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Joseph Harrison @jharrison37.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Final chapter from my PhD was published today in Dem Res. See below! Many thanks to supervisors and collaborators @migrantlife.bsky.social project and new role in @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project for giving me the time to finish it.

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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My 2nd PhD chapter on #housing changes of #immigrants & #descendants in #England & #Wales has been published 🥳. Thanks to my very positive reviewers for their suggestions, @celsiusnews.bsky.social & my supervisors Hill Kulu & @ischiathere.bsky.social as part of @migrantlife.bsky.social project!

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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Wohoooo, a new article is published that tackles housing and homeownership among immigrants and their descendants in Sweden, @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @migrantlife.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The MigrantLife project officially comes to an end this month! Earlier today, together with our colleagues at @phrg-standrews.bsky.social, we looked back on and celebrated our achievements—and the many people who contributed to the project’s success 🍾

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

@parthpandya.bsky.social showcased their fourth and final PhD chapter, which analyses various life course triggers of residential and housing tenure changes among migrants and their descendants in the UK. @migrantlife.bsky.social

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Finally, a study led by @jmikolai.bsky.social looks at the link between fertility and employment changes among migrant groups in Europe. It was published in October this year 👇 bsky.app/profile/phrg...

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Meanwhile, in a study using the German SOEP data, @ischiathere.bsky.social and Hill Kulu demonstrate that motherhood reduces women’s labor market participation across immigrant groups — but its impact is stronger for European immigrant women because they start out with higher baseline participation.

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Another study led by @jharrison37.bsky.social finds persistent gaps in residential mobility and homeownership between the native population and immigrants + their descendants. @jmikolai.bsky.social @ischiathere.bsky.social @maryabedalahad.bsky.social

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Using register data from France, @jharrison37.bsky.social & H. Kulu, together with I. Delaporte & A. Pailhé, find that immigrants from North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa & their descendants are less likely to own a home & instead more likely to move to social renting compared to the native group.

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Examining data from Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland, J. Lacroix, @ischiathere.bsky.social, @maryabedalahad.bsky.social, H. Kulu, together with G. Andersson, show that immigrants and refugees tend to move to urban areas following initial settlement and dispersal policy.

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We are kicking off the week by celebrating several new publications ✍️ from the @migrantlife.bsky.social project -- all published in the last few weeks!

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Julie Lacroix et al have published in International Migration Review - #Immigrant #Refugee #Mobility Across #Urban #Rural Continuum in 3 #European Countries. They find immigrants contribute little to suburban-/rural-isation. Refugees relocate to urban areas after restrictions doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Policy Insight by @populationeu.bsky.social co-authored by CPC-CG's Kulu & @sarahchristison.bsky.social, part of We-ID project 'Identities, #migration & #democracy' Examines #EU #migration policy and the tension between crisis response and long-term integration: population-europe.eu/research/pol...

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Rethinking Migration and Integration in Europe: From Crisis Management to Democratic Inclusion
By We-ID experts Claudia Neu, Hill Kulu, Ljubica Nikolic, Öndercan Muti, Sarah Christison
Local cultural and regional contexts strongly shape how migration is perceived. At present, the EU’s migration policy oscillates between management and control on the one hand, and integration and inclusion on the other. Yet integration ultimately unfolds in local communities and workplaces. Beyond employment and economic participation, these spaces can nurture both inclusion and democratic culture — after all, democracy often begins on the shop floor.
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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New publication ✍️ Recent work by @jmikolai.bsky.social, Hill Kulu, and @ischiathere.bsky.social, together with Isaure Delaporte, unveils the interrelationship between fertility and employment changes among migrant populations across three major migrant recipient countries in Europe.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🚨New MigrantLife paper published today in @demresjournal.bsky.social using #machinelearning to identify the most important predictors of #migrant #fertility and #parity progression in #France!

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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We are now live on LinkedIn as well! Follow us for updates 😀

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Dr Mengxing J @drmengxing.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Event: Join community members, organisations & researchers to explore challenges & opportunities in ethnic minority ageing in Scotland 💬 Panel • Discussion • Collaboration 20 Oct 2025, University of Edinburgh 🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/e/aFbe4JX3pu Funded by @britishgerontology.bsky.social

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

‼️ Closing THIS WEDNESDAY - Apply: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📕 NEW @migrantlife.bsky.social paper by @jmikolai.bsky.social and Hill Kulu, published in Advances in Life Course Research Investigates how #partnership, #fertility, and #employment changes interact in the lives of #immigrants’ descendants in the UK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Advances in Life Course Research
Available online 29 August 2025, 100703
In Press, Journal Pre-proof
Advances in Life Course Research
Heterogeneity or disadvantage? Partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom
Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100703

Highlights
• European/Western descendants and natives have similar trajectories.
• Caribbeans have diverse family patterns, but similar employment to natives.
• South Asians have conservative family patterns and low labour market attachment.
• Heterogeneous family trajectories co-exist with low labour market participation.

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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I am so happy to have presented in two sessions at #BSPS2025 conference on Life course trajectories of descendants of immigrants in Sweden and on Life satisfaction, health and air pollution. @bspsuk.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @migrantlife.bsky.social

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

📌 New opportunity to work with @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG @standrewssgsd.bsky.social Post-doctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation Apply by 1 October #poptwitter: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @bspsuk.bsky.social

Image shows a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook with the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logos. Text in the image advertises the job opportunity: Research Fellow or Research Assistant to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. Based at the School of Geography and Sustainable Developmen, University of St Andrews.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Our previous team member @ischiathere.bsky.social & Nissa Finney contributed to a @bspsuk.bsky.social panel on future research on the #children of #immigrants! The panel discussed data gaps, specific themes/theories related to their unique societal status, methodologies & interdisciplinarity.

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Great day #BSPS2025, incl. @migrantlife.bsky.social's Baek on #fertility & #employment of UK women with #migrant backgrounds; Harrison & @maryabedalahad.bsky.social on migrants' life events in France & Sweden; @sarahchristison.bsky.social on UK family & housing transitions by migrant group & origin

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The final presentation was delivered by @sarahchristison.bsky.social who looked at #housing, #partnership & #fertility of immigrants & descendants in the #UK. Births were most likely for homeowners & homeownership entry is heterogenous regardless of partnership which may suggest disadvantage.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@maryabedalahad.bsky.social jumped from France to #Sweden to look at #homeownership, #marriage & #childbirth among #immigrants & their #descendants. She shows greater life event convergence to the Swedish natives across migrant generations & the importance of homeownership for other life events.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@jharrison37.bsky.social is next presenting his work on #births, #partnerships & residential #mobility of #immigrants & #descendants in #France! He shows that African immigrants exhibit higher event intensity, some fertility convergence across generations & that residential barriers persist.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@jiseonbaek.bsky.social presented her PhD work on the #fertility & #employment link for #immigrants & #descendants in the #UK. She shows with #multiprocess modelling that we underestimate #childbearing for various migrant groups & its implications on how we view their childbearing & #career paths.

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Sarah Christison @sarahchristison.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Excited to be at #bsps2025 presenting some of the first results from the #We-id project exploring the social identities and political participation of migrants and their descendants in Europe

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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I had the priviledge of chairing the session on life course of Immigrants regarding education and employment with four wonderful presenters at the British Society for Population Studies conference @bspsuk.bsky.social @parthpandya.bsky.social @secoyorke.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

@parthpandya.bsky.social kicks off MigrantLife presentations at @bspsuk.bsky.social Conference 2025! They presented on #UK #residentialmobility and its link to #household characteristics specifically household #income and #partnership status.

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"Using an intersectional life course approach & multi-channel sequence analysis we show that family and employment are mutually supportive life domains among migrant men, whilst they are competing and often incompatible among migrant women." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

💡New MigrantLife Working Paper! Team members @maryabedalahad.bsky.social, Hill Kulu and Gunnar Andersson have published their new working paper exploring the timing of critical life events among descendants of immigrants in Sweden.

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

As we mark #WorldPopulationDay2025, find out more about recent CPC-CG research providing insights and policy evidence under this year's UN theme: "Empowering young people to create the #families they want in a fair and hopeful world" ➡️ www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_... @bspsuk.bsky.social #population

Image shows young office workers walking in the street on their lunch break next to a quote from Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations (CPC-CG), who notes: "Fertility decline is not simply a matter of choice. It reflects economic uncertainty, unaffordable childcare, precarious housing, and a mismatch between fertility intentions and the means to realise them. If young adults are to have the families they desire, we must listen to them and address the barriers they face. CPC and CG research continues to provide the data and insight needed to shape those solutions.”

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

To end #PopFest2025, this year's organising committee chair @parthpandya.bsky.social from @standrewssgsd.bsky.social gives the closing speech. Well done to all this year's committee: Clara Girault & Sai Joshi @unisouthampton.bsky.social, & Izzi Carter from LSE Volunteer now for the next committee!

Parth Pandaya gives the closing speech at the #PopFest2025 conference.

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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Still a few days left to apply to this postdoc job 👇

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St Andrews Geography & SD @standrewssgsd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🎓 Today we celebrate success! It’s graduation day for our amazing graduates, from Bachelor’s to PhDs. Congratulations to our entire Class of 2025! Here’s our brilliant PhD cohort ready to take on the world. 🌟 #GraduationDay #ProudSchool #ClassOf2025

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Second day of the @migrantlife.bsky.social Symposium Our colleague Kelsey Quinn Wright got up early today to present her research on the '𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲' this morning @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! #Fertilty #Migration #Health #Refugees

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Andrew Ibbetson was the final presenter of the Symposium. Andrew presented on migrant #projections of #family formation patterns in the #UK using #microsimulation methods! It’s Andrew’s last day working for MigrantLife so his presentation is a nice conclusion and we wish him well for the future!

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

@sarahchristison.bsky.social presented in the final session of the Symposium looking at #housing & #family formation patterns in the UK!

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

@jiseonbaek.bsky.social presented this morning at the Symposium on the #endogeneity of #fertility and #employment in the #UK! Ji showed that not adjusting for endogeneity underestimates the employment penalty and overestimates fertility.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our PhD student @parthpandya.bsky.social presented preliminary findings from their third paper on UK #residential #mobility & #employment changes for #immigrants & #descendants! They showed heterogeneities in moving depending on employment entry timing & the implications for #lifecourse #stability.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our very own @ischiathere.bsky.social presented on #motherhood & #employment for #descendants in #Germany vs natives! She showed interesting findings particularly between different migrant groups in Germany and employment changes particularly #parttime work between first and second births!

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Andreas Höhn presented at the Symposium on joint work looking at #working life expectancies of #immigrants and their #descendants in the #UK with interesting findings by origin group and sex using #multistate methods!

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hello, @migrantlife.bsky.social Symposium @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Today, @loisilvia.bsky.social presented her research on 'Understanding Differential Physical and Mental Health Trajectories of Refugees and Migrants'. Don't miss the presentation of Kelsey tomorrow (June 26) at 🕤9:30 on ... 1/2

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The Symposium keynote was delivered by Prof Inta Mierina (University of Latvia). Inta presented on the themes of nationalism, nation building, (anti-)immigration sentiment & how migrant origin affects societal acceptance. Inta also reflected on her work on immigrant ex/inclusion across local areas.

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