INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 

IMMIGRATION ISSUES IN EU-TURKISH RELATIONS*

Determinants of Immigration and Integration

 

Bogazici University, Cultural Center, Albert Long Hall, 8-9 October 2004

 

Conference Sponsored by the EU Communication Group and Heinrich Boll Foundation

 Immigration Project of Bogazici University (BU), Center for European Studies (CES) and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation

  (Presentations are available in Microsoft Word(doc), Powerpoint(ppt) and Adobe Acrobat(pdf) format. Please send email to cee@boun.edu.tr for any question.)

8 October Friday

 

 9:00                        Registration

 

 9:30                        Welcome:                               Ayse Soysal, Rector of Bogazici University

 

Opening Remarks:               Murat Sungar, Ambassador, Secretariat General for EU Affairs

Abdullah Gul, Minister of Foreign Affairs (not confirmed)

 

10:30                       Key Note Address               Reflections on Migration, Ethnic Diversity and the Challenges of Integration - Stephen Castles, CRS, University of Oxford  (927 kb. ppt file)

 

11:00                       Coffee Break

 

Determinants of Immigration

 

                        Chair: Insan Tunali, Koc University, Istanbul

 

11:30                       Demographic Developments and Complementarities, Turkey-EU - Cem Behar, BU

                                Commentator: Charlotte Hoehn, Bundesinstitut fuer Bevoelkerungsforschung, Wiesbaden

 

12:15                       Growth and Migration Scenarios, Turkey-EU - Refik Erzan, BU, Umut Kuzubas, BU, Nilufer Yildiz, BU                (415 kb. ppt file)

                                Commentator: Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University, Washington, DC                                                               (51 kb. ppt file)

 

13:00                       Lunch

 

                                Chair: Refik Erzan, Bogazici University

 

14:30                       Postwar Migration in Southern European Countries - Joaquin Arango, Complutense University, Madrid               (73 kb. ppt file)

Commentator: Corrado Bonifazi, Institute for Research on Population and Social

Policy, CNR, Rome.

 

15:15                       Potential Migration from Central and Eastern Europe to EU - Herbert Brucker, DIW, Berlin                          (280 kb. pdf file) or  (591 kb. ppt file)         

                                Commentator: Michael Fertig, RWI, Essen                                                                                                                         (182 kb. ppt file)   

 

16:00                      Migration Trends in an Enlarged Europe - Hubert Krieger, EURO Foundation, Dublin                                               (353 kb. ppt file)

Commentator: Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford

 

17:15                       Coffee Break

 

17:45 - 19:00           Panel Discussion: Prospects of Migration from Turkey and Policy Implications

                                Panel Chair: Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo, University of Rome                                                                                  (36 kb. Word document)

                                Panel:         Michael Fertig, RWI, Essen,(285 kb. ppt file),    Jean-Pierre Garson, OECD, Paris, (109 kb. Word Document)

                                Ferruccio Pastore, CESPI, Rome, (45 kb. Word Doc.) ,  Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford,

                                Insan Tunali, Koc University, Istanbul                                                                                                                       (73 kb. pdf file) or (58 kb. ppt file)

 

19:30                       Dinner

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(*) English -Turkish simultaneous translation will be provided throughout the conference.  

 

IMMIGRATION ISSUES IN EU-TURKISH RELATIONS

Determinants of Immigration and Integration

 

 

9 October, Saturday - Integration of Immigrants

 

 9:30                        Registration

                               

Chair: Ulrike Dufner, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Istanbul

 

 9:45                       Key Note Address                 From Guest Workers to EU Citizens - Cem Ozdemir,

MEP

 

10:15                       Integrating Turkish Immigrants in Austria, Germany and Holland - Rinus Penninx, Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies, Amsterdam   (82 kb. Word Document)

Commentator: Gamze Avci, Leiden University

 

11:00                       Coffee Break

 

                                Chair: Reha Denemec, MP and Deputy Chairman (R&D), AKP

 

11:30                       Integrating Turkish Immigrants in the Scandinavian Social Welfare Model - Mehmet Umit Necef, Southern Denmark University   (115 kb. Word Document)

                                Commentator: Levent Soysal, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

 

12:15                       Laissez Faire Approach to Integration and Turkish Immigrants - Ellie Vasta, COMPAS, University of Oxford                            (209 kb. ppt file)

                                Commentator: Franck Duvell, Bremen University                                                                                                                                         (31 kb. Word Document)

 

13:00                      Lunch

 

                                Chair: Ahmet Icduygu, Migration Studies Program at Koc University, Istanbul

 

14:30                       Transnationalism and the Integration of Turkish Immigrants - Ayse Caglar, Open University, Budapest

                                Commentator: Riva Kastoryano, CNRS, Sciences-PO, Paris

 

15:15                       EU Membership Prospects and its Impact on the Integration of Turkish Immigrants - Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen, Autonomous University of Barcelona

                                Commentator: Peter van Krieken, Webster University, Amsterdam

 

16:00                      Towards Common EU Immigration and Asylum Policies? - Andrew Geddes, University of Sheffield                         (127 kb. Word Document) or (53 kb. ppt file)

                               Harmonizing Turkish Immigration Policies with the EU - Kemal Kirisci, Bogazici University                                     (231 kb. ppt file) 

Commentator: Elspeth Guild, University of Nijmegen

 

17:15                       Coffee Break

 

17:45 - 19:00           Panel Discussion:  Policy Implication for Integrating Turkish Immigrants

Panel Chair: Kemal Kirisci, Bogazici University

Panel:

Christiane Timmerman, University of Antwerp - Gender and Turkish migration in Belgium,                                                               (47 kb. ppt file)    

Veysel Özcan, Berlin Office of Cem Ozdemir, MEP - and - Maurice Crul, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Amsterdam - Education,

Dirk Jacobs, Free University of Brussels - Associational and Institutional Life,                                                                                       (323 kb. ppt file)

Riva Kastoryano, CNRS, Sciences-PO, Paris  - Religion

                               

19:30                       Dinner