Conferences

Transatlantic Discourse on Integration

During the 1990s, the public and political discourse has very much focused on migration policies and whether or not the countries in Europe are countries of immigration. A lively intellectual exchange across the Atlantic on the analysis of migration, migration policies and control has been going on since then. For some years now, this discourse has been extended to integration and integration policies. In this context, the efms initiated in 2003 the "Transatlantic Discourse on Integration", which wants to link discussion of integration issues in the U.S. and Europe. As part of this discourse, the efms has been organising a series of workshops on various aspects of integration with the participation of renowned experts from academia, politics, administrations, NGOs and the media. Since 2004, the efms has been in charge of implementing these workshops series as Key Immigration and Integration Institution for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Between 2003 and 2007 the following conferences have taken place:

• Citizenship and Culture of Naturalization, July, 7-8, 2003 in Berlin
• Barriers to Integration and Efforts to remove them: Racism, Discrimination and Anti-Discrimination, November 2, 2004 in Berlin
• Amnesty for illegal migrants? April 19, 2005 in Berlin
• Integration and Education: The Role of State and Civil Society, July 11-12, 2005 in Nuremberg
• The Role of Religion for the Integration of Migrants, November 25, 2005 in Berlin
• Challenges for Local Integration Policy in Germany and the U.S., April 24, 2006 in Berlin
• Integration of Migrants and Local Housing Policies in Germany and the U.S, Juli 14, 2006 in Berlin-Schwanenwerder
• The Impact of the Media on the Integration Process in Europe and the United States, December 4, 2006 in Berlin
• The Migration-Security Nexus in the light of the German EU-Presidency, March 19, 2007 in Berlin
• Anti-Discrimination Policies in Germany and the U.S., July 13, 2007 in Munich

Contact: Nicole Rose, Doris Lüken-Klaßen

In the year 2008 an expert meeting has taken place in Washington:

• Can Guest Worker Programs Work?, June, 18, 2008 in Washington

Contact: Edda Currle