Rey Koslowski's Upcoming and Recent Presentations:

“Border Security Policies and US-Canada Relations,” presented at After the 2008 US Presidential Election: Opportunities for Canada? Annual Foreign Policy Conference, Canadian International Council (CIC), June 19-20, 2008.

“Selective Migration Policies and their Potential Pitfalls,” presented at Economically Motivated Migration - A Challenge for Western Societies, University of Virginia, May 23-24, 2008.

“Rethinking Technology and Border Security,” Borders, Technology, and Security: Strategic Responses to New Challenges, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Mar. 30-Apr.1, 2008.

"Global Mobility and the Quest for an International Migration Regime," Conference on International Migration and Development: Continuing the Dialogue – Legal and Policy Perspectives, the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), New York, New York, January 17-18, 2008.

“Border Security Policies and Technologies in the European Union,” Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, University of California at Los Angeles, June 1, 2007.

“Border Security Technologies, Immigration Reforms and Implications for New York State,” International Speakers' Forum, Center for International Development, State University of New York (SUNY), March 29, 2007.

“Immigration Reforms and Border Security Technology in the U.S.,” The Migration-Security Nexus in the light of the German EU-Presidency, Berlin March 19, 2007.

“The Perimeter Clearance Concept and Border Security,” Fostering Mobility at the BC/WA Border: Perimeter Clearance, WHTI, and Real ID, Border Policy Institute, Western Washington State University, February 15, 2007.

“Emigrants and Homeland Politics,” Diasporas Transnationalism and Foreign Policy, Columbia University, Feb. 8, 2007.

“International Regime for Security and Mobility of Labour," International Labour Organization, Bangkok, Thailand, October 27, 2006.

“Migration Policy Research in the U.S.” International Metropolis Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2-6, 2006.

Border Security 2006, Warsaw Poland, May 9-10, 2006 event info

Strategies and Tools for Effective Border Management Workshop, International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham University, Durham UK April 3-4, 2006 event info

“Trafficking, Smuggling and Illegal Migration; The Question of Demand,” Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Countering the Victimization of Immigrants, Center for International Relations (Warsaw) and International Center for Women Rights: Protection and Promotion "La Strada,” Chisinau, Moldova, March 31, 2006.

Brussels School of International Studies, February 15, 2006. event info

“Real Challenges for Virtual Borders: The Implementation of US-VISIT,” Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC, June 9, 2005. (event announcement) (press release) (full report)

“Possible Steps Towards an International Regime for Mobility and Security”, United Nations, Mar. 31, 2005.

“Real Challenges for Virtual Borders,” Centre on Migration Policy and Society, Oxford University, Mar. 14, 2005.

“Toward Virtual Borders: Expanding European Border Control Policy Initiatives and Technology Implementations” An Immigration Policy of Europe? New York University and the European Union Institute, Florence, Italy, March 13, 2005.

"European and Transatlantic Cooperation on Migration, Mobility and Security" Beyond the U.S. War on Terrorism: Comparing Domestic Legal Remedies to an International Dilemma, The J.B. Moore Society Spring 2005 Symposium, University of Virginia Law School, Feb. 25-26, 2005.

“International Migration, Border Control and Homeland Security in the Information Age” Bucknell University November 11, 2004.

“9/11 Commission Recommendations on Biometric Border Screening Systems,” Better Border Security? A Roundtable on the Migration-Related Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, Columbia Law School, September 29, 2004.

“Possible Steps Towards an International Regime for Mobility and Security.” Workshop on Global Mobility Regimes, organized by the Institute for Futures Studies, the Centre for History and Economics, Kings College, Cambridge University and the Global Equity Initiative of Harvard University, Stockholm, June 11-12, 2004.

"New Technologies of Border Control in an Enlarging Europe" East European Studies Program, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, June 2, 2004.

"Smart Borders, Virtual Borders or No Borders: Homeland Security Choices for the United States and Canada," Sponsored at the Canada Institute at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, May 20, 2004. details

Rey Koslowski, "International Cooperation to Create Smart Borders,"presented at North American Integration: Migration Trade, and Security, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Ottawa, April 1-2, 2004.

“Information Technology and Homeland Security: How “Virtual” Can Smart Borders Get?” Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC, Wednesday, April 28, 2004. details

"Intersections of Information Technology and Human Mobility: Globalization versus Homeland Security?"at: Money and Migration after Globalization, British Economic and Social Research Council and the U.S. Social Science Research Council, Oxford University, Mar. 25-28, 2004.

"International Cooperation on Electronic Advanced Passenger Information Transfer and Passport Biometrics," presented at the International Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, March 17-20, 2004.