Immigration Events, 12/2/18
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1. 12/4, DC - REMINDER: CIS Immigration Newsmaker series with Rep. Bob Goodlatte - [Updated]
2. 12/4, Florence, Italy - Seminar on being labeled a refugee in Malaysia
3. 12/5, Nationwide - MPI webinar on how Latin America is responding to the Venezuelan exodus - [New Listing]
4. 12/6, DC - House hearing on oversight of the DHS - [New Listing]
5. 12/6, DC - Discussion: The Evolution of Threats to U.S. Homeland Security - [New Listing]
6. 12/8, Marrakesh, Morocco - Annual Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development - [New Listing]
7. 12/9-11, Arlington, VA - National Immigrant Integration Conference
8. 12/10-11, Paris - Annual conference on immigration in OECD countries
9. 12/13, Neuchâtel, Switzerland - Discussion on passports and migrant workers
10. 1/2-6/19, New Orleans - Immigration at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting - [New Listing]
11. 2/28/19, Cambridge, MA - Discussion on immigration policies and calls to abolish ICE
1.
A Conversation with Rep. Bob Goodlatte
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 4, 2018
National Press Club, Fourth Estate Room
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20045
https://cis.org/Press-Releases
Description: Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) will be featured in an Immigration Newsmaker conversation hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies on Tuesday, December 4, at 1:00 p.m. at the National Press Club. Due to high demand and a limited number of seats, this event is invitation-only and will be closed to walk-ins. We ask that you RSVP via email to Marguerite Telford if you would like to reserve a seat. Media is given priority. In addition, we will stream the event on Facebook Live.
Rep. Goodlatte has represented the Sixth District of Virginia (in the southwestern part of the state) since 1993 and presently chairs the House Judiciary Committee. He has been a strong advocate for border and interior enforcement, and sponsored a number of important reform bills, most recently including asylum reform, a national E-verify mandate, ending the visa lottery and reducing chain migration, measures to streamline the deportation of criminal aliens, and penalties for sanctuary jurisdictions. In addition, Mr. Goodlatte conducted vital oversight over executive branch policies such as the controversial prosecutorial discretion scheme implemented by the Obama administration and the government's handling of the recent influx of unaccompanied minors and family units.
Rep. Goodlatte has announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of this term. After his departure, there will be major changes in the composition of the committee. How will these changes impact future legislation?
The conversation on Tuesday, moderated by Jessica Vaughan, the Center's director of policy studies, will cover prospects for immigration legislation and the challenges the country will face in upcoming years.
RSVP required, media priority mrt@cis.org
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What's in a label? An ethnography of being a 'refugee' in Malaysia
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Seminar Room, Villa Malafrasca
Migration Policy Centre
Villa Malafrasca, Via Boccaccio 151
I-50133 Florence, Italy
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/event/whats-in-a-label-an-ethnography-of-being-a-refugee-in-malaysia/
Description: Malaysia is home to one the largest urban refugee populations in the world. The UNHCR is barely tolerated and Malaysia is not a signatory to the UN convention and protocol on refugees, which leaves refugees and asylum seekers in a state of limbo. The UNHCR registers refugees according to their own protocols and aims to resettle as many as possible to third countries. Until 2014, Malaysia was the largest resettlement post in the UNHCR system, resettling approximately 10,000 refugees a year. Registration of refugees and the issuance of UNHCR cards has been a political issue for the Malaysian government, allowing them to blame the UNHCR for 'illegal immigration', crime and fraud in relation to UNHCR card holders and the issuing of cards and protection. In such a volatile environment refugees are often at the receiving end of political pressures and directives beyond their control or comprehension. Thus, they have to perform legible scripts for the purposes of registration as well as within the network of service providers and NGOs supporting them. Ethnographic vignettes from Rohingya and Chin communities will highlight how varying UNHCR registration regimes such as mass mobile registration and individual status determination have created a confused and highly complicated scenario of who is and who is not a refugee in Malaysia.
Speaker:
Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Senior Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Queensland.
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How Latin America Is Responding to the Venezuelan Exodus
11:00 a.m. ET, Wednesday, December 5, 2018
MPI Webinar
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/latin-america-responding-venezuela-exodus
Description: In recent years, more than 3 million Venezuelans have fled in response to the deepening political and economic crisis in their country, becoming one of the largest and fastest outflows anywhere in the world. More than 80 percent of these migrants and refugees have settled in other Latin American countries or in the Caribbean. For the most part, countries in the region have opened their doors to the Venezuelans, finding creative ways to incorporate them into local economies and societies by regularizing their status and giving them access to public services. Still, this generous welcome is being tested amid growing recognition these arrivals will be more than short-term guests.
In this webinar, senior representatives of the governments—Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, which are home to more than half of the Venezuelan migrants and refugees—will discuss their responses to the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of newcomers. Other experts will address the broader trend across the region and the prospects for future policy responses.
Speakers:
Francisco Carrión Mena, Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States
Frieda Roxana Del Águila Tuesta, Superintendent of Migration, Peru
Feline Freier, Professor of social and political sciences, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru
Felipe Muñoz, Advisor to the President of Colombia for the Colombian-Venezuelan Border
Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy Institute
Register: http://my.migrationpolicy.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=88748
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Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security
11:30 a.m., Thursday, December 6, 2018
House Committee on the Judiciary
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
https://judiciary.house.gov/hearing/oversight-of-the-department-of-homeland-security/
Witnesses:
TBA
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The Evolution of Threats to U.S. Homeland Security – A Conversation with Chairman Michael McCaul
10:00-11:30 a.m., Thursday, December 6, 2018
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-evolution-threats-to-us-homeland-security-conversation-chairman-michael-mccaul
Description: In the 17 years since 9/11, America has faced new threats from international terrorists, rogue states and rising powers, cyber criminals, human traffickers, transnational gangs, and natural disasters. There are few people in Congress who understand this evolving threat landscape more than current House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul.
As head of the Committee since 2013, McCaul has seen the rise of ISIS and the fall of the Caliphate, while working closely with U.S. law enforcement to tackle domestic threats and problems along the southern border. The Chairman has witnessed firsthand the tragic consequences of a series of bombings that targeted his hometown of Austin and the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.
During his Chairmanship, House Homeland Security – named the "hardest working Committee in Congress" by Politico – has produced legislation to strengthen U.S. aviation and port security, enhance cybersecurity, protect elections, assist with disaster response, and secure national borders. McCaul has also prioritized bipartisanship as a way to strengthen national security.
Please join us for a conversation with Chairman McCaul and Wilson Center President Jane Harman, as they discuss the Committee's accomplishments and what U.S. national security leaders should focus on for the future. Harman served nine terms in Congress, including eight years on the Homeland Security Committee, where she chaired the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment (2008-2011).
Speaker:
Michael McCaul
Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee
Keynote
Moderator:
Jane Harman
Director, President, and CEO, Wilson Center
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The 5th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development:
City Leadership in Implementing the UN Global Compacts
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Saturday, December 8, 2018
Pullman Marrakech Palmeraie Resort & Spa Hotel
Marrakesh, Morocco
https://www.knomad.org/event/5th-mayoral-forum-human-mobility-migration-and-development-city-leadership-implementing-un
Description: A hundred mayors and senior city executives from across the globe will participate in the 5th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development ("Mayoral Forum") in Marrakech, Morocco on 8 December 2018. Launched in 2013, the Mayoral Forum is the annual global gathering for municipal and regional leaders on migration, development and displacement, supported by local, regional and international partners. This year's Mayoral Forum will take place during "UN Migration Week" in Marrakech, and is entitled "City Leadership in Implementing the UN Global Compacts". It will focus on three policy themes: addressing special needs and reducing vulnerabilities; providing access to basic services; and empowering migrants, refugees and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion, including through employment and skills mobility. For each of these themes, cities will identify what they are doing, what they further commit to and what support they need in the areas of resources [e.g. financing], tools [e.g. data, standards] and partnerships [local, national, global].
The week of the Forum will conclude a two year process in which the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was negotiated and agreed. It will culminate with the UN Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration from 10-11 December where the GCM will be endorsed. The GCM is the first ever negotiated global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. Emphasizing the principle of shared responsibility between countries of origin, transit and destination, it provides a roadmap for improved governance of international migration through increased commitments from States, new innovative solutions, and a renewed focus on multi-stakeholder partnerships. In parallel, the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) will be presented to the General Assembly in December 2018, as part of the annual General Assembly resolution of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The GCR is a mechanism for predictable and equitable burden- and responsibility-sharing among all States, with the objectives of easing pressures on host countries and communities, enhancing refugee self-reliance, and enabling the achievement of solutions.
Programme:
8:30 a.m.
Opening
Speakers:
Mohamed Larbi Belcaid, Mayor of Marrakech, Morocco
António Vitorino, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Senior Vice President, World Bank Group
Nikhil Seth, Executive Director, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Government of Morocco
9:30 a.m.
Tour de Table for Mayors (only): Introduction
Questions to consider:
What is the most pressing challenge related to migration and/or displacement that your city faces?
10:10 a.m.
Session I: Advancing cities' goals - the role of the UN Global Compacts
Introductory Remarks:
El Habib Nadir, Secretary General, Ministry in charge of Moroccans living abroad and migration affairs, Government of Morocco, TBC
Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, TBC
Speakers:
Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montréal, Canada
Roland Ries, Mayor of Strasbourg, France
Makan Diakité, Mayor of Kayes, Mali
Yousef Shawarbeh, Mayor of Amman, Jordan, TBC
Questions to consider:
* How can international benchmarks like the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) help your city to achieve its goals in these fields?
* What types of initiatives can support cities' and regions' growing voice and greater involvement in strengthening migration governance?
* How could your city, individually or with other cities, help to achieve the goals set in the GCM and the GCR including in the follow-up and review of these agreements?
11:10 a.m.
Presentation of the Mayors' Declaration
Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montréal, Canada
Policy Priorities
11:30 a.m.
Session II: Addressing and reducing vulnerabilities
Speakers:
Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé, Mayor of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo, Italy ➢ Mayor of Oujda, Morocco, TBC
Questions to consider:
* What kinds of vulnerability exist, and how does your city, individually or collectively, respond to growing vulnerabilities of migrants and refugees in their communities?
* What actions does your city take to safeguard the human rights of migrants and uphold the best interest of the child [GCM Objective 7], and to strengthen their institutional capacity and infrastructure for refugee response and accommodation [GCR paragraph 37]?
* What resources, partnerships and other support does your city require to address these challenges?
Breakout sessions available on side lines, topics to be announced
2:05 p.m.
Session III: Providing access to services
Speakers:
Erias Lukwago, Lord Mayor of Kampala, Uganda
Francisco De La Torre Prados, Mayor of Málaga, Spain
Thomas Geisel, Mayor of Düsseldorf, Germany, TBC
Questions to consider:
* How does or how could your city create inclusive service delivery systems? What actions does your city take, or could your city take, to establish and strengthen holistic service centres at the local level, incorporating health and affordable housing and providing inclusive and equitable education to migrant children [GCM Objective 15]?
* What forms of partnerships help or can help your city to meet its goals?
* How can cities cover the costs of this kind of service provision? What examples of creative financing exist to fund innovations in this area?
3:05 p.m.
Session IV: Empowering migrants and societies through inclusion, social cohesion, and employment
Speakers:
Pauline Krikke, Mayor of The Hague, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, Italy
Igor Marentič, Mayor of Postojna, Slovenia
Questions to consider:
* How does your city foster inclusive societies and promote inclusive labour markets that strengthen the welfare of all members of society, including migrants and refugees?
* What actions does or could your city take to promote social cohesion between local communities and refugees and migrants to foster inclusive societies, establish local community centres or programmes that facilitate migrant participation and integration and deliver peer-to-peer training exchanges [GCM Objective 16]? What actions does your city take to? support of local integration plans for refugees [GCR paragraphs 97-99]?
* What resources, partnerships and other support does your city need to carry out this work? 16:05 Coffee break
4:15 p.m.
Open dialogue and exchange: partnerships for implementation
Speakers:
Ilse Hahn, Head, Policy issues migration and forced displacement, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Questions to consider:
* What partnerships exist or are emerging between cities, regions, business/private sector, civil society that support innovative policy solutions to social and economic inclusion (e.g. education, housing, employment)?
* What is the value of city networks, within countries, between regions and beyond?
* What types of partnership are or could be most effective in your city? Do they involve the private sector, and if so how? With what purposes and on what terms?
* What are existing and proposed tools to measure progress towards greater inclusion and integration? How could these help your city report on progress in achieving the GCM and the GCR?
5:15 p.m.
Adoption of the Mayors' Declaration
5:30 p.m.
Closing
Emilia Saiz, Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Patrick Gaspard, President, OSF
Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in New York, TBC
Government of Morocco
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7.
National Immigrant Integration Conference
Sunday-Tuesday, December 9-11, 2018
Crystal Gateway Marriott
1700 Jefferson Davis Hwy
Arlington, VA 22202
https://niic2018.org/schedule-2018/
Conference agenda:
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00-3:30 p.m.
NIIC MainStage: Opening, Kick Off & Plenary #1
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Track Session Block #1
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Special Sessions & Film Screenings
Monday, December 10, 2018
8:30-10:00 a.m.
NIIC MainStage: Plenary #2
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Track Session Block #2
11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
NIIC MainStage: Plenary #3 & Lunch
1:45-3:00 p.m.
Track Session Block #3
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Track Session Block #4
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Special Sessions, Special Events & Film Screenings
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
8:30-10:00 a.m.
NIIC MainStage: Plenary #4
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Track Session Block #5
11:45-1:30 p.m.
NIIC MainStage: Plenary #5 & Lunch
1:45-3:00 p.m.
Track Session Block #6
3-3:30 p.m.
NIIC MainStage: Closing
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8.
Immigration in OECD Countries - 8th Annual International Conference
Monday-Tuesday, December 10-11, 2018
OECD Boulogne Conference Centre - 46
quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Paris, France
http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/evenements/abstract.asp?IDReu=425
Description: The OECD, the CEPII (the French Research Center in International Economics), and its partners from the University of Lille (LEM), Paris School of Economics, Fondazione RODOLFO DEBENEDETTI, the University of Luxembourg and IRES (Université Catholique de Louvain) are jointly organizing the 8th Annual Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries on December 10-11, 2018.
The conference will examine the economic aspects of international migration in the OECD countries by mapping the migratory flows and defining their socio-economic determinants and consequences. Topics of interest for the conference include, among others, the determinants of immigration to the OECD, migrants' self-selection, the labor market and public finance effects of immigration, as well as migrants and refugees social, political and economic integration.
The Keynote speakers are Jennifer HUNT (Rutgers University) and Dani RODRIK (Harvard University).
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Entanglements: Passports, Migrant Workers, and the Question of Gender
6:15-7:45 p.m., Thursday, December 13, 2018
University of Neuchâtel
Rue Abram-Louis-Breguet 2, Room R.113
2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
https://nccr-onthemove.ch/events/entanglements-passports-migrant-workers-and-the-question-of-gender-public-lecture/
Description: Abstract Passports are of central importance to migration and mobility. They play a key role in defining state borders and identities, and they determine the passport holder's right of entry. Passports are the main topic of this talk, which focuses on my book manuscript in progress entitled, Entanglements: Passports, Identity Documents, and Migrant Workers. This research project originated in 2015 when the Indonesian consulate in Hong Kong introduced a new biometric passport system. It is based on eleven months of ethnographic research, conducted in Hong Kong between 2015 and 2018, on the consequences of the passport policy. The central question of my research is why did the mandatory passport renewal system create anxiety and problems – ranging from inconvenience, to lost wages and lost jobs, to charges of immigration fraud and prison sentences – for many of the 150,000 Indonesian temporary migrant workers in Hong Kong?
I use "entanglements" as a concept to analyze the different dimensions of this problem. Specifically, I examine four pairs of seeming oppositions that are related to passports and migration: care and control, real and fake, temporalities and scales, state and society. These four parings are often conceived of as dichotomous or as binary oppositions. However, as I argue, each pair reflects complex and subtle entanglements that reveal important insights about how care can involve surveillance and control; how identities can be real and fake; how past and present and global and local are entangled; and how, even when migrant workers protest outside the consulate, the dynamic cannot be reduced to "us and them." Finally, this talk reexamines these four paired entanglements and asked how gender is interwoven with them. Positionality, as feminist scholars have long argued, is of central importance.
Speaker:
Nicole Constable, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant:
Janine Dahinden, Laboratory for the Study of Social Processes, University of Neuchâtel
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Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting
Wednesday-Sunday, January 2–6, 2019
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
2 Poydras St
New Orleans, LA 70130
https://am.aals.org/
https://am.aals.org/program/
Immigration-related sessions:
Saturday, January 5, 2019
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Immigration Law Values
The Trump presidency has sought to comprehensively dismantle mechanisms that welcome, value, and integrate immigrants in favor of a stance maintaining that the United States does not welcome or value immigrants—thereby calling into question basic principles that many have believed to have long since been resolved and settled. But the values implicated by immigration law are complex and difficult to define. While the United States has long proclaimed to be a "nation of immigrants," immigration law has always sent conflicting signals. This session will examine fundamental values of contemporary immigration law and examine immigration law values past, present, and future. The session will also explore whether there are values not currently be understood as settled principles that should be. For example, is immigration law immoral if it results in separation of families? Does immigration adjudication meet basic norms of fairness? What would make immigration law closer to realizing immigration ideals?
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Asylum and Refugee Rights in Islamic Law
This is a two-panel session. The first will feature Dr. Leonard Wood, who recently published a book on legal education in modern Egypt, and another scholar who will offer some reflections on the work and engage in conversations with the author as well as the audience. The second panel wil discuss asylum and refugee rights in Islamic law. The Muslim world today is currently experiencing the greatest rate of refugee movement in the world. This will allow us to explore historical and contemporary discourses on migration and refugee rights.
3:45-5:15 p.m.
New Voices in Immigration Law
Works-in-progress session for junior scholars and scholars new to the field of immigration law. To facilitate WIP group assignments, individuals who plan to attend are encouraged (but not required) to RSVP at http://klhn.co/AALSImm2019NewVoices
Sunday, January 6, 2019
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Civil Rights, Liberty, and Immigration Control
Recent events highlight the frequent conflict between individual liberty interests and the government's migration control policies. The executive order banning the entry of Muslims into the United States has impinged on religious liberty, freedom to travel, and the liberty interest in family. Immigration detention, now greatly expanded, curtails freedom from physical restraint. "Zero tolerance" border control policies have caused large-scale family separation and detention, placed refugees at risk of refoulement, and infringed upon various rights of the child. Denial of noncitizen minors' access to abortion while in government custody has implicated overlapping liberty interests. This session explores the doctrinal, practical, and theoretical issues arising at the intersection of liberty and migration control, including how exercises of the immigration power have affected individual liberty interests, the narrative and advocacy strategies used to advance immigrants' rights, and how courts are assessing and weighing liberty interests in cases involving migration control.
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11.
Abolish ICE?
Experts discuss US immigration policies
MIT Center for International Studies Starr Forum
4:30-6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 28, 2019
Venue TBA
Cambridge, MA 02142
https://calendar.mit.edu/event/StarrForum_ICE?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=MIT+Events+
Main speaker:
Juliette Kayyem is the faculty director of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where she is also the Robert and Renee Belfer Lecturer in International Security. Previously, she served as President Obama's assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. She also serves as CEO of Zemcar, a lifestyle company focused on connecting busy parents with qualified drivers to solve their family's transportation needs. Her memoir Security Mom: My Life Protecting the Home and Homeland, tells stories of her professional life in homeland security and her personal life as a mother.
Discussant:
Chappell Lawson is an associate professor of political science at MIT. He directs the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program and the International Policy Lab. His recent work has focused on Mexican politics, the effect of candidates' physical appearance on their electoral success, political leadership, and homeland security policy. From September 2009 through February 2011, Lawson was on leave from MIT as a political appointee in the Obama Administration, serving as executive director and senior advisor to the Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection.
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