Metropolis Conference 2004
September 27 - October 1, Geneva
This workshop will gather together research and policy experts
working on post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern
Europe, and Central Asia. They will examine the agency of central
and particularly local governments whose migration and
development strategies involve not only raising funds among the
diasporas but also managing and creating migration flows. This
workshop will study development policies and their
implementation, as affected by, or impacting upon, international
migration. The focus will be on the successes and failures of
home countries in capturing the developmental potential of either
temporary or permanent migration.
The principal aim is to delineate possibilities for integrative
management which inserts a development perspective into migration
policies and strengthens post-socialist contexts as conducive for
the implementation of sustainable development strategies. This
will include an examination of country and region specific
contexts as well as of overall tendencies in the post-socialist
democratic transition in view of Europeanisation
and globalisation processes.
More information at website: http://www.metropolis2004.ch