“European Migration: Causes and Effects” Dublin Summer School 2016

This year’s Summer School in Dublin focused on how civil society can manage migration and the attitudes towards it in a positive and constructive way, with a broader remit of linking migration to poverty and indeed to climate change and general Green issues. Furthermore, this event specifically addressed the situation in Ireland and its role as a Member State of the European Union in finding solutions to this humanitarian crisis.

LIST OF SPEAKERS:

• Barry Andrews (Chief Executive Officer of GOAL)
• John Barry (Professor of Green Political Economy at QUB)
• Nessa Childers (Independent MEP for Dublin)
• Valerie Cox (RTÉ journalist)
• Catherine Devitt (Environmental Justice Officer, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice)
• Sandy Dunlop (Terenure Initiative)
• Mark Fielding (Chief Executive Officer of ISME)
• Brian Killoran (Chief Executive Officer of Immigrant Council of Ireland)
• Maria Giovanna Manieri (Advisor on Migration and Asylum for the Greens/EFA, European Parliament)
• Duncan Stewart (Broadcaster and Chair of Green Foundation Ireland)

LOCATION: National College of Ireland, IFSC, Dublin 1

VIDEOS: Video recordings of the insightful lectures from this event are available in this link.