IMC 2019
International Metropolis Conference 2019
Important Dates
About IMC 2019
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will host the International Metropolis Conference 2019 in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada, from June 24 to 28, 2019. The International Metropolis Conference is the largest annual international gathering of experts from around the world representing academia, government and civil society in the fields of migration, integration and diversity. Internationally renowned speakers will participate in eight plenary sessions discussing contemporary migration and integration-related phenomena. Approximately 130 simultaneous workshops and a rich cultural program, including site visits, will be offered during the Conference.
Topics
Diversity, Sustainable development goals (sdgs), Labor markets and migration, Immigrants refugees and displaced persons, Economic impact, Migration;, Forced migration, • migrant integration, Media and migration, • human trafficking and irregular migration, Global inclusion and global governance, South-south migration, Technology and migration, Cities and migration, Public confidence in migrationCall for Papers
The call for workshop abstracts is now closed.
The workshops are held throughout the whole week of the conference and are around the Conference themes and sub-themes. Conference themes are the following:
Quest for global governance: Compacts and sustainable development goals
The economic impact of immigration
Non-state actors and the migration industry
The effects of technology on migration and integration
Public confidence in migration
Sub-themes:
- Migration health
- Migrant rights and nationalisms
- Multiculturalism and other integration approaches
- Education
- Social inclusion
- The migration-security nexus
- Identity
- Gender, LGBTQ, and intersectionality
- Children and families
- Best practices – settlement, resettlement, admissibility
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