Britain on the Move 2012
17th-18th December 2012
To be held at the RGS-IBG Headquarters, London
Background to the conference
20 years ago, Champion and Fielding’s (1992) two volume edited collection on migration patterns and processes was published. This provided a landmark intervention within migration studies and wider human geography, demonstrating how different types of migration in GB were undergoing changes and giving rise to new patterns of population, housing and economies. For the last two decades, this book has provided a key resource for geographers and social scientists teaching the subject of migration and mobility, and scholars more widely teaching issues which inter-connect with migration and mobility.
Clearly, since the early 1990s there have been some profound changes in British society which will have impacted on migration rates, flows and trends, including:
- the deepening segregation of society along lines of affluence and poverty (Dorling et al., 2008)
- the reconfiguration of family, household structures and living arrangements (Williams, 2004)
- in-migration from the European Union and changing immigration policies
- labour market dynamics (Green, 2010)
- commuting patterns (Bailey, 2009)
- technological advancements (i.e. internet)
- state welfare policies
- participation in higher education
- school catchments / league tables
- reurbanisation and urban revitalisation
- maturation of recent immigrant social groupings (Rees and Butt, 2004)
- the growth of mixed-ethnicity populations
- retirement and longevity of elderly populations
- fertility and mortality (Norman, 2007)
- expansion of the private rented housing sector and reduction of social housing
- acceleration of counterurban migration
- amenity migration.
This conference will review changes in GB internal migration over the past two decades, and look towards our future research and teaching agendas.
To register for the conference, please follow the link:
http://store.lboro.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=70&modid=2&compid=1
To submit academic enquiries about the conference, please contact one of the organisers:
- Dr Darren P. Smith (Chair of PopGRG): D.P.Smith@lboro.ac.uk
- Dr Nissa Finney (Secretary of PopGRG): nissa.finney@manchester.ac.uk
- Dr Keith Halfacree (Membership Officer of PopGRG): K.H.Halfacree@swansea.ac.uk
- Professor Nigel Walford (Treasurer of PopGRG): nwalford@kingston.ac.uk
If you are a Postgraduate Research Student and would like more information about the conference, please contact:
- Stacey Balsdon (Secretary of PG Forum of RGS-IBG):S.L.Balsdon@lboro.ac.uk