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Papers and presentations - Migration and mobility

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	Paper	Slides
Ferruccio Pastore	Migration and the risks of negative extraversion	Paper	Slides
Nicholas Van Hear	Imagining refugia	Abstract	Slides

1.2 Health and education

James Loon Tuck Ng	Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind	Paper	Slides
Marta Bengoa-Calvo	The effect of Hukou registration system on rural-to-urban migrant's health	Paper	Slides
Maryam Naghsh Nejad	The human capital effects of hosting refugees: evidence from Kagera	Paper	Slides
Nigussie Abadi Mistru	The impact of remittances on household food security: a micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia	Paper	Slides

1.3. Social cohesion

Astghik Mavisakalyan	Forced migration and preferences for refugee assistance in developing countries: the role of perceived disadvantage and integration	Paper	​ Slides
Cecilia Navarra	Social networks and labour market outcomes among Senegalese migrants in Europe and Africa	Paper	​ Slides
Raul Alberto Jimenez Mori	Eliciting individual preferences for immigrants in the Dominican Republic	Paper	​ Slides
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	Paper	​ Slides
Stephen Adaawen	Challenges to regional migration and economic integration in West Africa: the case of Ghana and Nigeria	Paper	​ Slides
Papa Sow	Marriage migrations and distributive justice of morals and resources in north-western Benin	Abstract	​ Slides

2.1 Migration, policy, and governance I

Sofiane Bouhdiba	The pension of the returning retired migrant in the Maghreb: a development factor?	Paper	​Slides
Yuko Hamada	South-to-South Migration in Asia: opportunities, challenges and policy implications	Paper	​Slides
Zaw Oo	Migration in Mon State: opportunities and challenges for rural development in Myanmar		​Slides

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	Abstract
Mary Setrana and Justice Kyei	Internal displacement and cross-border movement of Nigerian nationals	Paper	​Slides
Jane Njeri Mwangi	Do sub-Saharan Africa immigrants transfer social capital acquired in the host country to their forebearers?	Paper	​Slides

2.3 Gender

Julie Litchfield	Migrant remittances and gender in Zimbabwe	Paper	​Slides
Anda David	Leaving work behind? The impact of emigration on female labour force participation in Morocco	Paper	​Slides
Vusilizwe Thebe	Migration of men and changes in women’s decision-making roles in former migrant labour societies	Paper	​Slides

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	Paper	Slides
Craig Loschmann	How do host communities adjust labor market activity due to the presence of refugees?	Paper	Slides
Isabel Ruiz	The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks	Paper	Slides
Melissa Siegel	Exploring the effects of refugees on social infrastructure change in Rwanda		Slides

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		Slides
Glenn Sheriff	Labor response to climate variation in East Africa	Paper	Slides
Linguère Mously Mbaye	Natural disasters and poverty reduction: do remittances matter?	Paper	Slides

3.2 Remittances and families left behind

Gift Dafuleya	Migration, income pooling and food deprivation	Paper	Slides
Louis Boakye-Yiadom	Remittance receipts by Ghana's households: understanding their distribution and the impact on investment in basic education	Paper	Slides
Eva-Maria Egger	Migration experience, the migration decision and its impact on household welfare: new evidence from rural Ghana	Paper	Slides
Katharine Hall	Fragmenting the family? The complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South Africa.	Paper	Slides

3.3 Macro and trade

Dramane Coulibaly	Growth-enhancing effect of openness to trade and migrations: what is the effective transmission channel for Africa?	Paper	Slides
Mauro Lanati	The impact of foreign aid on migration revisited	Paper	Slides
Collin Constantine	Remittances, labour supply and the functional income distribution	Paper	Slides

3.4 Determinants of migration

Anne Marie Duplantier	The internal migration decisions of youth in Ghana	Paper	Slides
Tobias Stoehr	Searching for a better life: now-casting international migration with online search keywords	Paper	Slides
Michael Smith	Food insecurity, gender, and international migration intentions	Paper
Dennis Wesselbaum	Gone with the wind: international migration	Paper	Slides

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		Slides
Eva-Maria Egger	Migration, demography and agri-food systems: threats and opportunities	Paper	Slides

4.2 Remittances

Ameth Saloum Ndiaye	Migration and remittances in Senegal: effects on labor supply and human capital of household members left behind	Paper	Slides
George Agwu	Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case	Paper	Slides
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa	Social service delivery and access to financial innovation	Paper	Slides

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?	Abstract	Slides
Linda A. Oucho	Challenges and solutions to migrant integration, diversity and social cohesion in Africa	Paper	Slides
Nisha Bellinger	Human security and forced migration in Africa		Slides

 

5.1 Migration and rural-urban development (panel in collaboration with FAO)

Andrea Cattaneo	Rural-urban synergies in development and propensity to migrate		Slides
Alan de Brauw	Effects of migration on rural livelihoods		Slides

5.2 Labour

Vladimir Hlasny	Migration and social mobility in MENA: evidence from labor market panel surveys	Paper	Slides
Andres Cuadros	Informality, remittances, and youth workers		Slides
Anusa Daimon	Settling in motion: Malawian clandestine migration into South Africa: 1920s–1950s	Paper

5.3 Environment and natural resources II

Ashenafi Ayenew	Labor adaptation to agricultural risk and shocks in rural Mozambique	Paper	Slides
Makidul Islam Khan	Impacts of climate change on the migratory and non-migratory farmers of the Padma River in Bangladesh and their response strategies	Abstract	Slides
Chris Gordon	The Project on Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), University of Ghana		Slides
Kwasi Appeaning-Addo	The Project on Deltas, Vulnerability, and Climate Change (DECCMA), University of Ghana		Slides