CONFERENCE
WHICH INTEGRATION POLICIES FOR MIGRANTS?
Interaction between the EU and its Member States
PROGRAMME
Thursday 28 October 9.00 - 13.00
- 8.30 : Welcoming of participants
- 9.00 : Allocution d'ouverture
PART 1 - EUROPEAN INTEGRATION POLICY (ODYSSEUS)
Chair : Prof. Philippe DE BRUYCKER,
Institut d'Etudes Européennes de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- 9.15 : Introductory report: the (legal) notion of integration
Prof. Kees GROENENDIJK,
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
I - LEGAL FRAMEWORK
- 9.45 : Integration policy and EU Competences
John HANDOLL,
Lawyer, (IRL)
- 10.25 : Q & A Session
- 10.45 : Pause café / Coffee Break
II - EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN INTEGRATION POLICY
Chair : Prof. Andrea REA,
Université libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- 11.15 : Le cadre: Les principes de base communs
Prof. Mariona ILLAMOLA DAUSA,
Universitat Girona (SP)
- 11.30 : The instruments of the policy: Formal and substantial instruments
Prof. Nikos TRIMIKLINIOTIS,
University of Nicosia (CY)
- 12.00 : Panel
Didier BOONE, National Contact Point, Belgium
Thomas HUDDLESTON, Migration Policy Group
Sergio CARRERA, CEPS
- 12.30 : Q & A Session
- 13.00 : Pause déjeuner /Lunch Break
Thursday 28 October 14.00 - 18.00
PART 2 - MANDATORY INTEGRATION SCHEMES (ULB/ARC/MAM)
Chair : Martin SKAMLA, Lawyer, Member of the Odysseus Network, SK
I - INTEGRATION MEASURES ABROAD AND COMPATIBILITY WITH EU LAW
- 14.40 : Are integration measures abroad still applicable?
Prof. Siobhan MULLALLY,
University of Cork (IRL)
- 15.00 : Q & A Session
- 15.15 : Pause café / Coffee Break
II - INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN THE MEMBER STATES
Chair : Prof. Nuno Piçarra,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
- 16.05 : Panel
"European Integration Modules"
Giulia AMADUCCI,
European Commission, DG Home Affairs, Immigration and Integration Unit
"Comments on presentations"
Dr Saskia BONJOUR,
GERME/MAM, Université libre de Bruxelles (BE)
III - INTEGRATION AND ACCESS TO NATIONALITY
- 17.05 : Panel
M. Laurent AUDINET,
Sous-directeur de l'accès à la nationalité française du Ministère de l'immigration, de l'intégration, de l'identité nationale et du développement solidaire (FR)
Kristine KRUMA
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Latvia and
Riga Graduate School of Law (LV)
- 17.40 : GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
Andrew GEDDES
University of Sheffield (UK)
Friday 29 October 9.00 - 13.00
PART 3 - SOCIAL EFFECTS OF INTEGRATION REQUIREMENTS (INTEC/PROSINT)
Chair : Prof. Kees GROENENDIJK
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
- 9.00 : INTEC : Integration and naturalisation tests, the new way to European Citizenship.
The effects of integration tests assessed in nine Member States.
Presentation of the comparative research
Tineke STRIK,
Centre for Migration Law, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
- 9.30 : Reflections from a sociological point of view
Dr Ilke ADAM, ,
Researcher Institut for Europea Studies, Vrij Universiteit Brussel, (BE)
- 9.50 : Reflections on the basis of PROSINT:
National Policy Frames for the Integration of Newcomers in Europe.
The link between integration and migration
Dr Maren BORKERT,
International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna (AU)
- 10.10 : Q & A Session
- 10.40 : Pause café / Coffee Break
Panel of Intec Rapporteurs
THREE NATIONALS EXAMPLES FROM THE INTEC PROJECT
- 11.00 : Germany: Law and Reality - The language requirement in the field of family reunification
Anne WALTER,
University of Osnabrück, (DE)
- 11.10 : Austria: the integration agreement as a migration control instrument?
Bernhard PERCHINING
University Vienna, Research Platform Human Rights in the European Context, Vienna (AU)
- 11.20 : Netherlands: naturalisation tests as a barrier to citizenship
Ricky VAN OERS,
Centre for Migration Law, Radboud Universteit Nijmegen, (NL)
- 11.30 : Q & A Session and Debate
- 12.30 : Debate with panellists and public
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