Valeska Onken

Senior Programme Advisor, GIZ

Valeska Onken is Senior Programme Advisor in the Governance and Conflict Department of the GIZ Headquarter in Eschborn. She has been working in the field of displacement and migration for the past 15 years. She graduated in Public Policies and Administration from Potsdam University and with a Master of Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Center of the University of Oxford. From 2005-2011, she worked for the United Nations (UNHCR, UNDP, and IOM) in South Sudan, Kenya and Geneva. Since 2012 she has joined GIZ to work on the growing portfolio at the nexus of migration governance and development. Her current focus is developing and advising German and EU-funded migration projects, worldwide and especially in Africa, such as a migration governance project with the African Union, migration policy advice to the Government of Niger and the EUTF funded Better Migration Management project in the Horn of Africa region

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  • Day 2

    22 February 2019

  • 08:00  - 09:00
    Irregular migration continues to influence policy discussions in the EU and member states. At the same time as much effort is devoted to reducing irregular migration, member states are intensifying their search for workers outside the EU as a consequence of a dwindling labour force. Would more opportunities for legal migration for low-to-medium-skilled workers help reduce irregular migration – either because potential migrants would have a legal option or because African governments would have more incentives to curb irregular migration? Are there synergies with the objective of faster development on the African continent? What role, if any, for the European Commission and African partners in this process?

    This session is organised in the context of the Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration (MEDAM) project.
    _Breakfast Sessions
    Where
    FRANKFURT




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