February

12
2003

9:00 am EST - 11:00 am EST

Past Event

United Nations International Migration Report

  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003

    9:00 am - 11:00 am EST

The Brookings Institution
The Falk Auditorium

1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
20036

At the turn of the twenty-first century, an estimated 3 percent of the world’s people live in a country other than the one where they were born. The number of international migrants has more than doubled since 1975 to nearly 175 million in 2000.

As international migration issues have become more pressing, demands for accurate, timely, and comparable information on levels, trends, and policies have increased. Monitoring population movements and changes are increasingly difficult as more migration occurs and because data have not kept pace with these changes.

At this forum, the Brookings Institution and the Migration Policy Institute will discuss and analyze a new report, International Migration Report, 2002, which is being released by the United Nations Population Division. The report quantifies and begins to address these issues.

Agenda

  • February 12
    • Moderator

      AS
      Audrey Singer
    • Panelists

      CK
      Charles Keely Herzberg Professor of International Migration, Georgetown University
      CF
      Constantinos Fotakis Head of the Social and Demography Analysis Unit, European Commission
      DP
      Demetrios Papademetriou Co-Director, Migration Policy Institute
      JC
      Joseph Chamie Author and Director, UN Population Division
      LL
      Lavina Limon Executive Director, Immigrant and Refugee Services of America and U.S. Committee for Refugees
      Roberta Cohen Former Brookings Expert, Co-Chair Emeritus - Committee for Human Rights in North Korea