Six days of lectures, workshops and discussions with experts will be Unixe opportunity to get familiar with different migration topics: migration and development trafficking in human beings, environmental migration, migration and gender, integration of migrants and others. IOM Prague has implemented the program annually since 2009. It was attended by more than six hundred students and professionals. The program is open for university students and young professionals (from NGOs, academia, state administration, etc.). The 11th IOM School on Migration Studies will be held from August 26th to 31st 2019 in Prague.
In 2019 the program includes following topics and experts:
Argentina Szabados, IOM Regional Office in Vienna - IOM response to European and Global Migration Trends
Katy Barwise, IOM Regional Office in Brussels - Migration and Development
Dušan Drbohlav, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague – Migration Theories, Myth and Realities
Fatima El Diasty, UNHCR senior field coordinator/Libya operation - Mixed Migration
Teresa Albano, OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe -Trafficking in Persons
Eric Opoku Ware, Sahara Hustlers Association Ghana - The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa
Robert Stojanov, Mendel University, ex MPC - Environmental Migration and Migration and Development
Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre Vienna - Migration and Demography (TBC)
Michal Broža, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Prague - A World on the Move-Migration and Current Global Risks
Michal Vašečka, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts - Integration of Migrants (TBC)
Salim Murad, EMMIR - European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations - Migration and Ethnicity
Petra Ezzeddine, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University - Migration and Gender (TBC)
Eva Janská, Geographic Migration Centre - Transnational Migration and additional distinguished experts from IOM and other organizations will be invited
Additional information about program and application can be found at
http://www.iom.cz/home/iom-summer-school-on-migration-studies-2019
The application deadline is April 5th 2019.