SPS and LAW Workshop
Should
and Does Race or Ethnic ORIGIN Count in Fighting Discrimination?
11-12
June 2008, European University Institute, Florence
Sala
Europa, Villa Schifanoia
An
interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Social & Political Science
and Law Departments of the European University Institute of Florence are
studying issues relating to racial discrimination and anti-discrimination
policy in countries of immigration. In particular, there is an increasing
awareness that nowadays any in-depth analysis in the area involves necessarily
the intervention from experts coming from both the legal and political and
social sciences arena, as well as from different geographical locations.
Therefore, the Anti-Discrimination Discussion Group wishes to organize a
workshop, bringing together legal and political/social science experts along
with practitioners, dealing with the theoretical and pragmatic implications of
racial discrimination and anti-discrimination policy.
The workshop
is entitled Should and does race or ethnic origin count in fighting
discrimination ? The basic questions which are being asked are (i) whether
constructed categories such as race and ethnic origin should matter when
tackling discrimination; (ii) at which level a race/colour conscious policy
should intervene and which policy instruments might be the most effective for
fighting discrimination in countries of immigration; and (iii) how
racial/ethnic categories are used in the EU framework and whether the implementation
of such framework really work.
These
questions correspond in the same order to three panels, which will broadly deal
with the theoretical arguments in favour or against the use of race or
ethnicity as a normative category (Panel I); with governance issues relating to
race/colour-conscious policies in different experiences around the globe and at
different levels (Panel II); and with the practical aspects relating to the
implementation of anti-discrimination instruments at the level of EU member states
(Panel III).
Please register with Ms.
Annick Bulckaen at:
annick.bulckaen@eui.eu
Programme
11 June 2008
9.15 Workshop
opening:
Bruno DE WITTE (EUI)
9.30 Panel I: Should Race/Ethnic Origin Matter?
Normative Questions and Answers
Chair: Bruno DE WITTE
9.45 Kendall THOMAS (Columbia
Law School, NY)
On a Comparison between the US and EU Approach
to Categorization and Discrimination
10.15 Mathias MSCHEL (EUI)
The Absence of a Colour-conscious Jurisprudence
in Europe
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Daniel SABBAGH (CERI, Paris)
Justifying
Affirmative Action: The Third Way
11.45 Discussant:
Rainer BAUBCK (EUI)
12.00 General debate
12.45 Lunch
14.15 Panel
II: Is
Categorisation Effective when Implementing Anti-Discrimination Policy towards
Groups at Risk of Discrimination in the EU?
Chair: Rainer BAUBCK
14.15 Costanza HERMANIN (EUI)
What
Europeanization of anti-discrimination policy? The implementation of the Racial
Equality Directive in two member states
14.45 Virginie GUIRAUDON (Universit de
Lille)
A
French perspective on European monitoring: The controversy over measuring
discrimination
15.15 Coffee break
15.45 Emanuela Ignatoiu-Sora (EUI)
What the anti-discrimination discourse adds to the protection for the Roma
people? An analysis of the anti-discrimination tools used for the Roma in
Europe
16. 15 Katrin Wladasch (ZARA, Vienna)
The implementation of the Racial
Equality Directive in Austria
16.45
Discussant: Moritz JESSE (EUI)
17.00 General discussion
20.30 Conference Dinner
12 June
2008
(Morning
only)
Panel
III: Race and Policy-Making in
Immigration Countries: LEVELS OF INTERVENTION AND DIFFERING EXPERIENCES
Chair: Daniel SABBAGH
9.15
Michele GRIGOLO (EUI)
Human rights and
anti-discrimination policies at the city level: the case of race and ethnicity
9.45 Mara Beln OLMOS GIUPPONI (EUI – Max Weber Programme)
World
experiences of categorization and anti-discrimination policy: Argentina
10.15 Coffee break
10.45 Julie RINGELHEIM (Universit
Catholique de Louvain)
Ethnic
categorization in European human rights law
11.15 John
WRENCH (EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Vienna)
Ethnic statistics and the
political desire for comparability in discrimination data
11.45 Discussant: Nadine
EL-ENANY (EUI)
12.00 General discussion and conclusions