Migration Resources and Discussion Forum
13-May-09
International and inter-regional migration has significant impacts on the demographic structures of our urban and rural areas. Our workshop discussions on 13 May demonstrated that planners are often working with insufficient data for reliable housing, transport and service needs projections.
The ESPON programme is bringing together demographic information through the DEMIFER project that will underpin improved capacity for UK authorities to benchmark regional and local trends against Europe-wide trends and to scope the implications of such trends.
The ESPON programme also offers the potential in forthcoming calls for authorities to request case study research to explore specific issues for migration and demographic forecasting and impacts.
Workshop presentations and relevant papers are available as follows
Workshop Presentations
- Cliff Hague, ESPON UK Contact Point
- Carla Clifton, Migration Directorate, Department of Communities and Local Government
- Phil Rees, School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Mary Gilmartin, Irish National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis
Relevant Resources
- ESPON Demography and Migration Survey
- Policy review: Moving Europe – EU research on migration and policy needs
- Research review: Recent Migration into Scotland - The Evidence Base
- Projections: Migration inflows under alternative scenarios for the UK and world economies
- Press release: Migration plays a key role for population growth in European regions
- Conference: EUKN 2009 Young Urban Migrant - from challenge to chance Malmö, 19 Dec 2009
- The Stockholm Programme: The Commission has published proposals setting out priorities for EU action over the next five years in the areas the of citizenship, justice, security, counter-terrorism, asylum and immigratio which will be adopted by the European Council by the end of the year.
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NHPAU Bulletin on Population Projections. The bulletin looks at the implications of the latest release of ONS population projections for the NHPAU July 2009 advice on housing requirements and shows that their advice remains cautious and relevant. More…
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- Author:
- ESPON UK Contact Point
- Publisher:
- The Royal Town Planning Institute
- Date:
- 13-May-09
- Categories:
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The ESPON programme call later in 2009 (a pre-announcement is now expected in July) will include a call for proposals from public bodies for targeted analysis funded by ESPON to meet their needs. We will be posting further information on the webpages in the coming weeks. Meanwhile we would like to encourage researchers and policymakers to share information about their research and policy interests through the UK Network as a resource for project development , the development of partnerships and the monitoring of the relevance of ESPON to UK needs. [Posted by the ESPON UK Contact Point Team]