Date  February 16th 2023
Duration  38:31
Location  Zoom
Organization  Emigration Observatory

About the speaker

Leo Lucassen is a professor of global labour and migration history and director of the International Institute of Social History (IISH). His research interests focus primarily on global migration history, integration, migration systems, migration controls, Roma and the state, state formation and modernity, and urban history. His most recent publications include States, borders and security in global history (Studies in Global Migration History, 2022) and Borders and Mobility Control in and between Empires and Nation-States (Studies in Global Migration History, 2022).

About the moderator

Jorge Malheiros holds a PhD in sociology from Iscte, University Institute of Lisbon, and from the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INES, Paris), with the thesis "Self-reported bilingual outcomes and language acculturation among descendants of Turkish immigrants in France, Germany and the Netherlands". Currently she is a professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policies of the Iscte, where she integrates the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte). Her research interests include the intersection between sociology of international migration and sociology of language, with a focus on populations of immigrant origin (immigrants and descendants) in Europe and Portugal, comparing immigration policies, social and linguistic integration, and more recently on bilingual and language education programs, and language policies at various scales: institutional, family and individual.