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 The Transatlantic Council on Migration is a unique deliberative body that
examines vital policy issues and informs migration policymaking processes
across the Atlantic community.
The Council’s work is at the cutting
edge of policy analysis and evaluation and is thus an essential tool of
policymaking.
Launched in April 2008, the Council is an initiative of the
Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC, convened by MPI
President Demetrios Papademetriou. The
Bertelsmann Stiftung is the Council’s policy partner.
The Council is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the
Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Hellenic Migration Policy
Institute, and the governments of the Netherlands and Norway.
For more about
the Council:
Mission
The Council has a dual mission:
- To help inform the transatlantic immigration
and integration agenda and promote better-informed policymaking by proactively
identifying critical policy issues, analyzing them in light of the best
research, and bringing them to public attention.
- To serve as a resource
for governments as they grapple with the challenges and opportunities
associated with international migration.
Approach
The Council’s approach is evidence-based, progressive yet
pragmatic, and ardently independent. The policy options placed before the
Council for its deliberation are analyzed and vetted by some of the world’s
best specialists.
The policy fields explored include:
- Advancing social cohesion and social
justice through more thoughtful citizenship and integration policies
that focus equally on rights and responsibilities.
- Enhancing economic
growth and competitiveness through immigration.
- Encouraging and facilitating
greater mobility through better security.
- Understanding better the relationship
between states and emerging religious communities and fleshing out the
rights and responsibilities of all parties.
- Understanding better the complex
links between migration and development.
Meetings
The Council convenes twice a year, in the spring and fall, and
also holds extraordinary meetings as necessary.
All meetings are conducted
under the Chatham House Rule.
History
The Council succeeds the Transatlantic Task Force
on Immigration and Integration, launched in the spring of 2006
by MPI and the Bertelsmann Stiftung. A full description of the Task Force,
its members, publications, and events is available at: www.migrationpolicy.org/transatlantic2006. |
Demetrios Papademetriou, Convener and President of the Migration
Policy Institute
Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister and Interior
Minister of Italy
Xavier Becerra, Member of the US House of Representatives
and House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman
Mel Cappe, President of
the Institute for Research on Public Policy and formerly Canada’s
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Armin Laschet, Minister for
Intergenerational and Family Affairs, Women, and Integration in North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Libe Rieber-Mohn, State Secretary for Integration,
Immigration, and Diversity in the Norwegian Ministry of Labor
Ana
Palacio, Senior Vice President, AREVA; former Foreign Minister
of Spain
Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the UK Commission on Equality
and Human Rights
Rita Süssmuth, Former President of the German Federal
Parliament
Antonio Vitorino, Partner of Gonçalves Pereira,
Castelo Branco & Associados;
former European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs
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for more on the Council members
Council Press Contact:
Michelle Mittelstadt, Director of Communications, MPI
mmittelstadt@migrationpolicy.org
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202-266-1910
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