Workshop on the Estimation of International Migration in Europe: Issues, Models and Assessment

Co-organized by Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

Held on 28-30 September 2005 University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom

This workshop focused on the issues, models, and assessment of international migration in Europe. Migration is the major factor contributing to population change throughout much of Europe, yet the underlying patterns driving this change are largely unknown. In order to fully understand what is going on, models are needed to fill in the gaps of missing, inadequate, and inconsistent data, as well as a clear framework for assessing the quality of the reported and estimated migration flows.

The key issues regarding international migration data in Europe are definition, availability, timing, and methods of collection. Currently, the data comes from individual countries that collect their own data for their own purposes. Harmonization of data collection processes and the data they generate has not been realized (or achieved) yet. So, how does one overcome these obstacles to obtain an overall and consistent picture of the migration patterns occurring within Europe?

The goals of this workshop were to identify the major differences between countries in terms of migration data within Europe, to develop models that overcome these inconsistencies or inadequacies, to evaluate estimates produced by various models, and to develop models for forecasting migration patterns.

This workshop was part of the Research Training Network (RTN), which was created in 2002 by eight of Europe's leading demographic research centres with financial support from the European Commission (under the auspices of the Fifth Framework Programme). The network is coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and enables PhD students and post-doctoral scholars to spend periods of time carrying out research and receiving training under the guidance of leading experts in the population field.

Schedule

List of abstracts

Presentations by Speakers in pdf format

Joop de Beer, NIDI, The Netherlands Presentation

Jakub Bijak, CEFMR, Poland Presentation

Alessio G. Cangiano, Department of Demography, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Presentation

Rob van der Erf, NIDI, The Netherlands Presentation

Roel Jennissen, WODC  Presentataion

Dorota Kupiszewska and Marek Kupiszewski , CEFMR Presentation

Dorota Kupiszewska and Beata Nowok, Central European Forum for Migration Research (CEFMR)  Presentation

Marina Manke, International Organization for Migration Presentation

Beata Nowok, CEFMR Presentation

Michel Poulain and Luc Dal, Catholic University of Louvain  Presentation

James Raymer, University of Southampton Presentation

Phil Rees, University of Leeds Presentation

Frans Willekens, NIDI Presentation

Leo van Wissen, University Groningen, and Roel Jennissen, Research and Documentation Center of the Dutch Ministry of Justice (WODC) Presentation
Jon Forster Presentation