Migrants and Refugees in the 21st Century: Children in and out of schools

Tuesday, October 16

PRESENTATION OF THE SCHOOL AND THE COURSE

9.00: Antonio Battro (Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican) & Sebastián Lipina (CONICET, Argentina)Welcome
9.15: Marcelo Suárez Orozco (UCLA, USA and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican)Presentation of the Course.

TOPIC I - MASS MIGRATIONS: THE NEW 21st CENTURY MAP

Panel Chair: Jody Heymann.
9.30: Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (UCLA, USA & Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican)Children and youth in the catastrophic migrations of the 21st Century
10.00: Jacqueline Bhabha (Harvard University, USA) Children on the move in the 21st Century: Developing a right based plan of action
10.30: Jody Heymann (UCLA, USA) Legal rights of refugees and immigrants in 150 countries: How they shape the lives of children, youth, and their parents
11.00: Break
11.15: Roundtable 1 (TOPIC I): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
12.30: Lunch & Nap

TOPIC II – PSYCHO-SOCIAL FRAMES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH ON THE MOVE (Part I)

Panel Chair: Dr. Viola Georgi.
15.30: Carola Suárez-Orozco (UCLA, USA) A compassionate perspective: Re-Imaging migration
16.00: Theresa Betancourt (Boston College) Addressing mental health disparities in refugee children through family and community-based prevention
16.30: Theoni Stathopoulou (National Centre for Social Research, Athens, Greece) Refugees and unaccompanied minors in Greece
17.00: Break
17.10: Roundtable 2 (TOPIC II, Part I): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
18.25: Adjourn

Wednesday, October 17

TOPIC II – FRAMES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH ON THE MOVE (Part II)

Panel Chair: Dr. Viola Georgi.
9.30: Viola B. Georgi (University of Hildesheim, Germany)Teachers working with refugee students in Germany
10.00: Maryam Kia-Keating (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Resilience and participatory approaches with refugee youth and communities in resettlement
10.30: Marcelo A. Pérez Alfaro (Interamerican Development Bank) Challenges for education systems of migration in Latin America and the Caribbean
11.00: Break
11.10: Roundtable 3 (TOPIC II, Part II): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
12.25: Lunch & Nap

TOPIC III: THE WORK OF EDUCATION IN THE TRANSITION OF MIGRANT AND REFUGEE YOUTH (Part I)

Panel Chair: Dr. Maurice Crul.
15.00: Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) How school system differences affect the incorporation of refugee children in Europe, the Middle East and Turkey
15.30: Francesca Borgovoni (OECD, France) Improving the education and social integration of immigrant students
16.00: Leyda W. García (UCLA Community School, USA) Unaccompanied minors: Our most vulnerable newcomer students
16.30: Break
16.40: Roundtable 4 (TOPIC III, Part I): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
18.25: Adjourn