Date: March 13th, 2013 
Duration: 01:03:48
Location: Iscte
Organization:  Cies_iscte, Emigration Observatory

In this lecture given by Professor Russell King, a general context of the return of emigration to the southern periphery of Europe is presented based on two crises: the post-2008 financial crisis, and the existing structural crisis regarding the unemployment of qualified young people in southern countries. To explain this new dynamic, Professor Russell King presents three possible frameworks: the last phase of the European model of migration from southern Europe, the lasting relevance of the core-periphery dynamic in Europe, and the relevance of the "escalator region" hypothesis. Finally, the effects of this 'crisis' on other types of migration are presented, such as: labour immigration into southern European countries, retired migrants from northern Europe, and migrants from southern Europe and diasporas planning to return.

About the speaker:

Russell King is a former Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Migration Research Centre. He trained as a Geographer, with BA and PhD degrees in Geography from the LSE, and took an MA in Economics and an Mlitt in History. From 2000 to 2013 he was editor of The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and led the Sussex team that produced The Atlas of Human Migration.

About the moderator:

Cláudia Pereira is a visiting assistant professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policy at the University Institute of Lisbon, Iscte, and an integrated researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, Cies_iscte. She was, between 2017 and 2019, executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory, and was cofounder of network of migration researchers, Rede Migra. She holds a PhD in anthropology and a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at Iscte. Her research interests include emigration and immigration, skilled migration, migration of nurses, humanitarian action and labor trafficking.