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Running in Circles: Progress and Challenges in Regulating Recruitment of Filipino and Sri Lankan Labor Migrants to Jordan
Report release with MPI Policy Analyst and IOM Regional Research Officer Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias; His Excellency, Dr. Khleif Al Khawaldeh, Secretary General, Ministry of Labour in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Linda Al-Kalash, Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights Programs Manager; His Excellency Julius D. Torres, Ambassador, Embassy of the Philippines in Amman, Jordan; His Excellency A.W . Mohottala, Ambassador, Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Amman, Jordan; and Tauhid Pasha, Program Manager, International Organization for Migration.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
10:00 to 11:30 am
The University of Jordan - Faculty of International Studies
Queen Rania St., Amman, Jordan 11942
Please note this event is not in Washington, DC, but in Amman, Jordan.
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Running in Circles: Progress and Challenges in Regulating Recruitment of Filipino and Sri Lankan Labor Migrants to Jordan
Report release with MPI Policy Analyst and IOM Regional Research Officer Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias; His Excellency, Dr. Khleif Al Khawaldeh, Secretary General, Ministry of Labor in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Linda Al-Kalash, Human Rights Programs Manager, Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid; His Excellency Julius D. Torres, Ambassador, Embassy of the Philippines in Amman, Jordan; His Excellency A.W . Mohottala, Ambassador, Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Amman, Jordan; and Tauhid Pasha, Program Manager, International Organization for Migration.
July 28, 2011 at The University of Jordan - Amman, Jordan
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Giving Back to India: The Forms and Accomplishments of Indian-American Philanthropy
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Migration Policy Institute, and the Indian Council for Overseas Employment hosted a panel discussion with Mahinder Tak, Co- Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Indo-American Council; Pradeep Kashyap, Executive Director, American India Foundation; B.P. Agrawal, Executive Director, Sustainable Innovations Inc.; Mark Sidel, Professor of Law and Lauridsen Family Fellow at the University of Iowa, and Past President, International Society for Third Sector Research; and Sudhir Parikh, Philanthropist, Physician and Allergist in the United States, and Chairman and Publisher of Parikh Worldwide Media Inc, with a keynote address by A. Didar Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs. This panel discussion was held in association with maximum INDIA - A festival of Indian arts and culture at the Kennedy Center.
March 19, 2011
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Science and Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Building Bridges between India and the United States
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Migration Policy Institute, and the Indian Council for Overseas Employment hosted a panel discussion with Harvard Associate Professor K. "Vish" Viswanath; MIT Senior Associate Dean and Office of Educational Innovation and Technology Director M.S. Vijay Kumar; Centennial Group Global Knowledge and Innovation Practice Head Vinod K. Goel; and One Laptop per Child President and CEO Satish Jha; with a keynote given by Indian Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar. This panel discussion was held in association with maximum INDIA - A festival of Indian arts and culture at the Kennedy Center.
March 18, 2011
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Diasporas: New Partners in Global Development Policy
Book event with Thomás Debass, Regional Director of Global Partnership Initiatives, Office of the US Secretary of State; Kathleen Newland, Director of MPI’s Migrants, Migration, and Development Program; Pradeep Ramamurthy, Senior Director of Global Engagement at the National Security Council; and Karen D. Turner, Director, Office of Development Partners, US Agency for International Development.
November 30, 2010
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MPI report release with report author Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, MPI Policy Analyst; Luzviminda Padilla, Labor Attaché, Philippines Embassy in Washington; Jeni Klugman, Director, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Program (TBC); and Kathleen Newland, MPI Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs.
June 3, 2010
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A discussion and report release with Ambassador Carlos García de Alba, Executive Director, Institute for Mexicans Abroad; and MPI's Laureen Laglagaron, Kathleen Newland, Aaron Terrazas, and Michael Fix.
January 28, 2010
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Powerpoints: Laglagaron/Terrazas | García de Alba
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Book release with Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, MPI Associate Policy Analyst; Richard Cambridge, World Bank African Diaspora Program Adviser; Carlos González Gutiérrez, Consul General of
Mexico in Sacramento; and Kathleen Newland, MPI Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development Program.
September 22, 2009
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Briefing by Wayne A. Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC-San Diego; and Center research team; with Doris
Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI.
June 8, 2009
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Report release with Dovelyn Agunias, Associate Policy Analyst, MPI; F. Javier Díaz de León, Counselor for
Migration and Hispanic Affairs, Embassy of Mexico; Carlos D. Sorreta, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Philippines; and Kathleen Newland, Director of
the Migrants, Migration and Development Program, MPI.
October 7, 2008
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Briefing with MPI study authors Kathleen Newland, Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, and Aaron Terrazas, along with respondents Amelie F. Constant,
DIW DC, and Jacqueline Mazza, Inter-American Development Bank.
September 4, 2008
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Book discussion with Jorge G. Castañeda, Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000-2003 and author of Ex-Mex; Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue; and Doris Meissner, MPI.
May 15, 2008
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Book discussion with Shepard Barbash, Author of Changing Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca's Woodcarvers, and Kathleen Newland, Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development Program, MPI.
May 12, 2008
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Briefing with Dovelyn R. Agunias, Associate Policy Analyst, MPI; Laureen Laglagaron, Policy Analyst, MPI; Domingo Nolasco, Consul-General, Philippine Embassy; Filomenita Mongaya-Hogsholm, Editor, In De Olde Worlde: Views of Filipino Migrants in Europe; and Kathleen Newland, Director of MPI's program on Migrants, Migration, and Development Program.
April 14, 2008
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Roundtable discussion with Irasema Garza, Working America, AFL-CIO; Bruce Goldstein, Farmworker Justice; Rick Nahmias, The Migrant Project; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President. Followed by presentation of the photo exhibit and a reception.
Co-sponsored by MPI, Mexico Cultural Institute, Embassy of Mexico, Farmworker Justice, and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
March 31, 2008
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Briefing with Georges Lemaitre, International Migration Specialist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
February 7, 2008
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Briefing with Martin Davidson, Chief Executive, the British Council; Angelos Pangratis, Deputy Ambassador, the European Union's Delegation to the United States; John Burgess, Deputy Foreign Editor, The Washington Post; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
December 11, 2007
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Briefing with Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Senior Economist, OECD Development Centre; Denis Drechsler, Policy Analyst, OECD Development Centre; and Kathleen Newland, Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs, MPI.
November 28, 2007
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Briefing with Dovelyn Agunias, MPI; Neil G. Ruiz, the Brookings Institution; Florenda A. Herrera, Embassy of the Philippines; David Minsky, Employment Standards Administration, US Department of Labor; and Kathleen Newland, MPI.
September 19, 2007
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International Teleconference Call
June 27, 2007
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Briefing with Ambassador Régine De Clercq, Executive Director of the International Task Force for the Global Forum on Migration and Development.
May 25, 2007
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Discussion with Joseph Chamie, Center for Migration Studies; Kathleen Newland, MPI; Manuel Orozco, Inter-American Dialogue; Jeffrey Passel, Pew Hispanic Center; Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI; Donald Terry, The Multilateral Investment Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank; and Hania Zlotnik, Population Division, United Nations.
May 16, 2007
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Briefing with Willem van Eeghen, Lead Economist for Europe and Central Asia, World Bank; Dovelyn Agunias, Associate Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute; and William Somerville, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute.
April 18, 2007
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MPI's Five-Year Anniversary Event.
March 21, 2007
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Promoting Success on Both Sides of the Border: Binational Approaches to US Immigrant Integration
Closing the Distance: How Governments Can Strengthen Ties with Their Diasporas