Lerch Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2020

Migration in cities of the global South: drivers, interactions and socio-demographic consequences

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and associated urbanization in developing countries constitute an opportunity but also a risk for human development. In either case, urbanization may lead to increased international migration. Our understanding of the interactions between these two phenomena is constrained by the lack of evidence on subnational heterogeneity in international migration, and the traditional divide between internal and international flows in research. MIC provides the most comprehensive analysis of trends in both types of migration in more than 3000 cities and rural areas spanning all developing regions. We address three substantive research questions. In project A, we…

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