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This section includes a brief presentation of recent research activities (sometime in French). Several main topics emerge over the last fifteen years: international migration, fertility decline, spatial analysis. International migration is a subject I started working on during my PhD which included a long development on tamil Migration abroad during the colonial period. I then worked briefly on migrants in European cities and then launched a repeated survey on migration from North Senegal, in which I tried to identify the interplay between rural Economic development, social networks and migration streams. More recently I have worked on the theory of migration in developing countries. I worked on fertility decline exclusively from a South Asian perspective trying to understand why the decline observed there did not exactly followed the changes in education or standard of living observed across regions or social groups. The analysis focused on South India and with many colleagues, we conducted a systematic analysis from published sources, maps and statistical materials as well as field work in selected villages. Along the way, I developed a new interest for spatial analysis: the limitations of social and economic interpretation of demographic change lead me to reconsider the role played by spatial structures and the use of geostatistical modelling. I was involved in several projects attempting to give a geographical turn to our analysis of fertility decline, migration distribution and more recently gender discrimination in India and China.
There are more useful links to the web pages (if any) of my main research projects such as SIFP, EMIS etc.
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