Immigration and integration: key questions and socio-political issues

Conference followed by a buffet dinner organized by the Club des Chercheurs, with the support of Paris IAS

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Presentation

Three themes will be addressed in connection with current events under the guidance of Ms. Nassima Neggaz:

1. The socio-demographic impact of migration (François Héran)
2. The integration of immigrants: from assimilation to multiculturalism (Riva Kastoryano)
3. The Political Economy of Migration (James Hollifield)

François Héran earned a PhD from EHESS (Paris) and a doctorat d’Etat in anthropology from Paris-Descartes University. After four years of fieldwork in Spain and Bolivia in the 1970s, he joined the French National Institute for Demographic Research (INED) and the National Institute of Statistics (INSEE) to conduct surveys on sociability, education, family structures, language transmission, and migration. Head of the Population Surveys Branch at INSEE from 1993 to 1998, he was director of INED from 1999 to 2009. He was president of the European Association for Population Studies between 2008 and 2012. In 2017 he was elected professor at the Collège de France (Paris), occupying the Migrations and Societies Chair. In the same year, his project for a migration institute was selected by the program Investing for the Future, leading to the creation of the Institut Convergences Migrations, which now supports 650 fellows studying migration in a broad spectrum of disciplines across France.  He is the author of many books and scientific articles, most recently Avec l'immigration:  Mesurer, débattre, agir (2017) and Lettre aux professeurs sur la liberté d'expression (2021) both published by La Découverte; also Parlons immigration en 30 questions (La Documentation française 2021).

James F. Hollifield is Ora Nixon Arnold Chair in International Political Economy, professor in the Department of Political Science, and director of the Tower Center at SMU. He is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and a fellow at the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) at the University of Bonn. Before joining the faculty at SMU, Hollifield taught at Brandeis and Auburn, was a research fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies, and was associate director of research at the French CNRS. In addition to many scientific articles and reports, his recent works include Controlling Immigration:  A Comparative Perspective, 4^th edition (Stanford University Press) Migration Theory:  Talking Across Disciplines, 4^th edition (Routledge), Understanding Global Migration (Stanford University Press), and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Hollifield has served as an advisor for governments around the world and for many international organizations on matters of migration and human and economic development. In 2021–2022 he was named as a fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Study in Paris.

Riva Kastoryano i s an emeritus research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po Paris. Her books include Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany (Princeton University Press, 2002). She also edited Quelle identité pour l’Europe? Le multiculturalisme à l’épreuve (second edition, Presses de Sciences Po, 2005, with English, Portuguese, and Turkish translations); Nationalismes en mutation en Méditerranée Orientale, with A. Dieckhoff (Éditions du CNRS, 2002); Les codes de la différence. Religion, origine, race en France, Allemagne et Etats-Unis (Presses de Sciences Po, 2005); Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization (Routledge, 2013); and Burying Jihadis: Bodies Between Territory and Identity (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2018).

Practical informations

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