1 November 2017, Migration knowledge and migration policy: an uneasy fit
DIIS ∙ Danish Institute for International Studies has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:
Migration knowledge and migration policy: an uneasy fit
Date:
Wednesday 1. November 2017, 14.00-16.00
Venue:
DIIS ∙ Danish Institute for International Studies
Auditorium
Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51A
2100 Copenhagen
The need for action spurred by the current European migration crisis has given way to a plethora of
new policy oriented studies as well as to basic research. In fact we already know a lot about the
factors that mobilize or immobilize people, but sometimes there is little willingness
–
or even outright
opposition
–
to take this knowledge into consideration.
In other instances, further studies are needed to determine questions such as: What is the
relationship between the number of refugees and the social cohesion in a given country? What is the
relationship between different policies and the effects of these (e.g. stricter border enforcement
versus humanitarianism)? What is the probability that particular policies will have unexpected and
unintended consequences?
Time and again, numerous studies have shown that the nature, causes and consequences of
migration and refugee movements are different from the assumptions guiding policy making and
practice. At this DIIS migration seminar we take a sobering view on what we know about migration,
what we lack further knowledge about and what we can do to make existing knowledge inform
national and international policy making.
We have invited three scholars from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, sociology and geography
to debate these issues and invite to an open public debate.
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