EU Transatlantic Security Roundtable 4
Educating for Migrant Integration - Integrating Migration into Education: European and North American Comparisons
International Conference of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), Munk Centre, University of Toronto and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany and the Network Migration in Europe
Munk Centre, University of Toronto, September 21st to 24th, 2006
organized by
Randall Hansen, Chair in Immigration & Governance, Department
of Political Science, University of Toronto
Hanna Schissler, Georg Eckert Institute for
International Textbook Research
Phil Triadafilopoulos, Department
of Political Science, University of Toronto
Rainer Ohliger, Network Migration
in Europe, Berlin
Final Program
Thursday, September 21
7:30-9:30 p.m.:
Reception for participants and invited guests, Munk Centre
Welcoming remarks: Randall Hansen, Jeffrey Kopstein, Director, Institute
of European Studies, Munk Centre
Friday, September 22nd
9:00 a.m.
Opening of Conference: Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute
for International Textbook Research)
Introductory Dialogue by Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe e.V.) and Phil Triadafilopoulos (University of Toronto)
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Panel I: Migrant Education and Integration: An Overview
Chair: Audrey Macklin (School of Law, University of Toronto)
Cristina Allemann-Ghionda (University of Cologne): Celebrating Diversity while Cultivating Difference? Intercultural Education between Theory and Practice
Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute): Tolerance is Not Enough. Migrants in German School Textbooks Between Stigma and Agency
Phil Triadafilopoulos (University of Toronto): Tolerating Diversity or Demanding Tolerance? The Role of the Public School in Good Citizenship
11:00-11:30 noon: Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 p.m.
Panel II: Fostering Inclusion? Assessing Practices in Schools and Firms
Chair: Linda White (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Sabine Mannitz (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung): Immigrant Pupils in Germany: Between Stigma and Self-Help?
Carola Burkert (Federal Institute of Labor, Berlin): In-Firm Vocational Training in Germany and its Effects on the Integration of Migrant Youths
Janina Söhn (Social Science Research Center Berlin): Why Different Immigrant Groups Perform Differently at School: The Case of Ethnic German Resettlers
2:30-4:45 p.m.
Panel III: Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Patricia Landolt (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto)
Daniel Schugurensky and Jorge Ginieniewicz (University of Toronto): Education, Political Integration and Latin American Immigrants: A Look at Canada
Ewa Kowalski (University of Toronto): Integrating Immigrant Students Into Schools: A Comparative Overview of Policies and Initiatives in Eastern and Central Europe and Canada
Elise Féron (CEPEN, CIR, Lyon): Uncivilized/Disintegrated Migrants? The Construction of Migrants in Official Discourses and Policies on Education: A France-Denmark Comparison
Kyriaki Topidi (Queen’s University of Belfast): Minority Education Reform in the Baltics: Integration versus Assimilation
4:45-5:00 p.m.: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Panel IV: Measuring “Success”: The Educational Achievements
of Migrant Minorities
Chair: Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute)
Edmund T. Hamann (University of Nebraska – Lincoln) and Juan Sanchez (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León): Lessons about Poverty, Schooling, Vulnerability, Migration, and Resilience (Sometimes) from Mexican Students with Transnational School Experience
Mérove Gijsberts (Social and Cultural Planning Office): School Achievement of Immigrant Children in the Dutch Education System: The Decreasing Influence of Ethnic Composition, 1988-2002
Anu Hirsiaho (University of Jyväskylä): Social Inclusion and Adult Literacy for Immigrants: Tales from the Finnish Fields
7:30pm:
Dinner for participants and invited guests, Prague Fine Food Emporium, 638
Queen St. West [at Bathurst]
Saturday, September 23rd
9:30- 11:00
Panel V: Learning in the Wake of Trauma: Meeting the Needs of Refugees
Chair: TBA
Elizabeth Quintero (New York University): Refugee and Immigrant Family Voices: Experience and Education
J. Lynn McBrien (University of South Florida): Serving the Needs of Refugee Youths: A Program Evaluation
11:00-11:30 a.m.: Coffee break
11:30-1:00 p.m.
Panel VI: Local Initiatives and the Search for “Best Practices”
Chair: Jenn Wallner (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Kathryn Underwood (York University): Inclusive Education versus Special Education: Implications for Migrant Students in Ontario, Canada
Jerome Krase (The City University of New York): The Visual Presentation of Community: What does Community Look Like?
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Panel VII: Reconciling Religious Recognition with the Teaching of Social
Norms
Chair: Willem Maas (Glendon College, York University)
Anna Marta Stepien (University of Vienna): Islamic Religious Instruction in Public Schools in Austria: Integrating New Generations of Muslims Through Religion?
Maryan Koehler (University of Durham, UK): The Role of Education in Teaching Norms and Values to Newcomers: An Analysis of Integration Policy in the Netherlands (with emphasis on the city of Rotterdam)
Dorothy Elaine Pressman (Clingendael Centre for Strategic Studies, NL): Measuring and Countering Failed Integration and Radicalization in the Netherlands
4:00-4:30 p.m.: Coffee break
4:30-6:00pm
Panel VIII: Integration and Shifting Societal Self-Understandings
Chair: Joseph Carens (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Shamit Saggar (University of Sussex): Integration,
Education and Cohesion:
Challenges and Policy Options
Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe e.V.) and Richard Traunmüller (Humboldt University, Berlin): Towards Multiple Pasts? Teaching History and Politics in Germany’s (Diverse) Classrooms
Almuth Wietholz (Oxford University): Transforming Welfare States and Early Years Provision: A Comparison of Policies to Promote the Educational ‘Integration’ of Migrant Children in Germany and England