Symposium on Urban Migration Governance in the Mediterranean

23 October 2024 | Conference | English | Barcelona
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The aim of this Symposium is to facilitate dialogue between key actors and researchers with the objective of developing a strategic urban agenda for migration for the next decade. The intention is to enhance the capacities and role of Mediterranean cities in terms of migration governance.

The symposium will be shaped by different thematic roundtables, which will address a wide range of topics and key challenges local authorities face in dealing with migration. These include policy innovation and urban resilience as a means to overcome governance constraints, the key role of certain organisations supporting cities in migration governance, the potential of city-networks and city diplomacy to leverage city leadership, and the challenges and opportunities linked to data generation and interpretation at the local level to support evidence-based policies.

The EuroMedMig, the EuroMed Research Network on Migration, coordinated by The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration at the University Pompeu Fabra (GRITIM-UPF) is organising the event, together with the IEMed and the Municipality of Barcelona. It’s taking place on the 23rd of October at the University Pompeu Fabra.

For this one-day event, we will count on the participation of high-profile representatives from the municipalities of Barcelona, Marseille, Istanbul, Tangier, Athens, Tirana and Gaziantep, drawing municipal cooperation and allowing for peer dialogues. Additionally, representatives from leading international organizations and non-State actors from all rims of the Mediterranean will also be present, including UN-Habitat, the Mixed Migration Center (MMC), Africapolis-OECD, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, Fondation Orient-Occident, the Mayors’ Mechanism, Medicities, the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and Red de Ciudades Inteligentes (RECI).

Furthermore, the presence of leading migration scholars from the EuroMedMig network will be key in enhancing academia and policy dialogues, which are considered key in informing policies, and in fostering enriching and challenging discussions throughout all of the Symposium’s roundtables.

Only invitation-event.

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