Date: Wednesday 16 November 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: CLM4.02, Clement House
Speakers: Professor Christian Dustmann, Professor Giovanni Facchini, Dr Francesco Fasani
Chair: Professor Erik Berglof

The refugee crisis in Europe, the campaign that led to the (Br)exit of the UK from the European Union, and the ongoing presidential race in the US are just three major examples of the role played by migration in the current political and media debate. The debate is often harsh and polarised. It oscillates from calls for more openness of borders to promises of building new fences, contrasting the opposite views of those who emphasise the advantages and benefits from migration flows and those who instead consider migrants an unnecessary strain imposed on receiving societies. Although the economic analysis of migration is a relatively recent field of research, a solid, rigorous and insightful body of research has been developed in recent years. Important empirical and theoretical results have been produced in many areas, from the impact on receiving societies to the process of conceiving and implementing migration policies. These findings still need to be fully disseminated among policy-makers and the general public. Written by some of the best scholars in the field, the eBook, Refugees and Economic Migrants: facts, policies and challenges, offers a brief summary of what economists have learnt about migration in several crucial area of policy making and points at all the important questions that still remain to be answered.

Christian Dustmann is Professor of Economics at University College London and Director of CReAM, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. He is the current president of the European Society of Labour Economists (EALE), and former scientific director of the Norface programme on migration, a large international and interdisciplinary research network on migration. Dustmann is a leading labour economist, having widely published in the areas of migration, education, and the labour market. His research on these issues has appeared, among others, on the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Review of Economic Studies. He regularly advises government bodies, international organisations and the media on current policy issues.

Giovanni Facchini is the Director of the Nottingham Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) and a Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham and at the University of Milan (part time). Giovanni's recent research focuses on international trade and factor mobility, and has been published in journals like the American Economic Journal – Economic Policy, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and Economic Policy.

Francesco Fasani is a Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - University of London. His main research interests are in Labour Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, the Economics of Migration and of Crime. His research has been published in leading economics journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of European Economic Association, Economic Journal and Journal of Development Economics. He acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Commission.

Erik Berglof (@ErikBerglof) is Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE.

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