IPC2025 activities by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration

Brisbane, Australia, 13 and 16 July 2025

 

The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration organized a session and a preconference workshop at the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025) in Brisbane, Australia. 

 

IPC 2025 Session 96 - Internal Migration as a Life-Course Trajectory

 

The session, held on 16 July 2025 and chaired by Sergi Vidal (CED-CERCA / UAB), highlighted how family background, social stratification, and networks shape mobility over time, underscoring the Panel’s mission to move beyond a simple mover/stayer dichotomy. The session featured 3 presentations:

  • Andrea Colasurdo, Clara H. Mulder, and Diego Alburez-Gutierrez on how family background and household composition influence internal migration in the Netherlands.
  • Nazareno Panichella and Roberto Impicciatore on geographical mobility trajectories (including onward and return mobility) and class attainment in Europe.
  • Jing Wu, Aude Bernard, and Elisabeth Gruber on lifetime internal migration trajectories and social networks, asking whether repeat migrants fare worse.

The Panel thanks all presenters and attendees for advancing life-course perspectives on internal migration. To access the extended abstracts or the full papers, click on the paper titles on the IPC2025 Programme webiste.

 

IPC 2025 workshop: Mining Migration Trajectories with R

 

This hands-on pre-conference workshop, held on 13 July at the University of Queensland, was led by Sergi Vidal (CED-CERCA / UAB) with the assistance of Juste Lekstyte (CED-CERCA / UAB). Twenty-five participants from diverse world regions took part. Over three hours, attendees worked through a life-course approach to migration and practiced core sequence-analysis skills in R: structuring and handling sequence data, visualising and summarising migration trajectories, and identifying typical patterns via optimal matching and cluster analysis. The workshop combined concise conceptual framing with real-world applications using open-access examples, and participants received take-home materials and reusable code to adapt in their own research.