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EUROPEAN PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE THIRD BIENNIAL OF THE CHINA IN MADRID – Workshops Migrants and Migrations

Education of migrants’ children and its role in integration (T14g) - Community of rural migrant workers (T23a)

- The meeting will be held in Madrid, on the 29 and 30 January 2010. It will be co-organised by CEPAIM in partnership with EAPN Spain and the European office of the China-Europa Forum. This is a preparatory meeting gathering the Europeans participants in the frame of two workshops on education of migrant’s children and on community of rural migrant worker. The Madrid meeting will gather during two days fourteen participants from 6 European countries: France, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

- The participants of this meeting are professionals working closely with migrants. The main guidelines of the discussion came out from the Paris meeting : The migrant’s situation in Europe, Mobilisation of the main actors in the European societies in favour of the migrants, Mutual acceptance of the migrants and the hosting populations, “Migrants’ participation methodology”.

- For the European participants and the partners of the event, the aim of this meeting is to give the opportunity to the participants to get to know each others in order to built up a working group, to determine on the European side the main guidelines for the discussion in the perspective of the dialogue with the Chinese partners of the workshop, and finally to define the organization of the work for the next months.

Schedule

Friday 29th January
12.00 - 12.30 INTRODUCTORY SESSION
20 ’ Round table for the presentation of the participants
10’ Presentation of the Madrid meeting’s context and aim
12.30 - 20.30 ROUND TABLE TALKS In this session the participants will discuss the four first themes collectively identified by the European and Chinese Prime Movers during the meeting in Paris in 2009.
12.30 - 14.00 1. The migrant’s situation in Europe.
14.00 - 16.00 Lunch
16.00 - 17.30 2. Mobilisation of the main actors in the European societies in favour of the migrants.
17.30 – 19.00 3. Mutual acceptance of the migrants and the hosting populations.
10’ break
19.30 – 20.30 4. “Migrants’ participation methodology”.
21.00 Dinner
Saturday 30th January
10.00 – 11.00 CONCLUSION
20’ General synthesis.
20’ Introduction to the common challenges.
20’ Discussions.
11.00 – 14.00 NEXT STEPS AND PROPOSALS
11.00 – 11.30 Distribution of the participants between the two workshops (T14g and T23a) and definition of the expected role of a participant.
11.30 – 12.30 Elaboration of the action until the biennial meeting of July 2010.
15’ Break
12.45 – 13.45 Identification of potential partnerships for supporting the workshops in the long-term.
15’ Remarks and closing.
14.00 Lunch
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