Workshop on Migration and Labour Markets in a European Perspective:

Turkish and Swedish Experiences

The Swedish Palace

Istanbul, 19-20 April,  2002

Organized by the National Institute for Working Life (NIWL) in Sweden and Marmara University Research Centre for International Relations (MURCIR) in cooperation with the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul

 

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Thursday, 18 April

18.30 - 20.00  Welcome reception, hosted by Consul-General Ingmar Karlsson, at the Swedish Palace

 

Friday 19, April

09.00               Registration

 

OPENING AND INTRODUCTION

 

09.30              Anita Gradin

                       Free Movement of Persons  in Europe - Utopia or Necessity?

 

10.00              Nermin Abadan - Unat

                       Moving Towards European Transnationalism

 

                       Chair: Ingmar Karlsson

 

10.45              Coffee

 

11.15              Ingmar Karlsson

                       The Muslim Immigrants - a Bridge Between Two Cultures?

 

                       Chair: Nermin Abadan - Unat

 

12.30              Lunch

                       

THE POLITICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT: THE EU PERSPECTIVE

Demographic Trends and Labour Market Needs

 

14.00              Jonas Widgren

                       Turkey on the Threshold to the EU – Will Migration be a Complicating or Facilitating Factor?

 

14.40              Ahmet İçduygu

                       The EU-Turkey Relationship Questioned: Does Demography Matter?

 

                       Chair: Charles Westin

 

15.30              Coffee

 

Legislation on Migration in an EU Perspective

 

16.00              Kemal Kirişçi

                       Harmonizing Turkish Policy and Practice in Asylum and Immigration Issues

                       

16.40              Maritta Soininen

                       Exploring EU Ethnic Diversity and Anti-Discrimination Policy

 

                       Chair: Aslan Gündüz

                       

19.30              Dinner

 

 

Saturday, 20 April

 

CHANGING PATTERNS OF MIGRATION: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Immigrants in the Labour Market

 

09.30              Carl-Ulrik Schierup

                       Social Exclusion, Diversity, and a Changing EU Policy Agenda

 

10.10              Turgay Ünalan

                       Turkish Emigration in the 1990s: Findings from a EUROSTAT project

 

                       Chair: O. Can Ünver

 

10.30              Coffee

 

11.00              Discussion

 

                       Chair: O. Can Ünver

 

12.30              Lunch

 

Immigrant Experiences in Different Socio-Political  Settings

 

14.00              Steven Corliss

                       Asylum in Turkey: Today and Future Prospects to Retain Flexibility

 

14.40              Masoud Kamali

                       Immigrants’  Family Businesses and Social Integration

 

15.00              Bianca Kaiser - Pehlivanoğlu

                       Lifeworlds of EU-migrants in Turkey

 

15.20              Discussion

 

                       Chair: Günay Göksu Özdoğan

 

16.30              Coffee

 

17.00              Concluding Remarks and Discussion on Future Prospects

 

                       Chair: Nermin Abadan-Unat and Anita Gradin

 

 

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Speakers and Chairs

• Nermin Abadan-Unat, Professor, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University

• Steven Corliss, Deputy Represantative of United Nations High Commissioner for  Refugees, Ankara

• Anita Gradin, Former Cabinet Minister and Commissioner to European Union

• Aslan Gündüz, Professor, Faculty of Law, Kültür University

• Ahmet İçduygu, Assoc. Prof., Department of  Political Science, Bilkent University

• Bianca Kaiser-Pehlivanoğlu, Assist. Prof. , Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kültür University

• Masoud Kamali, Assoc. Prof., Center for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala University

• Ingmar Karlsson, Ph.D.,  Consul General, Consulate General of  Sweden, Istanbul

• Kemal Kirişçi, Professor, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University

• Günay Göksu Özdoğan, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University

• Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Professor, Swedish National Institute for Working Life

• Maritta Soininen, Assoc. Prof., Swedish National Institute for Working Life

• Turgay Ünalan, Assoc. Prof., Institute of  Population Studies, Hacettepe University

• O. Can Ünver; Ph.D., Director-General of  External Relations and Services for Workers Abroad, Ministry of Labour and Social Security

• Charles Westin, Professor, Center for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Stockholm University

• Jonas Widgren, Director General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna

Other Participants

• Aylin Akpınar, Ph.D, Faculty of Communication, Bahçeşehir University

• Cengiz Aktar, Ph.D, Galatasaray University and TESEV

• Şahin Alpay, Ph.D., Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bahcesehir University 

• Aleksandra Ålund, Professor, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, Linköping University

• Inga Brandell, Deputy Director, Swedish Institute in Alexandria

• Marie Carlsson, Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University

• Aslı Didem Danış, Ph.D. student, Dept. of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University

• Gülseren Ergün Engström, Journalist, Radio Sweden, Stockholm

• Sema Erder, Professor, Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Marmara University

• Gunnar Fröberg, First Secretary-Migration, Swedish Embassy, Ankara

• Judit  Hadnagy, Press Officer, Swedish National Institute for Working Life

• Bo Johansson, R&D –coordinator, Swedish National Institute for Working Life

• Ann-Kristin Jonasson, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Political Science, Göteborg University

• Selmin Kaşka, Ph.D, Dept. of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Marmara University

• Ayhan Kaya, Assist. Prof., Dept. of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University

• Belkıs Kümbetoğlu, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Political Science And International Relations, Marmara University

• Cecilia Lithander, Consul, Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul

• Thord Pettersson, Research Officer/ Econmist, Swedish Trade Union Confederation, Stockholm

• Fredrik Segerfeldt, Senior adviser/international affairs,Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Stockholm

• İnci User, Assist. Prof., Dept. of Political Science And International Relations, Marmara University

• Hasan Yönten, Research/teaching assistant, Dept.of Political Sciences And International Relations, Bogazici University

Secretariat 

• Annika Svahnström, Consulate General of Sweden

• Cecilia Jansson, Consulate General of Sweden

• Cusan Yenier, (hotel reservations) Consulate General of Sweden

• Can Nacar, Marmara University

• Azat Zana Gündoğan, Marmara University

• Yasemin Akkaya, (cashier) Consulate General of Sweden