The World Refugee Day, an initiative of the United Nations, is celebrated since 2001. In 2011 the World Refugee Day is marked by the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention

The conference of the King Baudouin Foundation focus on migrants from China, Congo, Morocco and Turkey. The conference will discuss the question if transnational activities are factors of integration or rather segregation.

This ACP-EU Council of ministers addressed questions of migration and discussed progress in the ongoing ACP-EU dialogue on migration. Ministers agreed to reach concrete results to strengthen the operational cooperation in the areas of visa, remittances and readmission over the coming year.

The Institute of Jewish Studies (IJS), in collaboration with the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) organizes on Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:00 p.m. a seminar: "Comparative Diasporas: Politics and Culture, an International Workshop.

Between 11 - 29 July 2011, the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford holds its annual summer school in forced migration