Technical meeting “Ensuring the right to nationality for every child”

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This technical meeting, organized by the Platform on Statelessness of the European Migration Network, aims to analyse the state of play regarding children which are without nationality and risk to become statelessness. The main purpose is to bring together different actors who work in the field (e.g. civil servants, legal practitioners, NGOs involved in the subject) while providing them with in-depth knowledge about policy options, good practices and potential challenges identifying accurately whether the child has or does not have a nationality. Participants are invited to exchange views as actively as possible to maximize the sharing of experience and difficulties encountered on this regard.

The technical meeting “Ensuring the right to nationality for every child” will take place on 7 December 2022 at the European Union House in Tallinn, Estonia (Rävala pst 4). 

Please find the concept note and preliminary agenda below.

 

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 9:00 – 9:30  Registration
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome words

  • Janek Mägi, Head of the Border Guard and Migration Policy Department, Ministry of the Interior, Estonia 
  • Adolfo Sommarribas, chair of the EMN Platform on Statelessness
9.45 – 10.25 Panel 1: Institutional panel

  • Livia Stoica, Head of Division for Legal Co-operation, Council of Europe
  • Delphine Drapeau, Legal Officer, Asylum Unit, DG Home 
10.25 – 10.40 Q/A
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.20 Statelessness determination procedure in the Netherlands

  • Marije Bouma, policymaker at the Directorate for Migration Policy, Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security
  

11:20 – 12:00

 Panel 2: National approaches for identification and determination of nationality for undocumented or stateless children (challenges and good practices)

  • Ada Tabatadze, Senior Specialist, Citizenship and Migration Division of Public Service Development Agency, the Ministry of Justice, Georgia
  • Ulla Vainikka, Chief Specialist, Legal Service of the Finnish Immigration Service
12.00 – 12.15 Q/A
12.15 – 13.30 Lunch and the possibility to visit the Europa Experience center
13.30 – 14.30 Panel 3: National approaches for identification and determination of nationality for undocumented or stateless children (challenges and good practices)

  • Undetermined citizenship in Estonia, Siiri Leskov, advisor, Border Guard and Migration Policy Department, Ministry of the Interior, Estonia
  • Catherine Cosgrave, Immigrant Council of Ireland
  • Kristien Sacré, lawyer, Immigration and Foreigners Law, the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration, Belgium
14,30 – 14.45 Q/A
14.45 – 15.00 Closing remarks and the way forward

  • Adolfo Sommarribas, chair of the EMN Platform on Statelessness

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