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Papers and presentations - Migration and mobility
Paper submissions for the conference listed based on the programme.
Presentations will be uploaded during and after the conference.
Thursday 5 October
Keynote 1
Ingrid Palmary | Global and local influences on the South African anti-trafficking legislation |
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1.1 Conflict, forced migration, and international policy
Shawn Teresa Flanigan | Aiding refugees during South-South migration: examining Syrian diaspora assistance to Syrian forced migrants |
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Ferruccio Pastore | Migration and the risks of negative extraversion |
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Nicholas Van Hear | Imagining refugia |
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1.2 Health and education
James Loon Tuck Ng | Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind |
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Marta Bengoa-Calvo | The effect of Hukou registration system on rural-to-urban migrant's health |
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Maryam Naghsh Nejad | The human capital effects of hosting refugees: evidence from Kagera |
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Nigussie Abadi Mistru | The impact of remittances on household food security: a micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia |
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1.3. Social cohesion
Astghik Mavisakalyan | Forced migration and preferences for refugee assistance in developing countries: the role of perceived disadvantage and integration |
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Cecilia Navarra | Social networks and labour market outcomes among Senegalese migrants in Europe and Africa |
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Raul Alberto Jimenez Mori | Eliciting individual preferences for immigrants in the Dominican Republic |
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Shuxi Yin | Network, mobility, and integration: undocumented African migrants in Guangzhou, China |
1.4 Migration within Africa: defining the governance challenge (organized panel)
Eva Dick | Analytical framework for regional migration governance in Africa: key features, patterns and impacts in the ECOWAS and IGAD regions |
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Stephen Adaawen | Challenges to regional migration and economic integration in West Africa: the case of Ghana and Nigeria |
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Papa Sow | Marriage migrations and distributive justice of morals and resources in north-western Benin |
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2.1 Migration, policy, and governance I
Sofiane Bouhdiba | The pension of the returning retired migrant in the Maghreb: a development factor? |
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Yuko Hamada | South-to-South Migration in Asia: opportunities, challenges and policy implications |
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Zaw Oo | Migration in Mon State: opportunities and challenges for rural development in Myanmar |
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2.2 Immigrant integration, transnationalism, and societal relations among sub-Saharan African immigrants (organized panel)
Geraldine Adiku | ‘The saga of the returnee’: return and reintegration experiences of Ghanaian migrants from Libya |
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Mary Setrana and Justice Kyei | Internal displacement and cross-border movement of Nigerian nationals |
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Jane Njeri Mwangi | Do sub-Saharan Africa immigrants transfer social capital acquired in the host country to their forebearers? |
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2.3 Gender
Julie Litchfield | Migrant remittances and gender in Zimbabwe |
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Anda David | Leaving work behind? The impact of emigration on female labour force participation in Morocco |
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Vusilizwe Thebe | Migration of men and changes in women’s decision-making roles in former migrant labour societies |
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2.4 Impacts of displacement on host communities in Rwanda and Tanzania (in collaboration with UNU Migration Network)
Veronika Fajth | Is local social cohesion influenced by hosting refugees? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda |
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Craig Loschmann | How do host communities adjust labor market activity due to the presence of refugees? |
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Isabel Ruiz | The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks |
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Melissa Siegel | Exploring the effects of refugees on social infrastructure change in Rwanda |
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3.1 Environment and natural resources I
Gordon Crawford | South-South labour migration and the impact of the informal China-Ghana gold rush 2008-13 |
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Glenn Sheriff | Labor response to climate variation in East Africa |
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Linguère Mously Mbaye | Natural disasters and poverty reduction: do remittances matter? |
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3.2 Remittances and families left behind
Gift Dafuleya | Migration, income pooling and food deprivation |
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Louis Boakye-Yiadom | Remittance receipts by Ghana's households: understanding their distribution and the impact on investment in basic education |
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Eva-Maria Egger | Migration experience, the migration decision and its impact on household welfare: new evidence from rural Ghana |
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Katharine Hall | Fragmenting the family? The complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South Africa. |
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3.3 Macro and trade
Dramane Coulibaly | Growth-enhancing effect of openness to trade and migrations: what is the effective transmission channel for Africa? |
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Mauro Lanati | The impact of foreign aid on migration revisited |
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Collin Constantine | Remittances, labour supply and the functional income distribution |
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3.4 Determinants of migration
Anne Marie Duplantier | The internal migration decisions of youth in Ghana |
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Tobias Stoehr | Searching for a better life: now-casting international migration with online search keywords |
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Michael Smith | Food insecurity, gender, and international migration intentions |
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Dennis Wesselbaum | Gone with the wind: international migration |
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Friday 6 October
Keynote 2
Hillel Rapoport | Diaspora externalities: a view from the south |
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4.1 Understanding the root causes of migration (in partnership with FAO)
Jakob Skoet | Rural migration, agriculture and rural development – the linkages and trends in rural migration |
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Eva-Maria Egger | Migration, demography and agri-food systems: threats and opportunities |
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4.2 Remittances
Ameth Saloum Ndiaye | Migration and remittances in Senegal: effects on labor supply and human capital of household members left behind |
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George Agwu | Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case |
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Miguel Niño-Zarazúa | Social service delivery and access to financial innovation |
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4.3. Migration policy and governance II
Diego Acosta | Regional free movement of people in South America: a model from Africa and the rest of the world? |
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Linda A. Oucho | Challenges and solutions to migrant integration, diversity and social cohesion in Africa |
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Nisha Bellinger | Human security and forced migration in Africa |
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5.1 Migration and rural-urban development (panel in collaboration with FAO)
Andrea Cattaneo | Rural-urban synergies in development and propensity to migrate |
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Alan de Brauw | Effects of migration on rural livelihoods |
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5.2 Labour
Vladimir Hlasny | Migration and social mobility in MENA: evidence from labor market panel surveys |
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Andres Cuadros | Informality, remittances, and youth workers |
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Anusa Daimon | Settling in motion: Malawian clandestine migration into South Africa: 1920s–1950s |
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5.3 Environment and natural resources II
Ashenafi Ayenew | Labor adaptation to agricultural risk and shocks in rural Mozambique |
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Makidul Islam Khan | Impacts of climate change on the migratory and non-migratory farmers of the Padma River in Bangladesh and their response strategies |
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Chris Gordon | The Project on Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), University of Ghana |
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Kwasi Appeaning-Addo | The Project on Deltas, Vulnerability, and Climate Change (DECCMA), University of Ghana |
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