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The international forum, Immigration Futures, will examine future migration flows, migration patterns (including circular, temporary and permanent migration) and the impact of out-migration on sending countries.

As the competition for skilled migration grows and the world's population becomes increasingly mobile, these are issues of growing importance and interest.

Countries are looking for policies to attract and retain the immigrants they need to meet labour demands and demographic realities, as well as the research to support their decisions.

Immigration Futures will bring together some of the top academics, policy-makers and internationally-renowned migration thinkers to discuss and debate these issues.

Key themes of the forum will include:
  • The pattern of skilled migration flows - which countries will be favoured by skilled migrants, what skills will be in demand, how will skilled migrants be retained?
  • A comparison of different approaches to the selection of skilled migrants
  • The strategic advantages of permanent migration vs temporary programs
  • The ethics of 'cherry-picking' - out-migration and its impact on source countries
  • Circular migration: how settled are the ethnic diasporas?

The forum will be held at the Monash University Prato Centre, which occupies an elegant 18th century palace, Palazzo Vaj, in the historic centre of Prato, an ancient city in Tuscany, Italy.

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