Date October 30th, 2014
Duration 01:33:28
Location Iscte
Organization Cies_iscte, Emigration Observatory and Rede Migra, with the support of the Office of the Secretary of State of the Portuguese Communities and the Directorate-General of Consular Affairs and the Portuguese Communities
In this lecture given by Professor Frédéric Docquier, an overview of the debates on migration in rich countries is firstly presented, using data and academic studies on immigration and emigration as a basis. Secondly, some global projections for the 21st century on income disparities, education levels, population disparities and migration flows are made, with the aim of identifying the key assumptions that could cover the future of the world economy and the future of migration flows.
About the speaker
Frédéric Docquier is, since 2019, Leader of the Crossing Borders Research Program at the Luxembourg Institute for Socioeconomic Research, LISER, and is also a Professor at the University of Luxembourg, where he coordinates the ACROSS doctoral training unit. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université d'Aix-Marseille. His research interests are in migration economics, quantitative development theory and economic growth. He was ST consultant for the World Bank, and external expert for the United Nations (UNESCO and High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda) and the Agence Française de Développement.
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.
