New Patterns of Mobility in the Post-COVID Era

Monday, 7 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: SJES024 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC31 Sociology of Migration (host committee)

Language: English

Some have argued that COVID will have a lasting impact on patterns of human mobility (including both internal and international migration). This session aims to explore some new and emerging patterns of human mobility in the post-COVID era, using a variety of data sources and methods, including but not limited to traditional census and survey data, big data on mobility, social media data along with qualitative data. We welcome submissions that either examine changing mobility patterns for one group or taking a comparative perspective by comparing groups and or cities/countries.
Session Organizer:
Zai LIANG, State University of New York at Albany, USA
Chair:
Zai LIANG, State University of New York at Albany, USA
Panelists:
Ettore RECCHI, Sciences Po, Paris, France, Sergey RYAZANTSEV, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand, Muhammed Yasir BODUR, Sakarya University, Turkey, Olga GHEORGHIEV, Norway, Zhongshan YUE, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, Zhen LIU, Zhejiang University, China and Jordi BAYONA CARRASCO, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Oral Presentations
Continuity and Change in Human Transnational Mobility before and after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Global Dataset
Ettore RECCHI, Sciences Po, Paris, France
“Digital Nomads” As a New Form Form of International Mobility Born By the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sergey RYAZANTSEV, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand; Nikita RYAZANTSEV, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand
Migration, Labor, and Tea Harvesting in Turkey: Sub-Saharan Africans amid Post-Pandemic Transitions
Muhammed Yasir BODUR, Sakarya University, Turkey; Mustafa Ammar KILIÇ, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Turkey
Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Robotisation and Migration Patterns
Olga GHEORGHIEV, Norway; Wouter ZWYSEN, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium
Understanding Internal Migration to Urban Areas in Developing Countries: Differences and Consistencies across Urbanization Stages and Historical Periods
Zhen LIU, Brown University, USA; Deborah BALK, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA; Mark MONTGOMERY, Stony Brook University, USA
A Comparative Study on Migration Patterns and the Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in Shenzhen between 2017 and 2024
Zhongshan YUE, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Shuzhuo LI, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Bo YANG, China
Distributed Papers
Residential Mobility in the Metropolitan Dispersion of the Immigrant Population in Spain, 2001-2022.
Jordi BAYONA CARRASCO, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Jenniffer THIERS-QUINTANA, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Juan José LIZCANO, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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