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
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Nermin Abadan-Unat, Professor, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University
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Steven Corliss, Deputy Represantative of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ankara
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Anita Gradin, Former Cabinet Minister and Commissioner to European Union
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Aslan Gündüz, Professor, Faculty of Law, Kültür University
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Ahmet İçduygu, Assoc. Prof., Department of Political Science, Bilkent University
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Bianca Kaiser-Pehlivanoğlu, Assist. Prof. , Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kültür University
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Masoud Kamali, Assoc. Prof., Center for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala University
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Ingmar Karlsson, Ph.D., Consul General, Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul
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Kemal Kirişçi, Professor, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University
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Günay Göksu Özdoğan, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University
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Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Professor, Swedish National Institute for Working Life
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Maritta Soininen, Assoc. Prof., Swedish National Institute for Working Life
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Turgay Ünalan, Assoc. Prof., Institute of Population Studies, Hacettepe University
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O. Can Ünver; Ph.D., Director-General of External Relations and Services for Workers Abroad, Ministry of Labour and Social Security
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Charles Westin, Professor, Center for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Stockholm University
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Jonas Widgren, Director General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna
Other Participants
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Aylin Akpınar, Ph.D, Faculty of Communication, Bahçeşehir University
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Cengiz Aktar, Ph.D, Galatasaray University and TESEV
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Şahin Alpay, Ph.D., Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Bahcesehir University
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Aleksandra Ålund, Professor, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, Linköping University
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Inga Brandell, Deputy Director, Swedish Institute in Alexandria
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Marie Carlsson, Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University
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Aslı Didem Danış, Ph.D. student, Dept. of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University
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Gülseren Ergün Engström, Journalist, Radio Sweden, Stockholm
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Sema Erder, Professor, Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Marmara University
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Gunnar Fröberg, First Secretary-Migration, Swedish Embassy, Ankara
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Judit Hadnagy, Press Officer, Swedish National Institute for Working Life
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Bo Johansson, R&D –coordinator, Swedish National Institute for Working Life
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Ann-Kristin Jonasson, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Political Science, Göteborg University
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Selmin Kaşka, Ph.D, Dept. of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Marmara University
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Ayhan Kaya, Assist. Prof., Dept. of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University
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Belkıs Kümbetoğlu, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Political Science And International Relations, Marmara University
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Cecilia Lithander, Consul, Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul
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Thord Pettersson, Research Officer/ Econmist, Swedish Trade Union Confederation, Stockholm
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Fredrik Segerfeldt, Senior adviser/international affairs,Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Stockholm
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İnci User, Assist. Prof., Dept. of Political Science And International Relations, Marmara University
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Hasan Yönten, Research/teaching assistant, Dept.of Political Sciences And International Relations, Bogazici University
Secretariat
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Annika Svahnström, Consulate General of Sweden
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Cecilia Jansson, Consulate General of Sweden
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Cusan Yenier, (hotel reservations) Consulate General of Sweden
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Can Nacar, Marmara University
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Azat Zana Gündoğan, Marmara University
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Yasemin Akkaya, (cashier) Consulate General of Sweden
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