The European Union Centre of Excellence at York University is pleased to be presenting a talk by Prof. Kees Groenendijk entitled “Pre-Departure Integration Tests in the EU: Supporting Integration or Immigration Control?” The talk will take place on Friday, May 21st from 2:00 to 3:30 pm in room 219 of Glendon Hall (building #16 on the Glendon Campus – map here).

All are welcome but attendees are asked to RSVP to Willem Maas at <maas@yorku.ca>

Kees GROENENDIJK is emeritus Professor of Sociology of Law at Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where he directs the Centre for Migration Law. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law (1993-1995), and one of the founding editors of Rechtspraak Vreemdelingenrecht, a yearbook on Dutch and international case-law on immigration, refugees and race relations (1975-1992). Since 1992 he is member of the Network of Experts on Free Movement of Workers. He is also Chair of the Standing Committee of Experts on international immigration, refugee and criminal law (Meijers Committee). Recent publications on European immigration policies (Schengen and the EU), the impact of human rights instruments on the legal status of aliens, riots against immigrant workers in the Netherlands, the limits and possibilities of implementing national migration policies, the status of Turkish workers under the EEC-Turkey Association Agreement, estimating legal immigrants, temporary employment of migrants in Europe, regulation of ethnic immigration: the case of the Aussiedler, public reactions to the establishment of Muslim institutions in the Netherlands, security of residence of long-term migrants.

This talk is co-presented by the Centre for Refugee Studies and The Glendon School of Public and International Affairs.

Date: Friday, May 21st
Location: 219 Glendon Hall, York University’s Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview Avenue