Date  29 de abril de 2021
Duration  50:45
Location  Zoom
Organization  Emigration Observatory

In this talk given by Professor Alan Gamlen, ten key questions are presented to guide research on migration and mobility in the wake of the 2020 Pandemic. After a post-World War II period in which global population movements became more extensive, complex, and central to social change, the global financial crisis, and now the Coronavirus pandemic, have led to an almost complete blockage of human mobility and migration, raising the question of whether the end of the "migration era" is approaching. 

About the speaker

Alan Gamlen is a specialist in migrations. He is Associate Professor of Geography at Monash University, Melbourne, and Research Associate at the Centre for Migration, Politics and Society at Oxford University. He has held previous positions at Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and the Japanese Center for Regional Studies. He was director of the Australian Centre for Population and Migration Research. Alan Gamlen is the author of Human Geopolitics: States, Emigrants and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2019), winner of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Book Award for Best Book on Ethnicity and Migration. He holds a PhD in Geography from Oxford University, where he studied as a Top Achiever fellow from New Zealand.

About the moderator

Joana Azevedo is an assistant professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policy, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Iscte, and a researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, Cies_iul. She is currently executive coordinator at the Emigration Observatory, and was co-founder of the network of migration researchers, Rede Migra. She has a PhD in Theory and Social Research from Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" and a degree in Sociology from Iscte. Research interests: sociology of migration, Portuguese immigration and emigration, skilled migration, political participation and migration policies.