Immigration and the Challenges for the Left

The Conference seeks to act as a platform for launching a debate over the issue of immigration and the role of Italian and British (and to some extent European) left wing and progressive parties in dealing with the political, economic, social, and moral challenges and opportunities posed by this increasingly structural phenomenon.

The Conference seeks to act as a platform for launching a debate over the issue of immigration and the role of Italian and British (and to some extent European) left wing and progressive parties in dealing with the political, economic, social, and moral challenges and opportunities posed by this increasingly structural... phenomenon.

The debate, as the conference title suggests, is premised on a central hypothesis that the various speakers are asked to test and develop further. This central hypothesis is that left wing and progressive parties are increasingly challenged on the topic and debates surrounding migration.

The conference seeks to unpack the debate in its various components mostly by reference to the various types of migration, the different legal statuses of immigrants, and to the various attitudes held by European - and British and Italian in particular - left wing and progressive parties, as well as by important social actors such as the labour movement and the Church.

A debate on the European progressive and radical left wing parties' approach to the issue of immigration

chaired by Keith Ewing (Professor in Labour Law – King’s College London – President of the Institute of Employment Rights)

Key Speakers

Massimo Livi Bacci (Italian Senate, ‘Partito Democratico’, Professor of Demography at the University of Florence)
Sonia McKay (Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, sponsored by INCA-CGIL UK)
Claude Moraes MEP (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)
Gabriele Zimmer MEP (GUE/NGL, European Parliament Committee on Development, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs)
Discussants

Andrea Biondi (Professor in EU Law - King’s College London – ‘Partito Democratico’ London)
Paolo Novak (Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS)
Enrico Sartor (‘Associazione 25 Aprile’)

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