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Migrations Programme - [10/29/2009]
Interaction, integration and new citizens
On 16 and 17 October, the Council of Europe, in collaboration with Barcelona City Council, held the conference “Interaction between immigrants and the welcoming society. Learning from policy and... -
Migrations Programme - [10/28/2009]
Human rights and irregular immigration in the European Union
Gemma Pinyol, coordinadora del Programa Migraciones de CIDOB, participó el pasado 23 de octubre en el seminario internacional “Derechos Humanos, inmigrantes en situación irregular y Unión Europea... -
CIDOB Programmes - [09/29/2009]
CIDOB at the 9th AECPA conference
Anna Ayuso and Gemma Pinyol, the respective coordinators of the Latin America and Migrations Programmes CIDOB, participated in Malaga in Rethinking democracy: inclusion and diversity, the 9th Con... -
Migrations Programme - [09/18/2009]
CIDOB at the 14th International Metropolis Conference
CIDOB has participated in the 14th International Metropolis Conference, held in Copenhagen on 14-18 October. CIDOB organised two debate workshops of the over 50 that took place during the interna... -
Migrations Programme - [09/18/2009]
Immigration and borders in the European Union
In recent years, research into migration has experienced profound transformations in the definition of borders, given the situation of the enlargement of the European Union. With the aim of explo... -
Migrations Programme - [07/31/2009]
CIDOB collaborates with the Generalitat and UPF in the training of immigration technicians to a high professional level
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Department of Social Action and Citizenship of the Generalitat of Catalonia (through the Secretary of Immigration) are collaborating in the creation of a Mas... -
Migrations Programme - [07/02/2009]
The gap between aspirations and expectations in “second generation” immigrants
Presentación del estudio de Alejandro Portes y Rosa Aparicio What are their aspirations and expectations? What do they say about the education system? What do they think about Spain? These an... -
Migrations Programme - [06/23/2009]
The chiaroscuros of a reform bill: Spain's new legislation on asylum under debate
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, the CIDOB Foundation hosted a debate session in which participants offered a critical review of the bill, which is currently going through parliament. -
Migrations Programme - [06/09/2009]
The challenges for migration policies in Europe
The construction of a European immigration policy and instruments for managing immigration in the EU were the main topics discussed at the seminar held by the Spanish National Research Council (C... -
CIDOB Programmes - [04/29/2009]
The links between migration and development under debate
The CIDOB Foundation takes part in the EADI seminar on international cooperation and development from a Spanish and European perspective -
Migrations Programme - [04/23/2009]
European Commission launches website on integration – EWSI
20 April saw the launching of the European Web Site on Integration (EWSI), a unique platform on a European level set up to promote the exchange of information on integration policies and good pra... -
Migrations Programme - [03/18/2009]
Immigration policies and views on co-development under debate
Co-development is a term that has become increasingly common in discourse on immigration policies. What does this concept actually mean? How is it being applied to migration policies? These were... -
Migrations Programme - [03/06/2009]
The number of immigrants arriving in Spain falls for the first time in a decade
Consuelo Rumí, Secretary of State for Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, presented in Madrid the latest edition of the Immigration in Spain Yearbook, published by the CIDOB Foundation. -
Migrations Programme - [02/13/2009]
CIDOB takes part in a conference on labour migration policies in the Western Balkans
Even though it has a shared recent history, Southeast Europe is a diverse region today, and this diversity is also reflected in extremely varied situations as regards migration. -
Migrations Programme - [02/13/2009]
International relations and immigration in the age of globalisation
International relations in the age of globalisation is the central theme of the series of debates organised by Terrassa City Council, and which on 12 February focused on the migration phenomenon. -
Migrations Programme - [02/02/2009]
Peruvian Members of Congress and CIDOB analyse the “Return Directive”
The meeting took place within the framework of a visit organised by the Carolina Foundation. -
Migrations Programme - [01/19/2009]
Debate Workshop: Proposals for Reforming the Immigration Law
The recent commencement of procedures for the draft bill to reform the Organic Law on the Rights and Freedoms of Foreigners in Spain and their Social Integration increases the need for specialist... -
Migrations Programme - [12/19/2008]
6th Seminar on Immigration and Europe: Global challenges, local solutions
The local world is the space in which the global phenomenon of migration converges. It is the scenario where the diversity and plurality of societies is made more visible, and also where innovati... -
Migrations Programme - [12/05/2008]
Observatories on Immigration under debate
The debate brought together experts from Spain, Italy and Portugal. -
Migrations Programme - [11/07/2008]
Debating return policies: the MIREM project
Gemma Pinyol, Coordinator of the Migrations Programme at the CIDOB Foundation, has participated in the third meeting of the MIREM project, an initiative that is co-funded by the European Union an... -
Migrations Programme - [11/03/2008]
CIDOB Foundation attends the 13th International Metropolis Conference
The old capital of Germany brings together 800 participants to promote the phenomenon of migration. The Migrations Programme of the CIDOB Foundation has taken part in the 13th International Metro... -
Migrations Programme - [10/28/2008]
Forum on Management of Immigration and Diversity in Quebec and Canada
Canada is a country that is one of the main points of reference with respect to the management of immigration and diversity. With the aim of learning from Canada's experience, the Forum on Manage... -
Migrations Programme - [10/07/2008]
Immigration, school and equality of opportunities. Should Spain be like France?
Héctor Cebolla, Sociology Lecturer at UNED, presents the conclusions of his study -
Migrations Programme - [10/03/2008]
Municipalities could play a key role in the management of labour immigration
Gemma Pinyol, Coordinator of the Migrations Programme, took part in a debate organised by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces. -
Migrations Programme - [09/09/2008]
Barcelona Provincial Council and the CIDOB Foundation sign a collaboration agreement
Barcelona Provincial Council and the CIDOB Foundation will continue to work together on migration policy. -
Migrations Programme - [07/04/2008]
Agni Castro-Pita: “The situation of refugees around the world is a dramatic one”
International protection in Spain from a political perspective. -
Migrations Programme - [06/16/2008]
International Seminar: “Immigration and Citizenship Policies in the European Union”
The challenge of linking diversity and cohesion. -
Migrations Programme - [06/13/2008]
Immigration: the challenge of managing a phenomenon on an everyday basis
Presentation of the book Inmigración, Estado y Derecho [Immigration, State and Law]. -
Migrations Programme - [06/08/2008]
Remittances for development: a claim called into question
Using remittances as a tool for development is an idea that is out of step with the economic reality. -
Migrations Programme - [05/30/2008]
Spain still has much work to do with respect to the transposition of EU directives
In Spain there is still a long way to go in terms of applying EU legislation . -
Migrations Programme - [05/29/2008]
The countries of the European Union must strengthen their immigrant integration policies
Integration in political discourse was one of the points covered in the seminar. -
Migrations Programme - [05/23/2008]
The MIPEX-INDEX is a useful instrument for discovering the gulf between good intentions and the reality of integration policies
Immigration integration policies discussed at the 10th International Participation Conference. -
Migrations Programme - [04/17/2008]
European colonial expansion and domination constructed a hierarchy of knowledge
De-colonial Turn and Western Universalisms. Debates on border thinking. -
CIDOB Programmes - [03/03/2008]
More than 500 participants from different countries meet in Brisbane to discuss the role of physical security
Gemma Pinyol and Enric Royo, the coordinators of the CIDOB Foundation’s Migrations and Development programmes, respectively, took part in the 9th Global Development Network Conference held in Bri... -
Migrations Programme - [01/18/2008]
Examining immigrant integration policies in Spain: presentation of the Migrant Integration Policy Index 2006
The Spanish edition of the Migrant Integration Policy Index 2006 is presented in Madrid at an event organised by the CIDOB Foundation and the British Council-Spain. -
Migrations Programme - [12/21/2007]
CIDOB examines the external dimension of EU migration policies
Speaking at a seminar attended by Bernardino León, Consuelo Rumí and others, Stefano Bertozzi declared that the EU needs to establish common policies in the area of immigration. -
Migrations Programme - [12/14/2007]
CIDOB participates in a film-forum in Pamplona on human rights and immigration
Gemma Pinyol, Coordinator of the CIDOB Foundation's Migrations Programme, participates in several activities held in Pamplona on the occasion of the 3rd Human Rights and Immigration Week. -
Migrations Programme - [11/24/2007]
CIDOB at the 4th CHALLENGE Training School
Gemma Pinyol, Coordinator of CIDOB's Migrations Programme, stresses the need to establish common conceptual frameworks for discussing integration or accommodation of the immigrant population. -
CIDOB Programmes - [11/16/2007]
More data, in order to understand Latin American immigration in Spain
The CIDOB holds a seminar to examine the research projects currently in progress on the main aspects related with Latin American migration flows in Spain. -
CIDOB Programmes - [11/14/2007]
Mauritania: a hinge country
CIDOB holds the seminar Mauritania: intercultural dynamics, political processes and relations with Spain, at which participants analysed the current state of the African country from different st... -
CIDOB Programmes - [10/27/2007]
CIDOB participates in a conference on Euro-Mediterranean Partnership in Crete
The participants included Gemma Pinyol and Jordi Vaquer, the coordinators of the CIDOB Foundation's Migrations and Europe Programmes, respectively. -
Migrations Programme - [10/26/2007]
CIDOB collaborates with the Welcoming Congress
Gemma Pinyol, coordinator of the CIDOB Foundation's Migrations Programme, takes part in a congress prior to the drafting of a law by the Generalitat on welcoming newcomers. -
Migrations Programme - [10/15/2007]
2007 Index: examining EU integration policies
CIDOB participates in MIPEX, a European project to analyse the policies for integrating immigrants in 25 EU memberStates and three non-EU countries. -
CIDOB Programmes - [09/19/2007]
CIDOB, at the 8th AECPA conference
Eduard Soler and Gemma Pinyol, the coordinators of the CIDOB Foundation's Mediterranean and Migrations Programmes, respectively, have taken part in the conference of the Spanish Association for P... -
Migrations Programme - [07/02/2007]
Is it possible to speak of a “black African Islam”?
The CIDOB Foundation has participated in a course run by lecturer Ferran Iniesta in which participants discussed the role of Islam in the different sub-Saharan societies. -
Migrations Programme - [06/21/2007]
Increase in number of refugees in the world
CIDOB, the Catalan Committee of ACNUR and the ACSAR Foundation organised The challenges of international protection, a seminar held to commemorate World Refugee Day. -
Migrations Programme - [06/18/2007]
The role of actors in the management of immigration and integration
The second GRIIP-CIDOB seminar dealt with the different types of political and social actors involved in the processes of immigration management. -
Migrations Programme - [06/13/2007]
Josep Oliver: “Immigration is linked to the labour market”
The professor of Economics at the UAB presented at CIDOB his book Spain 2020: an Inescapable Miscegenation, a work that reflects on the impact of immigration on the Spanish labour market. -
Migrations Programme - [05/30/2007]
The eastern european immigrant communities in Spain
The CIDOB Foundation organised a seminar in which participants examined the link existing between Spain and Eastern Europe through migration flows. -
Migrations Programme - [05/07/2007]
The exterior uncertainties of european migration policy
The researcher, Virginia Guiraudon, spoke about the will of countries of origin to collaborate in migration policy and about the incentives the EU could offer them. -
Migrations Programme - [04/13/2007]
The force of latin americans in the United States
Ramón Grosfoguel, a lecturer in Ethnic Studies at the University ofCalifornia in Berkeley, analysed the influence of Latin American communities on the political and social future of the United St... -
Migrations Programme - [03/21/2007]
CIDOB, in the 5th Congress on Immigration in Spain
Gemma Pinyol, co-ordinator of the Migrations Programme of the CIDOB Foundation, presented the communication, The Challenge of Irregular Immigration: The Regularisation Processes in Europe, in Val... -
Migrations Programme - [03/13/2007]
Immigration and relations with third countries: A challenge for Spain
Felix Fernández Show, Deputy Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs in the Secretariat General for the EU, reflected, in a breakfast organised by the CIDOB Foundation, on the priorities of... -
Migrations Programme - [02/09/2007]
The moratorium on romanians and bulgarians is questioned
The majority of the participants in a workshop organised by the CIDOB Foundation coincided in the need to ask the spanish government to end the moratorium on workers’ rights to free circulation,... -
Migrations Programme - [12/14/2006]
“Experiences concerning immigration must also be unified on an international scale”
Imma Moraleda, President-Delegate of the Area of Equality and Citizenship of the Provincial Council pointed out the importance of local administrations in the management of immigration in the 4th... -
Migrations Programme - [11/10/2006]
European cities and the challenge of immigration, in the plajovebcn conference
Gemma Pinyol, Co-ordinator of the CIDOB Foundation’s Migrations Programme, reflected on the challenge immigration poses to European cities and the role of youth as protagonists of the migration f... -
Migrations Programme - [10/29/2006]
The Difficulties in Finding a European Model of Admittance
The Jordi Maragall Hall of the CIDOB Foundation hosted Admittance Policies and Models, a seminar in which the instruments that exist for facilitating the incorporation of foreign citizens into ad... -
Migrations Programme - [10/16/2006]
Consuelo Rumí presenta “Veinte años de inmigración en España”
La Secretaria de Estado de Inmigración y Emigración presentó en Madrid esta publicación, que ha contado con la colaboración de la Fundación CIDOB. Josep Ribera, presidente del Centro de Investiga... -
Migrations Programme - [05/26/2006]
La cohesión social y la convivencia, a través de una ética civil mínima
“El contenido filosófico, político y de valores del laicismo pretende establecer una ética civil mínima que sustente la convivencia y la cohesión social”. Esta conclusión se extrajo del seminario... -
Migrations Programme - [05/24/2006]
“El problema no es el estrecho, sino el desierto del Teneré”
Mohamed Khachani, catedrático de Derecho Agdal en Rabat (Marruecos) considera que la UE no debe obcecarse sólo en frenar la avalancha de inmigrantes que intentan cruzar el estrecho de Gibraltar.
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