SIMRM 2022 Slides

The Measurement of Migration & Analytical Strategies to Understand Its (Environmental) Mechanisms

July 26, 2022

Instructor: Fernando Riosema

What are the analytical strategies to model the effect of past environmental shocks on migration flows? Discussion included difference-in-difference models, matching procedures, and using climate as an instrument to predict climate-induced crop loss and then the effect of crop loss on migration.

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Introductions, Ethics and Frameworks for Understanding Migration

July 25, 2022

Instructor: Irene Bloemraad

Dr. Irene Bloemraad's presentation covers migration research ethics and establishes frameworks of migration.

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Climate Migration - How to Model? - Retrospective Understandings

July 27, 2022

Instructor: Mathew Hauer

What are the analytical strategies to model the projected climate migration flows, in the future? Discussion included considering age and migration and using machine learning-like approaches to create and estimate environmental displacement models.

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Migration and the Media

August 2, 2022

Instructor: Monica Campbell

How can we effectively communicate about our research findings? The morning session \ focused on engaging journalists and speaking to the media. How do you bring evidence-based information and your findings to the general public? The afternoon session focused on academic publishing, that is, writing for a scholarly audience and sharing your work with academic peers.

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Climate & Forced Migration

July 29, 2022

Instructor: Sara Curran

Summary: How do we conceptualize the complex range of mechanisms that link climate change, development, and migration? We considered issues of research design for multi-method, team-based science, and individual research projects.

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Big Data in the Study of Forced Migration

July 28, 2022

Instructors: Lisa Singh and Katharine Donato

How can we use “big data” to study forced migration? How do we draw sound conclusions from messy data? What ethical issues do researchers need to keep in mind when using trace data (e.g., social media information, cell phone data, etc.)

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