Model International Mobility Declaration: Keynote and Workshop
The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House and Visiting Scholar Professor Michael Doyle will be hosting a workshop on the Model International Mobility Declaration on February 22, 2019. A keynote lecture by Mr. William Lacy Swing, former Director-General of the International Organization for Migration, will occur on the evening of February 21, 2019 as well.
As the University of Pennsylvania’s hub for global engagement, Perry World House convenes conversations around today’s pressing global challenges, catalyzes interdisciplinary academic research with policy-relevant potential, and connects Penn to the world. The goal of this workshop is to provide commentary and final revisions to the Model International Mobility Declaration (MIMD), which summarizes and builds on the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC).
Registration for the February 21 keynote lecture is available at:
The February 22 workshop is by invitation only. For more information, email Cory Winter at [email protected].
About
Following the adoption of the 'Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration' in Marrakesh, many are left wondering what its potential impact will be after its signing by 164 countries in December last year. But while people are as mobile as they ever were in our globalized world, the movement of people across borders still lacks global regulation. This leaves many refugees in protracted displacement and many migrants unprotected in irregular and dire situations. Meanwhile, some states have become concerned that their borders have become irrelevant. International mobility—the movement of individuals across borders for any length of time as visitors, students, tourists, labor migrants, entrepreneurs, long-term residents, asylum seekers, or refugees—has no common definition or legal framework.
To address this key gap in international law, and the growing gaps in protection and responsibility that are leaving people vulnerable, the Model International Mobility Convention, launched in 2017, proposes a framework for mobility with the goals of reaffirming the existing rights afforded to mobile people (and the corresponding rights and responsibilities of states) as well as expanding those basic rights where warranted. The new Mobility Declaration will allow academics and policymakers in the fields of migration, human rights, national security, labor economics, and refugee law, to discuss where the Model Convention mobility reform agenda is today and whether it can acquire better prospects in the years ahead.
Agenda
Day 1 – February 21
Opening Keynote: "Orderly Migration in a Disorderly World"
- William Lacy SWING, Former Director-General, International Organization for Migration
Day 2 – February 22
Overview of the Model International Mobility Declaration
- Michael W. DOYLE, University Professor, Columbia University; Global Shifts Visiting Scholar, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
Visitors, Tourists, Students
- Beth SIMMONS, Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law, Political Science and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
Labor and Investors
- Howard F. CHANG, Earle Hepburn Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Forced Migrants and Refugees
- Michel GABAUDAN, Visiting Fellow, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania; Former President, Refugees International
- Sarah PAOLETTI, Practice Professor of Law; Director, Transnational Legal Clinic, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Governance
- Zeid Ra’ad AL HUSSEIN, Distinguished Global Leader in-Residence, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania; Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations (2000-07, 2010-14); Ambassador of Jordan to the United States (2007-10); United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-18)
Advocacy Strategy and Policy Development: Civil Society, Multilateral Institutions, Cities
- Ş. İlgü ÖZLER, Director, SUNY Global Engagement Program in New York; Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, SUNY New Paltz
- Rebecca BRUBAKER, Senior Policy Adviser, United Nations University – Centre for Policy Research
- Sozi Pedro TULANTE, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Global Shifts Visiting Fellow, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania; City Solicitor, City of Philadelphia
Closing Comments
- Michael W. DOYLE, University Professor, Columbia University; Global Shifts Visiting Scholar, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania