Patrick Taran

Alexander Tevdoy-Burmuli

Alexey Timoshenko

Ian Taylor

Igor Tomberg

Mattia Toaldo

Sim Tack

Evgeny Tipailov

Kazuhiko Togo

Nathalie Tocci

Patrick Taran

USA

Patrick Ayres Taran is President of Global Migration Policy Associates. He has 35 years full-time professional experience in international migration, immigration, refugee resettlement and discrimination/integration work at local, national and global levels. From 2000 to 2011 he was Senior Migration Specialist at the International Labour Office (ILO). He was Secretary for Migration at the World Council of Churches 1990 to 1998; in 1994 he co-founded Migrants Rights International (MRI) and was program officer for the IOM-ILO-UNFPA-UNITAR International Migration Policy Programme 1998-2001. He established and directed the South American Refugee Program in Seattle (1976-1980) and was programme executive at the Immigration and Refugee Program of the National Council of Churches USA 1980 to 1990. His degree majors were social work and Latin America studies at Friends World College/State University of New York. He currently teaches at Geneva School of Diplomacy and the ILO International Training Centre, Turin. Recent publications include Strengthening Migration Governance, ILO-OSCE (editor), International Migration, Social Cohesion and Development: An Integrated Approach, Council of Europe, and Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies; Mediterranean edition, OSCE-IOM-ILO (coauthor-editor).

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Opinions

The International Community and Global Society: What Are Pandemics Changing?

Undermining global society’s institutions and rules may have short term benefits for some – cheating can win and it does shore up autocratic regimes. But isolation from the international community has demonstrated disastrous consequences in isolationist, unprepared and anarchic responses to the pandemic, writes Patrick Taran, President of Global Migration Policy Associates.

03.06.2020

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What European Governments Get Wrong About Migration

The outcome of the so called “migration summit”, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, has very dubious prospects for succeeding. Certainly, not in anything more than impeding human mobility by imposing more migration control measures on “migration routes.” In doing so, the outcome measures seem likely to succeed only in undermining human freedoms and human rights.

04.09.2017

Opinions

Globalisation, Crises, and Migration; Challenges to Democracy and Development

While world attention has focused on a surge in refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East, the crisis in Europe is less one of refugees and migrants but more of governance.

19.09.2016

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