On 1 September 2026, the new research project HOMEINEQ – Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and Europe started at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), the project is jointly led by Sergi Vidal and Riccardo Valente. Housing and residential mobility are increasingly central to the production of social inequality.

Together with Riccardo Valente, I am organizing the session “Mobility Trajectories Across the Life Course: New Directions in the Sociology of Population” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2027 in Gwangju, South Korea, within RC41 Sociology of Population. We welcome contributions examining mobility as a dynamic and cumulative life-course process, including childhood and lifetime mobility, linked lives and family ties, socio-economic and health consequences, and methodological innovations for studying complex mobility histories.

AbstractObjectives. Previous research on the economic outcomes of widowhood for older adults has often treated spousal death as a single event rather than

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...

Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming workshop Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course, organized by the LIFELONGMOVE team. Research increasingly shows that to fully understand patterns of spatial mobility, we need a life course perspective—one that draws on longitudinal data and methods.

Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona). The proposed special issue aims to leverage a trajectory-based approach that fully accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of migration across time and space, providing deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications.