Day One of the US-VISIT Program: A First Analysis by the Program's Directors
Briefing with Jim Williams, US-VISIT Director, Robert Mocny, US-VISIT Deputy Director, and Rick Webster, Travel Industry Association of America
January 6, 2004
Reflections on NAFTA and Migration
Briefing with Thomas F. McLarty, President of Kissinger McLarty Associates and former advisor to Presidents Clinton, Bush and Carter, and His Excellency Juan Jose Bremer-Martino, Mexican Ambassador to the United State
January 23, 2004
Will EU Integration Compromise Humanitarian Admissions in Nordic States?
Briefing with Brita Sydhoff, Head of the International Law and Refugee Department of the Swedish Red Cross
January 27, 2004
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Learning from America? The Future of Immigration to the UK
Roundtable discussion with Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission on Racial Equality (Invitation only)
February 5, 2004
Rediscovering Resettlement
Briefing with Peer Baneke, General Secretary of the European Commission on Refugees and Exiles
Brussels, German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Center (Event Summary)
February 17, 2004
Toward a Common European Migration Regime?
Briefing with Professor Rainer Münz, Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics and former Director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science
February 18, 2004
Building the New American Community Initiative
Integration workshop with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Immigration Forum, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, and the Urban Institute
Engineers Club at the Garrett Jacobs Mansion (Baltimore, MD)
February 27, 2004
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Building a Friendly Fortress: The European Union and the Creation of an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Briefing and reception with Bertel Haarder, Denmark’s Minister for Refugees, Immigration and Integration Affairs
March 1, 2004
Putting Data to Work for Immigrants and Communities: Tools for the Washington, D.C. Metro Area and Beyond
Briefing with Audrey Singer, The Brookings Institution, Randy Capps, The Urban Institute, Stanley Rolark, U.S Census Bureau, and Suzette Brooks
Resource exchange with the Arab American Institute, The Brookings Institution, DC Agenda, the DC Office of Planning, the Maryland State Data Center, National Council of La Raza, the Urban Institute, and the US Census Bureau
March 11, 2004
Haiti in Turmoil: Assistance, Protection and Flight
Briefing with Jared M. Hoffman, Catholic Relief Services, Galen Carey, World Relief, Kolude Doherty, UNHCR, and Bill Frelick, Amnesty International-USA
March 18, 2004
The Supreme Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals and Immigration Policy
Briefing with Maria Ontiveros, University of San Francisco Law Center, Isabel Medina, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, John Guendelsberger, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Lory Rosenberg, National Legal Aid and Defender Association and former BIA member
March 19, 2004
A Conversation with Maura Harty
Briefing with the Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs, US Department of State
March 25, 2004
The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration
Panel discussion with Roberto Suro, Elizabeth Grieco, David Gutierrez, Michael Jones-Correa, Ricardo Stanton-Salazar, Demetrios Papademetriou, Philippa Strum and Andrew Selee
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC)
March 29, 2004
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Europe's Eastern Gateway: The New Member States' Role in Refugee Policy
Briefing with Marta Pardavi, Director of Programs, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
April 27, 2004
Information Technology and Homeland Security: How "Virtual" Can Smart Borders Get?
Briefing with Rey Koslowski, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Joan Friedland, the National Immigration Law Center, and Ari Schwartz, the Center for Democracy and Technology
April 28, 2004
Introduction to the Global Commission on International Migration
Briefing with Commission Co-chairs Jan O. Karlsson and Dr. Maphela Ramphele
April 29, 2004
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Integration and the Rights of Immigrants
Briefing with Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Danish Representative to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
May 4, 2004
 First Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
Co-sponsored with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. and the Georgetown University Law Center
at the Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, DC)
May 18, 2004
MPI Senior Fellow and former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner speaks at the conference.
Forcible Return of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Report release and briefing with Kevin Bacon and Maureen Lynch, Refugees International
May 19, 2004
World Refugee Survey 2004 Release Event
Co-sponsored with the U.S. Committee for Refugees
May 27, 2004
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Cross-Border Human Flows in Northeast Asia
Briefing with Tsuneo Akaha, Robert Scalapino, Anna Vassilieva, Hazel Smith, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Taylor Sebolt
United States Institute for Peace (Washington, DC)
June 24, 2004
To Regularize or Not to Regularize Unauthorized Immigrants:
Experiences and Views from Europe
Briefing with Ferruccio Pastore, Deputy Director, Center for International Policy Studies (CeSPI) in Rome, Italy
June 30, 2004
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Contradictory Developments in Local, National, and EU-level Integration Policies:
The Dutch Case
Briefing with Rinus Penninx, Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam and European Co-Chair of the Metropolis Project
July 14, 2004
The Future of Refugee and Migration Policy
Briefing with Frans Bouwen, Convenor of the Club of The Hague and the Hague Process
July 30, 2004
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Current Developments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Briefing with Susanna Swann, Head of Operations for the Near East, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
August 3, 2004
Affirmative Action, Racism and the Integration of Ethnic Immigrant Minorities
Briefing with Marco Martiniello, Senior Research Associate at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liege and Director of the Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicite et des Migrations
August 12, 2004
The Netherlands' Presidency of the European Union Conference:
Future European Cooperation in the Field of Asylum, Migration and Frontiers
Amsterdam
August 31 - September 3, 2004
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What Now for Darfur? Bridging the Gap between Humanitarian Concerns and Political Challenges
September 8, 2004
A Conversation with Susan Ginsburg
Briefing with the Senior Counsel and Team Leader for Border Security, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [September 11 Commission]
September 10, 2004
A Tribute to Arthur Helton and Sergio Vieira de Mello
Release of a special issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies with authors Eleanor Acer, Mary Holland, Susan Martin, Larry Minear, and Courtland Robinson, and journal co-editors Richard Black and Joanne van Selm
September 23, 2004
A Conversation with C. Stewart Verdery, Jr.
Briefing with the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, Border and Transportation Security Directorate, US Department of Homeland Security, with comments by John Morton and Paul Redmond
September 27, 2004
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King Baudoin Foundation, European Policy Centre and MPI Conference:
The 2005-2010 EU Agenda on Asylum, Migration, and Frontiers
King Baudouin Foundation (Brussels)
October 5, 2004
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Regional Integration and Migration Policy Challenges in Southern Africa
Roundtable discussion with Dr. Loren Landau, Acting Director and Research Coordinator of the Forced Migration Studies Program at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Invitation only)
November 9, 2004
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