—  From 23 to 25th November 2023  —

LANGUAGES

Barcelona , 23-25th November 2023

Immigration and integration, peace values

The table will try to provide a positive perspective on the immigration process from various personal experiences. Professionals from different departments will tell us about their life experiences in their African countries of origin and their contributions to the host country’s society. Both opposing departments contribute to the positive values that are interrelated.

Speakers

Antonio Pérez-Portabella

President del ICA. Art collector. Bachelor of Business Science in ESADE from Barcelona Business School. Entrepreneur: Director of Plastic and Cellulose Film Company (Barcelona); President of PROMISA S.A. (Guatemala, Mexico, Zaragoza); Avalis Consultant, S.G.R, Catalonia; Advisor to the Global Department of Santander Group University in Catalonia. Member of the African House Advisory Committee since its establishment (2006). Chairman and founding member of the Catalan Institute for African Studies (ICA) (2007)

Amadou Bocar Sam Daff

Coordinator of the Catalan Senegalese Association (CASC) and member of the CEPAIM Foundation Advisory Committee.

He is from Senegal, currently living in Catalonia. He is a writer and a member of organizations and entities dedicated to immigration, development, and cross-cultural exchange. In 2018, he was awarded the Barcelona City Council Citizen Merit Gold Award.

Nicole Ndongala

Congolese human rights defender.

 She is the Director General of the Karibu Association, a member of the Africa House Advisory Committee, and the African Women’s Empowerment Coordinator of the Symmetry Foundation, in the European projects “After” and “We Created the Future 20/24”.

Justo Bolekia Boleká

Ecuadorian Hispanic Guinean linguist, essayist, novelist, and poet.

PhD from Compton University (1986) and PhD from Salamanca University (2007). Ecuadorian Hispanic Guinean linguist, essayist, novelist, and poet. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of Bubi and Spanish poetry. Professor in the Department of French at Salamanca University. Special Zone Foreign Correspondent Scholar in Equatorial Guinea, Member and Member of the Equatorial Guinea Spanish Language Institute (AEGLE) 

Lluís Recolons, SJ

Master in Sociology (M.A. Political Science) from Columbia University New York

He holds a Master in Sociology (M.A. Political Science) from Columbia University New York, a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Barcelona, a degree in Theology and a degree in Economic-Social Sciences from the University of Deusto and is the director of the Studies area of the Migra-Studium Foundation. His publications have dealt with issues related to migration or population, among them: La població de Catalunya. Distribución territorial y evolución demogràfica 1900-1970 (Barcelona, 1976) and “Migration in the World: Links with Human Richness and Material Poverty”, in Population & Poverty Issues at the Dawn of the 21st Century (New Delhi, 2001). He teaches in the annual graduate courses on migration.

Eunice Romero Rivera

Euncie Romero Rivera is currently the director general of Migrations, Refugee and Antiracism at the Generalitat de Catalunya. She obtained a degree in political science and a post-graduate degree in public policy at the Tec de Monterrey (Mexico), and a research qualification in sociology at the UAB.She has researched identity, national construction, and immigration. She is a PhD student in Information Society at the UOC. Her thesis studies how processes of national subjectivities accompany, interrelate and co-constitute social stratification around the sense of belonging to Catalonia. She’s an expert in nationalism, immigration and diversity. She has developed sociological research at the UAB, the UOC and the LSE (London) and has also worked advising the Catalan Government (2016/2019). In social implementation and innovation, she has been Commissioner for Cohesion Policy and director of the Social Area of Òmnium Cultural.

Moderator:
Joan Abelló

UPF European PhD in Humanities – University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2015). Art and design critic, independent commissioner. He collaborates with various art and design colleges and universities in Italy, the United States, and Spain. Director of the Royal Art Circle of Barcelona and Director of the Catalan Institute for African Studies.