IRREGULAR MIGRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
28-29 JUNE 2003
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Please visit the conference web site at
http://www.le.ac.uk/law/celi/migration.html to download a draft conference
programme and booking form.
Conferences Themes and Description
* Irregular Migration
* Human Rights
* Regionalization
* Globalization
* Interdisciplinary Context
Irregular migration is a growing political concern, both at the European
level and in the wider international context. In the European Union,
politicians have given priority to combating irregular migration in the
development of the common asylum and immigration policy, which is most
evident from the Conclusions of the Seville European Council in June 2002.
The Justice and Home Affairs Council recently adopted two measures
addressing the prevention of the facilitation of irregular migration and a
comprehensive Action Plan to combat the irregular migration and trafficking
of human beings in the EU, which is currently in the process of
implementation. Moreover, the EU is adopting readmission agreements with
third countries, which focus on the return of irregular migrants in the
context of a broader return policy on illegal residents. The Greek
Government has also stated that combating irregular migration will
constitute a priority under its current Presidency of the EU. While these
developments deserve particular attention and will all be addressed, the
scope of this conference is broader because it aims to consider irregular
migration not only from the perspective of prevention, which arguably
constitutes the thrust of EU policy in this area, but also to analyze the
human rights implications as well as the broader theoretical and
international contexts.
The increasing importance of the subject of irregular migration and its
cross-fertilization with a number of academic and policy disciplines means
that the interest in such a conference very broad. The conference will be of
particular interest to legal practitioners, particularly in Europe given the
developing EU law and policy in this field referred to above. The conference
papers will be published in a book and to date there is no source book,
which can assist practitioners by describing and explaining recent trends
and developments. The conference will also interest other social scientists,
as well as political scientists and the NGO sector, particular those groups
concerned with the protection of migrants and human rights in general.
Moreover, the conference will also be very useful to government
policy-makers working in the immigration field as well as national and
European parliamentarians, who must apply and analyze developing national,
European and international policies concerned with irregular migration. It
should also attract attention among those who report on and hope to
influence policies, such as journalists and lobbyists.
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