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The Finnish National EMN Seminar in Helsinki Nov the 26th
seminar invitation
Welcome to the 2nd National Network Seminar of the European Migration network (EMN)
Time: 26.11.2009
Venue: Main Post Office Building Auditorium, Mannerheiminakio 1 C
What is EMN?
The overall objective of the EMN is to improve the availability of, and access to, information concerning migration and asylum at European and Member State level in order to support policy- and decision-making in the EU. This will involve providing the Community, its Member States and, as a longer term objective, the wider public with objective, reliable and comparable information on the migration and asylum situation. Each EU Member State has either a formal or an observer-level National Contact Point (NCP). Each contact point develops a national network, involving all relevant stakeholders, to develop a comprehensive view of the situation within their Member State on a particular migration or asylum topic.
The Programme for the EMN National Network Seminar 2009
The programme presents the work of EMN, including the recent EMN study on Unaccompanied Minors, discusses areas of co-operation with the national network members and introduces two national level Academy of Finland funded research projects conducted by them: OPCE and Sulkeutuuko Suomi.
The keynote address is given by Ann Singleton, who is the Director of Postgraduate Research of the University of Bristol and a Director for the Centre for Study of Poverty and Social Justice. She has published in the areas of asylum and international migration in Europe and the use of asylum and migration statistics in policy development. She is particularly interested in the use of official statistics in policy formation and in the criminalisation of migration in Europe.
Ann Singleton will be available for press interviews upon request.
The programme is available .
Languages of the seminar: Finnish and English, with simultaneous translation provided both ways.
Coffee and lunch will be provided.
Please see www.emn.fi for the full programme.
Register here by the 22nd of Nov.
For additional information, contact Dr. Kielo Brewis, tel. 0504560954 or emn@migri.fi
