Conference "Immigration to the Nordic-Baltic Region: New Challenges for Nation States in the Age of Migration": program
09.30 – 10:00 REGISTRATION
10.00 – 10:30 OPENING REMARKS
Christer Haglund, Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia
H.E. Dagfinn Sørli, the Ambassador of Norway (Country of Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2017)
Andres Anvelt, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia
10:30 – 11:00 HOW TO CONCEPTUALIZE NATION STATES AT THE AGE OF MIGRATION: MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION OF NEW ARRIVALS
Marju Lauristin, Member of the European Parliament
11:00 – 11:10 QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION
11:10 – 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
I IMMIGRATION AND CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATION
11:40 – 12:00 LESSONS LEARNED – HOW SWEDISH SOCIETY MANAGED TO HELP 136 000 REFUGEES IN SIX MONTHS
Anders Danielsson, General Secretary of the Red Cross in Sweden
12:00 – 12:20 LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS: DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN EUROPE AFTER THE CRISIS
Klára Fóti, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Research Manager, Social Policies
12:20 – 12:40 ESTONIA AND THE QUOTA SYSTEM: ONE YEAR LATER
Eero Janson, Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Refugee Council
12:40 – 12:50 QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION
12:50 – 13:20 COFFEE BREAK
II INTEGRATION CHALLENGES OF THE NEW WAVE OF ASYLUM SEEKERS TO EUROPE
13:20 – 13:40 THE INITIATIVES OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS IN ANSWERING THE CHALLENGES OF IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION OF NEWLY ARRIVED MIGRANTS
Catrine Bangum, Senior Adviser, Nordic Council of Ministers, Denmark
13:40 – 14:00 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ASULYM SEEKERS OF 2015 IN FINLAND
Tuomas Martikainen, Director of the Migration Institute of Finland
14:00 – 14:25 MOBILITY AND WELFARE MANAGEMENT BETWEEN ESTONIA AND SWEDEN
Maarja Saar, Postgraduate Researcher in Sociology at Södertörn University, TRANSWEL research project
14:25 – 14:35 QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION
14:35 – 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
III INTER-RELATIONS BETWEEN MEDIA AND MIGRATION
15:00 – 15:20 MEDIA AND MOBILITY IN ESTONIAN SOCIETY
Triin Vihalemm, Professor of the University of Tartu
15:20 – 15:40 IMMIGRATION DEBATE IN THE TRANSFORMING MEDIA SCAPE IN FINLAND
Karina Horsti, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä
15:40 – 16:00 THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF MIGRATION IN ESTONIAN MEDIA
Marti Aavik, Opinion Editor for the Daily Newspaper Postimees
16:00 – 16:10 QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION
16:10 – 16:40 COFFEE BREAK
IV MIGRATION AND NEW CHALLENGES TO THE NATION STATE
16:40 – 17:00 RECENT MIGRATION TO NORWAY: INTEGRATION, DIVERSITY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR NATION AND STATE
Marta Bivand Erdal, Senior Researcher of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
17:00 – 17:20 THE PROJECTION OF ESTONIAN POPULATION ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT MIGRATION SCENARIOS
Allan Puur, Professor of Tallinn University
17:20 – 17:40 ESTONIA IN THE ERA OF MIGRATION
Tiit Tammaru, Raul Eamets, Professors of the University of Tartu
17:40 – 17:50 QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION
17:50 – 18:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS BY THE MODERATOR
18:00 – 19:00 RECEPTION
The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme.
