Migration measurement and management: a global and comparative perspective
Jun 17, 2025 | 1:45 PM - 3:00 PMGround Floor & Floors 3-5, Niagra Building
Jun 17, 2025 | 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Ground Floor & Floors 3-5, Niagra Building
Description
This panel brings together scholars from regions around the globe to examine migration statistics in a comparative perspective through papers that explore variations in migration data, measurement, and management regimes across cases from the global north and south. With a focus on the importance of geographical and historical contexts, the papers examine how states count and categorize migrants for strategic purposes and how the counting of migrants defines membership and citizenship in cases from South and Southeast Asia (India in particular), East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan), the Middle East (the GCC countries), as well as Europe, Latin America (Mexico in particular), the U.S., and Canada. The papers will address questions such as: Why and how does postcolonial state formation affect migration measurement and management? How have states attempted to reconcile economic needs with restrictions on membership, settlement, naturalization, and citizenship via their migration measurement and population policies? How does the character of the political regime impact the policies of counting migrants? Which domestic coalitions support or oppose specific forms of counting migrants and gathering data and why?
Moderator: James Hollifield, Professor and Director, Southern Methodist University
Speakers:
- Kamal Sadiq, Professor, University of California at Irvine
- Miryam Hazán, Migration Specialist, Organization of American States
- Hélène Thiollet, Research Fellow, CNRS/CERI Sciences Po Paris
- Giuseppe Sciortino, Professor, Universita' degli Studi di Trento
