Human migration, voluntary and coerced, ranks among the most volatile issues confronting the world. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than four million people have lost their lives in violent conflicts. This, compounded by natural disasters and weak state structures, has resulted in an estimated 17 million refugees and 27 million internally displaced people -- leaving one person out of every 120 uprooted. This Symposium examined the forces -- political upheaval, armed conflict, racial and religious persecution, redrawn borders, forced resettlement, starvation, poverty, environmental degradation, and xenophobia -- that create and contribute to these massive flows. We probed contemporary controversies -- ethnic cleansing of Hutus and Bosnians, environmental refugees of China's Three Gorges Dam, nationalism and ethnic identity in the Russian Federation, and the reassessment of guestworker, immigration and asylum attitudes in France, the Middle East, the U.S. and elsewhere. Our inquiry included such issues as the nature of U.S. citizenship; border control; humanitarian relief; intervention and the limits of sovereignty; resettlement and repatriation strategies; psychological and sociological trauma of forced migration; and the tensions of multiple cultural identities and loyalties. Finally, we were pleased to award this year's Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award to Dr. Francis Deng. Dr. Deng is the Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, and the Former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Sudan.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMS Tuesday, October 14 Democratization and Demilitarization in Guatemala: The Struggle for Indigenous Rights Tuesday, November 4 Land Mines Monday, November 17 Bosnia: Lessons Learned in Coordinating Multilateral Intervention Thursday, December 4 Peace Corps and Crisis Corps: Responding to New Problems and Crises Around the World SYMPOSIUM Thursday, February 26 AIDS, Migration and Refugees People in Motion: People-Smugglers from Sri Lanka to the Golden Venture Motives for Moving: Global Inequities and Migration Friday, February 27 Accelerating Genocide? The Media In Conflict When Boundaries Are Born: Disintegration and Displacement in the Former Soviet Union The Agony of Relief? Reconsidering Humanitarian Aid and Development Welcome Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award and Address "Ethnic Cleansing" and the Future of Military Intervention: Lessons Learned in the Former Yugoslavia Saturday, February 28 Flight or Fight? The Dissidents' Struggle Masses on the Move: China, Urbanization, and the Environment In the Line of Fire: Camps and Safe Havens Permanent Guests? Labor Migration, Citizenship and Identity Points of Entry: A Nation of Strangers Higher Walls? U.S. Interests and Immigration Policy Sunday, March 1 Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning: Identity and the Migration Experience Whom Should We Protect? Law, Morality, and the Search for Durable Solutions

"The tour d'horizon of major issues and questions concerning international migration and refugees provided conferees and their audiences with an intense and in-depth education like none other." -- Conference Reports, "An Educational Tour de Force at Tufts", International Migration Review, 32:4 (1998), pp. 1066-1068. Click here for FULL TEXT. Dr. Mark Miller Editor, International Migration Review Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware.