Conference Programme

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Q-HELIX ALLIANCE

Partners:

• Instytut Badań nad Turcją
• Fundacja Innowacja i Wiedza

Date / Place: 19-20 March 2026 / WSB University, Poland

Title of event: CHALLENGING MIGRATION: SECURITY, MOBILITY, LABOUR MARKET, INTEGRATION, HUMAN RIGHTS

19 March 2026

9.00-11.00 – REGISTRATION

11.00-11.30 – opening ceremony – prof. Łukasz Sułkowski / (WSB University, President of Business School)

11.30-12.00 – Q-helix alliance presentation

Keynote session:

12.00-12.30 – Michelle Pace, Incoming Visiting Fellow, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom: Unwelcome and Unprotected: Refugee Integration and the Reconfiguration of the Right to Asylum

12.30-13.00 – Georgia Dimari, University of Crete, Greece: Securitising Migration in Greece and Poland: A Comparative Overview through the Lens of Political Culture

13.00-13.30 – Nurcan Özgür Baklacioğlu, Istanbul University: Managing Migration, Integration and Return: Lessons Learned from Turkish Experience

13.30-14.30 – lunch break

14.30-16.00 – First plenary session: Migration-security nexus / Moderator: .................................…

14.30-14.45. Paulina Polko – Sustainable approach to migration-security nexus: migration as a threat, migration as a referent object under threat, migration as a security resource / WSB University

14.45-15.00. Blanka Dżugaj – Climate in Motion. Climate Migrations in South Asia: Adaptation and Compulsion / Instytut badań nad Turcją

15.00-15.15. Magdalena El-Ghamari - From Al-Hol to Europe: Empirical Insights from North-East Syria and the Security–Human Rights Dilemma of Repatriation. [ONLINE] / University College of Professional Education (WSKZ), Institute of Criminology and Internal Security

15.15-15.30. Laura Dryjanska - Migration and human trafficking: Underlying psychological mechanisms / Asbury University

15.30-15.45. Piotr Gil – Migration at the junction of cognitive warfare and the Mental Security (Infrastructure) / WSB University

15.45-16.00. Karol Kujawa - The Impact of Migration from Africa on Poland's Internal Security: Conditions, Challenges, and Implications. [ONLINE] / Akademickie Centrum Analiz Strategicznych

16.00-16.15 – discussion

16.15-17.30 Second plenary session: migration and labour market / Moderator: .................................…

16.15-16.30 – Liudmyla Hanushchak-Yefimenko, Svitlana Arabuli - Features of forced migration of youth as a new type of educational loss / Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

16.30-16.45 – Kalina Lubas – Enhancement of the state’s economic safety with the involvement of foreigners / Metropolitan University

16.45-17.00 - Svitlana Bebko, Olena Evseitseva - Forced migration in wartime: consequences for the labour market / Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

17.00-17.15 – Ivan Skorokhodov - Skills pipelines amid war-driven internal displacement and cross-border migration: university–industry capability partnerships for value-added apparel manufacturing [ONLINE] / Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

17.15-17.30 – discussion

18.00 - dinner 

20 March 2026

9.00-9.30 – registration, coffee & networking time

9.30-11.30 – Third plenary session: Human rights, integration and cultural dialogue / Moderator: Paulina Polko

9.30-9.45 Artur Fabiś, Maciej Witkowski - Dilemmas of implementing support training for young war refugees from Ukraine / WSB University

9.45-10.00 Dominika Czerniak - IMMERSED: innovative citizen-centred solution that facilitates employment sustainability and financial resilience of Ukrainian refugees into local communities in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A case study of the ESF+ social innovation project / Foundation Innovation and Knowledge

10.00-10.15 José Carlos Pereira de Morais - Integration challenges faced by immigrant entrepreneurs: A multiple case study in Portugal / ISPGAYA – Polytechnic Institute

10.15-10.30 Agnieszka Bielewska, Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska - Social integration of Ukrainian forced migrants in Poland. Best practices of local and national administration / Uniwersytet Wrocławski / Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie

10.45-11.00 – Daniela Panc - The impact of new European Union legislation on the rights of migrants and refugees / Titu Maiorescu University

11.00-11.15 Kamil Kardis, Mária Kardis - Desire for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment in the Migration Context: Fukuyama’s Concept of Identity as an Analytical Framework for Integration / University of Prešov

11.15-11.30 Besnik Fetahu – From an exporter of insecurity to a reintegration model: The comprehensive institutional and social approach in Kosovo / International Business College Mitrovica (Kosovo)

11.30-11.45 – discussion

11.45-12.00 – closure remarks

12.00-13.00 – lunch

13.00-16.00 – networking and discussion