As international migration issues have become more pressing, demands for accurate, timely, and comparable information on levels, trends, and policies have increased. Monitoring population movements and changes are increasingly difficult as more migration occurs and because data have not kept pace with these changes.

At this forum, the Brookings Institution and the Migration Policy Institute will discuss and analyze a new report, International Migration Report, 2002, which is being released by the United Nations Population Division. The report quantifies and begins to address these issues.

Who:
Moderator:
AUDREY SINGER, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Panelists:
JOSEPH CHAMIE, Author and Director, UN Population Division

ROBERTA COHEN, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies The Brookings Institution

CONSTANTINOS FOTAKIS, Head of the Social and Demography Analysis Unit, European Commission

CHARLES KEELY, Herzberg Professor of International Migration, Georgetown University

LAVINIA LIMON, Director, Immigrant and Refugee Services of America/U.S. Committee on Refugees

DEMETRIOS PAPADEMETRIOU, Co-Director, Migration Policy Institute

Where: Falk Auditorium, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

When: Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.