Title: “Balancing Humanitarianism and Security: The European Union’s Responses to New Migration and Refugee Issues

Date and time: Friday, February 7, 2014, from 9:00AM – 10:00AM

Presenter: Dr. Martin Geiger

A 1-hour webinar, consisting of a 30-minute presentation by Dr. Geiger and  30 minutes for a question and answer period from registered participants. The presentation will feature further discussion from a CES policy workshop on Migration hosted on January  10, 2014. Interviews with keynote speakers will be available for viewing from the policy workshop.

Registration is required.

Speaker biography: Martin Geiger currently holds a Banting Fellowship (Government of Canada/SSHRC) at Carleton University. He is affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is also an Associate of the Centre for European Studies European Union Centre of Excellence (Carleton University) and a Corresponding Member of his former workplace, the Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He is the (co-)author and co-editor of a number of publications on different aspects of cross-border mobility, development and governance. Geiger is also the founding co-editor of Mobility & Politics, a new thematic series with Palgrave Macmillan.