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Workshop #
Title
Organizer
Presentation

WS-06

Implementing asylum-seeking minors’ human rights in diverse national contexts

Anna Lundberg,
Eva Norström,
Kristina Gustafsson,
Madine VanderPlaat

Aretun
Vanderplatt

WS-07

Diversity and anti-discrimination in the labour market

Marko Valenta,
Berit Berg

Presentation

WS-10

The Portuguese diaspora: challenges and adjustments

Carlos Teixeira,
Maria Lucinda Fonseca

Presentation

WS-11-41

Resettlement and integration: emerging issues and solutions for resettlement in Europe, Australia and Canada

Pieter Bevelander,
Mirjam Hagström

Friesen
Horvath
Thomsson

WS-13

Diversity after 9/11: constructing gendered Muslim identities as ‘others’

Christien van
den Anker

Presentation

WS-17

International responses to cul­tural and linguistic
diversity in education systems

Clea Schmidt,
Antoinette Gagné

Presentation

WS-18

Social cohesion in a comparative context:
diverse societies, diver­gent approaches

Erin Tolley,
Paul Spoonley

Presentation

WS-22

Migrants’ children, parenthood and inter-generational mobility

Giovanni Giulio Valtolina
Laura Zanfrini

Presentation

WS-23

Management of migrant health issues: examples from Norway, Canada and Austria

Ursula-Georgine
Småland Goth

Berg
Goth

WS-25

Global economic crisis: how it affects migrants

Hans Dietrich von Loeffelholz

Presentation

WS-26

School-to-work transition of youth from immigrant families

Miu Chung Yan
Sean Lauer

Chan
Yan Lauer

WS-28

Second language training at the workplace

Iris Beckmann-Schulz, Bettina Kleiner

Presentation

WS-29

Innovations in economic integra­tion: using technology
as a tool

Jan Sheppard-Kutcher,
Gerry Mills

Presentation

WS-30

Measuring the impacts of im­migrant economic and
social integration

Franca Piccin

Piccin
Poot
Shotwell

WS-32

Unaccompanied minors in Europe: situation,
experiences and perspectives

John Wrench,
David Reisenzein

Asa
Beirnaert

WS-36

Cultural diversity and mental health: what works in policy and practice

Laura Simich,
Marja Tiilikainen

Blauenfeldt
Eskola
Ingleby

WS-40

Immigration from the Former Soviet Union: a natural experiment
in the making?

Don DeVoretz,
Moshe Semyonov

Presentation

WS-43

A comparison of adult immigra­tion language programming
in three countries

Tracey Derwing

Derwing
Jelsoe
Weber
Yates

WS-44

Genocide and human rights education: the challenges of
multicultural societies

Jack Jedwab,
Tine Brøndum

Presentation

WS-47

Awareness-raising: promotion of positive images of migrants

Anne Gueller-Frey,
Stephan Schiele

Engleman
Schulze

WS-54

Post-entry social control of non-nationals in Western Europe

Peter Hervik,
Carolina Boe

Presentation

WS-56

Integrating international stu­dents as highly-skilled migrants: policy and practical approaches

Chedly Belkhodja,
Niels Klabunde

Alsafar
Bilecen

WS-58

Much ado about nothing? Integration activities in Europe

Gunilla Fincke

Lehming

WS-67

Models and approaches to assisting women trafficked for sexual exploitation

Grainne Healy,
Denise Charlton

Presentation

WS-69

Measuring and monitoring the effects of integration policy

Heino Jespersen,
Andreas Kapphan

Jensen
Kapphan
Moller-Hansen
Thogersen

WS-76

Management of international workers for lower-skilled jobs:
the role for public authorities

Maria Wichmann-Berkowitz

Presentation
WS-77 Adolescent students’ views on the integration of
newcomer students
Marilyn Steinbach Presentation

WS-80

Barriers to accommodating reli­gious diversity in contemporary western societies

Mariette Lobo

Presentation

WS-81

Benefits and challenges of leg­islated fair access to regulated professions

Patricia Wilson,
Karen Clark-Verbisky

Augustine
Hawthorne
Hawthorne

WS-84

Young ethnic minorities: challenges and best practices to ensure education

Peter Pannula-Toft

Christensen
Graesborg

WS-85

From migrant to citizen: how to support the integration of
newly-arrived migrants

Rasmus Nygaard,
Henrik Thomassen,
Torben Møller- Hansen

Nygaard
Ornbrant

WS-88

Transitioning to succeed? Inter­national students immigrating to Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Timothy Owen,
Sophia Lowe

Hawthorne
Lowe
Ziguras

WS-90

Impacts of imported inter-group conflicts on western nations

Justine Akman,
Radostina Pavlova

Presentation

WS-91

Acculturation and mutual accommodation: immigrant and
host-national perspectives

Elias Besevegis,
Vassilis Pavlopoulos

Besevegis
Brewis
Pavlopoulos

WS-93

New immigrants in a global economic downturn: national policy responses

Eva Lazar

von Loeffelholz

WS-94

Coordinate approaches to foreign credential assessment and recognition, beginning overseas

Patricia Wilson,
Karen Clark-Verbisky

Hawthorne
Mayne

WS-96

Changing dynamics of cross-bor­der intimate partnership
formations in Scandinavia

Hanna Snellman,
Rashmi Singla

Presentation

WS-97

From cities of migration to open cities: travelling with diversity towards prosperity

Kim Turner

Jimenez
Kleinman

WS-99

Integration challenges resulting from intra-European Union free movement: national experiences

Natasja Moritz,
Henrik Torp Andersen

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Introduction2
Anderson
Fink
Haime
Schuppers

 
 
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