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Does many migrants a migration system make?

Oliver Bakewell (IMI)

Does migration from Colombia to the United Kingdom constitute a migration system? Exploring the role of migrant agency and structural factors

Anastasia Bermudez (Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados)

Aspirations as meaningful (and elusive) glimpses into the future of migration: insights from the narratives of immigrant domestic workers in Italy

Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento, Italy)

Worldwide@home: transnational networks in the Digital Age

Maren Borkert (Department of Development Studies, Vienna)

Stuck in transit: the Dublin regulation, national discrepancies, and secondary migration of asylum seekers in Europe

Jan-Paul Brekke (Institute for Social Research, Norway), Grete Brochmann (University of Oslo)

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Pulling up the ladder? Migrants' choices about helping others migrate or not

Jørgen Carling (PRIO), Jennifer Wu (PRIO)

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The role of both migrants and institutions in an enduring pattern of migration: the case of Almeria, a province of Spain which acts as a stage for undocumented migrants to pursue regularisation papers

Pauline Carnet (LISST-CERS, University of Toulouse)

A life-course perspective on mobility trajectories and migrant networks among Senegalese migrants

Eleonora Castagnone (FIERI), Sorana Toma (IMI)

Mediating migration: the role of the Qiaoban (the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs) in the rescaling of the Wenzhou region in China

Ya-Han Chuang (Paris IV Sorbonne University)

To move or not to move (when one arguably has the social capital): the mediating effect of migrant family networks on migration aspirations and planned and unplanned Mexico-US migration

Mathew Creighton, Fernando Riosmena (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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Cohort Influence & Cumulative Causation: Reconsidering Demographic Factors in Explanations of Migration Momentum

Sara Curran, Walker Frahm (University of Washington)

Emergence and development of migration systems: Keynote discussant

Sara Curran (University of Washington)

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Dis-locating the local: a study of the migrants originating from the Indian enclaves

Sanghita Datta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

How does migration start and stop? Revisiting migration systems and cumulative causation theory

Hein de Haas (IMI)

Migration system dynamics: evidence from global data

Hein de Haas, Mathias Czaika (IMI)

Feedback processes in migration: Keynote Discussant

Hein de Haas (IMI)

Online feedback in migration systems

Rianne Dekker (EUR), Godfried Engbersen (EUR)

Migrants' expected time of residence in receiving countries: a systems approach

Jack DeWaard (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Guy Abel (Vienna Institute of Demography)

‘How to get into London?’: the role played by travel agencies to move Brazilian migrants to the UK

Gustavo Dias (Goldsmiths College)

What kind of asylum and which destination? Afghan asylum seekers transiting from Greece

Angeliki Dimitriadi (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy)

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Networks and beyond: Feedback channels and the diminutive causation of international migration

Godfried Engbersen (EUR)

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The mobility turn: a new paradigm for the social sciences?

Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University)

'Should I stay or should I go?' The role of relationships in the decision to migrate, stay, or return: the Brazilian migrants case study

Ana Paula Figueiredo (University of Manchester)

The (changing) role of family among Afghan communities in Britain and Germany

Carolin Fischer (University of Oxford)

Migration decision making: aspirations and opportunities

Maria Lucinda Fonseca (IGOT-UL), Sueli Siqueira (Universidade do Vale do Rio Doce), Alina Esteves (IGOT-UL), Jennifer McGarrigle (IGOT-UL), Sónia Pereira (IGOT-UL)

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Trasnational families and state-services provision in the communities of origin

Mariana Gabarrot (Tec de Monterrey)

The complexity of migration: life-strategies of migrant family members and families

Thomas Geisen (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School of Social Work)

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Challenging the borders of intimacy and legality: migrant agency in response to Danish restrictions on transnational marriage

Tess Hellgren (RAND Europe)

Conceptualizing migrants as social actors in migration systems: A view from the periphery

Cindy Horst (PRIO)

A matter of class? The dynamics of Brazilian migration to Europe

Cindy Horst (PRIO), Agnieszka Kubal (IMI), Sonia Pereira (IGOT-UL)

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'Se quedó ¿a volver?': crisis, stay, and return in the case of Ecuadorians in Spain

Juan Iglesias (Instituto U. Estudios sobre Migraciones)

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Life paths of migrants: a sequence analysis of Polish labour migrants' family-life trajectories

Tom Kleinepier (NIDI), Helga de Valk (NIDI), Ruben van Gaalen (Statistics Netherlands)

American migrants in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom: diversity of migration motivations and patterns

Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels (University of Kent at Brussels)

Highly skilled migrants and the European mobility industry

Saara Koikkalainen (University of Lapland, Finland)

Children go first! Family strategies and educational migration

Liudmila Kopecka (Charles University in Prague)

Citizens of Kazakhstan in a Russian city: factors facilitating and limiting transnational activities (the case of Novosibirsk)

Larisa Kosygina (Institute of Economics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science)

“I may not be legal, but I am not a criminal”: the consequences of criminalization of migration for migrants' everyday lives in Europe

Agnieszka Kubal (IMI)

Strong ties, weak ties and protection for domestic workers: Ethiopian domestic worker migration to the Middle East

Katie Kuschminder (Maastricht University)

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Skilled Iranians in Germany and the United States: exploring migrants' networks

Uta Lehmann (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Germany)

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Egypt: migration, revolution, and social change

Philip Marfleet (University of East London)

The impact of sending states’ transnational policies on migration dynamics: a comparative analysis of South American cases

Ana Margheritis (University of Southampton)

Policy feedbacks and their influence on the evolution of the North American migration system

Douglas Massey (Princeton University)

Micro level factors leading to a migratory decision: migrant groups in the Czech Republic

Antonin Mikes, Živka Deleva (Charles University)

Changing contexts, changing actors: accounting for migration dynamics

Ewa Morawska (University of Essex)

From post-socialist to post-accession pioneering: the shaping of Romanian migration networks to Spain and the United Kingdom

Chris Moreh (Northumbria University)

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Do institutions play a role in skilled migration? The case of Italy

Annamaria Nifo (University of Sannio), Gaetano Vecchione (University of Naples II)

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Flexible ethnography for practice stories of migration: (elite?) migrants in Asia

Katherine Botterill (Newcastle University), Karen O'Reilly (Loughborough University), Rob Stones (Loughborough University and University of Western Sydney)

The influence of networks in the migration decisions of Kenyan and Nigerian women bound for the United Kingdom

Linda Oucho (African Migration and Development Policy Centre)

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Elites and emulators: the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European migration system

Erlend Paasche (PRIO)

New immigrant groups, integration and forms of citizenship in the global city: the case of Latin Americans in Europe

Fabiola Pardo Noteboom (Externado University of Colombia)

Migrant negotiations/negotiating migration: a gendered variation on the new economics of labour migration

Anju Paul (Yale-NUS College)

Agency and migrants in the labour market: social actors or submissive players?

Sonia Pereira (IGOT-UL)

Violence, surveillance and agency experiences of the women refugees in the Italian reception camps

Barbara Pinelli (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Accounting for diversity in Polish migration in Europe: motivation and early integration

Renee Luthra (University of Essex), Justyna Salamonska (University G. D’Annunzio of Chieti, Italy), Lucinda Platt (Institute of Education, UK)

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‘Now smells like revolution': migrants' activism, subjectivities, and agency in contemporary London

Gabriela Quevedo (University of Nottingham)

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Migration feedback effects in networks: an agent-based model

Miriam Rehm (Chamber of Labour, Vienna), Asjad Naqvi (Center for Economic Research in Pakistan)

Transformative stages of migrant identity: a diachronic and synchronic study of the first-generation Romanian migrants in the UK

Oana Romocea (Manchester Metropolitan University)

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‘Do as I say, not as I do?’: Analysing the potential effects of immigrants' representations of the crisis on migration systems. Insights from a peripheral southern European country

Dora Sampaio (IGOT-UL), Rui Carvalho (IGOT-UL)

Similar but not equal: The differing evolution of (gendered) migration systems in Moldova and Georgia

Melissa Siegel, Michaella Vanore (Maastricht University)

Migrants as social actors: Keynote discussant

Ronald Skeldon (University of Sussex)

From bridgeheads to gate closers: how migrant networks contribute to declining migration from Morocco to the Netherlands

Erik Snel, Marije Faber, Godfried Engbersen (EUR)

Beyond migrant lives: the rise and fall of meso-level actors

Joana Sousa Ribeiro (CES, Center for Social Studies, Portugal)

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Developing migration systems in Europe and Asia

Hideki Tarumoto (Hokkaido University and Sciences Po)

The relevance of ‘feedback mechanisms' in migration impacted regions in relation with changing macro socio-economic contexts: A case study on Moroccan and Turkish emigration regions

Christiane Timmerman, Kenneth Hemmerechts, Helene de Clerck, Roos Willems (University of Antwerp)

Remaining subjects despite structural constraints: Migratory strategies among refugees hosted in Italy after their expulsion from Libya

Gabriele Tomei (University of Pisa, Italy)

Female migration and intergenerational relationships: the use of ICTs by Brazilian migrant women in the United Kingdom

Tania Tonhati (Goldsmiths College, London)

What migration means: recognising the diversity of practices embedded in cultures of migration

Guri Tyldum (Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway)

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Guyanese migration since independence: migration policies, migrant networks, and postcolonial ties

Simona Vezzoli (IMI)

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The ‘Neogramscian approach’: using 'Critical Theories' to explain migration systems

Robert Westermann (BQN Berlin)

Changing migration opportunity structures of Roma and their hosting societies: the case of Belgium

Johan Wets, Heleen Touquet (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Migrant networks and the migration process: considering the spatial and temporal dimensions of social capital

Alexandra Winkels (University of Cambridge)

Mobilizing resources in transit: configurations of transnational social networks of African migrants in Turkey and Greece

Marieke Wissink, Valentina Mazzucato (Maastricht University)

Respondent-driven sampling as a recruitment method

Jennifer Wu, Rojan Ezzati (PRIO)

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Migration networks in action: case of Daba Tianeti

Tamar Zurabishvili, Tinatin Zurabishvili (Center for Social Sciences)