In November 2012, Migration and religious policy scholars and practitioners discussed about topics under the title „We called for workers but people came: Muslims in Germany and Mexicans in the United States“ at the University of Houston Victoria (UHV) in Texas.
UHV was hosting the conference in cooperation with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Robert Bosch Foundation. The President of the Open Religious Policy Forum Sven Speer presented the approach of Open Religious Policy on the Panel „Religion, community, ascription“.