Text Box:  		European Research Forum on Migration          

and Cultural Diversity (EuroFor)

Member of the European Migration Centre

 

 

 

 

Programme for the

 

EUROFOR  Annual Conference 2002

 

Florence, 11th until 18th December 2002

 

The European Challenge:

International Migration, Refugee Protection and Cultural Diversity

 

(including Various Project Sessions)

 

           

A project of the European Research Forum on Migration and Cultural Diversity,

initiated by the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research and supported by

the University of Florence, Department of Education, the Tuscany Region, Municipality of  Florence, Municipality of Scandicci, ARCI and the European Commission


 

 

 

 

Conference Languages: English/Italian

Further Information: www.emz-berlin.de,

email: eurofor@emz-berlin.de

 

 

 

 

 

 



Wednesday, 11th of December 2002

 

            Venue: Sala degli Specchi, Palazzo Divarelli Colonna             

            Via Ghibellina 30,

            Florence

           

 

13:00   Coffee, Refreshments

           

            Welcome:

Angelo Passaleva (Tuscany Region), Paolo Orefice (Faculty of Education, University of Florence), Marzia Monciatti (Municipality of Florence), Jochen Blaschke (BIVS, Berlin), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence) and Vincenzo Striano (ARCI, Tuscany)

 

15:00   Introductory Contributions

           

Jochen Blaschke (BIVS, Berlin)

            “Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe”

                       

            Annamaria Rivera (University of Bari)


            “Discrimination, Etherophobia, Racism: The Italian Case”

           

            Giovanna Campani (University of Florence)

            “New Frameworks for Migration Restriction: The Italian Experience”

 

Charles B. Keely (Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of International Migration)

            “Modern Migration Management in a Global Society”

           

 

17:30   Workshop: Laboratorio per la democrazia

            Migratory Policies, Rights and Democracy

            Introduction: Ornella de Zordo

 

 

 

           


Thursday, 12th of December 2002          

 

            Venue: Convitto della Calza, Sala Pitti

            Piazza della Calza,

            Florence

 

09:00   Working Group on Prevention of and Fight against Trafficking: Institutional Developments in Europe

Mano Candappa (CRER, Warwick), Eleonora Garosi (University of Florence), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence), Nathalie Schlenzka (BIVS, Berlin)

 

11:00   Teodor Shanin (University of Manchester)

“The Future of Industrial Workers: What can we learn from Depeasantization for Understanding the New Marginalization of the Main Working Class?”

 

Danièle Joly (Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick)

“Movements of Refugees to Europe”

           

            Michele Manca di Nissa (UNHCR Rome)

“The Role of the United Nations in Refugee Protection”

           

Renzo Rastrelli (University of Florence, Centro Ricerche e servizi per límmigrazion- Comune do Prato)

            “Immigration, Integration and Deviance. The Chinese Immigration in Tuscany”

 

 

13:00   LUNCH (Reception by the Municipality of Florence)

 

14:30   Panel Debate on:

            “National, European and International Politics towards Refugees”

            Introduction by Livio Pepino (Magistratura Democratica):

            “International Refugee Protection”

Chair: Filippo Miraglia (ARCI Tuscany)

Thomas Schwarz (BIVS, Berlin), Luigia Sommo (University of Florence),             Gianfranco Schiavone (ICS), Antonio Ragonesi (ANCI)

 

16:30   Round Table: European Initiatives Against Trafficking

            Chair: Nathalie Schlenzka (EMZ, Berlin)

                        Mano Candappa (CRER, Warwick), Eleonora Garosi (University of Florence), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence), Farid Lamara (IOM-Paris), Marco Bufo (On the Road, Italy), Vincenzo Castelli (On the Road, Italy), Laura Grazzini (ARCI), Juliet Singer (Missingpersons Helpline, London), Mary Cunneen (Anti-Slavery International, London), Birgitte Husmark (Womens Council, Denmark), Helga Konrad (OSCE, Vienna), Ms. Niesner (Asia Group, Frankfurt), Monika Smit (Ministry of Justice, Netherlands), Georgina Vaz Cabral (Council Against Modern Slavery, France)

 

20:00   ARCI - Activities

 


Friday, 13th of December 2002     

 

            Venue: Sala Consigliari - Comune di Scandicci

            Piazzale della Resistenza

            Scandicci, Florence

 

 

09:00   Round Table: Institutions for the Economic Participation of Refugees

Lynette Kelly (CRER, Warwick), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence), Thomas Schwarz (BIVS, Berlin), Gianfranco Schiavone (ICS)

 

11:00   Albrecht Weber (University of Osnabrück)

“The Future Role of the Geneva Convention and of other Agreements to Protect Refugees”

           

Gianfranco Schiavone (ICS)

“International and National Human Rights Considerations and the Protection of Refugees”

           

            Jürgen Humburg  (UNHCR Rome)

“Protection of Refugees in Europe”

 

13:00   LUNCH (Reception by the City of Scandicci)

 

14:30   Panel Debate: “Legal Adjustments: Will the Nation State Perspective Become Dominant in the European Refugee Debate?”

            Chair: Jochen Blaschke

Christopher Hein (Italian Refugee Council, Rome), Marcella delle Donne (Universita de Sapiencia, Rome)

 

16:30: Round Table: The Decentralization of Refugee Reception

            Chair: Thomas Schwarz (BIVS, Berlin)

Gianfranco Schiavone (ICS), Filippo Miraglia (ARCI), Luigia Sommo (University of Florence), Luca Pacini (Programma Nazionale Asilo), Luca Fanciullacci (ANCI, Tuscany), Kath Jones (Home Office, UK), Anny Knapp (Asylum Coordination, Vienna), Loris de Filippi (Médecins Sans Frontières)

 

 


Saturday, 14th of December 2002

           

            Venue: Sala Consigliari - Comune di Scandicci

            Piazzale della Resistenza

            Scandicci, Florence

 

 

9:00     Working Group on Refugee Women: the Reception and Integration Regimes in Europe

Nathalie Schlenzka (BIVS, Berlin), Kursheed Wadia (CRER, Warwick), Luigia Sommo (University of Florence), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence)

 

11:00   Gabi Sheffer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

“Future Politics for and in Refugee Diasporas”

           

            Russell King (Sussex University)

            “The Mediterranean Migration System”

           

Majid Al- Haj (University of Haifa)

“UNWRA-Politics: The Conservation of Refugee Status in Palestine and Israel”

 

            Ali Rashid (Palestine Embassy in Italy)

            “The Palestinians in Italy”       

 

13:00   LUNCH

 

14:30   Round Table on Risk Groups of Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Youth

Giovanna Campani (University of Florence), Irina Meyer (BIVS, Berlin), Clara Silva (University of Florence), Monia Giovanetti (University of Bologna), Elena Rozzi (Save the Children), Benoit Van Keirsbilck (Service Droit des Jeunes, Brussels)

Martin Jespersen (Hillerod Ungdomsskole, Integration of Young Refugees, Denmark), Daphne Benjamins (SAMAH, Amsterdam), Reetta Helander (Refugee Advice Center, Finland), Veronika Krainz (Asylum Coordination, Vienna), Tanya Ward (City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee)

 

16:30   Round Table on Refugee Women: the Reception and Integration Regimes in Europe

            Chair: Luigia Sommo (University of Florence)

Nathalie Schlenzka (BIVS, Berlin),Kursheed Wadia (CRER, Warwick), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence), Sanela Sabanovic (German Red Cross), Anna Büllesbach (UNHCR Nürnberg), Laura Graccini (ARCI), Annette Windgasse (Psychosocial Center, Düsseldorf), Ute Wagner (Dept. Women Refugees Home, Sachsen-Anhalt)


Sunday, 15th of December 2002              

           

            Venue: Sala Convegni della Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

            Via Folco Portinari, 5

            Florence

 

 

9:00     Round Table on National Employment Strategies towards Migrants and Ethnic Minorities

Lynette Kelly (CRER, Warwick), Giovanna Campani (University of Florence), Ching Lin Pang (MERIB, Leuven), Eugenia Markova (University of Athens), Pablo Salazar del Risco (ARCI), Annika Forsander (CEREN, University of Helsinki)

 

11:00   Ursula Apitzsch (University of Frankfurt)

“Migrant Women and Self Employment”         

 

            Enrico Pugliese (Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, Rome)

“How to Protect Non-Documented Immigrants”

           

Elli Heikkila (Institute of Migration, Finland)

            “Employment of Immigrants in the Finnish Labour Market”

           

           

13:00   LUNCH                                                                                                           

 

14:00   Political Lecture:

            “Immigration: The View  from the Trade Unions”

Giovanna Mottura (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Bahram Asghari (CGIL, Tuscany)

 

16:30   Panel Debate: “National Interests and Economic Growth: Better Orientations for Immigration Politics?”

Chair: Angels Pascual de Sans (University of Barcelona)

Marzia Monciatti (Community of Florence), Sergio Briguglio, Ugo Melchionda (IOM, Rome), A.I.E.E., Tuscany

 

18:00   EurFor Annual Meeting

1.         Report of Reform Group

2.         New Organisational Structure

3.         New Membership

4.         Young Researchers

5.         The Journal

6.         Publications

7.         Research

8.         The 6th Framework Programme                     

            9.         The new “European Study Centre”

           10.        Future Cooperation

                                                                                                                                   

 

 

 

 

Monday, 16th of December 2002                         

 

            Venue: Sala Convegni della Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

Via Folco Portinari, 5

Florence

 

9:00     Round Table: Security Policies, Migration and Youth

            Chair: Irina Meyer (BIVS, Berlin)

Paola Rebughini (University of Milan), Marie Poinsot (ADRI, Paris), Muhammed Anwar (CRER, Warwick), Dario Melossi (University of Bologna), Monia Giovannetti (University of Bologna), N.N (SPI Foundation), Eckhard Lazai (Police Dep., Berlin), Samina Tahira Ahmad (CRER, Warwick), Tahir Abbas (Home Office, London), Sabine Behn (Camino Werkstatt, Berlin), Muhammad Afzal (Cabinet Member, Birmingham City Council)

 

11:00   N.N.

            “Political Participation and Cultural Diversity”

           

            Marcel Lorenzini “Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines”

“Cultural Presentation, a Local Museum of Migration in a European Context”

                                   

            Zoran Lapov

            “Gypsies and Antiziganism”

 

            Rosaria Bruno (Médecins Sans Frontières)

            “Immigrants Support, Cultural Diversity and Medical Services”

 

 

13:00   LUNCH                                                           

 

14:00   Panel Debate: “Islamophobia and European Islam”

                        Chair: Giovanna Campani (University of Florence)

                        Mohammad Anwar (CRER, Warwick), Åke Sander (University of Goteburg), Fuad Allam (University of Urbino)

 

16:00   Panel Debate: “Racism and Populism: The Stereotyping of Refugees in the European Regions”

                        Chair: Jochen Blaschke (BIVS, Berlin)

Ilias Katsoulis (University of Athens) , Pietro Basso (University of Venice), Katia Amore (CRER, Warwick), Filippo Miraglia (ARCI, Toscana), Guillermo Ruiz (BIVS, Berlin) Isolde Van Maele (BIVS, Berlin)

 

18:00   Young Researchers Meeting

                        Chair: Andrea Hötzeldt

 

20:00   ARCI - Activities


Tuesday, 17th of December 2002            

 

            Venue: Sala Auditorium del Consiglio Regionale della Toscana

            Via Cavour 2

            Florence

 

Migration Research, Migration Theory, Migration Practice

 

9:00     Round Table on Immigration, Integration, Asylum and Refugee Policies in all EU Member States

Giovanna Campani (University of Florence) , Ilias Katsoulis (Athens University) , Sandra Gil Araujo (University of Granada), José Carlos Bronze (University of Granada), Daniele Joly (CRER, Warwick), Ching Lin Pang (MERIB, Leuven), Loris de Filippi (Médecins sans Frontières)

           

11:00   Marcella della Donne  (Universita de Sapienza, Rome)

“More Refugees, more Refugee Studies?”

           

Thomas Schwarz (BIVS, Berlin)

            “The Experiences of European Research in Migration and Ethnicity”

 

            Jochen Blaschke (BIVS, Berlin)

            “Future Developments in Migration and Ethnicity”

                                                                                               

 

13:00   LUNCH

            Welcome by Assesore Paolo Benesperi (Tuscany Region

           

 

14:00   Workshop: Associations and Immigration

            Introduction: Franco Pittau (Caritas)

            “Welfare State, Immigration and Associations”

           

            Contributions of NGOs

Chair: Filippo Miraglia (ARCI, Toscana)

                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 18th of December 2002                                                                                          

 

            Venue: Sala Auditorium del Consiglio Regionale della Toscana

Via Cavour 2

            Florence

 

12:00   EuroFor Meeting on Future Research and Politics

 

13:00   Welcome by Assesore Mariella Zotti (Tuscany Region)

 

14:00   “The International Labour Migrants Day : We need a Charta for Migrants protection The Migration Charta

            Contribution of Immigrants´associations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organising Body

The EUROFOR Annual Meeting has been organised by Jochen Blaschke of the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research. Co-ordination and management: Elke Park and Cristina Faraco