island due to its landscape and names given to certain places like “Pedras Brancas” or One day Registration – September 13 White Stones, “Serra Branca” or White Mountain and “Barro Branco” or White Clay.
One day Registration – September 14 São Jorge known as the brown island due to its rocks.
Terceira known as the purple island due to its lilac grape One day Registration – September 15 bunches.
Pico known as the grey island due to its outstanding One day Registration – September 16 mountain, the highest point in Portugal.
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CONFERENCE VENUES TABLES FOR PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS Teatro Micaelense The organizing committee provides tables Centro Cultural e de Congressos, SA where you can leave your paper or publications Largo S. João – Edifício Teatro Micaelense behind. You can find the tables on the first floor, S. Miguel – Azores – Portugal in the Exhibition Room. telf | (+351) 296 308 340 Please do not leave any material for commercial fax | (+351) 296 308 344 purposes. www.teatromicaelense.pt [email protected] PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW FOR DOWNLOADING WORKSHOP University of the Azores PRESENTATIONS: Rua da Mãe de Deus There will be a laptop in each workshop room. 9501-855 Ponta Delgada All presenters with powerpoints need to arrive São Miguel - Açores at their workshop rooms 10 to 15 minutes prior www.uac.pt to the start of their workshops in order to download their presentations onto the laptop. REGISTRATION DESK Please copy your presentations into the folder The conference secretariat and registration desk are designated for your workshop, on the desktop located in the entrance hall of Teatro Micaelense. of the laptop. This important step will allow us Registration Desk times are as follows: to collect the presentations and post them on Monday September 12 to Thursday September 15 the Metropolis website after the conference, - 8.00 am to 6.00 pm and ensure that presentations are available for Friday September 16 - 8.00 am to 1.00 pm future reference.
INTERNET EXHIBITION A limited number of PCs with internet access are Several exhibition booths are set up on the first available at the Delegate Room on the first floor floor of Teatro Micaelense. of Teatro Micaelense. Both Teatro Micaelense and all the University of LOST AND FOUND the Azores Campus will have wireless internet For your convenience, a lost and found box is access connections. kept at the registration desk, where you can bring items or report lost items. Metropolis 2011 is not LANGUAGES responsible for lost property. The official language of the Conference is English. The official language of the Azores is Portuguese. TIME ZONE IN AZORES Simultaneous interpretation in English and GMT - 1 Portuguese will be available at the morning plenary sessions. Headphones will be provided CURRENCY at the Headphones for Simultaneous Translation The Euro (€) is the currency in use in the Azores. Desk upon the deposit of an identification Bank services are available throughout the city, document (passport, identity card, driver’s license). from 08:30 to 15:00.
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ATMS LIABILITY AND INSURANCE ATMs can be found outside most banks, at the It is highly recommended that all participants airport and at the University of the Azores. Most carry proper travel and health insurance. Neither accept credit cards such as VISA and Master Card the Organizers nor the Conference Secretariat will and cash cards. Check with your home bank for take any responsibility for damage or injury to services charges. persons and property during the conference.
SHOPS QUESTIONS Ponta Delgada offers a variety of interesting If you have any questions during the conference, shopping opportunities where you can find please ask the conference staff (blue badge) or everything you wish to buy: clothing, shoes, the “Ask Me” students. books and music, jewellery and, of course, souvenirs from the Azores. USEFUL CONTACTS The stores in the centre are generally open from Emergency number: 112 09:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:30 on weekdays, from 09:00 -13:00 on Saturdays and closed on Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo Sundays. Avenida D. Manuel I – Matriz The stores in the shopping centers are open from Ponta Delgada 10:00 - 23:00 Monday to Sunday. Tel: 296-203-000 Fax: 296-203-090 PONTA DELGADA PUBLIC TRANSPORT Mini bus (Centre of Ponta Delgada) Police Station The mini-bus service provides 3 different routes Rua da Alfândega, Ponta Delgada along the city, available every 10 minutes every Tel: 296-282-022 week day from 7.30 am to 7.30 pm. Fire Department CLIMATE Rua de São Gonçalo, 230 The Azores have a maritime climate with mild Ponta Delgada temperatures ranging from 16°C (60°F) in winter Tel: 296-301-301 to a comfortable 26°C (79°F) in summer. The sea is warmed by the Gulf Stream and sea water Civil Protection temperature varies from 14ºC to 22ºC. Rua Dr. Hugo Moreira, 2 – E In September, you can expect consistently Ponta Delgada warmer weather, brighter sunnier days with Tel: 296-288-988 average temperatures of between 11 and 24°C. So it is advisable to bring both light and warm clothing, as well as an umbrella.
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