Mireille Paquet

Associate Professor at Concordia University

Concordia University

Mireille Paquet is an Associate Professor at Concordia University and she is the Concordia University Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration. As a political scientist her research centres on how political institutions and bureaucracies affect the content of immigration policy and the role of these institutions in immigration politics.

Programme speaker

02:00 p.m. CEST

04:30 p.m. CEST

Symposium

The future of cities and migration: inclusion of precarious migrants and refugees

This symposium explores the role of cities in the governance of migration, focusing on their key function related to the social inclusion, political participation, and labour market integration of precarious migrants and refugees.

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