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Stranded Migrants: A New Challenge for the International Community
Discussion with William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration; Sam Worthington, President & CEO of InterAction; and MPI's Kathleen Newland.
May 9, 2013
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MPI-IOM Bangkok Event: Breakfast Briefing on Regulating Private Recruitment in the Asia-Middle East Labour Migration Corridor
Paper launch and discussion with Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, Regional Research Officer, IOM and Policy Analyst, MPI; Supang Chantavanich, Professor, Chulalongkorn University and Director, Asian Research Center for Migration; Jaewon Kim, Manager, Business for Social Responsibility; and Rabab Fatima, Regional Coordinator and Advisor for South Asia, IOM Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Panelists discussed the Asian migrant worker experience in the Middle East and offered insights on migration issues affecting the Asia-Pacific region today.
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US Secretary of State’s Global Diaspora Forum: Moving Forward by Giving Back
The second annual Global Diaspora Forum, hosted by the State Department and the US Agency for International Development, focused on how new technology can empower and increase diaspora philanthropy, volunteerism, social entrepreneurship, and innovation. MPI is the knowledge partner for the forum and a partner with the State Department and USAID on the International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA).
July 25-26, 2012
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MPI/IOM Panel Discussion and Asia-Pacific Launch of Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
A discussion with Dr. Noppawan Tanpipat, Vice President, National Science and Technology Development Agency; Frank Laczko, Head, Migration Research Division, IOM; Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, Regional Research Officer, IOM, and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute (MPI); and Kathleen Newland, Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
July 11, 2012 | Bangkok , Thailand
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MPI/IOM Briefing- Asian Labour Migrants and Humanitarian Crises: Lessons from Libya
A discussion with Brian Kelly, Regional Emergency & Post Crisis Adviser, IOM, and Andrew Bruce, IOM Regional Director
July 17, 2012 | Bangkok , Thailand |
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 Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
The Washington DC launch event for the MPI/IOM handbook on diaspora engagement with the Honorable William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, and Kathleen Newland, MPI Co-Founder and Director of the Refugee Policy and Migrants, Migration, and Development Programs.
June 26, 2012
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 Update on the 2012 Global Forum on Migration and Development
A discussion with the current Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development and Financial Secretary of the Republic of Mauritius Ali Mansoor and MPI President Demetrios Papademetriou on the preparation of the 2012 GFMD summit, including an update on the possible ideas and projects presently contemplated that would fully integrate migration into the development framework, with a special focus on Africa.
June 22, 2012
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MPI Europe - IOM Brussels Event - Engaging Diasporas in Europe for Development
The Brussels MPI Europe-IOM event for the launch of an MPI/IOM handbook on Engaging Diasporas in Development and panel discussion with Eva Åkerman-Börje, Swedish Ambassador for the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD); Luigi Soreca, Head of International Affairs, Directorate-General for Home Affairs, European Commission; Frank Laczko, Head of Research and Publications, International Organization for Migration (IOM); Santo Deng, President, Board of the Diaspora Forum for Development; Dovelyn Agunias, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)-IOM policy and research analyst; and Kathleen Newland, Co-Founder and Director, Migrants, Migration, and Development Program Director, MPI.
June 20, 2012 |
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Labour Migration from Colombo Process Countries
The launch in Bangkok of an issue brief series on labor migration in Asia undertaken by IOM and MPI with speakers H.E. Phadermchai Sasomsub, Minister of Labo ur, Government of Thailand; H.E. Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, Ambassador, Government of Bangladesh; H.E. Linglingay Lacanlale, Ambassador, Government of the Philippines; Andrew Bruce, Regional Director, IOM; and Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, IOM Regional Research Officer and MPI Policy Analyst.
May 14, 2012
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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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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