MAFE Conference

Final MAFE conference

The final MAFE conference, ’Comparative and Multi-sited Approaches to International Migration’, took place in Paris on 12-14 December 2012

The objective of this conference was to promote a multi-sited and comparative approach to international migration, explicitly bringing together researchers and research evidence from different parts of the world. The conference focused on quantitative approaches to international migration that deal simultaneously with processes in places of origin and destination. Papers tackled a number of areas and regions, and addressed significant policy concerns. 

 

Session 1 - Methodological Issue

Richard BILSBORROW (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Key Issues of Survey and Sample Design for Surveys of International Migrants

Cris BEAUCHEMIN (Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, France), Migrations between Africa and Europe: Rationale for a Survey Design

Graeme HUGO (Population and Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Australia), A Multi Sited Approach to Analysis of Destination Immigration Data: An Asia-Pacific Example

Marlon SEROR (Paris School of Economics, France), Measuring Information Asymmetries and Modeling their Impact on Senegalese Migrants’ Remittances

Justin GEST (Harvard University), Brian BURGOON (University of Amsterdam), Joep SCHAPER (University of Amsterdam), Eiko THEILEMANN (London School of Economics) et al., The IMPALA Database project: Measuring immigration policy restrictiveness between countries, across time and between immigrant groups
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Oliver BAKEWELL & Agnieszka KUBAL (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK), Using Respondent Driven Sampling for Comparative Migration Research: Lessons from the THEMIS Project
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Session 2 - Patterns of migration

Hania ZLOTNIK (Population Division-DESA, United Nations), An overview of international migration trends with a focus on linkages between origin and destination

Bruno SCHOUMAKER (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Changing patterns of migration between Africa and Europe: departures, trajectories and returns

Sophie VAUSE (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) & Sorana TOMA (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK), International Migrations of Congolese and Senegalese Women: New Forms of Autonomous Mobility or Persistence of Family Migration Patterns

Bhumika PIYA (Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, USA), Navigating the Gendered Terrain of Migration: An Examination of the Variations in the Gender Composition of International Migrants

Erik VICKSTROM (Ined, France & Office of Population Research, Princeton University, USA), Complex Trajectories of Legal Status among Senegalese Migrants in Europe

J-P. DEDIEU., L. CHAUVET, F. GUBERT, S. MESPLÉ-SOMPS and E. SMITH (UMR DIAL, France; IRIS, France and IAS, University of Columbia), Electoral Behavior and Social Remittances of Senegalese Living in France and in the United-States. Insights from a Multi-Sited Election Exit Poll

 

 

Session 3 - Determinants of migration

Douglas MASSEY (Princeton University, USA), New Realities of Latin American Migration

Amparo GONZÁLEZ-FERRER (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain), Migration between Africa and Europe: assessing the role of resources, networks and policies

Jørgen CARLING (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway), Evelyn ERSANILLI & Hein de HAAS (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK), Men, Women and Migration Aspirations: A Comparative Analysis of Sixteen Areas of Origin

Jean-Noël SENNE & Isabelle CHORT (ENSAE, France), Intra-household Selection into Migration: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Migrants and Origin Households in Senegal

Mao-Mei LIU (Department of Political and Social Science, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Legal Status at Migration and Migrant Networks

Cora MEZGER (Ined, France) & Amparo GONZÁLEZ-FERRER (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain), Migration Attempts from Senegal - Who Tries, Who Succeeds, Who Fails? Evidence on Individual Selection and the Role of Immigration Policies

 

 

Session 4 - Migrants’ socio-economic trajectories

Chenoa FLIPPEN & Emilio A. PARRADO (University of Pennsylvania, USA), A tale of two contexts: Mexican women’s labor force participation in the United States and Mexico

Eleonora CASTAGNONE (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’Immigrazione, Italy), African migrants at work: labour market integration in Europe, and economic re-integration of returnees

Matthew SANDERSON (Kansas State University, USA), Occupational Channels for Mexico-U.S. Migration: Economic Restructuring in a Bi-National Context

Sorana TOMA (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK), Putting Social Capital in (a Family) Perspective: the Roles of Migrant Networks in Women’s Labour Market Participation at Destination

Matthieu ICHOU (Observatoire Sociologique du Changement, Sciences Po, CREST & INED, France), Who They Were There: Immigrants’ Educational Selectivity and Their Children’s Educational Attainment

Özge BILGILI & Melissa SIEGEL (Maastricht graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University, Netherlands), Migrants’ Integration, Homeland Engagement and Intentions to Return: An Analysis Based on Afghan, Burundian, Ethiopian and Moroccan Migrants in the Netherlands

 

 

Session 5 - Families in international migration

Katharine DONATO (Vanderbilt University, USA), The Migration-Family Nexus and the Mexico-U.S. Case
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Valentina MAZZUCATO (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Migrant families between Africa and Europe: Characteristics and trends

Koen VAN DER BRACHT (Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium), Transnational Marriages in Belgium: Analysis of Origin and Destination Effects Using Longitudinal Population Data

Cris BEAUCHEMIN (Ined, France), Jocelyn NAPPA & Bruno SCHOUMAKER (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), The Determinants of Reunification among Congolese Couples

Victor CEBOTARI & Valentina MAZZUCATO (Department of Technology and Societal Studies, Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Emotional Well Being of Ghanaian School Children in Different Child Raising Arrangements (CRAs)
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Kim CAARLS & Djamila SCHANS (Department of Technology and Societal Studies, Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Are Transnational Marriages Unstable? Comparing Ghanaian Migrants in Europe and their Non-Migrant Counterparts in Ghana
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