Conférence « New Data and Methods for Migration Studies » | 10-11 octobre

Paris School of Economics, SoBigData++ consortium, HumMingBird consortium et l’Institut Convergences Migrations organisent conjointement une conférence de deux jours visant à réunir des spécialistes des migrations de diverses disciplines issus de ces institutions et au-delà. La conférence est consacrée à la recherche et à la présentation de nouvelles méthodes d’étude des migrations humaines basées sur des sources de données et des méthodes non traditionnelles.

New Data and Methods for Migration Studies : going beyond traditional data sources

Dates : Les 10 et 11 octobre 2022
Lieu : Paris School of Economics
48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Organisateurs : Alina Sirbu, Donia Kamel, Hillel Rapoport, Jerome Valette et Tuba Bircan.

Programme :

Lundi 10 octobre

09:00-09:15 Registration
Reception area : Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris, 75014

09:15-09:30 Opening Session
Room : Amphitheatre
Greetings :
Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics, Head of Migration Exploratory at SoBigData
Tuba Bircan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, HummingBird Project
Alina Sirbu, University of Pisa, SoBigData & HummingBird Projects
Jerome Valette, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and Institut Convergence Migration

09:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 1 : Technological Violence Through High-Risk Experiments at the Border
Speaker : Petra Molnar (Refugee Law Lab, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University)
Chair : Tuba Bircan

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Session 1 : Development and Migration
Chair : Jerome Valette

Jisu Kim (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) : “Online Social Integration of Migrants : Evidence from Twitter”
Annali Mireia Casanueva Artis (Paris School of Economics) : “Going Viral in a Pandemic : Social Media and the Broadening of the Black Lives Matter” (with Vladimir Avetian, Sulin Sardoschau, and Kritika Saxena)
Bilgecag Aydogdu (Utrecht University) : “A new modality of transnationalism : Airtime remittances and their short-term responsiveness to critical events” (with Illias Gorantis, Ozge Bilgili, and Albert Ali Salah)
Andre Groeger (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) : “Predicting Bilateral Refugee Flows using Google Trends Data”

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:30 Session 2 : Political Economy of Migration
Room : R2-01
Chair : Hillel Rapoport

Alessandra Stampi-Bombelli (ETH Zurich) : “Immigration and Social Destination : Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration” (with Gloria Gennaro, Dominik Hangartner, and Elliott Ash)
Apurav Yash Bhatiya (University of Birmingham) : “Do Enfranchised Immigrants Affect Politicians’ Behaviour ?”
Athina Anastasiadou (Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research) : “War and Migration : First Steps of Quantifying the Russian Exodus with Digital Trace Data” (with Artem Volgin)
Godwin Osabutey (University of Bologna) : “The effect of interaction and composition on resident-immigrant cultural contact” (with Pierluigi Contucci)

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00 Keynote Lecture 2 : Believing and Spreading Fake News
Speaker : Ekaterina Zhuravaskaya (Paris School of Economics)
Chair : Jerome Valette

19:30-22:00 Conference Dinner

Mardi 11 octobre

09:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 3 : Migration and Big Data : from Research to Policy
Speaker : Joshua Blumenstock (University of California Berkeley)
Chair : Hillel Rapoport

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Session 3 : High Skilled Migration and Cultural Exchanges
Chair : Tuba Bircan

Camilo Umana Dajud  : “Free Trade Agreements and the Movement of Business People” (with Thierry Mayer and Hillel Rapoport)
Alina Sirbu (University of Pisa) : “Analysing Scientific Migration Drivers to Predict Scientific Migration Flows” (with Laura Pollacci)
Laura Pollacci (University of Pisa) : “Cultural exchange and high-skilled mobility from LinkedIn : the case of Tuscan alumni” (with Gianmarco Di Mauro and Guilio Rossetti)
Massimiliano Coda Zabetta (Universitat de Barcelona) : “Foreign-origin Managers and FDI Location Choice” (with Ernest Miguelez, Franceso Lissoni, and Sarah Hegarty)

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 Session 4 : Methods
Chair : Alina Sirbu

Haodong Qi (Malmo University) : “From Aspiration to Action : Quantifying Migration Capability Using a Linear-Nonlinear Mixed Approach” (with Tuba Bircan)
Diletta Goglia (University of Pisa) : “Use of non-traditional data sources to nowcast migration trends through Ariticial Intelligence Technologies” (with Alina Sirbu and Laura Pollacci)
Ahmad Wali (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) : “The Use of Big Data for Migration and Human Mobility by National Statistical Institutions” (with Ahmad Yar and Tuba Bircan)

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:30 Keynote Lecture 4 : Opportunities and challenges in the use of alternative data sources to study migratory phenomena
Speaker : Stefano Iacus (Harvard University)
Chair : Alina Sirbu

17:30-19:00 Farewell reception
PSE Reception Hall