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Saturday, 20 September 2008

13.00 – 17.00

Opening

• Director, Social Development Division, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Opening statement

• Assistant Director, Population Division, United Nations/Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Opening statement

I. International migration trends in Asia and the Pacific in the global context

• Population Division, United Nations/DESA. Levels and trends of international migration in Asia and the Pacific

• Social Development Division, United Nations/ESCAP. Key issues on international migration and development in Asia and the Pacific

• Jean-Louis Rallu, INED, France. Population, migration and development in Asia and the Pacific

Special presentation

• Geoffrey Ducanes, International Labour Organization (ILO) Regional Office, Thailand. Recent experiences in collecting migration data through labour surveys in the Philippines and Thailand

II. Regional migration policies and cooperation mechanisms

• Manolo Abella, International Labour Organization (ILO), Thailand. Governance of migration in Asia 

• Richard Bedford, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Migration policies, practices and cooperation mechanisms in the Pacific 

• Mohammed Ibrahim Dito, Bahrain Labour Market Regulatory Authority. Governance of migration in GCC countries 

• Thomas Vargas, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Malaysia.  Refugee and asylum flows in Asia and the Pacific 

9.00 – 12.00

III. Labour migration

• Philip Martin, University of California at Davis, United States of America. Asian labour migration in a global context 

• Maruja Asis, Scalabrini Migration Centre, Philippines. Transnational solidarity: Migration-homeland cooperation for development in Asia 

IV. International migration and development

• Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Migration and development in Asia and the Pacific

• Richard Brown, University of Queensland, Australia. Remittances and development in the Pacific

• Tasneem Siddiqui, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Migration and gender in Asia

13.30 – 15.00

Special presentation

• Population Division, United Nations/DESA. The global migration research database 

V. Closing

• Summary and conclusions

• Closing