The Future of the Arctic Human Population: Migration in the North Conference takes place in Rovaniemi, Finland on 28–29 May 2020. This will be the first ever conference on (im)migration in the cap of the north that is a part of series of activities of UArctic Thematic network on Arctic Migration.

Registration for the conference is now open on the
conference homepage www.arcticcentre.org/MIN2020. The conference
is free of charge but all participants are required to register by 15 May, 2020. The
conference organizers will offer coffee & lunch for all
participants.

Preliminary conference program is available in the
conference website. The first conference day on 28 May is policy and business
oriented and includes panel discussions of ambassadors and business sector. In the
business panel entrepreneurs and representatives of cross-arctic companies will
discuss the topic of skill-based immigration. How to attract and how to keep foreign
workers in the Arctic? What is the role of entrepreneurs and companies?

The second conference day on 29 May is scientific oriented. Among others,
the program includes panel discussion “Growing Arctic cities, shrinking Arctic
cities, melting Arctic Cities” which will focus on the challenges faced by the
Arctic settlements. The panel is hosted by geographer Timothy
Heleniak of Nordregio.

Call
for abstracts is open until 10 March

Deadline for
abstracts has been extended until 10 March 2020. The topics include:

1. Gender and migration in the arctic
2. Immigrants and the
labour markets in the North
3. The role of mass media in the integration
of immigrants
4. Cooperating the stateless
5. Growing arctic
cities, shrinking arctic cities, melting arctic cities
6. Local
languages, education: Integration of adult and youth
7. Outward
migration from the arctic

More
information:

Conference website: www.arcticcentre.org/MIN2020
#mignorth

Kalle Autti, conference coordinator
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
kaautti[at]ulapland.fi