FINAL AGENDA
Thursday, December 9, 2010
8:30 am Breakfast and registration
9:00 Welcome, Ross Eisenbrey and Martin Ruhs
9:15 Panel Discussion: Responding to Employers: Congress or Commissions?
Ray Marshall (Former U.S. Secretary of Labor) Philip Martin (University of California, Davis) Doris Meissner (Former Commissioner, INS; Migration Policy Institute)
Moderated by Ross Eisenbrey (Economic Policy Institute)
10:30 Break
10:45 Panel Discussion: The UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC): Processes & Outcomes, 2007 – 2010
Martin Ruhs (U.K. Migration Advisory Committee) Mark Franks (U.K. Migration Advisory Committee, Secretariat) Discussant: Madeleine Sumption (Migration Policy Institute)
Moderated by Simon Hayes (U.K. Border Agency)
11:45 MAC and Intra-Company Transfers
Mark Franks (U.K. Migration Advisory Committee, Secretariat) Discussant: Ron Hira (Rochester Institute of Technology)
12:20 pm Lunch
1:10 What Would a Commission Do? Construction trades
Martin Ruhs (U.K. Migration Advisory Committee) Discussant: Robert Pleasure (Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO)
2:00 What Would a Commission Do? Nurses and Social Care
Martin Ruhs (U.K. Migration Advisory Committee) Discussant: Lindsay Lowell (ISIM, Georgetown University)
2:50 Break
3:10 What Would a Commission Do? Information Technology
Mark Franks (U.K. Migration Advisory Committee, Secretariat) Discussant: Michael Teitelbaum (Sloan Foundation)
4:00 Panel Discussion: Independent Commissions and Immigration reform –Competing Perspectives
Laura Foote Reiff (Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, Greenberg Traurig, LLP) Ana Avendano (AFL-CIO)
Moderated by Susan Martin (ISIM, Georgetown University)
5:00 Close