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Participant BiographiesVanya Ivanova, Researcher, Center for European Refugees Migration and Ethnic Studies(Bulgaria)Vanya Ivanova is a researcher and projects’ assistant at the New Bulgarian University’s Center for European RefugeesMigration and Ethnic Studies (CERMES), where she is conducting her PhD research in the field of policies of return afterforced and voluntary migration. In addition, Ms. Ivanova is assisting associate professor Anna Krasteva in courses onmigration policies, international migrations, and refugee’s issues. Ms. Ivanova has a bachelor’s degree in history from theUniversity of Sofia, and a master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations from the New Bulgarian University. Anarticle by Ms. Ivanova discussing policy developments in managing displacement waves in Bosnia and Herzegovina waspublished in Migrations from/to Southeast Europe.Selected current work projects include:• An analysis of return policies after voluntary and forced migration.• A study of highly qualified migration.• OPENCities, etc.Rajiv Khandelwal, Executive Director, Aajeevika Bureau (India)Rajiv Khandelwal is the executive director of Aajeevika Bureau, headquartered in Udaipur, Rajasthan, western India, anew generation public initiative that provides services, solutions, and social security to rural migrant workers and theircommunities. Mr. Khandelwal founded the Aajeevika Bureau in 2004 after 15 years of rural development practice andresearch experience in India and East Africa. Under his leadership, the Aajeevika Bureau has become well known as thefirst attempt in India to focus on the problems and solutions for India’s millions of internal migrants. The Bureau providesregistration and identification, skill training and job placement, legal aid, financial services, and health and food options forseasonal rural migrants who enter urban markets and work in hazardous low-end sectors of the economy. He holds a degreein rural management from India’s prestigious Institute of Rural Management, and has written and published extensively onissues of rural livelihood and change. In 2005 he was nominated as an Ashoka Fellow in recognition of the innovative ideasunderlying the Aajeevika Bureau.Selected current work projects include:• Setting up a legal aid and counseling cell for interstate migrant workers who report violations of minimum wages and fairworkplace conditions.• Developing a worker managed cheap food solution in a large destination for migrant construction workers.• Expanding migration services through the creation of a network of civil society organizations from high out-migrationstates of India.Karen Krüger, Journalist, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)Karen Krüger is an editor of the cultural section of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her main topics include the integrationof Turkish people in Germany, Turkey, Islam, and media politics. Ms. Krüger holds a master’s degree in history, French, andsociology from the University of Bielefeld. From April 2005–March 2006, she was a research fellow at the Collaborative ResearchCentre 640, Changing Representations of Social Order — Intercultural and Intertemporal Comparisons at Humboldt University,Berlin. Ms Krüger is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the Rwandan Genocide at University of Bielefeld/HumboldtUniversity, Berlin.Mehmet Ali Kucukcavus, Asylum and Migration Bureau, Ministry of Interior, Turkey(Turkey)Mehmet Ali Kucukcavus is a consultant to the recently established Asylum and Migration Bureau under the Ministry ofInterior, which is responsible for drafting the new asylum law and the Law on Foreigners. Mr. Kucukcavus has been part ofthe unit since its inception, and his extensive knowledge of international standards, EU aquis and judgements, internationalhuman rights court judgements and mechanisms, and Turkish law expertise have contributed greatly to the draft asylum law.Mr. Kucukcavus also works as an expert at the Prime Ministry General Directorate of Social Assistance and Solidarity. Beforejoining the civil service, he worked in several multinational projects as individual consultant and research assistant. He holds abachelor’s degree in public administration from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University.32 | T h e T R a n s a t l a n t i c f o r u m o n M i g r a t i o n a n d I n t e g r a t i o n
Participant BiographiesHanna-Maija Kuhn, Consultant, Ramboll Management Consulting (Denmark)Hanna-Maija Kuhn is working as a consultant at Ramboll Management Consulting’s department for EU affairs inCopenhagen, where she is participating as a core team member in international evaluations and studies, with a special focuson the European Commission and the European Parliament. Her tasks include designing evaluations, conducting interviews,desk research, and reporting, as well as participating in the design and implementation of case studies. Ms. Kuhn specializesin the social management field, where she has gained experience in conducting evaluations both on the national level and forthe European Commission, in particular DGs JLS and EMPL in the fields of migration, integration and equal opportunities.Ms. Kuhn is a certified Ramboll Management Evaluator. She holds a master’s degree in romance philology, European studiesand political science from Åbo Akademi University in Finland, and an MSc in European studies from Aalborg University,Denmark.Selected current work projects include:• Studying the feasibility of establishing a mechanism for the relocation of beneficiaries of international protection (Memberof the core team).• Assessing priorities and actions of the European Integration Fund (Member of the core team).• Calypso study on social tourism.Juan Carlos Lara-Armienta, Counselor, Regional Affairs, Embassy of Mexico, Washington(Mexico)Juan Carlos Lara-Armienta is currently counselor for regional affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, wherehe is responsible for migration issues and policy coordination between the Embassy and the Mexican consular network(50 consulates) in the United States. Previously, he was the deputy director general for consular protection at the Ministryof Foreign Affairs (2005-2007). From this position, he oversaw a wide array of consular assistance services and programsdelivered worldwide. He served at Mexico’s Consulates General in New Orleans (1999–2001) and Atlanta (2002–2005), asdeputy consul general and consul for legal affairs, respectively. At both postings, he developed and implemented outreachstrategies and programs aimed at Mexican immigrant communities of recent arrival to the U.S. Southeast. Mr. Lara-Armientaholds a law degree from Universidad Panamericana, a master’s degree in diplomatic studies from Mexico’s DiplomaticInstitute Matias Romero, and completed a graduate program in American legal studies at the University of New Mexico.Selected current work projects include:• Monitoring local and state measures that intend to regulate immigration and developing and implementing consularassistance programs and initiatives to protect the rights of Mexican nationals under those jurisdictions.• Follow up of migration consultation mechanisms between the Embassy of Mexico and U.S. federal agencies, includingbilateral initiatives implemented by the U.S.-Mexico Repatriation Technichal Working Group (RTWG).Magdalena Lesinska, Assistant Professor/Deputy Director, Centre of Migration Research,University of Wroclaw (Poland)Dr. Magdalena Lesinska is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw (UW) and deputy director at the Centre ofMigration Research (CMR UW). She was awarded a PhD in political science in 2006; her PhD thesis was devoted to theprocess of political inclusion of immigrants in European countries. She completed a master’s degree in nationalism studies atthe Central European University, Budapest in 2002, and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Wroclawin 2001.Her present research interests focus on state and European migration policy, borders, political rights, and immigrantparticipation, especially in the case of irregular migrants.Selected current work projects include:• Conducting international research on politization of migration in Europe.• Coordinating of European Website of Integration (http://ec.europa.eu/ewsi/en/index.cfm) as a country coordinator.• Preparing political analyses and scientific articles on migration policy in Poland.Xin Li, Chief of English Desk, Caixin media group (China)Xin Li is chief of the English desk at Caixin Media. She runs Caixin’s English-language website and publishes the electronicCaixin Weekly-China Economic & Finance magazine. Li Xin founded Caijing Magazine’s first Washington, DC bureau, whereshe was a politics and finance correspondent from June 2006 to June 2007. Before Caijing, she was a documentary producer atChina Central Television, where two of her shows won nationwide competitions. She received a bachelor’s degree in English fromTsinghua University in Beijing in 2002, and a master’s degree in journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006.Selected current work projects include:• Foreign immigration to China and the China’s demographic change.• Traditional media’s opportunities in the mobile era.T u r k e y o n t h e M o v e : A C o u n t r y o f E m i g r a t i o n ,I m m i g r a t i o n , a n d T r a n s i t M i g r a t i o n | 33
Page 4 and 5: From the HostsWelcome to the Transa
Page 6 and 7: TFMI Format and TopicsTFMI meetings
Page 8: AgendaThursday, July 807:30-08:45 B
Page 13 and 14: Agenda5. Removal CenterGuide: GMFIn
Page 16 and 17: SessionsWorkshop A: National Identi
Page 18 and 19: SessionsWorkshop C: Diaspora Involv
Page 22 and 23: SessionsWorkshop F: Integration of
Page 24 and 25: Discussant BiographiesJerry Kammer,
Page 26 and 27: Discussant BiographiesSinan Ülgen,
Page 29: Participant BiographiesGiuseppe Bat
Page 32: Participant BiographiesMaciej Duszc
Page 37 and 38: Participant BiographiesFidéle Mutw
Page 39: Participant BiographiesAyse Özbaba
Page 42 and 43: Participant BiographiesAmy Sugimori
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