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CALL FOR PAPERS
Forced migration: medium and long-term demographic outcomes
A one day BSPS meeting, 26th March 2002, London School of Economics
There are few empirical studies of the medium and long term implications of
forced migration on demography, despite the fact that forced migrations,
particularly refugee movements and repatriations, are so prominent at
present.
Such demographic implications could be either direct (affecting fertility
and mortality) or indirect (through, for example, changing socio-economic
conditions, livelihoods, household composition). It is possible that the
political context which either led to forced migration or develops from it
moulds conscious and sub-conscious demographic responses to the new
situation. It is also plausible that conditions encountered during the
crisis lead to psychological responses and a new awareness of the
political role of demographic behaviour and thus to conscious change of such
behaviour.
This one-day meeting aims to assemble empirical and theoretical studies of
the medium to long-term consequences of forced migration. The objective is
to develop a better understanding of the generalities of population
responses to such circumstances. Particular topics of interest include:
differences in demographic response between forced and voluntary migrations;
whether forced migrants develops pronatalist strategies as a response to
persecution and threat; the impacts of socio-economic, political and
psychological outcomes of forced migration on demographic behaviour.
The meeting will not deal with the short term consequences of forced
migration into refugee camps. Such migration is fairly well documented in
terms of age-sex composition of who migrates and mortality implications.
Although such data are rough and ready, the relatively transient nature of
many forced migration situations means that the immediate demographic
phenomena are also rather ephemeral.
In the first instance, please send abstracts/ enquiries to [log in to unmask]
by Friday 15th February.
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