BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refugees Welcome: The "\;Riace Model"\; and its Mayor - Do menico Lucano\, Mayor of Riace\, Italy DTSTART:20161201T180000Z DTEND:20161201T190000Z UID:TALK69417@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Melissa Gatter DESCRIPTION:Mayor Domenico Lucano of Riace\, Italy will join the Cambridge Migration Society for a discussion of his experience hosting refugees in his city. Dr Anna Bagnoli (Sociology\, University of Cambridge) will moder ate the discussion.\n\nIn 2016\, Mayor Lucano was named one of Fortune's " World's Greatest Leaders":\n"For decades emigration drained life from Riac e\, a village of 2\,000 on the Calabrian coast. When a boatload of Kurdish refugees reached its shores in 1998\, Lucano\, then a schoolteacher\, saw an opportunity. He offered them Riace’s abandoned apartments along with job training. Eighteen years on\, Mayor Lucano is hailed for saving the t own\, whose population now includes migrants from 20-some nations\, and re juvenating its economy. (Riace has hosted more than 6\,000 asylum seekers in all.) Though his pro-refugee stance has pitted him against the mafia an d the state\, Lucano’s model is being studied and adopted as Europe’s refugee crisis crests."\n\nFurther background on the "Riace Model": http:/ /www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2016/04/refugee-settlement-programs- save-dying-italian-villages-160421113908416.html\n\nAbout Dr Bagnoli:\nAnn a is Associate Researcher at the Department of Sociology\, where she contr ibutes to postgraduate teaching of qualitative research methods and to pos tgraduate supervision. After research posts at the National Research Counc il in Rome and at the LSE\, she carried out her PhD at the Centre for Fami ly Research of the University of Cambridge. Her research covers the areas of youth studies\, identities\, migration\, and gender. Anna's current wor k looks at the identity processes of migrants\, with a focus on the intern al migrations of Europeans\, particularly young Italians. LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Theatres\, Room 5 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR