Migration & Diversity Initiatives Working Group - JAN 30

"Lives of Migrants in Europe: The MigrantLife Project"

by Chia Liu, Research Fellow at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews

Abstract: In this talk, Chia Liu will discuss family and employment trajectories of immigrant groups in the UK, France, and Germany, from the European Research Council funded MigrantLife project. Using panel data from Understanding Society (UK), Trajectories and Origins (France), and German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), Liu and colleagues identified persistent differences in aspects of family and labor market characteristics among native- and foreign-born populations in the three countries using multi-state and competing risks frameworks. The cross-national comparisons not only illuminate the role institutional settings play but also drawn attention to the unique migration waves experienced by individual countries which led to a diverse selection of immigrants. The talk will begin with an overview on the overall project aims and findings, leading results centered on Germany, and end with a brief discussion on the significance of tying migration literature together not only from across the pond, but in all emerging high-migration settings around the world.