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