The Long Reach of Migration: The Effects of Migration over Generations and the Life Course

Time: 
26.09.2019 - 12:00 to 13:30
Location : 
A 5,6 Raum A 231
Type of Event : 
AB A-Kolloquium
Lecturer: 
Prof. Dr. Helga A.G. de Valk
Lecturer affiliation: 
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), University of Groningen
Description: 

In this presentation I will introduce some of the ongoing research conducted at the theme group migration and migrants of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. First of all, I will present work that focuses on the life course of the children of immigrants in a comparative perspective. Using both survey and population register data I will show how individual and family characteristics as well as cohort differences play a role for the demographic behaviour of children of immigrants. Secondly, I will present the research plans and first findings of the recently started ERC CoG Grant on the role of childhood internal mobility for later life outcomes. This will also include a discussion on how to advance the field further both theoretically and methodologically.