The Centre for Population Change will be hosting a seminar by Helga de Valk, visiting from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute/Vrije Universiteit Brussel, who will be discussing the implications of European mobility.
European mobility has been highly debated in the past couple of years and in many EU countries this debate has come up recently again. Yet the mobility of EU citizens is at the heart of the EU integration project. This presentation will focus on patterns of European mobility and their development over time.
It will focus on the characteristics of European migrants in flow and stocks: Who are the Europeans that are moving around and what background do those residing in another EU country have? Finally the effects of European mobility for intergenerational family relations, intermarriage and settlement patterns will be considered. Whereas the first part of the presentation will take a comparative European approach, the latter part of the presentation will focus on Belgium, drawing from official migration statistics and supplementing the presentation with new survey data that can shed light on European family relations.
The seminar will take place on 29 January 2014 at 1pm in B58/1023, Highfield Campus. All are welcome. Please see www.cpc.ac.uk/seminars