The Department of Technology & Society Studies of the University of Maastricht provides the social-scientific input for the teaching and research conducted by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The research carried out by members of the Department of Technology & Society Studies takes place in the Research Institute for Arts and Culture, within the sections (1) Modernisation and Cultural Identity; (2) Technology and Society: social ...
The UPF is a public university, founded in 1990, and specialized in the social sciences although with a large law department. Within the political and social sciences department, main research fields include demography and the family, labour markets and employment, migration and immigrant integration policies, public policies and regulation, comparative social policy and welfare states, research on social inequalities and poverty. The researchers involved in the present ...
Established in 1997 as a University Centre of Research Excellence, the Sussex Centre for Migration Research draws together researchers from the disciplines of anthropology, development studies, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology and sociology. The Centre is coordinator of the Development Research Centre on ‘Migration, Globalisation and Poverty’, a network funded by the UK Department for International Development that brings together researchers from Albania, Bangladesh, Ghana and Egypt. ...
From 2006 on, MAFE-Senegal received the support of : Institut National d’Etudes Démographique (INED) Conseil régional d’Ile de France (through the« programme PICRI » and a post-doc grant) Fonds de solidarité prioritaire (FSP) - Programme de Recherche "Migrations internationales, recompositions territoriales et développement des pays du Sud" Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - Programme « Jeunes chercheurs » From 2008 on, the MAFE European ...
Organising a dialogue on international migrations lays on the multiplication of interactions between researchers and civil society on the one hand, and between North and South on the other hand. In this context, the research questions of MAFE are fed by the concerns of civil society, expressed in the framework of public meetings. Researchers are committed to discuss their results with civil society organisations. Therefore, all the ...
An international advisory board made up of six stakeholders in the area of international migrations represents the three key users of MAFE project results (researchers, policy-makers and civil society). The members of the advisory board contribute their expertise in terms of methodology and research organisation, as well as a user perspective to ensure the relevance of MAFE work in relation to its various audiences. Furthermore, the members ...
The MAFE surveys rely on two different questionnaires The questionnaires are almost entirely identical from one country to another. The few differences consist in: cultural variables (religion, ethnic groups, matrimonial status etc.) new questions introduced on fostered children in the MAFE Congo and MAFE Ghana biographic questionnaires (Module on Children) the order of the questions relating to migration in the household questionnaire (Module ...
Note 10 - Thevenin, ’Manipulation des bases biographiques R’, October 2015 (FR) Learning Data Note 9 - Thevenin, M., Rossi, D., ’Manipulation des bases biographiques SAS’, Januaryr 2015 (FR) Learning Data Note 8 - Thevenin, M., ’Manipulation des bases biographiques STATA’, January 2015 (FR) Learning Data Note 7 - Beauchemin, C., Amétépé, F., Bringe, A., Caporali, A., Lejbowicz, T., Morisset, A., Thevenin, M., Schoumaker, B., ’Introduction to the MAFE ...
MAFE combines random sampling of households and individuals in cities in origin countries, with quota sampling among migrant populations in destination countries. Overall, between early 2008 and early 2010, more than 4,000 household questionnaires and 4,000 individual biographies were successfully completed in 3 African countries (Senegal, Ghana, RD Congo), and around more than 1,400 biographies of African migrants were collected ...
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