Chaire Quetelet 2011

Louvain-la-Neuve, 16-18 November 2011
Research Centre in Population and Societies, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique  

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Urbanisation is a major phenomenon of contemporary world, an indicator of globalisation. Although uncertainty prevails about future trends, urbanisation is an essential but often neglected component of the demographic transition and of development at large, in the North as well as in the South.
Internal migrations incepted city growth in the first phase of the urban transition and, more recently, urban spatial expansion (informal settlements, suburbanisation...). While natural growth has taken over in latest phase of the urban transition, migrations remain very intense. Their patterns diversify as much as the socio-demographic characteristics of the migrants. Circular migration between urban and rural areas, between cities or between villages, becomes more frequent. Similarly, despite environmental constraints and economic downturn, migrations to periurban areas remain important and extend to increasingly distant areas.
Internal migrations are still under-documented and under-studied, in spite of their role in urbanisation and population history, of their high number and of their socio-economic relevance for households and communities as well as for regions and countries. 

The 2011 Chaire Quetelet will be devoted to the urban phenomenon and trends, to internal migrations and the different patterns they have, but also on the role of urbanisation and migration in changes of demographic behaviours, and generally in modifying social and demographic composition of urban, periurban and rural areas.

Communications may address methodological issues (data quality and sources on urbanisation and internal migrations, trend measurement techniques and hypotheses), as well as theoretical or explanatory issues (urbanisation and internal migrations roles in demographic behaviour and demographic transition). Papers on interactions between, on the one hand, urbanisation and migration, and on the other hand, mortality, fertility and other demographic behaviours or structures, are particularly welcomed. In this respect, biographical and historical approaches are encouraged. Papers may be relevant to a region, to a country or a group of countries in the North or in the South, or to a specific community or society.

1. Urbanisation and migrations: theories and measurement issues
What role do migrations and urbanisation play in recent developments of demographic theory?
What are the links between urban transition, mobility transition and demographic transition?
What improvements can be made to the definition, measurement and projections of urban trends?
What are the progresses in collecting and analysing data on internal migrations and their determinants?
What can be the contribution of new technologies (e.g. satellite images) in analysing urbanisation and its trends?

2. Urbanisation and migrations: relations and interactions
What are the relationships between migration and urban transition and how do they evolve?
What role does the city plays in individual’s residential history? How does it evolve across generations and socio-economic groups?
Whereas internal migration has often been motivated by socio-economic factors, do other factors, like cultural factors (segregation, ghetto and gated communities) or demographic factors (family cycle, weakening of family ties) play an increasing role?
What are the consequences of urban policies on internal migrations and on local population dynamics?

3. Interactions between migration, urbanisation and demographic behaviours
What are the interactions between residential, employment and family histories? How did they evolve and how do they vary between socio-economic categories of the population?
What is the impact of migrations on demographic transition? How are migrations integrated in past and present demographic systems?
In which extent suburbanisation and urban extension are factors of socioeconomic differentiation and stratification?
What role socially and demographically selective migrations are playing in spatial variations of fertility and mortality?
Is the ‘urban penalty’, the degradation of health in poor urban areas, re-emerging?
Are migrants adopting different demographic behaviours from origin and destination populations?

4. New patterns of internal migrations
Has rural exodus given way to circular migration? Doe this evolution correspond to the late phase of the urban transition?
Are short-term migrations substituting to long-term migrations? Are communications substituting to short-term migrations? What are the effects of transports and ICT on patterns and intensity of temporary and permanent migrations?
Are residential ubiquity and bipolarity of households intensifying?
How do urban and rural space modify through changes in migration patterns? Are usage and perception of space modified by these new patterns?

Instructions for submitting paper
Submissions of proposals should be submitted online (no later than May 20th, 2011) on the EasyChair website at the following address : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cq11.
Guidelines .

Paper
The completed papers should be sent before 1st November 2011. The final version should not exceed 20 single-spaced pages long, including tables and references.

Language
Papers will be presented in French or English, without simultaneous interpretation.

Publication
A selection of publications will be published in the proceedings of the Chaire Quetelet 2011.

Deadlines
Deadline for submission: 20th May 2011
Author notification of accepted paper abstract: 15th June 2011
Deadline for completed paper: 1st November 2011
Quetelet Seminar: 16th-18th November 2011

Registration fees
Full: 150 euros
PhD Student: 20 euros
The fees must be paid when sending the registration form or, at the latest, before the opening of the conference, in cash, crossed cheque, or international money order to bank account no. BE11 310 0959001 48 of the Research Centre in Population and Societies, IBAN : BE11 310095900148, BIC (SWIFT) : BBRUBEBB  (mention: CQ2011 compte demo56L1). 

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Scientific committee	Organising committee
Philippe Bocquier (UCL-DEMO), responsable	Philippe Bocquier (UCL-DEMO), responsable
Rafael Costa (UCL-DEMO)	Patricia Brise (UCL-DEMO)
Thierry Eggerickx (UCL-DEMO), responsable	Rafael Costa (UCL-DEMO)
Marie-Laurence Flahaux (UCL-DEMO)	Thierry Eggerickx (UCL-DEMO), responsable
Jean-Pierre Hermia (UCL-DEMO)	Marie-Laurence Flahaux (UCL-DEMO)
Lénaïg Le Berre (UCL-DEMO)	Jean-Pierre Hermia (UCL-DEMO)
Antoine Pierrard (UCL-DEMO)	Lénaïg Le Berre (UCL-DEMO)
Jean-Paul Sanderson (UCL-DEMO)	Antoine Pierrard (UCL-DEMO)
	Jean-Paul Sanderson (UCL-DEMO)
	Isabelle Theys (UCL-DEMO)

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Contact
Isabelle Theys
Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés,
Université catholique de Louvain
1 Place Montesquieu bte L2.08.03, 1348-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
Tel. +32 10 472951, Fax. +32 10 472952
Isabelle.Theys@uclouvain.be
www.uclouvain.be/demo