Location: 1400 16th St NW, Washington, DC
What are the dynamics of migration, asylum and forced displacement in the Americas? How can we enforce the international norms and standards for protecting internally displaced persons? How do we reduce the number of deaths at the world’s deadliest border crossing, the U.S.-Mexico border? And how can migration policy and practice protect a “right to stay” and flourish in one’s home country as well as recognizing a “right to migrate” in the face of insecurity and gross poverty?
Join us for a series of panel discussions with top migration experts, academics, researchers and practitioners, who will discuss how to protect the human rights and human dignity of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Presented by the Organization of American States’ Department of Social Inclusion and the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, with the support from the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development.
Schedule
10 – 10:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Speakers include:
- Maricarmen Plata, secretary for access to rights and equity, Organization of American States
- Ana Eugenia Duran Salvatierra, deputy regional director for operations in the Americas and Caribbean, International Organization for Migration
- Isabel Márquez, deputy director, regional bureau for the Americas, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Maura Policelli, executive director, Washington Office, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
10:30 – 11:10 a.m. Migration, Asylum and Forced Displacement in the Americas: Main Dynamics and the Role of International Organizations
Speakers include:
- Betilde Muñoz Pogossian, director of the Department of Social Inclusion, Organization of American States
- Rudi Maxwald, senior regional liaison and policy officer, Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, International Organization for Migration
- George de Lima, coordinator, Rapporteurship on Human Mobility, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
11:10 – 11:20 a.m. Q&A
11:20 – 11:40 a.m. International and Inter-American norms and standards for the protection of internally displaced persons
Speakers include:
- Paula Gaviria, United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
11:40 – 11:50 a.m. Q&A
11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. Panel: The Right to Stay and Leave: Implications for Immigration Policies in the Americas
Moderator: Abby Córdova, associate professor of global affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Speakers include:
- Donald Kerwin, editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security; former executive director, Center for Migration Studies of New York; senior research associate, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
- Tom Hare, senior researcher and co-director of the Central America Research Alliance (CARA), Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
- Estela Rivero, senior researcher and co-director of the Central America Research Alliance, Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
- Kelly Ryan, president, Jesuit Refugee Service USA (respondent)
This panel will highlight emerging research and policy thinking around developing policies in response to the needs of potential migrants and forced migrants. The right or freedom to stay seeks to ensure that migration is a choice, not a necessity. However, the panelists will acknowledge the parallel right to migrate (legally and safely) in the face of insecurity, gross poverty and other factors.
12:50 – 1:00 p.m. Q&A
1 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch break (Lunch at participants’ expense)
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Panel: Unidentified and Missing Migrants at The Border: Implications for Immigration Policies in the Americas
Moderator: Donald Kerwin, editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security; Former Executive Director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York; senior research associate, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Speakers include:
- Abby Córdova, associate professor of global affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
- Jonathan Hiskey, professor of political science, Vanderbilt University
- Daniel E. Martínez, distinguished scholar & associate professor of sociology; co-director, Binational Migration Institute, University of Arizona University
- Cate Bird, missing persons & forensic manager, International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Organization of Migration has called the U.S.-Mexico border, the world’s deadliest land migration route. This panel will examine the rising number of migrant deaths along and leading from this border, drawing from new research, covering every U.S. state that borders Mexico and every U.S. Border Patrol sector at or near the border. Panelists will explore the causes of migrant deaths and outline policy proposals and legal standards (derived from international law), as well as systemic changes necessary to decrease deaths and better account for the dead.
3:30 – 3:50 p.m. – Q&A
3:50 – 4:50 p.m. Panel: Mixed and Onward Movements Through Audiovisuals
Moderator: Abby Córdova, associate professor of global affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Speakers include:
- María Molina, news correspondent, Univision
- Julio López, journalist and documentary filmmaker
This panel will voice immigrants’ journeys and the struggles that led them to leave their home countries, narrated by immigrants themselves. Speakers will discuss how immigrants’ experiences can be documented and disseminated through art. The panel will showcase documentaries recently filmed at the border that highlight immigrants’ agency and their human dignity.
4:50 – 5:00 p.m. Q&A
5 – 5:30 p.m. Reception
Presented by the Organization of American States’ Department of Social Inclusion and the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, with the support from the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development and the Keough School’s Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights.