Decade of Migration, Session 3: Mobility and the global labour market: What can the past tell us about the future?

In the third panel of the Decade of Migration conference Martin Ruhs, Monique Kremer, and Roger Waldinger gave different insights into mobility and the global labour market. Martin Ruhs highlights some key inter-disciplinary and policy related themes of COMPAS research that will be important in the future. Monique Kremer looked at the relationship between the labour market and the welfare state, while Roger Waldinger critiques the transnational perspective on migration. Part of the Decade of Migration Conference. This international conference marked the 10 year anniversary of COMPAS and looked to future research agendas. Bringing together leading academics and senior practitioners from across the world, this event discussed how migration research has re-configured the social sciences over the past 10 years and in turn how changes in the social sciences have influenced the study of mobility and migration, their patterns, consequences and policies.