Programme (Program)

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

 

18:30   Cocktail evening

 

 

Wednesday, November 29, 2017  

 

8:30   Welcome coffee

9:00   Opening and welcoming address

 

THEME 1 – Data and Methods

 

9:15	SESSION 1 Sampling and other methodological challenges in studying refugees and displaced populations
	Chair: Philippe Bocquier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Jon Pederson (Fafo Research Foundation, Norway), Sampling Iraqi and Syrian nationals in Jordan
• Judith Kohlenberger (Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Austria), Isabella Buber-Ennser, Bernhard Rengs, Zakarya Al Zalak, Measuring Forced Migration to Europe: Sampling Techniques and Methodological Observations from the “Displaced Persons in Austria Survey (DiPAS)”
• Rima Mourtada (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Sawsan Abdulrahim, Jocelyn DeJong, Huda Zurayk, Marwan Khawaja, Methodological, contextual and ethical challenges in a study looking at the prevalence of early marriage among Syrian refugee girls/women in Bekaa, Lebanon

10:00   Discussion

10:30   Coffee break

 

11:00	SESSION 2 Use of administrative and other data sources
	Chair: Marie Vandresse (Bureau du Plan, Belgium)

• Phillip Connor (Pew Research Center, USA), Estimating the residential status of Europe’s refugee surge
• Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (London  School of Economics, UK), Collecting genealogies to reconstruct populations: the case of the Guatemalan civil war (1960-2015)
• Bruno Masquelier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Romesh Silva, Assessing UNHCR registration data as a source of mortality statistics for conflict-affected populations: A case study in Yemen 

11:45   Discussion

12:15   Lunch

 

13:45	SESSION 3 Modelling asylum-related migration and measuring vulnerability​
	Chair: Guillaume Wunsch (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Jakub Bijak (University of Southampton, UK), Jonathan J Forster, Jason Hilton, Modelling asylum-related migration: survey of data and methods
• Annalisa Busetta, Valeria Cetorelli, Daria Mendola, Ben Wilson (Department of Sociology, Sweden), Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Informal Settlements in Italy: A Multidimensional Vulnerability Assessment
• Sarah Nurse (University of Southampton, UK), Jakub Bijak, Dispersal and deprivation of asylum seekers in the UK: how much can the data tell us? 

14:30   Discussion

15:00   Coffee Break

 

THEME 2 - Demographic impacts of forced displacement

 

 

15:30	SESSION 4 Forced displacement and its effects on families and couples
	Chair: Koen Dewulf (Belgian Federal Migration Centre-Myria, Belgium)

• Glenda Santana de Andrade (Université Paris 8, France), L’impact des déplacements forcés : des nouvelles dynamiques de survie dans le cas de familles réfugiées Syriennes en Jordanie 
• Isabella Buber-Ennser (Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria), Zakarya Al Zalak, Judith Kohlenberger, Bernhard Rengs, Family context of married refuge seeking persons: Who arrived with the partner? Who left children behind? Insights from Syrian and Iraqi persons arriving in Austria in 2015
• Philip Verwimp (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Davide Osti, Gudrun Ostby, Migration, Forced Displacement and Fertility during Civil War: A Survival Analysis 

16:15   Discussion

 

16:45	SESSION 5 UNCHR reporting and statistics for research and decision-making
	Chair: Bruno Masquelier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Presentation by Petra Nahmias, Senior Statistician at UNHCR (Field Information and Coordination Support Section), followed by Questions & Answers with the audience  

 

 

19:00

EXODUS: Our Journey to Europe

Screening of the documentary “EXODUS: Our Journey to Europe”, by James Bluemel, followed by a discussion evening with Pierre Verbeeren, Director of Médecins du Monde - Belgium and François Bienfait, representing EASO, the European Asylum Support Office.
Location: Studio 11 (center of Louvain-la-Neuve).

 

 

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Thursday, November 30, 2017 

 

THEME 3 - Legal Provisions and Life Courses

 

 

9:15	SESSION 6 Life courses of asylum seekers and legal or policy issues
	Chair: Marwan Khawaja (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia)

• Tatiana Eremenko (CSIC/INED, France), Administrative trajectories of rejected asylum seekers in France
• Daniela Ghio (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy), Giancarlo Blangiardo, Asylum Seekers or Irregular immigrants? The Lazy Eye of Europe - Forecasting a Comprehensive Approach for Migration Policies
• Sophie Vause (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Bruno Schoumaker, Asylum seekers: migrants unlike any other? A comparison of survey and administrative data on migrant trajectories in Belgium

10:00   Discussion

10:30   Coffee break

 

11:00	SESSION 7 Integration of refugees and asylum seekers
	Chair: Bruno Schoumaker (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Anne-Laure Bertrand (Université de Genève, Switzerland), Trajectoires des réfugiés en Suisse : impact de la législation sur les chances d’intégration professionnelle
• Virginie Jourdan (Direction générale des étrangers en France, France), Le parcours d'intégration des nouveaux réfugiés en France 
• Aljoscha Landoes (Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics, Switzerland), Using and combining register data to study life course trajectories – analysing the transition to adulthood of young asylum seekers and refugees in Switzerland. 

11:45   Discussion

12:15   Lunch 

 

THEME 4 - Health of Refugees and Displaced Populations

 

13:45	SESSION 8 Refugee health
	Chair: Catherine Gourbin (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Sol Juárez (Stockholm University/Karolinska Institute, Sweden), Eleonora Mussino, Anders Hjern, Being refugee or having a refugee status? Birth outcomes among offspring of immigrant mothers in Sweden.
• Walter Forrest (University of Queensland, Australia), Zachary Steel, “Factories for mental illness”? The impact of immigration detention on the mental health of humanitarian migrants
• Solveig Argeșeanu (Emory University, USA), Migration, assimilation, and chronic disease among refugee families 

14:30   Discussion

15:00   Coffee Break 

 

15:30	SESSION 9 Sexual and reproductive health
	Chair: Ester Rizzi (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Julie Pannetier (CEPED, France), Andrainolo Ravalihasy, Annabel Desgrées du Loû (pour le groupe Parcours), Violences sexuelles à l’égard des femmes et parcours migratoire : là-bas mais aussi ici
• Armelle Andro (Université Paris 1, France), Lorraine Poncet, Claire Scodellaro et l’équipe DSAFHIR, Etudier la santé sexuelle et reproductive des femmes réfugiées et déplacées. Premiers enseignements d’une enquête socio-démographique menée en France (DSAFHIR)
• Annabel Desgrées du Loû (CEPED/IRD, France), Anne Gosselin, Julie Pannetier, Andrainolo Ravalihasy (pour le groupe Parcours), Vulnérabilité des migrants africains réfugiés : apports de l’enquête Parcours pour mesurer les difficultés sociales et de santé

16:15   Discussion

 

16:45   Closing remarks