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Program
Day one, 25 November

12.00welcome and lunch at Globus, 7th floor Building E (room E-723)
13.30opening by Bas de Gaay Fortman (chair), ground floor Building E (room EZ-1)
Bas de Gaay Fortman is Professor of Political Economy of Human Rights at Utrecht University and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
13.40Theo Veenkamp: "People Flow in its wider context: Purpose of the conference"
Theo Veenkamp is co-author of People Flow, Head of Strategy of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and Associate of Demos.
14.00Saskia Sassen: "Immigration as one element in a complex landscape: How to get to better policies"
Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her most recent books are Global Networks/Linked Cities (ed.) (2002) and Guests and Aliens (1999). She is currently finishing her forthcoming book Denationalization: Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age (2003).
14.30discussion
16.00snacks
17.00Ruud Lubbers: "Entering a crucial stage: European asylum policies within the broader migration context"
Ruud Lubbers is High Commissioner of UNHCR.
17.30discussion
18.30Rita Verdonk: "Dealing with people flow: Getting the political balance right"
Rita Verdonk is the Netherlands Minister for Immigration and Integration.
19.00discussion
20.00dinner at Hotel Auberge du Bonheur


Day two, 26 November

09.00Barbara Dietz: "The dynamics of East-West migration: The ongoing transformation of Europe"
Barbara Dietz is Research Associate at the East European Institute of the University of Munich and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn. She recently published "East West Migration Patterns in an Enlarging Europe: The German Case" (The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, September 2002).
09.30discussion
10.00Ben Jupp: "The local security challenge: Can we devise policies that are compatible with peaceful co-existence?"
Ben Jupp is Head of Strategic Policy Team, Home Office, London. He is the author of a number of reports including The Substance of Youth: The Place of Drugs in Young People's Lives Today (1998), Living Together: Community Life on Mixed Tenure Housing Estates (2000) and Working Together: Creating a Better Environment for Cross-Sector Partnerships (2000).
10.30discussion
11.00Demetrios Papademetriou: "Facilitating international labour mobility: How to make it work"
Demetrios Papademetriou is Co-Director (with Kathleen Newland) of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a new Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of international migration. MPI is the successor to the International Migration Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Among his publications are Reinventing Immigration's Role in Shaping Japan's Future (2000) and Managing Uncertainty: Regulating Immigration Flows in Advanced Industrial Societies (1995), both with Kimberly Hamilton as co-author.
11.30discussion
12.00lunch at restaurant Tilbury (on campus)
14.00Philippe de Bruycker: "People Flow in its wider context: Some tentative conclusions and key questions for further policy development"
Philippe de Bruycker is Principal Administrator in the Unit Immigration and Asylum, DG Justice and Home Affairs, European Commission and Professor of European Law at the Free University of Brussels. He is the editor of Regularisations of Illegal Immigrants in the European Union (2000).
14.30Rachel Briggs: "People Flow in its wider context: Some tentative conclusions and key questions for further research and development"
Rachel Briggs is Head of International Programmes at Demos. Among her publications are Doing Business in a Dangerous World: Corporate Personell Security in Emerging Markets (2003) and The Unlikely Counter-Terrorists (ed.) (2002).
15.00discussion
17.00closing of the conference
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