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Immigration and population dynamics

The research group focuses on methodological challenges related to the impact of world migration on European countries’ population composition and distribution. Debates over segregation, integration and social cohesion make the study of the demographic consequences of immigration and the population dynamics of ethnic minorities a central concern of European social policy.

Challenges include:

  • The separate specification of immigration and ethnicity, in order to measure each appropriately for social policy.
  • Estimating international migration streams, both into countries of Europe and their destination within countries of Europe.
  • The estimation of gross flows of internal migration, to investigate the competing explanations for changes in local population composition.

The seminars and training workshops will aim to answer these challenges with content on:

  • Estimation and projection of international migration
  • Multi-attribute analysis and projection of ethnic populations
  • Projection methods for ethnicity and immigration status
  • Measuring integration and discrimination
  • Designs and methodological challenges of surveys on immigration and ethnicity
  • Neighbourhood dynamics and contextual (neighbourhood) effects

 

Core members

Leader

Nico Keilman (Oslo)

Members

Roger Andersson (Uppsala)
Han Entzinger (Rotterdam)
Nissa Finney (Manchester)
Frank Kalter (Mannheim)
James Raymer (Southampton)
Phil Rees (Leeds)
Patrick Simon (INED, Paris)
Ludi Simpson (Manchester)

Frans Willekens (NIDI, The Hague)