CReAM NEWS

Join CReAM on Twitter!

New Press Release

CReAM Researchers find that Immigration helps average UK wages but holds back wages of the least well paid.
Full Press Release.

Article in Guardian by CReAM Research Fellow

Stephen Machin argues that his previous research is being wrongly used to validate the Coalition's academy programme.

NORFACE Compact Series - Launched

NORFACE Research programme on Migration has launched the first edition of NORFACE Compact Series.  For more information about the articles included in this edition, check the NORFACE Compact Page on the NORFACE Migration Website.

NORFACE Migration

CReAM collaborates with the NORFACE Programme on Migration. Check out NORFACE publications and activities on migration.

New CReAM Comment

Ian Preston comments on the debate on attitudes to immigration.

New MAC Report

CReAM researchers contribute to the latest report of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) Analysis of the Impacts of Migration.

New Discussion Papers in CReAM DP Series:

14/12 Do Migrant Girls Always Perform Better? Differences between the Reading and Math Scores of 15-Year-Old Daughters and Sons of Migrants in PISA 2009 and Variations by Region of Origin and Country of DestinationNils Kornder and Jaap Dronkers.

13/12 Immigrants’ Children Scientific Performance in a Double Comparative Design: The Influence of Origin, Destination, and CommunityJ. Dronkers and M. de Heus.

12/12 Immigrant Pupils’ Scientific Performance: The Influence of Educational System Features of Origin and Destination CountriesJ. Dronkers, M. de Heus and M. Levels.

New Discussion Paper in NORFACE DP Series

2012-17 Dynamics of Educational Differences in Emigration from Estonia to the Old EU Member States. Kristi Anniste, Enel Pungas, Tiit Tammaru, Tiiu Paas.

2012-16 Asylum Policy in the EU: The Case for Deeper Integration. Timothy J Hatton.

2012-15 Peer Effects on Criminal Behavior. Evidence from the homeless. Lucia Corno.

New External CReAM Fellows

Jaap Dronkers

Delia Furtado

Erwin Tiongson

New CReAM Affiliates

Mariola Pytlikova

Simonetta Longhi

Catia Batista

CReAM Visitors

Nishith Prakash - 25 - 29 Jun 2012

Mette Foged - 16 Jan - 15 May 2012

Celia Badillo Bautista - 7 Sep 2011 - 31 May 2012

Kari Salvanes - 5 Sep 2011 - 6 Jul 2012

Marco Hafner - Jun 2011 onwards

CReAM Previous Events:

Norface Migration Network Conference on "Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge"

was organised as part of the Migration Week at UCL, University College London, April 4-9, 2011. Photographs and Recordings of key lectures available now.

"Migration, Development, and Global Issues"

Conference jointly organised by Norface Migration Programme, World Bank and CReAM, University College London, September 23-25, 2010.

Final Conference of the TOM Network: "Transnationality of Migrants"

Venice, September 16 - 18, 2010

Invited Lecture by George Borjas and Eric Gould on "The Self Selection of Immigrants"

at the 3rd EALE/SOLE World Conference, University College London, June 17, 2010.

3rd EALE-SOLE world Conference

University College London, June 17 - 19, 2010.

Workshop of the NORFACE Programme on Migration

University College London, March 25 - 27, 2010.

Public Lecture - Prof Gordon Hanson: "Managing Immigration Policy in High Income Countries"

London, March 23, 2010.

Final AGF Workshop "The Economics and Politics of Employment, Migration and Social Justice"

London, May 22-23, 2009.

The Economics of Immigration: Children of Immigrants and Temporary Migration

Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 11-12, 2009, Pictures.

XXII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics

London, UK Pictures.

Conference on
Immigration: Impacts, Integration and Intergenerational Issues

University College London (UCL),
29 to 31 March 2006.

Introduction to the Centre

CReAM discussion paper series

CReAM is an independent and interdisciplinary research centre located in the Department of Economics at University College London. CReAM's research focuses on the causes, patterns and consequences of international population mobility and movements affecting UK, Europe and associated global processes. CReAM aims at informing the public debate on migration in the UK and in Europe by providing new insight, helping to steer the current policy debate in a direction that is based on carefully researched evidence without partisan bias. CReAM contributes to the development of new theories and methodological advances in data analysis, ensuring the ability to contribute and inform on a wide range of issues of policy concern, and establishing a reputation for analysis that is accepted as open, transparent and reliable.

CReAM 's research programme is divided into four major themes:

  1. Forms of population movement and mobility
  2. The non-migrant experience - effects of migration on importing and exporting countries
  3. The migrant experience - integration, adaptation and exclusion
  4. Perception of migrants within receiving countries - identity and aspects of social cohesion.

Research conducted within the Centre is both theoretical and empirical. Although emphasis is on quantitative research, CReAM explores new and interdisciplinary approaches in analysis of the migration cycle.

CReAM forms strategic links with other research centres on migration in the UK, as well as internationally. CReAM fosters international and collaborative research through links with prominent and reputed researchers inside and outside the UK.

Funding for CReAM research comes from a variety of sources, including the EC under FP6 and the Anglo-German Foundation.