Migration and the New European Enlargement: Bulgaria and Romania
A one-day conference 18 May 2007, Friday
London School of Economics, Main Building, A316
This international conference will be dedicated to the timely and highly contested issues of Bulgarian and Romanian migration following the two countries' EU accession in January this year. Particular emphasis will be placed on those related to pre-accession political debates on migration and post-accession realities; the security of borders in South-East Europe and the home countries' perspectives on regarding the
effects of emigration.
The main questions for discussion will be: How grounded those fears of mass outmigration from the two countries were some four and a half months ago, following the EU accession? Should Europe fear 'soft borders' in the Balkans? How true it is that the main smuggling and trafficking routes cross the region? Who gains and who loses from migration? And how the two sending countries are affected by emigration.
For additional information please email Hellenicobservatory @lse.ac.uk
Migration and New European Enlargement: Bulgaria and Romania
18 May 2007
Venue: LSE, A316, Main Building
PROGRAMME
09:30-10:00 Registration/ Coffee
10:00-10:30 Welcome HO Director: Kevin Featherstone
Raduta Matache, Acting Ambassador, Romanian Embassy
Bulgarian labour emigration policies:
Daryana Kotzeva, Third Secretary, Bulgarian Embassy
10:30-12:00 PANEL I: Expectations and Reality of Migration Flows Following Enlargement
Chair: E. Markova, LSE
Tim Colley, Deputy - Head of Enlargement & SEE Group, DG Europe, FCO
Michael MacMillan, Border and Immigration Agency
Discussant: Danny Sriskandarajah, ippr, London, UK
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 PANEL II: Migration, Borders and Policy Responses in South-East Europe
Chair: Nicola Mai, London Metropolitan University
Nadya Dimitrova, ICMPD, Sofia branch, Bulgaria
Dzenk Sejfula, Secretariat for European Affairs, FYROM
Elspeth Guild, University of Nijmagen, Holland and Kingsley and Napley
Discussant: Denisa Kostovikova, LSE
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 PANEL III: Who gains? Who loses? Effects of migration on the origin countries
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis
Jeffrey Dayton-Johnson, Development Centre, OECD
Vesselin Mintchev, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
Monica Alexandru, Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Discussant: Richard Black, SCMR, University of Sussex
5:00-5:15 Closing Remarks: Spyros Economides, LSE
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