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Opening Session

Pasqual Maragall president de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Juan Goytisolo writer
Assane Diop Executive director, Social Protection Sector, ILO
Paul de Guchteneire Chief, International Migration Programme, UNESCO
Najat El Hachmi writer


Remittances & Development

Suhas Ketkar The Royal Bank of Scotland in New York
Thomas E. Leavey International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union
Mohamed Khachani Association Marocaine d'Études et Recherches sur les Migrations
Stuart Brocklehurst Visa International Service Association, CEMEA Region


Is it possible to manage migration?

Michèle Klein Solomon Migration Policy and Research Department, IOM
Tomás Achacoso Philippines Overseas Employment Agency
Marta Rodríguez-Tarduchy Spanish Government


The human face of immigration

Maliwan Khruemanee Siam Research and Education Centre (Bangkok)
Merlinda Bobis University of Wollongong (Australia)
Thein Oo Chairman of the Burma Lawyers Council


Transnational communities & diaspora

José Itzigsohn Brown University
Richard Black Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
Ninna Nyberg Sorensen Danish Institute of International Studies


Migrations and religious pluralism

Joel Magallan Tepeyac Association (New York)
Stefano Allievi Università degli Studi di Padova
Maruja Marla Asís Scalabrini Migration Center (Manila)


To migrate and get sick: The syndrome of Ulysses

Can-Liêm Luong Centre Minkowska (Paris)
Zorka Domic Centre Minkowska (Paris)
Juan Manuel Pardellas Socas El País i Canarias 7
Silvia Elena Giorguli Centro de Estudios Demográficos y de Desarrollo Urbano (México)
Joseba Atxótegui Universidad de Barcelona

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Regional integration and economic impacts

Gudrun Biffl Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Daniela Bobeva Bulgarian National Bank
Christian Connan Ambassadeur délégué au développement, France
Ghazi Hidouci Ancien ministre de l'économie, Algerie


Cooperation on migration management: global vs. regional

Gerry van Kessel Intergovernmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia (IGC)
Gustavo Mohar Consultant, Grupo Structura , Mexico
Nafis Sadik UN Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
Sami Nair Professor, Université Paris VIII


Social networks

Elie Vasta Centre On Migration, Policy And Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford
John Rex University of Warwick
Catherine Withol de Wenden Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI)


Emerging countries of immigration

Mehdi Lahlou Institut National de Statistique et d' Economie Appliquée (Morocco)
Kemal Kirisçi Bogazici University (Istanbul)
Lisandro Pérez International Migration Initiative Florida International University


Political participation of immigrants

Andrea Rea Free University Brussels
Anver Saloojee Ryerson University (Toronto)
John Mollenkopf City University Graduate Center (New York)
John Solomos City University (London)


Trafficking

Jung Hye Lee Migration Policy Research Department, IOM
Tasneem Siddiqui Chair of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, Chair of Asia Pacific Migration Research Network, University of Dhaka
Thérèse Blanchet MDrishti Research Centre (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Han Yusheng Bureau of Exit and Entry Administration of the Ministry of Public Security

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Plenary Session: Cultural Diversity and Justice

Thoraia Obaid Executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Tahar Ben Jalloun Writer


Employement and sustainability

Pang Eng Fong Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore Management University
Philip Martin UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program, University of California
Shamit Saggar University of Sussex
Ghassan Saliba Zeghondi Sindicato CCOO de Catalunya (CONC)


Governance and co-responsability

Marco Badilla Chavarría General Director of Migration and Alienage, Costa Rica
Luis Eduardo Monzón Méndez Regional Conference on Migration or Puebla Process
Magdalena Carral Cuevas Commissioner of the National Migration Institute, Mexico


Gender and globalisation

Jean D'Cunha IUNIFEM Asia Pacific Programme on Migration
Patricia Olamendi Torres Secretaria para Temas Globales, México


Perceptions of migration

Philomena Essed University of Amsterdam
Omayma Abdel-Latif Al Ahram Weekly Newspaper (Cairo)
Reginald Appleyard University of Western Australia
Gema Martín Muñoz Universidad Autónoma de Madrid


Learning to live together : using educational skills

Jagdish Gundara University of London
Jasmine Zine University of Toronto
Liesbeth De Block University of London


Social exclusion & segregation

Graeme Hugo University of Adelaide (Australia)
Kay Hampton Glasgow Caledonian University
Teresa Bravo General Director of Migrations Policies, Junta de Andalucía
Carl-Ulrik Schierup Swedish National Institute for Working Life
Guillermina Jasso Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University

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Migration without borders

Mehmed Ugur University of Greenwich
Han Entzinger Erasmus University Rotterdam


Citizenship

Víctor Alejandro Espinoza Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Rainer Bauböck Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Graciano Battistella i Maruja Asis Scalabrini International Migration Institute (Roma)


Refugees, asylum seekers, forced migrants

Carlos Boggio UNHCR
Joanne van Selm Migration Policy Institute (Washington)
Bhuppinder S Chimni West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (Calcutta)


Border cities

Mercedes Jiménez Alvarez Colectivo Al Jaima, Ixbilia Group, University of Sevilla
Ronald Skeldon School of Social and Cultural Studies, Sussex University
Jorge Santibáñez Romellón El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico)


Migration, cultural pluralism and identity

Ananya Roy Berkeley University at California
Kalpana Das Intercultural Institute of Montreal
Maxine Reitzes Human Science Research Council. Pretoria. South Africa


Policy responses to irregular migration and human smuggling

Eliseo Aja Professor of Constitutional Low
Barry P Gilder Department of Home Affairs in South Africa
Jonas Widgren International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Viena)
Krekphong Pukprayura Deputy Commissioner, Royal Thai Police (Thailand)
Maria Ochoa-Llidó Migration and Roma/Gypsies Department. Council of Europe