A guide to migration scenarios: New book and database launched

Professor Jakub Bijak, CPC-CG Member, has published a new book 'From uncertainty to policy: A guide to migration scenarios'.

The book offers a practical and interdisciplinary proposal for determining quantitative scenarios of future migration. It focuses on complexity and uncertainty as two defining challenges of contemporary migration and explores how scenario building can be used to inform and underpin effective migration policy and practice.

The book will be available freely online, but for anyone wishing to purchase a hard copy, the publisher has offered an introductory 50% discount offer. Until 31 December 2024, orders made via the publisher's website, using the discount code BJAK50 will receive 50% off (plus postage and packing).

On 18 December 2024, Population Europe held a showcase event to launch the book and showcase the research project from which the book results; QuantMig, a Horizon 2020-funded project to investigate different migration scenarios and improve policy action. A distinguished panel of migration experts and practitioners discussed the developments, perspectives and challenges of forward-looking migration studies, including:

Jakub Bijak, Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton

Marie McAuliffe, Head of Migration Research and Publications Division at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

Helga De Valk, Director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Professor of Migration and the Life Course at the University of Groningen

Teddy Wilkin, Head of the Data Analysis and Research Sector at the European Union Agency for Asylum

You can watch a recording of the event below:



Scholars and practitioners can also access a database of harmonised migration estimates developed within the project. The Explorer provides harmonised probabilistic estimates of migration flows among 32 countries in the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), and North Macedonia, as well as to and from the rest of the world, based on publicly-available Eurostat data on migration, and covariate information from a range of other published sources.

Posted 20/12/2024 13:16