Biographical Note
Philippe Fargues is a French demographer. He is a part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute (EUI). He was the founding Director of EUI’s Migration Policy Centre and held senior positions at the National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris and the American University in Cairo and taught at Harvard, Sciences Po Paris, and various universities in France, the Middle East and Africa. His research interests include population, international migration and politics.
His recent publications include: Migration to the Gulf. Policies in sending and receiving countries(with Nasra Shah, GRC-Cambridge, 2018); Skillful Survivals. Irregular Migration to the Gulf(with Nasra Shah, GRC-Cambridge, 2017); Mass migration and uprisings in the Arab countries: An analytical framework(International Development Policy, 2017); Migration from North Africa and the Middle East: Skilled Migrants, Development and Globalisation (IB Tauris, 2015); International Migration and theDemographic Transition: a Two-Way Interaction (International Migration Review, 2011).