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✨ That’s a wrap on the 2025 Metropolis International Summit! Grateful to everyone who joined us for vital conversations on migration. 🌍 Thanks to @cercmigration.bsky.social at @torontomet.bsky.social for hosting! Join the network + get discounts on future events: metropolisintl.org/membership
03.10.2025 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cercmigration.bsky.social's Chair Anna Triandafyllidou wraps up Metropolis International 2025 Summit Day 2 with a brief keynote.
A huge thank you to all panelists, moderators and participants for showing up with your questions, insights and energy!
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Panel 5: Leveraging Advanced Digital Technologies for Supporting Migrants begins! Speakers:
-Elana Wong, Civil Action Committee
-Violet Roumeliotis, Settlement Services International
-Chantal Goyette, Immigration Refugees Citizenship Canada
-Marla Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center
Panel 4: Migration Data in the Era of Advanced Digital Technologies begins!
-Jean-Christophe Dumont, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
-Maegan Hendow, International Centre for Migration Policy Development
-Meghan Benton, MPI
-Felicitas Hillmann, Technical University Berlin
Group of people gathered together in a room at Metropolis 2025.
Kicking off Day 2 of Metropolis 2025, cohosted with
@cercmigration.bsky.social at @torontomet.bsky.social!
We begin with a keynote speech from Ambassador Amma Twum-Amoah, Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, African Union.
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Day 1 of Metropolis International 2025 concludes. Thank you to all the moderators, panelists and participants that joined us in person and online.
We are looking forward to an eventful last day tomorrow!
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Panel 3: Roundtable on Migration Governance in Challenging Times beginning now! Speakers:
-Eva Millona, Immigration Initiative at Harvard University
-Silvia Nunez, Center for Research in North America, UNAM, Mexico
-Naika Foroutan, German Center for Integration and Migration Research
Keynote Speaker Alejandro Portes presents his talk on “Autarchy and immigration: The new American model of development and its consequences,” at Metropolis International 2025 day 1!
02.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Panel 2: Mobilising Diaspora Finance is beginning now! Speakers include:
-Stephen Gelb, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, New School for Social Research
-Dane Rowlands, Carleton University
-Mary Setrana, University of Ghana, Accra
Panel 1: Solidarity Cities – Policy Frameworks, Coalitions & Challenges in the Americas begins. Speakers:
-Els de Graauw, City University of New York
-Pablo Ceriani, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families
-Anne Güller-Frey, Tür an Tür e.V.
-Harald Bauder, TMU
Kicking off Metropolis 2025, cohosted with
@metropolisintl.bsky.social at @torontomet.bsky.social. Chair Anna Triandafyllidou begins with remarks.
Vice Chair Violet Roumiotis and CEO of Settlement Services International welcomes the audience to engage with constructive dialogue on migration while being cognizant of our relationship to the land as settlers, in both her home country of Australia and here in Canada.
02.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kicking off the 2025 Metropolis International in Toronto, cohosted with @cercmigration.bsky.social at TMU. We begin with remarks from Chair Anna Triandafyllidou.
02.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The #Metropolis2025 Summit takes place this week, co-hosted with @cercmigration.bsky.social!
Over the coming days, global experts will gather to discuss migration’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.
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