With the Agenda 2030 and the adoption of the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees, the international community faces the challenge of implementing these global agreements at the national and local policy levels – and identifying the role of development policy therein. International agreements on migration- or refugee-related policy can only be sustainably implemented if the national and local political contexts in which these issues are negotiated are properly understood and incorporated into the policy and programme planning by donors, national governments, and local authorities.

This workshop will close IDOS’s German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development-funded project “Contested Mobility: Migration Policy in Countries of the Global South Between Local Needs, National Interests, and Global Trends”. As part of the process of presenting project results, the IDOS team will bring together researchers and policy makers working on migration and refugee politics, with talks and panels organized around three global trends:

State fragility: How do the function, or dis-function, of the state, and efforts to counter state fragility, influence policy responses to migration and displacement?

Climate Change: How do international, national, and local climate policies influence migration and displacement? Is there evidence that migration and refugee policies are being shaped to account for climate change?

Urbanisation: What is the role of cities, as both physical spaces and socio-economic constructs, and of policies intended to shape urbanisation, in migration and refugee policy? 

Agenda

DAY 1

09:30 – 09:45

Greeting and overview of the workshop

• Dr Jana Kuhnt & Dr Charles Martin-Shields - IDOS

09:45 – 11:00

Keynote
The New Faces of African Migration – Continental Trends and Policy Shifts
(Live on WebEx)

• Dr Khangelani Moyo, University of Free State, South Africa

Discussants

• Dr Stefanie Scharf, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development - BMZ)
• Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Moderator

• Dr Rose Jaji, IDOS

11:15 – 12:30
The Contested Mobility Project - Results and Discussion
(Live on WebEx)

Setting the Stage

• Dr Jörn Grävingholt, IDOS

Panelists

• Dr Susan Ekoh, IDOS
• Dr Rose Jaji, IDOS
• Dr Jana Kuhnt, IDOS
• Dr Charles Martin-Shields, IDOS

Moderator

• Dr Khangelani Moyo, University of Free State, South Africa

13:30 – 15:00 

Thematic panels: State Fragility and Urbanization

Panel 1: State Fragility and Displacement

Panelists

• Dr Mohamad el-Harake, “Re-imaging Difference: Race, Secularity, and Responsibility in the lives of Syrian Refugees”
• Dr Katja Mielke, “Migration governance and contested statehood in Iraq”
• Dr Girmachew Adugna Zewdu, “The implications of state fragility and measures taken on governing mobility, refugee protection and integration in Ethiopia”

Moderator

• Dr Charles Martin-Shields, IDOS

Panel 2: Urbanization and Contested Mobility, Sitzungssaal/ East Asia

• Ms. Rebecca Enobong Roberts, “Internal Displaced Urban Migrants as Spatial Actors in Lagos, Nigeria”
• Dr Niringiyimana Julius, “The Elusive Promise of Refugee Policy in Uganda: Lessons from Urban Refugees in Kampala Capital City Authority”
• Dr Farhana Rahman, “’We have been forgotten’: Rohingya Refugee Women’s Lived Experiences in Malaysia’s Urban Shantytowns”

Moderator

• Dr Jana Kuhnt, IDOS

15:15 – 16:15 

Equal Partnerships - African intermediary cities as partners in urban migration governance

Panelists

• Dr Pauline Cherunya, Samuel Hall, Niarobi
• Dr Janina Stürner-Siovitz, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Mr Lionel Nzamba, UCLG Africa
• Ms Jessica Bither, Robert Bosch Stiftung

Moderator

• Dr Charles Martin-Shields, IDOS

16:15 – 17:00

Interactive reflection on the themes of day and introduction of posters

17:00 – 18:00 

Poster presenters

• Ms Toka Mahmoud, Independent Researcher
• Ms Chiara Spinnicchia, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
• Mr Sedat Can, University of Bonn
• Mr Joseph Inyama, Radboud University
• Ms Himani Pasricha, University College Dublin
• Mr Abraham Minko, University of Istanbul

DAY 2

09:30 – 09:45

Greeting and outline of the day, recap day 1

• Dr Jana Kuhnt, IDOS

09:45 – 11:15

Thematic panel: Climate, environment and displacement
Panelists

• Prof Luwam Dirar, “Rethinking African Norms of Solidarity and Climate Change Induced Human Mobility”
• Dr Claas Schneiderheinze, “Migration Responses to Drought: The Importance of Local Economic Opportunities”
• Dr Benjamin Schraven, “Addressing the climate-mobility-nexus: Polycentricity at the crossroads?”
• Prof. Achilles Kallergis, “Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from Cities in sub-Saharan Africa”

Moderator

• Dr Susan Ekoh, IDOS

11:30 – 12:30

Special session: Contested mobility, Disadvantaged and Forgotten Groups
(Live on WebEx)

Panelists

• Ms Celine Bauloz, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland
• Dr Rose Jaji, IDOS
• Dr Erick Otieno Nyambedha, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya

Moderator

• Dr Jana Kuhnt, IDOS

13:30 – 14:30
Special session: Climate, Environment, and Displacement
(Live on WebEx)

Panelists

• Dr Susan Ekoh, IDOS
• Ms Ann-Christine Link, UNU-EHS, Bonn, Germany
• Prof Joseph Teye, Center for Migration Studies, University of Ghana

Moderator

• Dr Anne Koch, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany

14:45 – 16:00

The Future of Contested Mobility: Politics, Economies, and Durable Solutions
(Live on WebEx)

Panelists

• Dr Linda Oucho, African Migration and Development Policy Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
• Dr Evan Easton-Calabria, Tufts University, Boston, USA
• Dr Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, BICC

Moderator

• Dr Charles Martin-Shields, IDOS

16:00 – 16:15

Closing Comments and Farewell

• Dr Susan Ekoh, IDOS
• Dr Rose Jaji, IDOS
• Dr Jana Kuhnt, IDOS
• Dr Charles Martin-Shields, IDOS