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Workshop One: Asylum and Refugee Protection
Asylum in the EU: Procedures and Practice
- The single asylum procedure: how it might look and
how it can be most effective
- "Bottom up" cooperation in asylum practice
The EU's Role in Improving Access
to Durable Solutions: An External Component to Refugee Policy
- Enhancing assistance and protection in the region
of origin
- Capacity building in receiving states and for UNHCR
- Effective mechanisms for ensuring returns and resettlement
Read Joanne van Selm's presentation on Improving
Access to Durable Solutions
Workshop Two: Regular and Irregular
Migration
Migrants & the European Labor Market: Current
Situation and Outlook for the 21st Century
- Stock-taking: size and structure of Europe's foreign-born
work force
- Analysis of areas/sectors with high demand for foreign
labor and skills
- Possible future shortages of labor and skills
- Recruitment strategies for high- and low-skilled labor
Managing Illegal Migration
- Creating a more comprehensive strategy for managing
illegal migration
- The role of regularisation in a comprehensive
approach to migration management
- New approaches
and concepts in regularisation
Workshop Three: European Frontiers
and Security
Creating Secure Frontiers in a Union
of 25
- Beyond the European Agency for the Management of
Operational Cooperation at the External Borders
- Challenges in Enlarging the Schengen area
- Theory and practice in cooperation on borders and
visas
Cooperation with Third Countries on
Migration Management
- A Wider Europe: Regional cooperation on migration
- Addressing the root causes of unauthorized entry
- Making return and readmission work
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