Members' Activities

2011

• Dr. Philippe Gazagne à travers « Dit vouloir mourir en Suisse », premier court-métrage documentaire du Programme (Cinédoc Productions, Annecy, 2011), a visé à amorcer au sein du PGSM une réflexion à long terme sur les liens entre l’image et les sciences sociales. Une première projection du film a eu lieu le mardi 20 décembre au Théâtre du Loup à Genève. Pour plus d'information sur le projet cliquer ici
• Professor Monsutti was Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Departement of Social and Cultural Anthropology from 15 to 30 January 2012. He gave a course on "Insurgents, Refugees and Humanitarian Activists: A Political Anthropology of the Afghan Crisis" and a conference on "Afghans Without Borders: Mobility and the International World of Nations" (18 janvier 2012).
• Professor Monsutti gave a lecture on “The Politics of Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Rural Development, Local Participation and the Workshop Culture” at Austrian Academy of Sciences on 24 of January 2012. More info
• Dr. Jérôme Elie contributed to Chapter 3 of the IOM World Migration Report 2011 on: The International Organization for Migration: Renewal and Growth since the End of the Cold War

• Dr. Jérôme Elie gave a lecture on "La fabrique de l’asile à travers l’histoire : le rôle du Haut Commissariat des Nations-Unies aux réfugiés" during La journée d'étude/La fabrique institutionnelle de l’asile, Neuchâtel, 16 décembre 2011

• Professeur Alessandro Monsutti, "Migrations et crises", Paris, Université Paris Descartes (journée d’études du CEPED, organisée par Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Migrations et crises), 9 décembre 2011.

• Dr. Jérôme Elie gave a lecture on the "Historical Evolution of the Concept of Migration and Development" during the NADEL course on Migration: A Challenge for Development Cooperation, Zurich 7 December 2011.

• Professeur Alessandro Monsutti, "Pouvoir, Etat et gouvernmentalité transnationale: l’anthropologie politique et les enseignements de la crise afghane", Paris, EHESS (séminaire de Marc Abélès et Boris Pétric, L’anthropologie politique aujourd’hui), 7 décembre 2011.

• The GFMD Civil Society Days took place in Geneva from 29-30 November 2011. Dr. Jérôme Elie acted as co-rapporteur for and rapporteur for the working session on "Rights-based Policy-making for the Benefit of Migrant Workers and Families" (Theme 1) and rapporteur for the session on "The Road towards 2013 and the Future of the Forum". More info: programme

• Prof. Chetail introduced this year's Nansen Conference on Déplacement forcé: un défi pour l’Europe, with Mr. António Guterres Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, on 5 November 2011 (12:15).

• The Global Detention Project's recently published a report on 'Immigration Detention in Switzerland...'. For more info see : Le Temps (20 October 2011) and the Graduate Institute.

• Dr. Jérôme Elie has been appointed as member of the GFMD Civil Society Core Group for the organization of the 2011 GFMD Civil Society Days to be held in Geneva on 29-30 November 2011

• On 7-9 November 2011, Mariette Grange of the Global Detention Project participated in Americas regional detention workshop in Mexico City that was hosted by the International Detention Coalition and Sin Fronteras.

• On 26-28 September 2011, Michael Flynn of the  Global Detention Project participated in a regional detention workshop in Beirut, Lebanon, hosted by the International Detention Coalition and the Middle East Council of Churches. Flynn gave a presentation on methods for developing systematic data on immigration detention regimes.

• Dr. Jérôme Elie acted as the Rapporteur at the Interregional workshop on strengthening capacities to deal with international migration: "Examining development, institutional and policy aspects of migration between Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean", on 22-23 September 2011 in Geneva.

• On 19 September 2011, Mariette Grange of the Global Detention Project acted as rapporteur for the working session on The criminalization of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families, and their vulnerability to exploitation, abuse and arbitrary detention during the Day of General Discussion on the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families organised by the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers

• Dr. Jérôme Elie represented the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the GFMD Thematic Meeting on "Markets for Migration and Development (M4MD): Trade and Labour Mobility Linkages - Prospects for Development", Berne, Switzerland, 13-15 September 2011

• On the occasion of World Refugee Day (20 June), Prof. Vincent Chetail. See this new report which aims to reshape EU asylum policy: “The European Union and the Challenges of Forced Migration”

• The Global Detention Project presented a paper on “Europe’s Role in Expanding Detention Regimes” at a workshop held on 16-17 June 2011 at the University of Neuchatel (UNINE) titled “The Europeanization of Exclusion Policies and Practices.” The workshop was co-hosted by the IMISCOE Research Network, the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, and UNINE’s Faculty of Humanities.

• On 12-14 July 2011, the Global Detention Project participated in a regional detention workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, that was hosted by the International Detention Coalition and Lawyers for Human Rights. Attending the workshop were immigration and refugee advocates from several countries in the region. The Global Detention Project gave a presentation on methods for developing systematic data on immigration detention regimes.

• Short report on Migration and Develomment meetings in New York: "The Slow Process of International Discussions on Migration and Development", by Dr. Jérôme Elie, May 2011.

• Dr. Jérôme Elie participated as a co-expert to the jury of the Graduate Institute International Executive Master in Development Studies (IMAS), 29 March 2011. 

• Short report on the "First Information Session on the Swiss Plans for the 2011 Global Forum on Migration and Development Organised at the Graduate Institute", by Dr. Jérôme Elie, March 2011.

2010

• Dr. Jérôme Elie gave a presentation on “IOM from 1951-53: The creation of PICMME/ICEM” at the IOM Headquarters in Geneva, on 9 December 2010. The seminar was the first of a new series organized by IOM in the framework of the production of the 2011 edition of the World Migration Report (WMR). The seminar was jointly organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Programme for the Study of Global Migration
   
• Prof. Alessandro Monsutti gave a presentation on "Global Afghans: Transnational Networks and Migration Strategies", within the Workshop "Refugee Related Security Concerns: Mobilization, Ethnicity and Urbanization" organized by the international research project "Refugee Flows and Transnational Ethnic Linkages". University of Geneva, Friday 26 November 2010.
   
• Dr. Jérôme Elie contributed with a historical perspective with his presentation "UNHCR and Refugee Repatriation in the Early Cold War Years", at the first lecture of the conference series organised by the University of Geneva this fall on Refugee Issues (Cycle de conférence BARI “Réfugiés”), 21 October 2010.
   
• Dr. Jérôme Elie presented a paper on "UNHCR and ICEM in the 1950s" at the conference on "The Forty Years' Crisis: Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959", Birkbeck College, University of London, 14–16 September 2010.
   
• On 12-13 July 2010, Mr. Michael Flynn, lead researcher of the Global Detention Project participated in an Expert Group Meeting on the International Framework for Action to Implement the Migrant Smuggling Protocol hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria. [More information]
   
• Ms. Cecilia Cannon represented the Global Detention Project at a conference on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union, in Brussels 8 June 2010. The conference was organised by the Jesuit Refugee Service- Europe which recently published a comprehensive study "Becoming Vulnerable in Detention: Civil Society Report on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union (The DEVAS Project)".
   
• Lead researcher Michael Flynn presented the Global Detention Project at a workshop on Immigration and Detention at the University of Oxford 21 May 2010. The presentation "Immigration Detention and the Aesthetics of Incarceration" underscores the normative challenges to immigration and detention and illustrates the core objectives of the Global Detention Project.
   
• Dr. Jérôme Elie presented a paper on "La question des réfugiés et la coopération entre le HCR et le Comité intergouvernemental pour les migrations européennes (CIME), 1950-1980", at the meeting of the Groupe histoire des organisations internationales, Geneva, 23 February 2010.

2009

• Prof. Vincent Chetail participated to the panel at the Launch of the "Human Development Report 2009: "Overcoming barriers: Human Mobility and Development",at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, 14 October 2009. More information about the event.
   
• Prof. Vincent Chetail chaired a session on "Environmental Change: A Need to Redefine International Refugee Status?" at a conference on "Environmental Change and Its Impact on Human Societies", Graduate Institute, Geneva, 8-9 October 2009.
   
• Dr. Jérôme Elie represented the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at "Rencontre d'échanges entre ONG suisses/centres de recherche sur le thème du Forum global pour la migration et développement (FGMD)", Département fédéral des affaires étrangères DFAE, Direction du développement et de la coopération DDC, Berne, jeudi 24 septembre 2009.
   
• Dr. Jérôme Elie represented the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the "UNESCO International Conference on Broadcast Media and Climate Change: A Public Service Remit", 4-5 September 2009, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.
   
• Prof. Jussi Hanhimäki gave a lecture on "UNHCR and the Globalization of the Cold War", at the Seventh Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History - "Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary History: Americanization, Cold War, and Foreign Aid", Aarhus University, Denmark, 16 – 20 August 2009.
   
• Mr. Michael Flynn and Ms. Cecilia Cannon of the Global Detention Project presented a paper on "The Privatization of Immigration Detention: A Global Perspective" at the 2009 BJI Conference: The International Prison Privatization Experience: A Transatlantic and Transpacific Dialogue (6-8 August 2009, Houston, TX, USA). [Program]
   
• Dr. Elie represented the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the Annual Colloquium of the Centre of Asian Studies on: "Asian Migrants and Diasporas: Multidimensional Influences on Countries of Origin", Geneva, 20 May 2009.
   
• Dr. Elie contributed to a panel on "Archives users and their experiences with access policies and practices", Access to Records and Archives: policies and practices to increase accountability and transparency, workshop organized by the Section for International Organizations, International Council on Archives, Geneva, 4 May 2009.
   
• "UNHCR and Refugee Repatriation during the Cold War", presentation by Dr. Elie, conference on: Coming Home? Conflict and Return Migration in Twentieth-Century Europe, University of Southampton, 1 April 2009.

2008

• "Transatlantic Perspectives on Vietnamese Refugees in the late-1970s and early 1980s", presentation by Dr. Elie, 7th Annual Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, 10 July 2008.
   
• Prof. Jussi Hanhimäki and Dr. Vincent Chetail contributed to a panel on "The UN and World Migration" (27 May 2008) of the training Course on Globalisation, Security, and Humanitarian Policy (organized by IHEID and the GCSP). [Programme]
   
• "Rethinking Conventional Refugee Solutions in Afghanistan: Mobility as a Key Livelihood Strategy", Presentation by Dr. Monsutti, KOFF Center for Peacebuilding, Bern, 26 March 2008 [Programme]
   
• "External Aspects of Schengen and Dublin", Presentation by Prof. Hanhimäki, Conference on: Shared Foreign Policy Interests between the EU and Switzerland, 15 March 2008 [Programme]
   
• "UNHCR and the Cold War" Presentation by Prof. Hanhimäki, Oxford Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 28 February 2008
   
• "Beyond the Boundaries: Hazara Migratory Networks between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and the Western Countries". Presentation by Dr. Monsutti, Conference on "Dispossession and displacement: Forced migration in the Middle East and Africa", The British Academy, London, 28 February 2008 [Programme]