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Brexit Divisions II: The Mother of Migration Debates
22 March 2016, 12:00 am
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- All
22 March 2016, 3.00-7.30pm
Migration is the key opinion shaper and point of controversy in the Brexit campaigns. With this half-day event, we aim to inject factual clarity and critical analysis into the debate, challenging arguments on both sides. What are the key claims and facts regarding free movement, the refugee crisis and the EU's role in either? How are they used to influence people as they make sense of the choice about EU membership?
This event follows a first one on 08 March, Brexit Divisions I: What you ought to know about EU referendums and the UK debate.
Both events are embedded in guest editor weeks on openDemocracy that we are hosting 7-11 and 21-25 March. The events are open to the public, and targeted at activists and opinion shapers, analysts and commentators, students and academics, as well as interested citizens.
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Programme:
| 3.00-5.00pm |
The effects of EU migration on the UK |
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Christian Dustmann, Professor of Economics, UCL Director of CReAM, Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration |
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Discussants: Stephen Booth David Goodhart |
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Chair: Uta Staiger |
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| 5.00-5.30pm | Refreshments |
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5.30-7.30pm |
Roundtable: migration, public opinion and Brexit |
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John Springford Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform |
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Steven Woolfe MEP UKIP Frontbench Spokesman on Migration and Financial Affairs |
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Hugo Dixon Columnist and entrepreneur Chairman of InFacts |
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Amy Ludlow Affiliated Faculty Lecturer in Law College Lecturer, University of Cambridge |
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Ian Preston Professor of Economics, UCL Deputy Research Director of CReAM Research Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
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Chair: John Peet |
| Our Brexit Divisions Series and the openDemocracy weeks around it are co-funded by a grant from the European Commission Office in the UK. Our aim in them is to offer information and analysis that clarifies issues at stake, challenging arguments made on both sides of the debate. For any questions, please contact Claudia Sternberg. |
