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Colloquium on "forced migrations"

December 7th 2012 - University of Caen Lower-Normandy

 

Forced migrations are a genuine reality of our contemporary world : every year, men and women are forced to quit their lands, their homes, their States, to flee a situation they are confronted to. Their purpose is not to find a better life ; forced migration is an obligation. Because of persecution, war, military occupation, hungry or poverty, people have no choice but leaving their location, and cross an international frontier, sometimes oceans, hoping a survival.

 

The present works is focused on International Law about those forced migrations, whatever their origin may be : exogenous to the State (environmental migrations for example), or endogenous (Indigenous people and deportation for example). They may be subjected to an International regime (so as refugees or colonization) ; the International Law can try to prevent them, to provide an emergency answer, or a long-term one.

 

The contributions and the debates we’ll have about them will allow to enlighten us about International Law and forced migrations. And may be, we’ll find a jurisdictional coherence.

 

PROGRAM

 
9h30: Welcoming
9h45: Introductive speech by Sebastien Botreau Bonneterre, Director of the Institute

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10h: Persecution and forced migrations : protection of refugees, by Jean-Yves Carlier, Professor, University of Louvain-la-Neuve

 
10h20: Migrations and displaced people, by Philippe Lagrange, Professor, University of Rouen
10h40: Debates
11h15: Military occupation and colonization, by Hélène Tigroudja, Professor, University of Douai
11h35: Forced migrations and indigenous people, by Jean Dhommeaux, Emeritus Professor, University of Rennes I
12h: Debates
 

LUNCH TIME

 
 
14h: Law and climatic migrations, by Catherine-Amélie Chassin, Assistant Professor, University of Caen
14h20: Economical migration, a forced migration?
14h40: Debates
 

15h20: Prevention of forced migration : trafficking and smuggling of migrants, by Jacobo Rios Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, University of Perpignan

15h40: The long-term answer : State responsability on forced migrations, by Anne-Thida Norodom, Professor, University of Rouen

 
16h: General Closing, by Olivier De Schutter

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