Workshop on Migration and Complex Systems – 27 June 2025

This one-day workshop aims to introduce our current work and past projects at the Society Moving research group and build future collaborations with researchers of similar interest.

The workshop will be open to the public and will have invited members of similar reearch fields, such as Complex systems, Migration studies, Data science, Computational Social Science, Humanities and Social sciences, and Demography.


Programme

09:15 Registration and welcome

09:45 Global mobility and environmental change

  • Guy Abel (University of Hong Kong): TBD
  • Roman Hoffmann (IIASA): Climate Change and Migration: Leveraging Novel Data to Understand a Complex Relationship
  • Andrea Vismara (CSH): Modelling remittances response to natural disasters

11:05 Coffee break

11:15 Migration policy and openness

  • Ljubica Nedelkoska (Central European University and CSH): De facto levels of openness to immigration
  • Julia Teixeira Mourao Permoser (University for Continuing Education Krems): The ethics and politics of migration policy dilemmas
  • Carsten Kaellner (CSH): Modelling Bidirectional Migration: Estimating In- and Outflows of International Migrants by Diaspora Size

12:35 Lunch

13:45 Modelling and measurement of migration flows

  • Mathias Czaika (University for Continuing Education Krems): European immigration and return as a complex system: spatial interdependence, strategic interaction, and adaptive governance
  • Ivona Zakoska-Todorovska and Saskia Heilemann (International Organization for Migration): Supporting policy making and enabling informed programmatic responses: Insights from IOM from the European and the national level
  • Ola Ali (CSH): Refugees’ path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal

15:05 Coffee break

15:15 Complex impacts of migration

  • Peter Webinger (Federal Ministry of the Interior): TBD
  • Guillermo Prieto-Viertel (CSH): Migration, Demographic Shifts, and Public Services Demand

16:15 Closing Remarks

16:45  Coffee break

17:00  Panel discussion: Bridging the gap between academia and policy in migration studies

Speakers:

  • Peter Webinger (Federal Ministry of the Interior)
  • Ljubica Nedelkoska (Central European University and CSH)
  • Ivona Zakoska-Todorovska (International Organization for Migration)

Moderator: Rafael Prieto-Curiel

18:00  Social gathering


Registration

If you are interested in participating, please compile the form. Thank you!

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