Managing Migration: the neglected face of globalization?
(In Partnership with Goodenough College and the London Chambers of Commerce and Industry Educational Trust)

Professor Shamit Saggar's Introductory Paper

Goodenough College and Merton College, Oxford 3 - 10 April 2008

Speakers

Causes of Migration
Professor Zygmunt Layton-Henry	University of Warwick
Dr Christian Joppke	American University of Paris
Professor John Milton Smith	Curtin University of Technology
Dr Valsamis Mitsilegas	Queen Mary, University of London
Impact of Migration
Professor Christian Dustmann	University College London
Dr Roger Ballard	University of Manchester
Professor Ian Gordon	London School of Economics
Dr Ann Singleton	University of Bristol
Managing Migration
Barbara Roche	formerly UK Minister of State with responsibility for immigration
Dr François Gemenne	University of Liège
Professor Gautam Ghosh	University of Pennsylvania
Dr Georg Menz	Goldsmiths, University of London
What lies behind anti-immigration sentiment?
Professor Shamit Saggar	Sussex Centre for Migration Research
What is the relationship between migration and development?
Dr Ian Goldin	Director of the James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford
Business and labour immigration  I: What are the challenges and opportunities which migration brings for business and what are the public policy implications?
Peter Brew	International Business Leaders Forum
Case study: the Filipino Diaspora
Irah Borinaga	Director IV, Office of the Senate Secretary General, Senate of the Philippines
Business and labour immigration II: What are the policy options which can best harmonize the interests of host societies, sending countries and migrant workers?
Dr Martin Ruhs	Senior Labour Market Economist, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford
Internal Migration Case study: China
Lin Gu	Journalist and Editor, China Central Television, Beijing
Policy Recommendations
Professor Shamit Saggar	Sussex Centre for Migration Research

Advertised Synopsis
Globalization has been accompanied by rapid increases in economic flows, such as investment, trade, intellectual property, and information. Labour is a rare exception, with many governments still trying to restrict migration. Nevertheless there are nearly 200 million immigrants world wide, 3% of humanity. This conference will examine migration issues in a globalized world, especially those specifically relevant to business, including:

• How have economic changes and opportunities both encouraged and discouraged migration? Conversely, how has migration changed the business landscape? How does economic migration relate to other types - especially asylum and forced migration, and family formation and reunion - and what matrix of different impacts does this create?
• What has the economic and social impact of migration been in developed states? How are attitudes changing in these places, and what impact will this have on migration and the economy?
• To what extent has business become reliant on migration, and of what sort? Similarly, what effect is migration having on developing economies? Does the flow of people constitute a brain drain, a way to set up informal trans-national business networks, or a source of remittance income? How significant is the rise in the numbers of international students, and changes in their destinations owing to security and other factors? How will states in the future manage migration by low-skilled workers?
• Migration is a business in itself, sometimes legitimate and sometimes not. What is the scale of illegal trafficking in people, how is it likely to develop and how can it best be controlled?
• What will be the long-term effects of movements of workers within the European Union? Why in many cases is mobility across national borders in the EU greater than within nations where there is differential unemployment?
• The debate about migration is often polarized. How far can the reliability of data in this area be enhanced to mitigate this and assist public policy making? How best can the different vested interests in migration be mediated through the political process?
• What has been the effect of new technology in both making people aware of opportunities further afield and the maintenance of links with home communities? What has been the impact of the latter and other factors on how migrants integrate into new areas, the permanence of migration, and even security situations in receiving countries?
• Finally, is free movement of human beings and economic human capital the natural future of globalization, and to what extent can, or should, migration be regulated, in whose interests, and by what authority?   

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1. Democracy and Sustainability

2. Science and the Citizen

3. Russia and Europe: what will change, what will stay the same?

4. No Frontiers? Free Speech and the Internet

• The Dana Centre, The Science Museum, London
  
• 18 March 2008

Sustainability since Brundtland: the balance-sheet
Camilla Toulmin	Director, International Institute for Environment and Development
Global Public Opinion
Doug Miller	President, Globescan
Scoping the coming 20 years
Jenny Pidgeon	Consultant at Upstream, and Graduate of Forum for the Future Scholarship Programme
Reflections on principal opportunities and challenges for democracy and sustainability
Tom Burke	Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto plc and Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London
Panel Discussion: What is the future for cities and London in particular?
Lord (Chris) Patten	Chairman, 21st Century Trust
John Elkington	Chairman, the Environment Foundation
Samantha Heath	Director of London Sustainability Exchange
Sara Parkin	Founder Director of Forum for the Future
Charles Secrett	Special Advisor on Environment & Sustainability to the Mayor of London and Visit London

Description
Marking the 20th anniversary of the Brundtland Report, this conference aimed to:

•       review the balance-sheet of sustainable development since
        Brundtland
•       identify the chief policy challenges for the coming decades
•       explore how those challenges can best be met through
        democratic policy making. 

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2. Science and the Citizen
(In Partnership with The Salzburg Global Seminar)

How do we make sense of science?  The framing of controversial issues by the public, policy-makers and scientists themselves
Dr Michael Thompson	Stein Rokkan Centre, University of Bergen
How does the public make up its mind about opportunity and risk in science and technology, and how should governments best mediate between public perception and expert advice?
Dr Edoardo Calia	Director of Research Laboratories, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Turin
Politicization: how pro–active and organised should scientists be in public debate?
Neil Calder	Head of Communications Division, ITER, French Atomic Energy Commission
Incommensurable views: how should the tensions between a utilitarian approach to science and other moral and religious belief systems be approached?
Dr Charlotte Augst	Human Fertilization and Embryological Authority, UK
Professor Jeffrey Kahn	Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Professor Anna Mastroianni	University of Washington School of Law
Media: given the commercial and structural constraints of modern media, how can scientific communication best be enhanced?
Clare Matterson	Director of Medicine, Society and History, The Wellcome Trust
Sebastian Cody	Open Media
Vithal Nadkarni	The Times of India
Public engagement: what has been best practice? What should be the goals for the future?
Dr Graham Farmelo	Senior Research Fellow, The Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston

Description
There is a fundamental, often unrecognized but ultimately irresolvable, issue for science in a democracy.  In theory, scientific authority is based on ability and on knowledge obtained with methods validated by peers.  It is therefore hierarchical or at least meritocratic, with those who have not pursued the discipline having no standing in debate.  In contrast, the authority of citizenship is universal and equal.  Everyone’s point of view has equal weight.  This conference will examine the points of tension which may arise in the relationships between scientists and citizens, and how they may best be resolved.

•    How does a state regulate scientific activity when faced with experts (some of whom may be acting out of self-interest) and a public which may not easily understand the real risks and benefits?  What are the dangers of science becoming politicized?  What weight should the state give to the views of citizens whose opinions are shaped by moral or religious views inimical to the utilitarian ones so often used in addressing risk and benefit issues?

•    What role should the media play with respect to science – that of public educator or watchdog in the public interest – and what is the correct balance between these?  Moreover, how do media excesses in this area – such as over-trumpeting the importance of discoveries or engaging in scare stories – complicate debate?  Given the need to boost circulation or viewing figures or other structural constraints of modern media, how can science communication best be enhanced?

•    Finally, how successfully has the more paternalistic model of ‘public understanding of science’ been transformed into ‘public engagement with science’?  Is there any fundamental schism between scientists and the public over what is important in forming one’s views about the surrounding world?

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3. Russia and Europe: what will change, what will stay the same?

How has Putin changed the nature of government in Russia?
Professor Margot Light	Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics
How should the EU best develop its relations with Russia?
Dr Andrew Wilson	European Council on Foreign Relations
Russia’s influence on its near abroad: case study the Caucasus
Tom de Waal	Institute for War & Peace Reporting, London
Commentary on democracy in Russia
Jan Kerner	Mayor of Louny, Czech Republic
Scenarios for the strategic relationship between Russia and Europe in the coming decades
Professor Christopher Coker	London School of Economics

Description
In the eight years of Vladimir Putin’s Presidency, Russia has re-asserted itself as a power to be reckoned with.  Order has been imposed domestically, pressure increased on ex-Soviet neighbours of the ‘near abroad’, and resistance mounted to Ukraine and Georgia joining Nato, to the siting of US missiles in Eastern Europe and to the recognition of the independence of Kosovo.   Russia’s renewed confidence is based on an economic buoyancy and reserves of oil and gas on which the rest of Europe seems destined to become increasingly dependent.  What are the distinguishing characteristics of the Russian state, and its ‘managed democracy’, which Putin has overseen and is set to continue to do so in collaboration with his successor as President, Dmitry Medvedev? What will be the future for civil association and human rights in Russia? What are the scenarios for Russia’s future relations with its immediate neighbours?  In what ways will Europe’s energy needs lead to Russia’s geo-strategic role being re-shaped?

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4. No Frontiers? Free Speech and the Internet
(In Partnership with Cumberland Lodge)

What are the new challenges? Can internet literacy be genuinely free?
Jonathan Briggs	Prof essor of New Media Design, Kingston University/TheOtherMedia
Jonathan Heawood	Director, English PEN
John Lotherington	Director, 21st Century Trust
The Dilemmas of Controlling Expression (i) Policing Free Speech in China
Li Fen Zhang	Editor FT Website
Isabel Hilton	Editor, Chinadialogue.net
The Dilemmas of Controlling Expression (ii) Policing Free Speech in the United Kingdom
Dr Ian Brown	Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
Jo Glanville	Editor of Index on Censorship
Defining the Boundaries in the Censorial Society
Digby Anderson	Former Director of the Social Affairs Unit
Ross Anderson	Professor in Security Engineering, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory
Crashing The Sweetiegate: how online forums and political advocacy could transform the political sphere
Peter Jukes	Sreenwriter, author and journalist
It’s My Copy, Right!
Maria Farrell	Director, Information Coordination Unit, ICANN Corporate Affairs
Tom Frederiske	Partner, Clintons' Media Group
Reputations Online
Siobhan Butterworth	Guardian readers’ editor
Sebastian Cody	Open Media
Ben Beabey	Partner, Media, Farrers Solicitors
The Medium is the Message: the changing nature of freedom and identity
Jonathan Rée	Professor of Philosophy

Description
Online we are all free to say what we like, write a blog, post a home movie, start a web site or join a social network community. Or are we? Who decides what is permitted, what files can be shared or images downloaded? What happens when countries clamp down on Internet use within their borders or demand search engines hand over our personal data?  How can we protect our children from unsuitable material or ourselves from those who would use the web to steal our identities or micro-target us with commercial or political messages? What say do we have in what we want to keep private and who is an expert in a world where we can all pretend to be experts?  We in the West may think we have freedom of expression but perhaps more than ever we need to consider exactly what constraints this may entail.

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