The second CARIM Meeting between Experts and Policymakers on “Highly-Skilled Migration into, through and from Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan Africa”, will be held on 27nd and 28th September 2010 in Beirut, Lebanon. This meeting is organised in partnership with the International Training Centre of the International Labour Office (ILO).

The meeting, dedicated to exchanging knowledge and experience between the Academia, Practitioners and Policymakers, will take place in Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

Around fifty experts and policymakers from the Eastern part of the CARIM Network (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, and Syria) will participate in the meeting whose objective is to discuss the findings of the CARIM research on Highly-Skilled Migration and to obtain a constructive dialogue which would benefit all parties in their daily work.
 

For more information, click here to access the page of the first Meeting between Experts and Policymakers on this thematic which was held in Dakar on 23rd and 24th March 2010.

The Thematic Session on Gender and Migration into, through and from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will be held in Florence (EUI) from 18th to 19th October 2010.

Around 70 participants will attend this Session which will bring together more than 45 experts from the SEM and SSA countries as well as keynote speakers and discussants to examine preliminary data and findings on key factors determining the relationship between gender and migration in the region.

Findings will be presented in country-specific studies and comparative reports in the three CARIM modules: demographic-economic, legal, and socio-political.