The mpc team directors Philippe Fargues Philippe Fargues is the founding Director of the Migration Policy Centre. He is a sociologist and demographer. He has been Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, a senior researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris, a visiting profes¬sor at Harvard, and the Director of the Centre for Economic Legal and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo. He has lectured in a number of universities in Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East. Fargues’ recent publications include: International Migration and the Nation State in Arab Countries (Middle East Law and Governance, Toronto, 2013); Demography, Migration and Revolt in the South of the Mediterranean(in Arab Society in Revolt, Brookings, Washington, 2012); Immigration without Inclusion: Non-Nationals in Nation-Building in the Gulf States (Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 2011); International Migration and the Demographic Transition: a Two-Way Interaction (International Migration Review, 2011).
Alessandra Venturini Alessandra Venturini is Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Center, Florence, and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the EUI, and has held senior academic positions at the Universities of Florence, Bergamo, and Padua. She has held visiting professorships at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University), at Brown University, and at the International Institute of Labour Studies (at the ILO in Geneva). She has conducted joint projects with organisations ranging from the OECD migration section and the World Bank, to the European Commission Migration Programme and the CEPR Migration Research programme. She is a fellow of IZA, CHILD, FIERI, and an active member of IMISCOE. Professor Venturini’s research interests are varied and include labour economics, with a focus on the assimilation of migrants in their host country and their effect on the labour market and on innovativation in the Eu countries. She has written extensively on the effect of remittances and highly-skilled migration in sending countries and on circular and irregular migration.
Research topics: International migration, demographic transition and demographic ageing, population and Research topics: Economics, effect of migration in destination and in the sending countries politics, population and development Geographic areas: Arab world, Africa, Europe philippe.fargues@eui.eu
Geographic areas: All areas alessandra.venturini@eui.eu
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Migration Policy Centre Team, Florence, 2014
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