Thursday, 20 November 2008 - 10:00am to Friday, 21 November 2008 - 6:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is organizing the Seventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration. The Meeting is being held in response to General Assembly Resolution 58/208 of 13 February 2004, which requests the Secretary-General to continue convening meetings to coordinate international migration activities.

The Seventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration has the following three objectives: (a) to discuss the follow-up to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, (b) to exchange information on current and planned activities in the area of international migration and development, and (c) to identify emerging issues on international migration and development.

Documents

Organization of work

Thursday, 20 November 2008
10.00 – 13.00	Morning session I. Opening of the meeting Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division II. The Global Forum on Migration and Development GFMD II: Manila, 2008 Under-Secretary Esteban B. Conejos Jr., Executive Director, GFMD II GFMD III: Athens, 2009 Vice-Minister Athanasios Nakos, Executive Director, GFMD III III. Follow-up to the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development The report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development Philip Guest, Assistant Director, Population Division
15.00 – 18.00	Afternoon session IV. Migration, remittances and the financial crisis Dilip Ratha, the World Bank Barbara Span, Western Union V. Responding to policy challenges: Estimating migration flows Georges Lemaitre, OECD
Friday, 21 November 2008
10.00 – 13.00	Morning session VI. Keeping migration in the spotlight: Training and knowledge sharing at the United Nations Colleen Thouez, UNITAR VII. The Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research: Preliminary findings Douglas Massey, Princeton University
15.00 – 18.00	Afternoon session VIII. Coordination of current and planned activities in the area of international migration and development IX. Closing of the meeting

Presentations

Alexander Betts, Global Migration Governance Project
Esteban B. Conejos Jr., Protecting and Empowering Migrants for Development
Philip Guest, Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development
Dilip Ratha (with Sanket Mohapatra and Zhimei Xu), Remittances: Outlook for 2008-2010
Barbara Span, The Global Migration Barometer
Georges Lemaitre, Responding to policy challenges: Estimating migration flows
Colleen Thouez, Keeping migration in the spotlight: training and knowledge sharing at the United Nations
Douglas S. Massey and Michael Clemens, Five actions on migration data to make urgent research possible

Contributed papers

Background documents

General Assembly Documents

General Assembly Resolutions

Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development (A/63/265)
General Assembly Resolution: Global Forum on Migration and Development (A/RES/62/270)
General Assembly Resolution: International Migration and Development (A/RES/61/208)
Final Declaration of the Eighth Council of Europe Conference of Ministers Responsible for Migration Affair [En] [Fr]
Asia-Pacific High-level Meeting on International Migration and Development - Chairman's Summary, 22-23 September 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
Global Migration Barometer: Methodology, results and findings - Economist Intelligence Unit
The Comparability of International Migration Statistics: Problems and Prospects, Georges Lemaitre
Standardised statistics on immigrant inflows results, sources and methods (OECD)
Towards a ‘soft law’ framework for the protection of vulnerable migrants, Alexander Betts

Relevant websites

Sixth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, New York, 26-27 November 2007
International Migration and Development
Second meeting of GFMD, Manila, the Philippines, 29 - 30 October 2008

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