1. Personal Introduction
• Ronald Lucardie
• Born 8th October 1948 in Indonesia
• Dutch Nationality
• Social and Cultural Anthropologist (Nijmegen en Leiden)
• Methodology of social sciences
University of Nijmegen and Wageningen (until 1978)
• Research Geographical mobility Northern Moluccas (1978 – 1982)
• Policy Advisor Cordaid Netherlands
(since 1986 until October 2012)
• Policy Advisor Dutch Consortium of Migrant Organizations / DCMO (since
November 2010)
• Vice-president ERIO (European Roma Information Office) since 2009
• President of EUNOMAD 2012 - 2014
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2. Reframing the debate
• Political analyses should be part and parcel of the debate.
• “Bring men back in the debate”: Migrants as (co) actors not as
factors. Stop instrumentalisation of migrants.
• Recognition of the role of migrants as (co)builders of civil society
by granting civil society space to their network organizations.
• Allow migrants to maximize their capacities as transnationals.
Break the dominant North – South patterns.
• Redefining the concept of development into a more
comprehensive idea of human (social) development, and
implementation of this in policies, supporting activities.
3. The example of two Network organizations
• EUNOMAD (2007)
European Network on Migrations and
Development
www.eunomad.org
• DCMO (2010)
Dutch Consortium of Migrant Organizations
(= EUNOMAD Netherlands secretariat)
www.migrantconsortium.nl
4. THE EUNOMAD NETWORK
A public arena for multi-actors dialogue
Eunomad is a European network that
present itself as a public arena for
multi-actors dialogue on practices
linking
migration, citizenship, integration and
development.
5. Eunomad is a European network that present itself
as a public arena for multi-actors dialogue on
practices linking migration, citizenship, integration
and development.
Choices – positioning – claimed added value
• Where:
Public arena
• With whom:
Multi-actors
• For what:
• dialogue on practices
• How:
Linking migration, citizenship, integration and development
• Range:
European network
6. Civil Society (Constellation of The Netherlands)
Government
army
Other actors?
Citizens
Church ?
Migrant
organizations
business Civil society
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7. The values shared within the network
are based on the will to:
• Recognize migrant citizens’
contributions to countries of origin and
European countries
• Affirm the wealth of mobility for
development “here and there”
• Rationalising the debate on immigration
in Europe
8. Activities – areas - methods
• Capitalization
• Study (research – analyses)
• Advocacy
9. EUROPE WIDE NETWORK
Intrinsic characteristics of migration:
• Crossing borders
• transnational
• “civil society arena” is a wide as
where the migration goes
10. Extra Challenge
Europe is still “An Europe of Nations”
• Different constellations of civil society
• Different migration histories
• Different social, political, cultural
context
• Etc.
11. Added value of EUNOMAD as
an European netwerk
In the form of an hypothesis:
Because of its intrinsic border crossing
and transnational nature, migration and
the migrants may actively contribute to
the building of a real unified Europe…..
12. An important element in EUNOMAD’ messages
(capitalization – study/research – advocacy)
Cultural diversity in
development projects / Why do consider this
to be important?
Why should Eunomad address the question of
interculturality /1 example: UETD
13. The EUNOMAD assumptions
• Cultural diversity guaranties the “refreshment” of
societies, and gives them “quality boosts”, enriches
them.
Many historical examples (Ptolomaic
Empires, Roman Empire, Moghul Empire, the
Netherlands, small island societies in the
Moluccas….)
• Migration is also movement of ideas.
This is part of the positive contribution migrants can
give to both host and home country: Exchange of
cultural ideas..
14. Exampel:
Circulair migration UETD (United European
Turkish Democrats)
• Bring to the host country the values
of social enterprising (Ahilik system
from the Otoman empire, based on
the Mevlana – Konya philosophy)
• Bring back to the home country ideas
of human
rights, democracy, gender, etc.
