Migrant typologies

Conference

Published on

18 June 2015

Updated on

13 June 2017

Colloquia

The archaeology of Migrations

International colloquium organized by Inrap, in partnership with the National Museum of Immigration History.
November 12 and 13, 2015 at the National Museum of Immigration History.

Archaeology of Migrations
by Hervé le Bras, INED-EHESS

Migration is both a characteristic of individual freedom and an adjustment variable for societies. The right to leave one's country is recognised by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but the right to settle in another country remains contingent upon the relevant authorities. The numerous methods of migration, its vocabulary and historical variations express this ambivalence: migration can be internal or external, cover a short or long distance, be temporary or definitive, free or forced, in groups or individual, active or passive, etc. It can result in the creation of diaspora, colonies, integration, mixing, or segregation. In all cases, it modifies and challenges the culture of the host societies.

Hervé Le Bras is Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Emeritus Research Director at the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED), currently Chair of 'Territories and Populations' at the Collège des Etudes Mondiales of the FMSH (Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), and Fellow at Churchill College (Cambridge). He headed the historical demography lab (CNRS/EHESS) and the Population periodical.

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