LIFELONGMOVE Project

LIFELONGMOVE Project

@lifelongmove.bsky.social

ERC-funded Project exploring spatial mobility from early life into adulthood, and its impact on individuals and societies. Hosted by UAB Barcelona and Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics. PI @svidal.bsky.social https://webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove

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@iussp.bsky.social

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Join the pre-EPC workshop in Bologna by the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration:

“Global perspectives in lifetime migration data infrastructures”

A great lineup of presenters from 4 different world regions 🌎🌍🌏

Register here: iussp.workshop@gmail.com

Full program details:
iussp.org/sites/defaul...

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1 month ago

Check out our team’s latest publication, led by Claudia.

A great piece on international migration aspirations among individuals of different migration descent and childhood experiences.

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Bar chart showing the distribution of childhood experience of transnational separation (TS) from a parent by age at first migration to the United Kingdom.

The last piece of my PhD thesis is now published on @demresjournal.bsky.social 🎉

Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents.

Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...

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4 months ago
Redirecting

Moving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health

Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR.

Check it out, it’s open access:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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6 months ago
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Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025.

Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.

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7 months ago
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Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...

📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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7 months ago

Big congrats on this stellar piece!

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Happy to see our team members in action:

Juste Lekstyte presented her poster at #IPC2025, sharing her work on healthcare use among migrants and the role of age at migration (to France in this case) 🌍📊

📄 see the great poster:

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Great energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 !
@iussp.bsky.social

Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis

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8 months ago


@gaukel.bsky.social @eliashofmann.bsky.social @pmcmullin.bsky.social
@claudiabrunori.bsky.social
@pertzikovitz.bsky.social
@svidal.bsky.social

@cedemografia.bsky.social

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Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”!

Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.

Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!

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📢📢 Workshop this wednesday!

"Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course"

📌 June 18th 10.00-13.00 CEST
🌍 at ‪@cedemografia.bsky.social‬ and on zoom

Info and registration: ced.cat/seminaris-i-...

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8 months ago
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Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social

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• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025) Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming workshop Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course, organized by the LIFELONGMOVE team. Research increasingly shows that to fully understand patterns of spatial mobility, we need a life course perspective—one that draws on longitudinal data and methods.

• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)

Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…

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8 months ago

Looking forward to being there!😃

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8 months ago

@gaukel.bsky.social @eliashofmann.bsky.social @pmcmullin.bsky.social

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📢📢 Workshop this wednesday!

"Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course"

📌 June 18th 10.00-13.00 CEST
🌍 at ‪@cedemografia.bsky.social‬ and on zoom

Info and registration: ced.cat/seminaris-i-...

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8 months ago
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Just arrived in Barcelona!🧳 Looking forward to a productive two weeks of exchange with @svidal.bsky.social and his team at @lifelongmove.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat!📈🤓
If you are in town & want to talk about spatial mobility of couples and well-being, just pop me a message.🌞👥

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10 months ago
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Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!

How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?

Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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Fresh from #PAA2025! Our PI Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social & co-authors presented new findings on the impact of lifelong neighborhood disadvantage and residential trajectories on socioeconomic outcomes.

📍📈 Stay tuned for more

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1 year ago
• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona). The proposed special issue aims to leverage a trajectory-based approach that fully accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of migration across time and space, providing deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications.

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”

Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

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Call for Papers for the 2026 Special Issue | Comparative Population Studies

📢Cfp for a Special Issue on Comparative Population Studies!

"Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course"

📌 Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 May 2025

Full papers due by September 1, 2025.

More info 👇

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2 years ago

Tomorrow 13th March 19.00-20.30

the UNED Ineq and Soc Dem Seminar

 with Sergi Vidal (UAM)

Occupational Outcomes of Migration across Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood: A Case Study of South-to-North Migration in Italy
 
Centro Asociado UNED Gregorio Marañón (Lavapiés, Madrid, planet Earth)

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2 years ago

This happens tomorrow afternoon CET time. Looking forward to presenting @smdatabase.bsky.social, hearing the comments/suggestions of the attendees and panelists, learning about the other initiatives and meeting many of you on Zoom
@mpidr.bsky.social
IUSSP
@ezagheni.bsky.social
Tom Theile

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2 years ago

One day left to apply to our two #EPC2024 side-events on "Migration over the life course"!

Event 1 (9am-1pm) Early-Career Research Open Review
Event 2 (3pm-5pm) Workshop on the Future of Lifetime Migration Studies

✉️ Submit to iussp.workshop@gmail.com by Feb 29th

info 👇

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2 years ago

🔊#EPC2024 side event for researchers at any career stage:

"Workshop on the Future of Lifetime Migration Studies"

🌍Edinburgh
📆June 12th, 3pm-5pm
✉️ iussp.workshop@gmail.com

Info: shorturl.at/inBFG
Submit your expression of interest by February 29th!

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2 years ago

🔊CfA - #EPC2024 side event for Early Career Researchers
"Migrations over the life course"

🌍Edinburgh
📆June 12th 9am-1pm
✉️iussp.workshop@gmail.com

Submit your abstract by February 29th!

More info: shorturl.at/inBFG

@eapsphd.bsky.social @svidal.bsky.social

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2 years ago
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

📣📣Don't miss this webinar on innovations in data infrastructure for the longitudinal study of international migration!

📆 March 7th 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET

More info and registrations: iussp.org/en/innovatio...

@svidal.bsky.social @rosaweber.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social

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2 years ago

Are you an early-career researcher focusing on spatial mobility, migration, and the life course?

If so, you might find this pre-event of EPC 2024 (June 12, Edinburgh) intriguing.

Stay tuned for the upcoming call for papers!

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