Normative Perspectives on Labour Immigration

Frankfurt - Ottawa Workshop

6 June 2016, 9am-6.15pm

Speakers:
Christian Barry (ANU)
Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa)
Eszter Kollár (GU Frankfurt)
Paul Bou-Habib (University of Essex)
Dimitrios Efthymiou (GU Frankfurt)
Oliviero Angeli (TU Dresden)
Luara Ferracioli (University of Amsterdam)
David Owen (University of Southampton)
Ayelet Shachar (MPI Göttingen)

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", Room 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Participation is free and open to all. Registration is necessary and available until room capacity. Please, register with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Programme:

Registration: 8:30 - 9:00

Welcome: 9:00 - 9:15

Session 1: 9:15 - 11:00

Chair: Eszter Kollár (Frankfurt)

Christian Barry (ANU): Immigration Policy, Global Justice, and the Problem of Second-Best
Comments by Joshua Kleinfeld (Northwestern)

Patti Tamara Lenard (Ottawa): Injustice and High-skilled "Temporary" Labour Migration in Receiving Societies
Comments by Alasia Nuti (York/Frankfurt)

Coffee break: 11:00 - 11:30

Session 2: 11:30 - 13:00

Chair: Patti Tamara Lenard (Ottawa)

Eszter Kollár (Frankfurt): Fair Terms of Benefiting from Skills across Borders
Comments by Julian Culp (Frankfurt)

Paul Bou-Habib (Pompeu Fabra/Essex): Skilled Immigration and Exploitation
Comments by Merten Reglitz (Frankfurt)

Lunch: 13:00 - 14:00

Session 3: 14:00 - 15:30

Chair: Daniel Callies (Frankfurt)

Dimitrios Efghymiou (Frankfurt): Is Skills-selective Immigration in the EU Justifiable?
Comments by Isaac Taylor (Frankfurt)

Oliviero Angeli (Dresden): Immigration Fees: A Defense
Comments by Lisa Herzog (Frankfurt)

Coffee break: 15:30 - 16:00

Session 4: 16:00 - 18:15

Chair: Darrel Moellendorf (Frankfurt)

Luara Ferracioli (Amsterdam): Refugees, the Right to Exit and the Brain Drain
Comments by Luke Ulaş (Frankfurt)

David Owen (Southampton): Are Tragedy and Compulsion the only options? Justice, Unilateralism, and a Global Regime for High Skilled Migration
Comments by Melissa Williams (Toronto/Frankfurt)

Ayelet Shachar (MPI Göttingen): Closing remarks

Programme (pdf): click here...

Reception: 18:15 – 19:30

Organized by the Chair of International Political Theory, Excellence Cluster Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Convenors: Eszter Kollár (Frankfurt) and Patti Tamara Lenard (Ottawa)

Presented by:
Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of normative Orders", Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa