Professor Ellen Percy Kraly gave a talk about her latest research and collaboration about forced and refugee migration for the social sciences brown bag this past March.
With guests Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Department of Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran and Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University (via zoom); Lorraine Lizbeth Torres Colón, Department of Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (via zoom); Holly E. Reed, Department of Sociology, Queens College, and City University of New York Institute for Demographic Research, Professor Ellen Kraly spoke about a review paper prepared for the Annual Review of Sociology.
The review considers perspectives and research on the outcomes and implications of forced and refugee migration for migrants and communities of settlement. Collaborating with colleagues at University of Tehran and City University of New York, we adopt a social demographic lens to illustrate a record of research on the consequences of forced and refugee migration and settlement. Accordingly, we review empirical literature on patterns of spatial mobility, health and well-being, social and economic integration, and family and community dynamics at different scales. Implications of global issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are considered. Analytic issues emerge from the intersections, and lack thereof, among forced migration, refugee studies, and migration policy analysis and provide critical opportunities for contributions by sociologists and social scientists more generally.
Some discussion came about the topics and papers that weren't included, but the topic was so large that many could not be included. The collaborators wanted to give an idea of the current trends and possible future of the discipline, and hoped to do the best by the topic as possible within the constraints of time and space given.