Debate no. 2 (2018)

 

2nd EUMIGRO Conference

“Migration and refugee crisis:

the EU and its member states between obligation, self-interest and goodwill”

21.03.2018, 09.3017.00

SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Aleja Niepodległości 128, Building C, Auditorium I

Organizer:

  • Jean Monnet Module EUMIGRO, Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Co-organizer:

  • Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland 

Honorary Patronage:

  • European Commission Representation in Poland

Partners:

  • Association for Legal Intervention (Poland)
  • Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • Centre for Innovative Research Across the Life Course, Coventry University (United Kingdom)
  • Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives, University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • Deree – The American College of Greece (Greece)
  • European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
  • Faculty of Administration and National Security, Jacob of Paradies University in Gorzów Wielkopolski (Poland)
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
  • German Network of Refugee Researchers (Germany)
  • Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück (Germany)
  • Institute of East-Central Europe (Poland)
  • Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw (Poland)
  • Institute of Political Science and Inter-Institutes Migration Research Unit, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland)
  • Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • International Law Department, National University of „Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine)
  • Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Warsaw School of Economics (Poland)
  • Jean Monnet Module B-in-EU (Greece)
  • Jean Monnet Module EUIncSo (Poland)
  • Minority Research Profile, Åbo Akademi University, Turku (Finland)
  • Polish European Community Studies Association (Poland)
  • Warsaw Family Support Center (Poland)

Program

09.00–09.30 Registration & coffee break

09.30–09.50 Welcome address

  • Professor Marek Rocki, Rector of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics
  • Professor Krzysztof Kozłowski, Vice Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Head of the Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
  • Professor Wojciech Morawski, Dean of the Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
  • Dr. Angelika Klein, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland 

09.50–10.40 Keynote speeches

  • Professor Petra Bendel, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of the Advisory Council of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and Member of the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration (SVR) – “Current EU refugee policies”
  • Professor Magdalena Kmak, Minority Research Profile, Åbo Akademi University, Turku and Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives, University of Helsinki – “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the EU migration management in times of crisis”

10.40–11.30 Panel I. “Roundtable debate: migration and refugee crisis in the EU in the global context – state of affairs and future perspectives”

  • Moderator: Dr. Marta Pachocka, Head of Jean Monnet Module EUMIGRO, Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the Warsaw School of Economics and Polish European Community Studies Association
    • Ms. Izabella Cooper, European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
    • Ms. Maria Pamuła, United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – Representation in Poland
    • Dr. Timothy Cooper, European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
    • Mr. Sebastian Rysz, European Commission Representation in Poland

11.30–12.00 Coffee break 

12.00–13.15 Panel II. “Migration and refugee crisis: the EU in search of a new approach to migration management”

  • Moderator: Professor Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Director of the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
    • Professor Patrycja Matusz-Protasiewicz, Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw – “The role of European cities in migration governance in the time of refugee crisis”
    • Professor Anna Visvizi, Institute of East-Central Europe and Deree – The American College of Greece – “Why the link between the ‘migration debate’ and policy response is so weak? – a case for more efficient migration management in the EU”
    • Dr. Olaf Kleist, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück and German Network of Refugee Researchers – “Refugee resettlement as migration management: normative transformations and policy perspectives after the ‘refugee crisis’”
    • Dr. Mikołaj Pawlak, Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw and NIEM Project Researcher, Ms. Agnieszka Kulesa, PhD candidate, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Head of Migration Policy Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs – “National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (NIEM): towards participatory measurement of policy outputs”

13.15–14.30 Panel III. „Migration and refugee crisis: cooperation or competition among EU members?”

  • Moderator: Dr. Aleksandra Szczerba-Zawada, Head of Jean Monnet Module EUIncSo, Faculty of Administration and National Security, Jacob of Paradies University in Gorzów Wielkopolski; Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the Warsaw School of Economics and Polish European Community Studies Association
    • Professor Witold Klaus, Department of Criminology, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and Association for Legal Intervention – “Security or humanitarian approach – the attitude of the EU and member states in ‘solving’ refugee crisis”
    • Professor Janusz Balicki, Dr. Monika Trojanowska-Strzęboszewska, Institute of Political Science and Inter-Institutes Migration Research Unit, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw – “The attitude to refugees in Poland and its socio-political determinants”
    • Dr. Kateryna Krakhmalova, International Law Department, National University of „Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” – „The (in)visible Ukrainian factor in selected EU Member States' approaches to migration”
    • Dr. Simon Goodman, Centre for Innovative Research Across the Life Course, Coventry University – “The role of immigration in the Brexit debate”

14.30–15.30 Lunch

15.30–16.45 Panel IV. “Young EUMIGRO debate – migration and refugee crisis: the EU and its member states between obligation, self-interest and goodwill”

  • Moderator: Dr. Jan Misiuna, Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Polish European Community Studies Association 
    • Mr. Piotr Sieniawski, PhD candidate, Institute of Political Science and Inter-Institutes Migration Research Unit, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw – “Migration policy of the Slovak Republic and the New Security Strategy”
    • Ms. Izabela Sienkiewicz – PhD candidate, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics – “Memory and identity of refugees from Greece displaced to the Polish People’s Republic after 1948”
    • Mr. Karim Belgacem, École de Gouvernance Européenne, Sciences Po Grénoble – “Migration in France: is the French policy really driven by human rights”
    • Mr. Dominik Wach, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and Warsaw Family Support Centre – “Migration crisis and its impact on Polish integration policy”

16.45–17.00 Closing remarks

  • Dr. Marta Pachocka, Head of Jean Monnet Module EUMIGRO, Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the Warsaw School of Economics and Polish European Community Studies Association