Immigration: a Long Term View

THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PAOLO GENTILONI TO OPEN ON FRIDAY AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY FONDAZIONE RODOLFO DEBENEDETTI AND IGIER BOCCONI

International academics will meet at Bocconi and debate migration flows, abandoning the emergency point of view and the exclusive focus on Italy.
 
At the conference Immigration, Refugees and Asylum Policies (Friday, 22 April 22, 10am, Aula Magna via Gobbi), jointly organized by Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti and IGIER Bocconi, the American and European experiences will be compared and quota systems discussed.
 
"We want to encourage a global, medium-long term vision”, says Paolo Pinotti, assistant professor at Bocconi University and Director of the Fondazione Debenedetti. "The conference will seek to provide answers to questions such as: how global migration flows are influenced by economic, demographic and political inequalities among rich and poor countries? What developments can we expect in the medium to long term? What consequences and political tensions have emerged, and what policy responses can be encouraged? ".
 
The conference will be opened by a speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni.
 
Protagonists of the part on "The US Experience" will be George Borjas (Harvard University), an economist of immigration and an influential figure in the immigration debate, and Doug Massey (Princeton University), an academic specialized in sociology of migration, whose research interests focus on international migrations, demography, urban sociology, discrimination, urban poverty, Latin America.
 
Of "Immigration and Refugees in Europe" will speak Tim Hatton (University of Essex), an economist who studies the causes and effects of international migrations, the integration of immigrants and asylum and immigration policies, and Cormac Ó Gráda (University College of Dublin), an historian who studies mass migrations.
 
The "Refugees Admission Quota-System" part will be introduced by Peter Schuck (Yale University, in videoconference), a legal expert who has recently proposed the introduction of a system of tradable shares among countries, followed by Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (Univerdidad Carlos III de Madrid), the author, with his colleague Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics), of a proposal to introduce a tradable Refugee-Admission Quota System that includes both tradable quotas and a "matching system" that takes into account the preferences of migrants and Member States.
 
A panel moderated by Theresa Bertrand (UNHCR) will close the conference.
 
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by Ezio Renda