The 9^th Prague Process webinar ‘From refugee crises to labour migration and back? Lessons for migration policies in the Western Balkans’ with Professor Anna Krasteva, the New Bulgarian University,  will take place on 17 December 2020 at 10:30 CET.

The webinar will dive into the migration realities of the Western Balkan region torn between the urgency of refugee management and the legacy of forced migration on the one side, and the need to prioritize labour migration as a tool for national and regional development on the other side. Prof. Krasteva will explain how and whether a labour migration policy can change the existing profile of the WB region, as well as provide related policy recommendations inspired by the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum.

Please register to the webinar through following the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CgjSKvYlR9abzQY-xNsDqQ. You will receive the link to the webinar room, as soon as your registration is approved.

The webinar will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into Russian. The approximate duration will be 1,5 hours. The webinar will be carried out via Zoom and can be accessed directly through your browser, following the link received. Please join the webinar five minutes ahead of schedule to allow for technical support if needed.

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. Kindly submit your questions (in English and Russian) during the webinar through the chat.

Time: December 17, 10:30 AM CET (Berlin time), 11:30 AM (Moscow time) or 01:30 PM (Nur-Sultan time)

About the speaker

Ms. Anna Krasteva is the Professor of political sciences, doctor honoris causa of University Lille 3, France, founder and director of CERMES (Centre for Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies) at the New Bulgarian University, Department of Political Sciences. She authored and edited 29 books and published numerous articles in about twenty countries. Her main fields of research and teaching are migration policies and politics; far-right populism; civic mobilisations and citizenship. In the past, she led the project “Securitization and its impact on human rights and human security”, as well as as a project on labour migration in the Western Balkans. She takes part in two Horizon 2020 projects: “Representations of the crisis and crisis of representation” and “Evaluation of the common European asylum system under pressure and recommendations for further development”. She contributed to the World Forum for Democracy (2017) with “Facts will not save from fake. Citizenship will”. She has been a guest professor and lecturer at numerous European universities. She is editor-in-chief of Southeastern Europe (Brill), member of the editorial boards of Nationalism and ethnic politics (Routledge), and Europeana (Shangai and Paris). She is president of the Board of ESFAM and Maison des sciences de l’homme in Dijon, member of the Board of the Diplomatic Institute and of numerous international scientific boards.