INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Migration as a multi-sited phenomenon: migrant selection and the outcomes of migration
🌍 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Madrid, Spain
📅 25-26 April 2024
As migration and ethnic diversity become a fundamental part of our societies, there is a need to expand the perspectives and methodologies used to study the drivers and the outcomes of migration. Migration is a multi-sited phenomenon, in which origin and destination(s) play a fundamental role. First, migrants often differ from non-migrants in both objective and subjective traits. Second, a particular migrant group in one location may also differ from their co-nationals in another location. Third, while comparing migrants and their children with majoritarian natives in destination countries is fundamental, this only provides a partial view of the outcomes of migration: comparison with non-migrants at origin and/or with the same migrant group in other destinations can help understand the impact of migration. Finally, selection may also affect the outcomes of migration, especially in terms of integration patterns. The aim of the conference is to bring together migration scholars working on both the drivers and outcomes of migration, who use a multisite perspective (broadly defined) in their research. We aim at a broad range of contributions dealing with the causes and consequences of migration and how multiple comparisons can shed light on these processes.
Confirmed keynote speakers from two fantastic multisite projects! 👇
Co-director of the Mexican Migration Project & the Latin American Migration Project
Jorge Durand is a professor-researcher at the University of Guadalajara in the Department of Studies on Social Movements (DESMOS - CUCSH). He is co-director, with Douglas S. Massey, of the Mexican Migration Project (since 1987) and the Latin American Migration Project (since 1996) sponsored by the Universities of Princeton and Guadalajara. Over the last thirty years he has studied the migration phenomenon between Mexico and the United States and has published extensively on the subject.
Director of ERC 'The Third Generation' project and former PI of the Norface 2000 Families project
Ayse Guveli is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and member of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC). She has recently been awarded the ERC Consolidator grant (€2.75million) for 'The Third Generation' (ThirdGen) project, exploring the long-term impact of migration on the third generation of the pioneer Turkish labour migrant families in Europe. In 2009, she received NORFACE funding (€2.5million) for the ‘2000 Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe’ project (https://2000families.org/).