The Global Migration Center is pleased to invite you to its new event series, ‘Migration Talks’. This series of lectures has been designed to allow guest speakers from a variety of disciplines to present their works on the topic of migration and engage in discussion with the broader Graduate Institute community. This represents a unique opportunity for students, doctoral candidates, and researchers to network, discuss research, and foster interdisciplinary intellectual engagements over the crucial topic of migration in its multiple nuances.
About the speaker
Hein de Haas is a sociologist and a geographer who has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Morocco and the United Kingdom. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Between 2006 and 2015, he was a founding member and co-director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. He continues directing IMI from its current home at UvA. He is also Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Maastricht.
In his work, De Haas has advanced a new, long-term view of migration as an intrinsic part of global change and development. He is lead author of The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, a seminal text book in the field of migration studies.
His new book How Migration Really Works was published by Penguin in November 2023 (US edition with Basic Books) as well as in German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek and Korean translations. Based on three decades of research, the book challenges 22 migration myths on the left and right, revealing the need for an entirely new theoretical understanding of human mobility .
Fluent in Dutch, English and French, Hein de Haas is a frequent keynote speaker and has provided commentary for press, radio and television around the world. He also maintains a blog on migration-related topics.