Migration, Trade, and Human Development: Rethinking Global Inequalities

Conference organized by James Hollifield, 2021-2022 Paris IAS Research Fellow, Director of the Tower Center at SMU, as part of the Owens Foundation, with the support of Sciences Po CERI, the Convergences Migrations Institute, the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, the FIAS fellowship program and that of the Labex RFIEA+.

The FIAS fellowship program is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945408. This event is also supported by the Labex RFIEA+, funded by the "Investissements d'avenir" program (ANR-11-LABX-0027-01). 

Presentation

The Jno E. Owens Fund Conference, sponsored by the Tower Center at SMU and this year by the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, will examine the complex relationship between migration, and economic and human development, paying special attention to:

(1) Migration, trade and international investment dynamics with an eye to explaining their impact on human development and global inequalities;

(2) How migration and asylum-seeking affect inequalities in human capital and development, notably in skill levels, capital accumulation, health, and wealth generation (via financial and immaterial remittances) across sending and receiving countries and regions;

(3) How migration and asylum-seeking affect and are affected by the environment-development nexus: understanding forced migration, human displacement, and migration-related inequalities across the natural and built-in environment;

(4) How inequalities affect and are affected by migration and socio-political transformations (diaspora politics, state building, political and social remittances).

Program

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Day 1, 14 March (Sciences Po/CERI)
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WELCOME - 9:15-9:30 CET
By Jim Hollifield, Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University (SMU), Simon Luck, Scientific Director of Paris IAS, and Hélène Thiollet, CNRS Research Fellow, Sciences Po - CERI.

PANEL 1:  9:30-12:00 CET
Migration, trade and international investment dynamics, including remittances: understanding development and global inequalities at various levels.
Chair, Flore Gubert (IRD and MSH), and discussant, Jason Gagnon (OECD)

1. Hillel Rappoport, Paris School of Economics
2. Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University
3. Claudia Masferrer, Colegio de México
4. Daniel Naujoks, Columbia University

PANEL 2:  14:30-17:00 CET
Migration and global inequalities in human capital and development: skill levels, capital accumulation, health, and wealth generation across sending and receiving countries and regions.
Chair, Annabel Degrees Du Lou (IRD/CEPED/ICM), discussant, Pia Orrenius (Dallas Fed and SMU)

1. Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
2. Raúl Delgado Wise, Autonomous University of Zacatecas
3. Jackie Wahbba, University of Southampton
4. Uwe Hunger, Universität Fulda
5. Pamela Surkan, Johns Hopkins and Paris IAS, and Paul Emmelkampf, University of Amsterdam and Paris IAS

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Day 2, 15 March (Sciences Po/CERI, & Paris Institute for Advanced Study)
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PANEL 3:  9:30-12:00 CET
Forced migration, displacement, and the environment-development nexus.
Chair, Lisa Chauvet (Paris1) and David Kanter (NYU and ParisIAS, Discussant

1.  Francesco Fasani, University of Milan
2. Malabika Sarker, Brac University, Bangladesh
3. Cristina Cattaneo, CMCC, Milano, Italy
4. François Gemenne, University of Liège

PANEL 4:  13:30-16:00 CET
Migration and socio-political transformations.
Chair, Jim Hollifield, Hélène Thiollet, Discussant

1. Hein de Haas, University of Amsterdam
2. Elieth Eyebiyi, DHI CREPOS Sénégal and Paris IAS
3. Geraldine Asiwome Adiku, University of Ghana
4. Yeoh Saw Ai, Brenda, National University of Singapore

ROUNDTABLE (Paris Institute for Advanced Study): 17:00-18:30 CET
Migration and Inequality
Moderated by Flore Gubert, Jim Hollifield, and Hélène Thiollet.

1. Mirna Safi, OSC/Sciences Po
2. François Héran, Collège de France/ICM
3. Jason Gagnon, OECD
4. Yeoh Saw Ai, Brenda, National University of Singapore

Registration

Free admission upon mandatory registration.

To register for March 14 : https://www.sciencespo.fr/agenda/fr/civicrm/event/register?v=69643d333234332672657365743d31266374783d657874&id=3243&reset=1&ctx=ext

To register for March 15 : https://www.sciencespo.fr/agenda/fr/civicrm/event/register?v=69643d333234342672657365743d31266374783d657874&id=3244&reset=1&ctx=ext