Integration Conference 2025

2022

Lõimumiskonverents 2024
 

Together or Apart: Searching for the Middle Ground

Conference programme and speakers’ abstracts in three languages

Photo gallery

Opening of the conference

Opening remarks (Piret Hartman, Minister of Culture)

Opening remarks (Dmitri Moskovtsev, director of Integration Foundation)

Suursaadik Kairat Abdrakhmanov
Ambassador Kairat Abdrakhmanov
’The OSCE HCNM Ljubljana Guidelines on Integration of Diverse Societies: a practical reference for integration policies’

Panel on segregation

 
Judit Kende
Judit Kende
‘Low xenophobia despite high immigrant presence? A call for inclusive integration policies’
Patrick Kotzur
Patrick Kotzur
‘Intergroup contact with refugees shapes levels of social fear of crime’
James Laurence
James Laurence
‘Together and apart: dynamics of prejudice and social cohesion at the intersection of ethnic diversity and residential segregation’
Karin Torpan
Karin Torpan
‘Newly arrived migrants residential mobility: What are the patterns of exit from low-income neighbourhoods and rental sector?’
 

Speeches and panel discussion on segregation

Panel on segregation in education

 

Hanno Kruse
Hanno Kruse
‘Ethnic segregation in secondary schools – why is it so persistent and what can we do about it?’

Venla Bernelius
Venla Bernelius
‘Living together, learning apart? Socially mixed neighbourhoods, school segregation and residential mobility in Finnish cities’
Laura Kirss
Laura Kirss
‘Segregation in education and the lessons to keep in mind in the administrative organisation of Ukrainian students’
Natalja Mjalitsina
Natalja Mjalitsina
‘The experience of Räägu (Ukrainian children’s) school experience – The values’
 

Speeches and panel discussion on segregation in education

The Ene Hion Foundation Annual Scholarship Laureate Announcement


Artemisia Nikolaidou
Artemisia Nikolaidou
‘Research on services for reception & integration of Third Country Nationals in the EU – WELCOME Project’

Panel on the subject of diaspora

 
Richard Gale
Richard Gale
‘Stubborn continuities: Towards a Critical Race Theory perspective on ethno-religious segregation and spatial transformation in the UK’
Keit Spiegel
Keit Spiegel
‘Estonians abroad are part of the Estonian society’
Andrii Rybas
Andrii Rybas
‘Working in Estonia for foreigners. Theory and personal experience’
 

Speeches and panel discussion on the subject of diaspora

Fourth panel

 
Gemma Catney
Gemma Catney
‘Integrated households, integrated neighbourhoods? Mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood change in England’
Kati Kadarik
Kati Kadarik
‘Daily Mobility Patterns: Reducing or Reproducing Inequalities and Segregation?’
Anto Aasa
Anto Aasa
‘Differences in daily mobility and spatial patterns based on the example of Kalamaja and Priisle residents’
 

Speeches and panel discussion

Political debate

 

Political debate between Estonian politicians