Please be informed of the upcoming conference on migration in Nicosia. Various panels will highlight the Middle East.
For additional empirical and analytical background information on the Summer War of 2006 and the impact of the current political crisis in Lebanon (e.g. assassinations) , contact the NDU migration researcher, Dr. Simon Haddad at: shaddad@ndu. edu.lb
Best, Eugen Dabbous
Research Associate Eugène Richard Sensenig-Dabbous, MA, PhD
Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC)
Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh campus
PO Box 72 Zouk Mikael, Lebanon
sdabbous@ndu. edu.lb or sensenig@cyberia. net.lb
office: +961-9-218950- ext: 2322
home: +961-1-301325
fax: +961-1-705355
mobile: +961-3-909406
http://www.ndu. edu.lb/rfr. htm?http: //www.ndu. edu.lb/research/ lerc/ or www.libanlink. org
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International Conference: ‘Peoples in Migration in the 21st Century’
Programme
14th December 2006, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
9 p.m. Opening ceremony
9.30 pm. Opening speech by the General Director of Daedalos, Professor Michel Korinman
9.50 p.m. Speech by the Speaker of Parliament, Dimitris Christofias
10.00p.m. [Speech by the Minister of the Interior, Neoklis Sylikiotis] to be confirmed
10.10p.m. Speech by the Mayor of Nicosia, Michalis Zambellas
10.20 p.m. Drinks
15th December 2006, Hotel Hilton Park, Nicosia
8.30 Registration of participants
9.00 I. History and Geopolitics (Chairman: Michel Korinman)
Migration in the Western Mediterranean in ancient times: the case of Carthage, a Mediterranean megalopolis
Mhamed Fantar, Director of Research at the National Heritage Institute (Tunis)
An introduction to the general history of migrations in the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th centuries
Émile Témime, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History (Marseille)
The new logic of migration in the 21st century
Rector Gérard-François Dumont, Sorbonne-Paris IV (Paris)
II. Perpetual motion? (Chairman : Michel Korinman
[The position of the World Bank
Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank (Washington) ] (to be confirmed)
The Geopolitics of flight: the hypocrisy of the international community towards the law and towards the need for Africans to emigrate
Georges Tadonki, Programme Manager, Director of SAHIMS (Johannesburg)
The Catholic Church and the ‘others’: a universalist strategy
Manlio Graziano, Researcher (Paris)
Discussion
11.10 Coffee break
11.30 III. Fortress Europe ? (Chairman : Michalis Attalides)
What should be the European Union’s immigration policy?
Eberhard Rhein, European Policy Center (Brussels)
Immigration, colonialism, Europe
José Carlos Rubio Laínez, writer (Valencia)
Immigration: a French taboo
Ivan Rioufol, journalist, Le Figaro (Paris)
The geopolitical representations of immigration and Islam in France and in Europe
Alexandre del Valle, local council official (Paris)
The Germans and Islam
Thomas Petersen, Project Manager, Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (Germany)
The end of the ideology of multiculturalism in the United Kingdom
John Laughland, Editor of ‘Geopolitical Affairs’, the quarterly journal of the Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics (London)
Immigration from Eastern Europe to Britain and its consequences, 2004-2006
Sir Andrew Green KCMG, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chairman of Migration Watch (London)
Discussion
13.45 Lunch
15.00 Fortress Europe ? (I) (Chairman : Anna Papasavva)
Why is the Vlaams Belang so popular?
Paul Belien, Editor of The Brussels Journal (Brussels)
Migration as an instrument of cooperation and stabilisation
Guido Lenzi, Diplomatic adviser to the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Rome)
‘Italia addio!’: demography and migrations in Italy
Giuseppe Sacco, Professor, LUISS (Rome)
Italy: when a country of emigrants becomes a country of immigrants
Valeria Palumbo, journalist (Milan)
Islam in Italy, Islam in Europe: is there integration in spite of the conflict?
Stefano Allievi, Professor of Sociology, University of Padua (Padova)
[Immigration in Greece]
Albanians and Greeks: mutual representations in the press, 1991-2001
Gazmant Kapplani, writer, PhD in history and political science, Athens
Discussion
15.00 Fortress Europe ? (II) (Chairman : Mezri Haddad)
Immigration and multinationalism: the Catalan case
Ricard Zapata Barrero, Visiting Professor, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
Integration strategies for different categories of immigrants in Spain
Rosa Aparicio Gomez, professor and researcher (Madrid)
Are the Spanish for or against immigration?
Marisa Ortún Rubio, Spanish consulate (Paris)
The re-birth of Islam in Spain
Rosa Maria Rodríguez Magda, philospher (Valencia)
How to reduce the causes of mobility: state structures and cooperation in Portugal
Major Francisco Proença Garcia, PhD, Professor of strategy, Institute of Higher Military Studies (Lisbon)
Experiences at a consulate in Africa
Alexandre Leitao, Permanent representation of Portugal to the European Union, responsible for relations with the European Parliament (Brussels)
Discussion
17.00 Coffee break
17.20 IV. The Northern frontier (Chairman : Pierre-Aimée Kipré)
The defence of the Canaries
Javier Morales Febles, foreign relations department, Autonomous Community of the Canaries
[Maltese immigration]
Stephen Calleya, professor
Lilliputian states and the ‘waves’ of migration: Cyprus as a migrant destination
Nicos Trimikliniotis, Director of ‘Περιπέτειες Ιδεών’ [Adventures of Ideas] and of the Observatory for Racism and Xenophobia (Nicosia)
Chinese versus Palestinians in Israel
Yohanan Manor, President of the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (Jerusalem)
Discussion
16th December 2006, Hotel Hilton Park, Nicosia
9.00 V. The Southern frontier (I) (Chairman : Mhamed Fantar)
The need to institutionalise Euro-Mediterranean summits
Hassan Abouyoub, Ambassador at Large (Morocco)
Algeria-France: a shared responsibility
Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria (Alger)
Immigration and human rights in the Arab world
Mezri Haddad, philosopher and writer (Paris)
The debate about immigration in Arab countries
Ahmed El Sheikh, journalist and editor (Cairo)
Discussion
10.30 Coffee break
10.50 V. The Southern frontier (I) (continued) (Chairman: Mhamed Fantar)
Immigration, radicalization and Islamic rhetoric – the Sufi Case
Nir Boms, vice-president, Center for Freedom in the Middle East (Washington)
Emigration: the need for cooperation between the Maghreb, Africa and Europe
Taieb Zahar, director of ‘Realités’ [Realities] (Tunis)
Sudanese immigration in Egypt
Doreyya Awny, journalist (Cairo)
The Turks in Germany: problems and perspectives
Asiye Öztürk, doctoral student, University of Bonn (Berlin)
Discussion
9.00 VI. The South of the South (II) (Chairman : Yohanan MANOR)
The African Union and migration
Rodolphe Adada, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and for the Francophonie of the Republic of Congo (to be confirmed)
The strategic dimension of humanitarian NGOs: a financial analysis
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, researcher, Institute for Research and Development, Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) (Paris)
Migration and nation-building in Black Africa: Ivory Coast since the middle of the 20th century
Pierre-Aimée Kipre, Emeritus professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, former Minister of Education, special advisor to the permanent delegate of Ivory Coast to UNESCO (Abidjan)
The partition of Ivory Coast: a consequence of migrations in the colonial period?
Christian Bouquet, professor of political geography, vice-president, University Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux)
Discussion
10.30 Coffee break
10.50 VI. The South of the South (II) (continued) (Chairman : Yohanan Manor)
Migrations in the past and current problems: Burkina Faso's view of the case of Ivory Coast Adama Compaore, Head of the Political and Judicial Affairs Department of the Prime Minister's Office, Burkina Faso, Augustin Marie Gervais Loada, professor at the University of Ouagadougou
The point of view of Mali
Alhamdou Diagne, Vice-president of GPARD (A pan-African development studies group) (Bamako)
Darfur: conflicting agendas
Hasan Ibrahim, presenter and report, Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar)
‘Darfur: the view of politicians and civil society in Chad’
Mbainaissem Doual, Consultant (N’Djamena-Paris)
Discussion
12.15 Coffee break
12.35 Round Table of Mayors (Chairman : Luigi Vittorio Ferraris)
Athens: Dr Kalliopi Bourdara, deputy mayor of Athens
Barcelona: Ignasi Camos Victoria, Secretariat for Immigration, Department of Welfare and the Family, Regional Government of Catalonia
Bari (to be confirmed)
Getafe: Pedro Castro Vazquez, Mayor of Getafe
Nicosia: Maria Mavrou, Department of Urbanism and European Affairs, Municipality of Nicosia
Tunis (to be confirmed)
Valréas: Thierry Mariane, Member of the French National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Vaucluse
13.45 Lunch
15.00 VII. The Conflicts between Southern, Eastern and Far Eastern Immigrations (Chairman : Michel Carmona)
Migration and migration narratives in the era of globalisation
Attila Melegh, researcher at the Institute of Demographic Research (Budapest)
Eastern European immigration to the West: a ‘new South’ or an ‘anti-South’?
Bruno Drweski, Lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) (Paris)
Criminal trade and human trafficking in the Eastern Mediterranean: the role of organised crime and the Mafia
Xavier Raufer, Director studies, Department of Research into Contemporary Criminal Threats, Paris Institute of Criminology, University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas)
Transnational networks: the example of the Chinese of Zheijang
Véronique Poisson, PhD in social sciences, EHESS, Paris
Discussion
16.30 Coffee break
16.50 VIII. War and Migration (Chairman : Gérard-François Dumont)
Lebanon upside down
Simon Haddad, Visiting Professor, Notre Dame University (Beirut)
Migrants’ right of return and the bilateral duties of states
Pascale Warda, Adviser on human rights to the Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, President of the Iraqi Women’s Centre for Development, former minister of migration and displacement (Baghdad)
Forced deportations in democratic Iraq: a political and constitutional perspective
Muhammed Said Sahib, specialist in constitutional law (Paris, Suleimaniya)
The internal displacement and the migration of Assyro-Chaldeans
Françoise Brié, Director of association (Paris)
Discussion
18.15 Conclusions
Michel Korinman, professor at the Sorbonne, Director of the Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics
[sursa e-nass]
