Immigration and Security:
European Challenges and International Perspectives

March 23 – 25, 2006
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin

(click on underlined titles for panel summaries)

Thursday March 23

6.00 p.m. Registration
6.30 p.m. Welcome and Reception

Friday, March 24

8.30 Registration and Breakfast

9.00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Steffen Angenendt, Mekonnen Meshgenna, and Michele Wucker

9.30 a.m. Perception of Threats: Comparing International Views

The U.S. Perspective
Robert Leiken, The Nixon Center, Washington/USA

The European Perspective
Gabriela Guellil, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin/Germany

The Indian Perspective
Varun Sahni Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Ralf Fücks Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin/Germany

11.00 a.m. Coffee/Tea Break

11.30 p.m. Migrants, Minorities and the National Security State:
                Crimefighting or War on Terror?

Margaret Stock
US Military Academy, Washington, USA

Aziz Huq
Brennan Center, New York University, New York/USA

Salma Bava
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Chair: Belinda Cooper, World Policy Institute

1.00 p.m. Lunch

2.30 p.m. Policing, Technology and Immigration

Sönke Hilbrans
Lawyer, Hummel Kaleck, Berlin

Richard Lewis
Senior Fellow, Eurasylum, Brussels

Jean Louis Bruguiere
Premier Vice-President Charge de l’Instruction,
Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, France

Richard Cekuta
U.S. State Department

Chair: Ian Cuthbertson, World Policy Institute

4.00 p.m. Coffee/Tea Break

4.30 p.m. The Economic Impact of Security Policy

Javier Sánchez Ferrer
Microsoft, London, UK

Yilmaz Karahasan
Former Board Member of IG Metall, Germany

Lynn Shotwell
American Council on International Personnel, Washington, USA

Angelo Amador
US Chamber of Commerce/Americans for Better Borders, Washington, USA

Chair: Michele Wucker ,World Policy Institute

7.00 p.m. Discussion Dinner
Introduced by Tanja Wunderlich of German Marshall Fund,
with Ary Zolberg (International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship), and Cem Oezdemir, (European Parliament)

Saturday, March 25

9:00 am Speech: Rita Süssmuth,
Member, Global Commission on International Migration, Berlin/Germany

9.30 am National Security and the Economic and Social Integration of Immigrants

James Zogby
Arab-American Institute

Basia Spalek
University of Birmingham, UK

Peter Creticos
Institute for Work and the Economy, Chicago, USA

Chair: Mekonnen Mesghena Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin/Germany
 

10.45 a.m. Coffee/Tea Break

11.00 a.m. Religion and Identity: Building Bridges or Barriers

Ajay Mehra
Centre for Public Affairs, New Delhi, India

Rabeya Müller
Institut für Internationale Pädagogik und Didaktik, Cologne

Claudia Koonz
American Academy, Berlin

Chair: Mira Kamdar, World Policy Institute

12.15 p.m. Lunch

2.00 – 4.00 p.m. Meeting of working group members and partner institutions

(Conference language: English)