Philippe Fargues

Biographical note

Philippe Fargues is a sociologist and demographer.  He is currently the Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute, the founding Director of the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) and co-Director of the Florence School on Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Development.

He was founding Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo, a senior researcher and head of the "Migration and Minorities" unit at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris, a visiting professor at Harvard, and the Director of the Centre for Economic Legal and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo.

His research interests include migration and refugee movements, population and politics in Muslim countries, family building, demographic methodologies and their application to developing countries. He has numerous publications and he lectured in various universities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

His most recent publications include “Mediterranean Migration – Report 2008/2009; Work, Refuge, Transit: An Emerging Pattern of Irregular Immigration South and East of the Mediterranean” (International Migration Review, 2009, 43/3); “Emerging Demographic Patterns across the Mediterranean and their Implications for Migration through 2030” (Migration Policy Institute, 2009); “The Demographic Benefit of International Migration: Hypothesis and Application to Middle Eastern and North African Contexts” (International Migration, Economic Development and Policy, The World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

His books include: “Générations Arabes, Christians and Jews Under Islam, The Economy of the Middle East in a Prospect of Peace, The Atlas of the Arab World  Geopolitics and Society”.

Curriculum Vitae (December 2011 )

List of publications