How migration and development are interconnected

Speaker
Melissa Siegel
Professor of Migration Studies
UNU-MERIT, United Nations Unviersity
Maastricht University

Comment
Ana Filipa Cândido
PhD Candidate
Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

Zoom link:  https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98542317678

ABSTRACT

In this talk Prof. Melissa Siegel will discuss the multiple relationships between migration and development. She will cover thrre topics:

1) How development cand affect migration;

2) How migration can affect development;

3) How involuntary immobility (not being able to migrate when that is preferred) affects development.

BIOGRAPHIES

Melissa Siegel is a Professor of Migration Studies at the United Nations University-MERIT and Maastricht University. She has two decades of experence in the field of migration, public policy and development. She is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) and currently holds the Chair of the UNU Migration Network and is a Research Associate at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. She is also on the advisory board of the Migration Policy Center, EUI, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam and was formerly on the board of The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration. She has advised, worked on or headed projects for numerous governments and international organisations well as teaching in the United States, Kenya, Rwanda, Malaysia, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Suriname. Her main research interest lies in the causes and consequences of migration with a strong emphasis on the linkages between migration and development.

Ana Filipa Cândido is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. Her PhD Project, entitled "Portuguese Emigration and Development: networks and transnational spaces", is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (grant 2022.11982.BD). For her PhD project, Ana explores transnational practices of Portuguese emigrants, assessing which ones foster development outcomes in the places of origin and how they are enhanced and filtered according to the sociodemographic characteristics of the migrants and under what institutional conditions. She is also collaborating as a research assistant on the project "(In)equalities in the school pathways of descendants of immigrants", where she analysis micro-data on students with an immigrant background provided by the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics (DGEEC) of the Ministry of Education Before starting the PhD,  she was a research assistant at the Inequality Observatory of the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) and did an internship at the Portuguese Emigration Observatory.