Belgrade, February 27 – 28, 2007, Sava Centre, Hall 3/0
Day 1 – Tuesday, February 27
9:00 – 9:30 Registration of participants
9:30 – 10:00 Introductory remarks
Miodrag Shrestha, Executive Director, Group 484
Aleksandar Čotrić, State Secretary in the Ministry for Diaspora of the Government of the Republic of Serbia
Goran Svilanović, Chairman of Working Table I of the Stability Pact for South East Europe
10:00 -10:15
Dimensions and Dynamics of Migration Flows around the World, Martin Baldwin Edwards, Co-Director, Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Panteion University, Athens
10:15 -10:30
Migration issues from the Perspective of the Council of Europe, Mr Andrej Zernovski, MP, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
10:30 -10:45
The Movement of Asylum Seekers and Refugees between the European Union and Southeastern Europe, Ms Patricia Coelho, Senior Policy Officer, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), London
10:45 – 11:30 Discussion and questions
11:30 -12:00 Break
12:00 – 12:15
External Dimensions of EU policy regarding Migration issues (Externalization), Claire Rodier, President of NGO Migreurope, Paris
12:15 – 12:30
Mobility of the highly skilled from South East Europe. Beyond the ‘brain drain’ -‘brain gain’ debate ?, Mirjana Morokvasic- Müller, Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and professor at the Université Paris X.
12:30 – 12:45
Migration in Serbia – Opportunity for new development, Jasminka Oliverić, Advisor to the Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia and the Serbian Government Representative to the Global Forum for Migration and Development*
12:45 -13:30 Discussions and questions
13:30 -14:30 Lunch
14:30 -14:45
Migration flows in the Republic of Croatia, Saša Božić, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Zadar
14:45 -15:00
Migration flows in BiH, Draško Marinković, Assistant Professor, Population Geography – Demography, University of Banja Luka
15:00 -15:15
Migration flows in the Republic of Serbia (including Kosovo and Metohija) and the Republic of Montenegro, Vladimir Petronijević, Legal Analyst and Group 484 Programme Coordinator
15:15-16:00 Discussion
The end of the first Conference day
Day 2 – Wednesday, February 28
09:00 -09:30 Gathering of participants
09:30-09:45
Migration flows in the Republic of Romania, Sebastian Lazaroiu, Associate Professor, National School for Political and Administrative Studies – SNSPA Managing Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Sociology – CURS SA
09:45 -10:00
Migration flows in the Republic of Bulgaria, Anna Krasteva, Associate Professor, Director, Dept. of Political Sciences, CERMES (Centre for Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies), New Bulgarian University, Sofia
10:00 -10:15
Migration flows in the Republic of Macedonia, Ivan Bimbilovski, Senior Analyst, Centre for Research and Policy Making (CRPM), Skopje
10:15 -11:00 Discussion
11:00- 11:30 Break
11:30 -13:30 Breakout Sessions in Working Groups
Working groups [1]
- Migrants in a globalise labour market (economic migration), chairman prof. Vladimir Grečić, Institute for International Politics and Economy
- Diversity and cohesion: Migrants in the society and laws and human rights, question of refugees in the area of ex –SFRY, asylum seekers, migrant smuggling and human trafficking, chairman Mr Miodrag Shrestha, Executive Director, Group 484
13:30 -14:30 Lunch
14:30 -15:00 Presentation of Working Group conclusions
15:00-15:45 Discussion
The end of the Conference
[1] Group 484 invites all participants who are interested in IDP issues to participate in the UNHCR IDP Working Group which will be organized on 28 February 2007 in Sava Center, Hall 5/1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ms Anika Krstić, Secretary General, Serbian Refugee Council, will present conclusions and recommendations from the IDP Working Group to all ‘Migration Flows in Southeast Europe’ Conference participants at the ‘Presentation of Working Group conclusions’ at 14:30.
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