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Program

11. Juni 2014

17:30-18:00

Accreditation and Welcoming

18:00-18:20

Opening of the Forum

• Dr. Gerhard Wahlers, Deputy Secretary General, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
• Leonir Chiarello, Executive Director, Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN)
• Alessandro Gazzola, General Superior of the Missionaries of Saint Charles, Scalabrinians

The role of Migration in International Relations

• Armin Laschet, Member of Landtag, Deputy Chairman of the CDU Germany
• Argentina Szabados, Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration in Germany
• Archbischop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva

Olaf Jacob, Head of Department Latin America

20:00-21:00

Welcoming Cocktail

12. Juni 2014

9:00-9:30

Accreditation and Welcoming

9:30-11:00

1st Panel – Dignity: "Human Dignity is Inviolable“

• Donald Kerwin, Director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York
• Nele Allenberg, legal advisor/consultant of the German Evangelical Church for migration, integration, immigration and asylum law, human rights
• Rafael Fernández de Castro, Head of the Department of International Studies at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Fabio Baggio, Director of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute, Rome

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:00

2nd Panel – Integration: Achievements and Setbacks of the Integration Policies over the last 25 Years

• Serap Güler MdL, spokeswoman of the CDU of the working committee for integration , Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Tobias Kessler, Director of the Center for Migration Studies of Basel, Staff Member of the Institute for Global Church and Mission in Frankfurt and Advisor of the German Episcopal Commission for Migration
• Mercedes del Carmen Guillén Vicente, Assistant Secretary for Population, Migration and Religious Affairs of Mexico

Lorenzo Prencipe, Director of National Service for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of France

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

3rd Panel – Democracy: Contributions of Immigrants in Democratic Processes

• Cemile Giousouf MdB, Commissioner for Integration of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
• Dr. Joseph Chamie, Former Director of the United Nations Population Division and Former Director of Research of the Center for Migration Studies of New York
• Franz Wolf-Maier, Director of the Austrian Integration Funds, Wien

Olaf Jacob, Head of Department Latin America, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

4th Panel - Participation: Best Practices for Participation of Migrants

• Nisha Agarwal, New York City Mayor´s Office of Immigrant Affairs
• Giovani Borin, Regional Superior of the Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini Region (Europe-Africa)
• Rafael Fernández de Castro, Head of the Department of International Studies at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
• Sylvie Nantcha, CDU councilor in Freiburg and a member of the Federal Network of Integration of the CDU Germany
• Flor Maria Rigoni, Director of Casa del Migrante Belen, Tapachula, Mexico
• Sezen Tatlici, Typisch Deutsch e.V.

Katharina Senge, Coordinator immigration and integration, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

18:00-18:15

Closing of the Forum

• Patricia Espinosa, Ambassadress of the United Mexican States in Germany
• Leonir Chiarello, Executive Director of SIMN
• Olaf Jacob, Head of Department Latin America, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung