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Migration in the Middle East

The Social Impact of Globalization

While the Middle East is widely perceived as a region of emigration, it has become over the last years also one of immigration, in particular from Asia and Africa. The seminar will assess the situation and give policy recommendations.

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Diese Veranstaltung soll dokumentieren, wie der Nahe Osten zu einer Region nicht nur der Aus- , sondern auch der Einwanderung geworden ist. Für Europa stellt sich die interessante Frage, "wieviel" Migration stattfindet, bevor sie Europa erreicht.

Programm - English Version

Sunday, June 15, 2003

09:00

Opening of the Conference

First Panel

Politics, Policies and Migration

10:00 – 12:30

First Session

National Constructions, Populations Dynamics, and Migration Policies

Chairperson, Mustapha Hamarneh

10:00

State Building and Migration in the Middle East

Henry Laurens

10:30

Demographic Framing of Regional Migration

Philippe Fargues

11:30

Migration as “Political Act, Labor Immigration Policies in Jordan 1975 – 2002

Françoise De Bel Air

12:00

Discussion of the Papers by:

Gregor Meiering

Youssef Courbage (to be confirmed)

14:00

Second Session

Regional Geopolitics and Administrative Mechanisms: Exclusion Processes

Chairperson, Gregor Meiering

14:00

From Engagement to Deadlock: A Regional Analysis of the Evolution of Practices Regarding the Treatment of Refugees in the Middle East Since the Gulf Crisis

Ruben Zaiotti

14:30

Labelled Stateless: The Effects of the Administrative Regulations and Host States Policies of Jordan and Egypt on Stateless Palestinians

Oroub Al Abed

15:00

Lost between Frontiers, the Mhallami Kurds in the Globalization

Ralph Ghadban

15:30

Discussion of the Papers by:

Luc Cambrézy

Assem Al-Omari

16:30

Departure to Jerash

Monday, June 16, 2003

Second Panel

Labor Migrants in the Regional Market: Strategies, Constraints and Opportunities

9:00 – 11:30

First Session

Transnational Practices and Professional Mobility

Chairperson, Philippe Fargues

09:00

Greatness and Decline of Sponsorship: the Case of the Emirates

Jean-François Rycx

09:30

From Labor Migration to Professional Mobility: Globalization and New Shapes of Mobility in the Middle East

Elisabeth Longuenesse

10:00

Flexible Transnational Practices of Palestinian Transmigrants/ Returnees and Inflexible State Policies

Sari Hanafi

10:30

Discussion of the Papers by:

Fayiz Suyyagh

11:30 – 13:30

Second Session

Middle East as Region for Immigration: Temporary Labor, Sectorialization, Marginalization

Chairperson, Moussa Samha

11:30

The Experience and Hierarchy of Migration. Egyptian Laborers in the Jordan Valley

Mauro Van Aken

12:00

Manilla–Amman: Recruitment Channels, Administrative Mechanisms, and Migrants Strategies

Hana Jaber

12:30

Labor Contracts and Human Rights. The Case of Sri Lanki Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Ray Jureidini

13:00

Discussion of the Papers by:

Annelies Moors

Blandine Destremau

Third Panel

Migration Dynamics: Institutions, Networks and Communities

15:00 – 17:20

First Session

Constraint Mechanisms, Mobilizing Networks, Activating Channels

Chairperson, Barbara Harrel-Bond

15:00

Impact of Iraqi Model on Mobility Process of Egyptians in the Gulf

Isabelle Lafargue

15:30

Trajectories and Settlement Patterns as Shaped by State Immigration and Asylum Policies, the International Refugee Regime and Transnational Social Networks

Géraldine Chatelard

16:30

From Lebanon to Europe: Migration Networks, Transnational Practices of Palestinian Refugees

Kamal Dorai

17:00

Discussion of the Papers by:

Gregor Meiering

France Métral

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Third Panel (continued)

09:00 – 11:30

Second Session

Migrants Trajectories, Community Constructions and Identity Dynamics

Chairperson, Alaa Al Hamarneh

09:00

Yemeni Migrants Trajectories to the Gulf, between Constraints and Opportunities

Sylvaine Camelin

09:30

Mobility, Migration and Community Building: The Russians of Dubai

Ekatherina Mikadze

10:00

The Ouzbeks of Saudi Arabia between Migration and Identity Renewal through Pilgrimage

Bayram Balci

10:30

Transnational Practices of Notables: Iranian Migrants in the Gulf

Fariba Adelkhah

11:00

Discussion of the papers by:

Emmanuel Ma Mung

France Métral

Fourth Panel

Mobility, Centrality, Territoriality

12:00 – 13:30

First Session

Settlement and Mobility

Chairperson, France Métral

12:00

Amman, International Migration and Local Insertion

Xavier Guillot

12:30

Dubai, a Migration Crossroad

Alain Battegay

13:00

Discussion of the papers by:

Jean-François Rycx

Elisabeth Longuenesse

14:30 – 16:30

Second Session

Circulation of Migrants and Regional Recomposition

Chairperson, Luc Cambrézy

14:30

Impact of Migration from Kerala to the Gulf on a Developing Society

Philippe Venier

15:00

Social and Spatial Restructuration of Sweida in the Light of Migration Networks: toward a new Fragmentation of the Place

Cyril Roussel

15:30

Migration of South Lebanese to Michigan and its Economic and Social Impact on the Region of South Lebanon

Mounzer Jaber

16:00

Discussion of papers by:

Emmanuel Ma Mung

Alain Battegay

17:00 – 18:30

Wrap up Session and Recommendations

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

09:00

Meeting of the Coordinators of the Research Program for the Follow up of the Publication

11:30

Visit of Oum Qais

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  • Joint Research Team of Institut Francais du Proche-Orient and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
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    Dr. Hardy Ostry

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    Head of the Washington, D.C. office

    hardy.ostry@kas.de

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