Presentation of the Mixed Migration Review 2019 (København)

What does the future hold for migration, refugees, mixed migration and irregular mobility? 

What is the future labour migration and asylum space, considering the shift towards increased nationalism and moves against multinationalism at a time when the world is facing global problems that need coherent joint approaches?

How will the issues of displacement and forced migration be affected by inequality, poor governance, environmental stressors and the international community’s response to these challenges?

Can we realistically predict or forecast what the future trends will be?

The Mixed Migration Review 2019 (MMR 2019) focuses on the future of mixed migration. In the different essays we explore the effect of change in a broad range of areas such as the securitisation of migration, the climate, artificial intelligence, the economy, demographics and politics. The MMR 2019 includes regional migration outlooks, as well as interviews with a wide range of experts and thinkers coming from the different disciplines covered in the report, UN officials as well as political pundits and leaders, and the individual stories of refugees and migrants on the move.

The presentation of the Mixed Migration Review will be followed by a panel debate including two selected topics of the MMR 2019.

Please register to join us at the presentation. 

Agenda

14:00 – 14:20: Welcoming and opening remarks

• Charlotte Slente, Secretary General, Danish Refugee Council
• Ib Petersen, Head of Dept. for Migration, Stabilization and Fragility, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Bram Frouws, Head of the Mixed Migration Centre

14:20 – 15:30: Presentation and panel debate including 2 selected topics of the MMR 2019

Presenter: Chris Horwood, MMC Senior Advisor and principal author of the MMR 2019

Panellists:

• Miriam Cullen, Assistant Professor of Climate and Migration Law at Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
• Peter Svarre, Author, Expert speaker, Cand.scient.pol University of Copenhagen and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University

Moderator: Nynne Bjerre Christensen, journalist, Moderator.dk

Topics:

Artificial intelligence and automation
AI and automation are making giant leaps forward and are expected to impact several aspects of our future societies. How will AI and automation affect future migration? What will be the impact on labour market dynamics? What will be the implications for protection of people migrating? And what impact will AI and the use of drones have on securitization of borders?

Climate change & mixed migration
Changes and environmental stressors affecting human populations and mobility are well underway and are a key element of future migration scenarios. What impact will climate change have on displacement and migration levels nationally and internationally in the future? How will people move? And what will be the legal status and possibilities for protection of people displaced by climate change?

15:30 – 16:00: Reception

Panelists

Miriam Cullen

Miriam is Assistant Professor of Climate and Migration Law at Copenhagen University.

She sits on the Advisory Committee to the Platform on Disaster Displacement and heads the Nordic Network on Climate Induced Displacement. Her current research is funded by the Independent Research

Fund Denmark and examines international legal protections for people displaced in whole or in part for climate related reasons.

Peter Svarre

Peter is Cand.scient.pol. from University of Copenhagen and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.

He has worked on the front lines of the technology industry for more than twenty years and presently he is touring the world with his book [What to do with human kind?] “Hvad skal vi med mennesker?” on ethical, political and societal consequences of artificial intelligence. He has always written and debated about technology and the future in media such as Kommunikationsforum, Politiken and Berlingske.

Nynne Bjerre Christensen

Nynne Bjerre Christensen is a journalist, educated at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 1999 and a Master in European Studies from King’s College in London in 2003. She has worked as a freelancer for several years for among others PRESS, The European Commission and Berlingske Tidende.

She has reported from conflict and post-conflict areas such as Lebanon, Sri Lanka and the Kurdish part of Turkey. She was a host at Deadline, DR2 during the period from 2005 to 2017.