Session 2 – Free trade areas and macro-economic regions
Chair: Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA, Department of Geography, Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto 
Discussant: Allan M. WILLIAMS., University of Exeter, UK

     The acceleration of human mobility in relation to the policies of liberalisation of international commerce. Empirical verification of the new forms of mobility with respect to WTO-OMC policies as well as in the large free trade areas that are either already in existence or in the process of being created such as the Euro-Mediterranean Region (MEDA), the North American Region (NAFTA-ALENA), the Asian Pacific Region (APEC), the South American Region (MERCOSUR), the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and others.

Session 3 – North-South contact regions
Chair: Paul CLAVAL, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
Discussant: Russel KING, School of European Studies, University of Sussex, UK

     Globalisation of the phenomena of mobility and migration. Since an increasing number of countries are affected by these phenomena, the movements will become more characterised by a wide spectrum of economic, social and cultural factors. Analysis of this phenomenon in the areas of North-South contact; as for example Mediterranean, Caribbean, Pacific.

Session 4 – Differentiation in mobility flows
Chair: Arie SCHACHAR, The Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, The Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 
Discussant: William Clark, Department of Geography, University of California, USA

     The differentiation in mobility flows which adjust themselves to the diverse economic, social, cultural and legislative requirements; these continually adapt the traditional mobility typologies and, to a large degree, reduce the effectiveness of national and international policies.

Session 5 – gender, age and behaviour changes in human mobility
Chair Tamara GALKINA, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Discussant: William CLARK, Department of Geography, University of California, USA

     The tendency towards feminisation in mobility processes. Up to recently mobility has been constructed as a male dominated process in which women have played a purely secondary role, such as for example in the family reunification phase. In the last few years female migration flows have become recognised as historically more important, and new female dominated migration flows, such as the migration of domestic workers, have became evident. Moreover, mobility has come to be regarded often as a sharply gendered process. These issues present new problems for scientific analysis and managerial policy. Leisure and tourism are also undergoing a similar process.

Closing
Anna MORGANTE, Dean, Faculty of Economics, University G. d'Annunzio, Italy