New and Old Migrant Minorities in Central Europe

INVITATION 

New and Old Migrant Minorities in Central Europe

(Creation, Legal Status and Real Situation)

 

Co-organizers:

National University of Public Service, Faculty of Public Administration, Department of European and Comparative Public Law (Budapest)

and Charles University, Faculty of Law, Institute of Legal History (Prague)

 

Time: 25th March 2015, 2 p.m.

Venue: NKE KTK, 1118 Budapest Ménesi út. 5. Room No. 402

Language: English

 

Conference is supported by IVF VUSG Project No. 60900011 and NAKI (Czech Republic) Project No. DF12P01OVV013

 

Program

1st Session

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Iván Halász Ph.D. (National University of Public Service, Faculty of Public Administration)

14.00 Prof. JUDr. Jan Kuklík DrSc (dean, Charles University, Faculty of Law)

Creation of the Hungarian minority in the Czech lands after the World War II.

14.20 JUDr. PhDr. René Petráš Ph.D. (assistant professor, Charles University, Faculty of Law)

Creation and legal status of the Slovak, Roma and Vietnamese minority in the Czech Republic

14.40 Doc. Dr. iur. Mag.phil. Harald Christian Scheu, Ph.D. (associate professor, Charles University, Faculty of Law)

The emergence of new minorities in Austria and current issues concerning their legal protection

15.00 Balázs Dobos Ph.D. (research-fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences - Institute for Minority Studies)

Insiders and Outsiders: Migrant, Non-recognized Minority Communities and the Minority Protection System in Hungary

15.20 Discussion

15.40 Break

16.00 2nd Session

Chairman: Prof. JUDr. Jan Kuklík DrSc (dean, Charles University, Faculty of Law)

Dr. Norbert Tóth Ph.D. (vice-dean, National University of Public Service, Faculty of International and European Studies)

The Problem of Recognizing Immigrants as 'Minorities' in Public Internatonal Law - With a Special Emphasis on the Recent Resolutions and Decisions of the Council of Europe based on the so-called Kalmár Report of 2014

16.20 András Kováts (junior research fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences - Institute for Minority Studies)

Migrant community organisations in Hungary
16.40 Zsófia Bende (Ph.D. student, National University of Public Service, Faculty of Public Administration)

Reception of unaccompanied minors in the EU. 

17.00 Discussion

17.30 Close of conference