The Congress shall be structured around four types of sessions on international immigration in Spain. (Download the General Plan for the 7th Congress on International Migration in Spain)
Full Sessions (3)
These sessions are intended to present participants with the big questions or general issues faced in current migratory practices and their particular incidence in the case of Spain. The length of each full session shall be 90 minutes.
Themed Sessions (20)
These thematic sessions are intended to represent forums for exhibition and debate surrounding specific issues. Concrete objectives include:
- To raise special issues, research methods or key ideas related to specific aspects of immigration in Spain
- To offer a space for the exhibition of work that researchers are carrying out with regard to this topic.
- To share research methodology and results.
- To open the debate on issues presented so that new methods of research can be discovered.
Each session, lasting two hours, will have four types of participation:
- Invited speakers.
- Oral communications
- Poster communications
- Debates
Themed Groups (6)
During these two-hour long sessions, the intention is to open a space for the presentation and debate on collective projects being carried out with regard to research in progress or recently finished research. Those in charge of the research will organize these sessions.
Group Sessions, Debates and Round Tables (10)
In addition to the themed sessions, the Congress will have 10 group, debate or round table sessions, which will take place in the afternoons. These sessions will be oriented toward offering a space to share experiences, establish professional networks, and exchange knowledge, concerns and issues regarding the professional aspects of working on migration. These are intended for groups or research networks, NGOs, migrant associations, officials, politicians, administrators, etc.
1. GENERAL DEBATES (3): As opposed to topical roundtables, these debates will provide different points of view on aspects addressed in the former, having the potential to constitute an expansion of the policy debate. The proposed debates include:
- 1.1. International Administration of Migratory Movements
- 1.2. Integration Policies
- 1.3. Cooperation Policies: Co-Development
2. WORKGROUP SESSIONS (3): These are intended to organize a type of special, technical workgroup in which people expressly interested in them can participate. The proposed sessions include:
- 2.1. Observatories
- 2.2. Migration Research Methods and Techniques
- 2.3. Training in Migration
3. GROUP AND NETWORK SESSIONS (4): The objective of these is to bring people who work on migration together in the form of a group; to get to know one another, comment on and share problematics, successes, projects… To know what the others do and who they are. The proposed sessions include:
- 3.1. Research Groups and Networks.
- 3.2. Social Groups and Networks (a type of “social mini-forum”).
