Events 2012

Public conference and book launch

Wednesday 12 December 2012
"Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa: How it affect human mobility within the Region and beyond?"
Bimal GHOSH
Emeritus Professor at Colombia's Graduate School of Public Administration, Bogota
This event has also launched Prof. Ghosh's new book: The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Migration: What will migration look like in 2045? Palgrave Macmillan (released on 7  December  2012)

Colloque "Asile et Extradition - Théorie et Pratique de l'Exclusion du Statut de Réfugié"

Le Programme pour l’étude des migrations globales et l’Université de Lille Nord ont organisé le vendredi 23 novembre 2012  le colloque de clôture du programme de recherche « Asile et extradition - Théorie et pratique de l’exclusion du statut de réfugié ». Le colloque s'est tenu dans les locaux de la Faculté des Sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales de Lille 2.
Ce projet de recherche conjointement organisé par le Programme pour l’étude des migrations globales et l’Université de Lille Nord est financé par le Ministère français de la justice (Mission de recherche: Droit et Justice).
PDF Programme du colloque

Documentary introduced by: Her Excellency, Dr. Marion Williams, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados in Geneva

Screening followed by a discussion with the executive producer: Dr. Keith Nurse, WTO Chair, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132 Rue de Lausanne, 1202 Geneva

More information on the documentary

Shaden Khallaf, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo (AUC)

Organised by the Summer Programme on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance  with the Programme for the Study of Global Migration

Room XXVII - Palais des Nations, Geneva
The event was co-organized with Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA) and hosted by the interagency Steering Committee for the global campaign on the migrants rights conventions, in cooperation with OHCHR.  

Global Migration Seminar

Prof. Edward Schumacher-Matos, Ombudsman of National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington DC and the James K. Madison Visiting Professor of Journalism at Columbia University
Room: CV 342, 3rd floor (Voie-Creuse, 16)
[Photo credit: Emily Bogle/NPR]

Seminar co-organised with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development

Dr. Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie (Universität Wien)
Room: CV 342, 3rd floor (Voie-Creuse, 16)

Presented by Matthew Garcia, Professor of History and Transborder Studies (Arizona State University), at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.

Global Migration Seminar

• David Khoudour-Castéras (Economist / Migration Projects Coordinator, OECD Development Center)
• Gloria de Pascual-Teresa (Chief, ILO International Migration Branch)
• Dr. Khalid Koser (Academic Dean and Head of the New Issues in Security Programme, GCSP)
• Markus Reisle (Section Programme Global Migration, DDC)

Global Migration Seminar