MAASTRICHT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE

Advanced Academic Update

18 and 19 March

WORKERS WITHOUT BORDERS

Rethinking Economic Migration

Tuesday 18 March, 2008 (Harvardzaal 0.009)

Chair of the day: Dr. Mindel van de Laar (MGSoG, Maastricht University)

09.00-09.30 Registration (courtyard)

09.30-12.00 Opening and trends in international migration

09:30-09:45 Welcome by Prof. Chris de Neubourg (Academic Director MGSoG, Maastricht
University)
09:45-10:45 Prof. Khalid Koser (The Brookings Institute) – an Overview of Recent Dimensions
and Dynamics of International Migration
10:45-11:00 Break (courtyard)
11:00-12:00 Prof. Hildegard Schneider (Maastricht University) – European and International
Migration Policy: Current Affairs

12.00-13.30 Lunch (courtyard)

13.30-18.00 Migration management

13:30-14:30 Ms. Sandra Pratt (formerly Deputy Head of Asylum and Immigration at the
European Commission) - The European approach to migration management
14:30-14:45 Break (courtyard)
14:45-15:45 Prof. Jaap Dronkers (EUI) – The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the
EU
15:45-16:00 Break (courtyard)
16:00-17:00 Prof. Rita Süssmuth (former President of the German Federal Parliament and
former Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Women, Youth and Health)

17:00-17:30 Break with snack (courtyard)

17.30 – 19.00 Debate: Brain drain: Ethical Issues related to Labour Migration, including an
academic introduction of 20 minutes, followed by 40 minutes debate.

Moderator: Dr. Jo Ritzen (President Maastricht University)

17:30-18:00 Introduction to the debate

Prof. Dr. Oded Stark (Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt, and Vienna; Warsaw
University; Warsaw School of Economics; ESCE Economic and Social Research
Center, Cologne and Eisenstadt)
18:00-19:00 Debate, with following participants:
• Mr. Oded Stark
• Mr. Khalid Koser (The Brookings Institute)
• Ms. Hildegard Schneider (UM)
• Ms. Sandra Pratt (formerly Deputy Head of Asylum and Immigration at the
European Commission)
• Ms. Rita Süssmuth (former President of the German Federal Parliament and
former Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Women, Youth and Health)
• Mr. Sergio Carrero (Head of migration section CEPS)

20:00 Dinner, with dinner speaker Dr. Nebahat Albayrak, Deputy Minister, Ministry
of Justice, The Netherlands
Wednesday 19 March, 2008 (Harvardzaal 0.009)

Chair of the day: Dr. Franziska Gassmann (MGSoG, Maastricht University)

8.30-11.00 Remittances
8:30-9:30 Dr. Samuel Munzele Maimbo (Worldbank) - Remittances and financial sector
development in conflict-affected countries: Lessons from Somalia and Afghanistan
9:30-9:45 Break (courtyard)
9:45-10:45 Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University) – the Impact of
Immigration Process on Remittance Flows
10:45-11:00 Break

11.00-17.30 Migration and development

11:00-12:00 Prof. Chris de Neubourg (MGSoG, Maastricht University) – Not without Strings:
the Impediments to Migration
12:00-12:15 Break (courtyard)
12:15-13:15 Prof. Dr. Oded Stark (Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt, and Vienna; Warsaw
University; Warsaw School of Economics; ESCE Economic and Social Research
Center, Cologne and Eisenstadt) – Migration when the Incomes of Others Count

13:15-14:15 Lunch (courtyard)

14:15-15:15 Prof. Dr. Frédéric Docquier (IRES, Catholic University of Louvain) – Brains Drain
and Remittances Replenish
15:15-15:30 Break (courtyard)
15:30-16:30 Prof. Dr. Hillel Rapoport, (Bar-Ilan University) – Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-
US Migration: the Role of Migration Networks
16:30-16:45 Break (courtyard)
16:45-17:45 Dr. Hein de Haas (Oxford University) – Migration and Development: A Theoretical
Perspective
17:45-18:00 Closing

18.00 Closing Drink