Date postponed from 4th May 2017 to Monday 19 June 2017

Email notfications sent by: c.rose@mdx.ac.uk

Multiple crises? The many faces of migration and reception systems in the Mediterranean

19 June 2017, 09:30-17:00

Middlesex University London, Room C219-20, College Building, The College Building, The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BT

Free booking link: https://evi-med.eventbrite.co.uk

DRAFT PROGRAMME

09:30-10:00 Coffee and registration, 2nd Floor Mezzanine, College Building

10:00-11:30 Session 1: Project overview; reception sub-systems and data mapping, Room C219-20, College Building

Brad Blitz (Middlesex University), Yiota Seva Agolli (Greek Council for Refugees), Jean-Pierre Gauci (People for Change Foundation Malta), Alessio d’Angelo (Middlesex University)

11:30-12:00 Break and MOAS film trailer

‘Fishers of Men’ (2017) - Q & A with Zane Dedlow (editor) (MOAS and Middlesex University)

12:00-13:00 Session 2: Disaggregating the data and informing vulnerability

Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University), Elena Consiglio (University of Palermo)

13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Reception systems and multi-actor governance

Dora Papadopoulou (ARSIS), Elio Tozzi (Borderline Sicily), Alessio d’Angelo (Middlesex University), Nicola Montagna (Middlesex University), Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University)

15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee

16:00-17:00 Concluding session: Impact of EU and national policies and future development

Brad Blitz (Middlesex University), Martin Baldwin Edwards (Middlesex University).

17:00 Reception

Between 2015 and 2016 more than one million people crossed the Mediterranean, Many fleeing war and persecution. The reception of refugees and migrants has been a major plank of EU policy. This event reports on the findings of the EVI-MED project, an 18 month study which seeks to map and evaluate reception systems in the Mediterranean. Drawing upon survey data of 750 people in Greece, Italy, and Malta and interviews with migrants and a diverse range of national and international stakeholders, this event presents an independent systematic assessment of the ways in which the EU and its partners have sought to handle the reception of unprecedented numbers refugees and migrants and their responses.

About EVI-MED:

“EVI-MED – Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations” seeks to conduct urgent data collection and essential analysis on the Mediterranean migration crisis and to make these swiftly and publicly available to policymakers, practitioners, migrant community support organisations, and the research community. https://evimedresearch.wordpress.com/about/

EVI-MED is a Middlesex University project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The Department for International Development (DFID) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/mmrp/

The project team, is led by Professor Brad Blitz, includes Professor Eleonore Kofman, Dr Alessio D’Angelo, Dr Nicola Montagna and Martin Baldwin-Edwards.

It benefits from close collaboration with a number of well-established specialist organisations, including the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), Migrant Report, the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS).

This event is organised in partnership with Borderline Sicily, the Greek Council for Refugees, and People for Change Foundation Malta. EVI-MED academic partners include the University of Palermo and the University of Thessaloniki.

Programme to follow. Please email c.rose@mdx.ac.uk with any queries.

Image by Simon Hiyle https://simonart2016.wordpress.com/