Nowości wydawnicze luty-marzec 2015

A new Migration Policy Institute Europe policy brief: "The development of EU policy on immigration and asylum: Rethinking coordination and leadership"

A new Migration Policy Institute Europe policy brief, The development of EU policy on immigration and asylum: Rethinking coordination and leadership, makes the case for adjustment to the underlying mechanics of policymaking in the European space, finding that migration and asylum policy debates must expand beyond the home affairs portfolio and become more of a whole-of-government concern. The current structure inhibits debate, coordination, and the identification of policy solutions across portfolios, MPI Europe Director Elizabeth Collett finds. 

A new Migration Policy Institute Europe report: "Not Adding Up: The fading promise of Europe’s Dublin System"

BRUSSELS — The effective functioning of the European Union’s Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is under increased scrutiny, as the rising number of asylum seekers in Europe has thrown existing divergences in national asylum policies and practice into relief.
The Dublin system, once viewed as the cornerstone of the CEAS, has been vilified as a failure of solidarity and burden-sharing among EU Member States, which confront different realities and pressures in coping with rising humanitarian and irregular migration flows. 

Debata "Być migrantką w Polsce" (19 marca 2015)

Debata o społecznej i ekonomicznej sytuacji cudzoziemek oraz polska premiera dokumentu "This is my home now", 19 marca 2015 roku, siedziba Gazety Wyborczej, ul. Czerska 8/10. Wstęp wolny!

Migration Policy Practice "Special issue: Migration Outlook for 2015"

What will the key migration policy challenges be in various regions of the world in the course of 2015? Are the levels and structure of migration flows likely to evolve, for example in terms of types of migration, source countries, and number and profiles of migrants? And what will be the key policy debates around migration policy in 2015, for example in terms of draft legislation and/or new policy and programme interventions, political milestones (e.g. national or local elections) and public opinion trends? 

The Zolberg Institute Visiting Scholar Call for Applications

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) welcomes applications for the position of Visiting Scholar for the 2015-2016 academic year, from individuals whose research, teaching and work intersects the fields of migration studies and mobility, broadly construed. With that, we are accepting applications from scholars who are committed to the research philosophy of the Institute and the thematic and topical interests that the institute aims to foster.

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series Issue 2 | Vol. 1 | March 2015

The Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series aims to contribute to the global knowledge base on the relationship between migration and environmental change, including climate change, and the formulation of related policy options. The series is produced as part of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP) project funded by the European Union, implemented by IOM through a consortium with six research partners.

POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (PAHA), 73rd Annual Meeting: “Global Migrations: Empires, Nations, and Neighbors”, Atlanta (January 2016)

PAHA's 73rd Annual Meeting will be held on January 7-10, 2016 in Atlanta as part of the 130th American Historical Association's Annual Conference. The theme for the 2016 AHA conference is “Global Migrations: Empires, Nations, and Neighbors.” It provides an excellent opportunity for the Polish American Historical Association to showcase research carried out by its members, as well as to present it in a comparative perspective. Therefore we invite scholars who work on the Polish American experience as well as those who deal either with migration, ethnic, or regional studies and would like to present their findings within the forum presented by the PAHA. We invite session proposals that foster international, comparative perspectives which include the Polish American experience, as well as individual papers dealing with the above mentioned themes.

Spotkanie w Helsińskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka (26 marca 2015)

Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka zaprasza na spotkanie prezentujące wyniki raportu dotyczącego programu regularyzacyjnego 2012, który został przygotowany w ramach projektu "Wychodząc z cienia. Badanie prawnych, politycznych i społecznych konsekwencji programu regularyzacyjnego 2012" współfinansowanego ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu na rzecz Integracji Obywateli Państw Trzecich oraz budżetu państwa.

Annual Conference on European Migration Law 2015, Brussels (7-8 May 2015)

Key topics:
• Focus on Labour Migration
• Recent Developments in Case Law and Legislation• Conditions of entry and residence of labour migrants: highly-skilled workers, intra-corporate transferees, seasonal workers, students and researchers
• Coherence of the EU legislative framework
• Challenges and best practices in the implementation of the Blue Card Scheme
• Intra-EU mobility
• Attractiveness of the single residence permit and labour migrants’ rights
• Latest developments in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and of the European Court of Human Rights