Cities of Migration Webinar: Routes to belonging: the role of cities in the civic and political integration of immigrants

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

11:00 – 12:00 (EST Canada and US)
15:00 – 16:00 (UK and Ireland)
16:00 – 17:00 (Germany and EU)

This webinar is presented by the Cities of Migration project as part of the Integration Learning Exchange, a monthly webinar series presenting good ideas and new thinking on the integration of urban migrants in global cities.

The first event in the 2009 series is on the role of cities in accelerating the civic and political integration of immigrants, with city representatives from Dublin and New Haven, Connecticut. Join in for a 60 minute seminar about successful municipal integration strategies, introduced by Howard Duncan, International Metropolis project, and hosted by Ratna Omidvar, Maytree.

This is a free, open learning event.

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Speaker Bios

Kica Matos
Community Services Administrator
City of New Haven, Connecticut

Kica Matos is the Community Services Administrator with the City of New Haven, Connecticut. Ms. Matos is formerly the Executive Director of Junta for Progressive Action, New Haven’s oldest Latino, community based organization. She is also a clinical visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School. For most of her adult life, she has devoted herself to advocacy in the area of human rights and civil rights, working in non-profit organizations including Amnesty International and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In 2005 she was the recipient of the national “New Frontier” award.

Cormac O’Donnell,
Strategic Policy Manager, Intercultural Unit
Dublin City Council

Cormac O’Donnell is the Strategic Policy Manager of the Intercultural Unit of Dublin City Council. He has undertaken and overseen an array of research and consultative work in the areas of housing, social inclusion, new community development, interculturalism and integration and led the development of policy and practice at local government level. In 2008 Cormac coordinated Dublin’s 2008 Migrant Voters Registration Initiative. Cormac’s was awarded a 2008 ‘Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award’ for his work with the Central-Eastern European Network.

Howard Duncan
Executive Head, International Metropolis Secretariat
Ottawa, Canada

Howard Duncan is the Executive Head, International Metropolis Secretariat, Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Metropolis is an international network for comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world.

In 1997, Howard joined the Metropolis Project as its International Project Director and became the Executive Head of International Metropolis in 2002. He has concentrated on increasing the Project’s benefits to the policy community by creating effective opportunities for direct and frank exchange between researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, increasing Metropolis’ geographic reach, and expanding the range of issues it confronts.