GLO led Session at the APPAM Conference in Brussels, 13-14 July 2017

The international conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) will take place in Brussels on 13-14 July 2017 under the theme ‘Public Policy & Governance Beyond Borders’. The event is co-hosted by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University, NL) and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse University, USA).

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) had initiated a session at the prestigious APPAM conference on “Labor Market and Health Impacts of Refugees and Asylum Seekers”. GLO Director Alessio J.G. Brown (also Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht and Honorary Professor at Maastricht University) had organized the session. He will also chair it on Friday, July 14 at the international conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

The Panel Session will consist of the following presentations:

Amelie F. Constant, Princeton University; Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Immigrant Health Assimilation in Europe

Veronika Fajth, Maastricht University

The Effects of Refugees on Social Cohesion in Local Communities: The Case of Congolese Refugees in Rwanda

Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Overseas Development Institute

Cash Transfers for Refugees: The Economic and Social Effects of a Programme in Jordan

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