Scribani International Conference 2010

Scribani International Conference 2010
8th, 9th, and 10th September 2010

University Institute for Migration Studies
Comillas Pontifical University - Madrid, Spain

The University Institute for Migration Studies of the Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid and the Scribani Network are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2010 International Scribani Conference on the topic of "European Migration and Asylum policies: Coherence or Contradiction? - An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of the EU Summits of Tampere (1999), The Hague (2004) and Stockholm (2009)". We welcome a broad audience including researchers, professors, students, policy makers and immigrant associations to share research results and discuss policy issues regarding the way the EU has been treating this important issue.

The conference will focus on the new challenges raised by the European asylum and immigration policy from an interdisciplinary point of view. This workshop is a critical examination of the contents of the European migration policies prepared by the Tampere, The Hague and the Stockholm summits. We will treat four topics:

1. Legal migration and integration;
2. Irregular migration and border controls;
3. Right to Asylum;
4. EU migration, development policies, and the fundamentals of the integration of nations and regions.

Concept Note

We draw your attention to the outstanding keynote speakers who have already confirmed their attendance to the conference:

• Prof. Dr. Joaquín Arango - Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology II, Complutense University of Madrid, and Director, Center for the Study of Migration and Citizenship, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Madrid).
• Prof. Dr. Amelie F. Constant - Executive Director of the DIW DC (The German Institute for Economic Research) in Washington DC, visiting professor at George Washington University and the Deputy Program Director of Migration at IZA in Bonn (Institute for the Study of Labor).
• Prof. Dr. Javier de Lucas - Full Professor of Philosophy of Law (University of Valencia) and director of the College d'Espagne at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
• Prof. Dr. Guy S. Goodwin-Gill - Oxford University - Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, All Souls College.
• Prof. Dr. Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
• Prof. Dr. Oded Stark - University Professor - Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt and Vienna; Warsaw University; Warsaw School of Economics.