Refugee Studies

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MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS NETWORK (MRN)
c/o Barrow Cadbury Trust
25-31 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9UT



NATIONAL NETWORKING EVENT

“MIGRANT VOICES, MIGRANT RIGHTS:
GETTING HEARD IN THE PUBLIC DEBATE ON
IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION”

MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2006

Conference Centre
University and College Union (UCU)
27 Britannia Street
London WC1X 9JP

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NATIONAL NETWORKING EVENT

“MIGRANT VOICES, MIGRANT RIGHTS:
GETTING HEARD IN THE PUBLIC DEBATE ON
IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION”

MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2006

Conference Centre
University and College Union (UCU)
27 Britannia Street
London WC1X 9JP

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EVENT SCHEDULE
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10:00 Registration/coffee

11:00 Event opens, welcome, aims for the day

11:15 Panel Discussion: What do we mean by migrant rights? Why are they important to the debate over policy?

Chair: Sukhvinder K. Stubbs, Director of the Barrow Cadbury Trust
Panel members: Genevieve Genciamos, Migrants’ Rights International
Don Flynn, Project Director, Migrants’ Rights Network
Sarah Kyambi, researcher and writer
Sofi Taylor, Migrant Nurses Network
Arten Llazari, Wolverhampton Asylum and Refugee Services

Open Discussion

1:00 LUNCH

2:00 International Café

An international café is a type of breakout session geared to maximising opportunities for circulation and networking for participants. Involving discussions around specific themes for groups of around six people, each session lasts around 20 minute. Participants then move on to another café table for a discussion about a new topic.

The topics we are planning to discuss are:

Arguing for migrant rights Networks in cities/regions
Immigration policy Social inclusion/anti-poverty
Gender issues Refugees and asylum
EU migration Uniting ‘old’ and ‘new’ migrants
Worker and workplace issues Civic and regional policy
Migrants and development Undocumented migrants
Drawing in civil society orgs. Migrants and health
National campaigning Public opinion and the media

There are also possibilities for organising tables based on languages (French, Kurdish, Polish, Farsi, etc) depending on demand. If you would like to participate in a language-based discussion, please let us know using the ‘other information’ section of the registration form.

The outcome of an international café discussion is that participants will have had the opportunity to participate in discussion around a number of themes that interest them, and will have met others sharing the same interests. Feel free to bring publications, brochures, etc form your projects to share these during discussion.

3:15 Concluding discussion: Can we make a migrants’ rights network work?

Panel made up of migrant rights activists from Scotland, Wales, the North West, Eastern England, West Midlands and London.

General discussion.

4:15 Chair’s concluding remarks and close.