Spotlight

RRI Seminar Series

Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons
presented by: Dr. Peter Nijkamp

Winner of the NWO-Spinoza Award
Professor, Regional Economics, Economic Geography
President, Governing Board Netherlands Research Council
VU University AmsterdamThe Netherlands

Thursday, February 16, 2012
Room 325 Brooks Hall

Dr. Nijkamp’s presentation builds on a new book on Migration Impact Assessment. It takes for granted that the future of our world will be characterized by the ‘home mobiles’.  It then outlines some of the prominent characteristics of the ‘age of migration’ and focuses the attention on the socio-economic consequences of foreign migration, mainly at local and regional levels.

The presentation will offer a conceptual and methodological overview, to be followed by various modeling experiments partly based on a meta-analysis, partly on original field work.

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