This event is not open to the public.
A seminar aimed at sixth-form students, co-organised by the Avenir Commun Durable initiative and Campus de l’innovation pour les lycées .
Introduction
With nearly 8 million immigrants by 2025 – representing around 12 per cent of the population – France is a country whose demographic makeup continues to change. Migration to France is, in fact, a long-standing phenomenon that has profoundly shaped its cultural, social and political history. This reality, which is accurately documented by official statistics, is nevertheless one of the most hotly debated topics in public discourse today and one that gives rise to the greatest tensions. It forms part of a global trend. International migration affects only a tiny fraction (around 3.4 per cent) of the world’s population, yet it has a significant impact on both the societies that receive migrants and those from which they depart. Whilst the reasons for leaving are manifold, climate change is accelerating the forced displacement of populations.
Aware of society’s expectations, the Collège de France, through its ‘Avenir Commun Durable’ (Sustainable Common Future) initiatives and its ‘Campus de l’innovation pour les lycées’, aims to move beyond preconceived notions by bringing together perspectives from economics, geography and health. Hillel Rapoport, professor at the Paris School of Economics and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; François Gemenne, professor at HEC Paris and director of The Hugo Observatory; and Andréa Tortelli, a hospital psychiatrist at the Paris Psychiatry and Neurosciences University Hospital Group (GHU), will discuss three key questions. How is climate change transforming mobility? What economic trajectories lie ahead for migrants and the regions that welcome them? What public health challenges – particularly in terms of mental health – do these journeys raise? The aim of this event is to shed light on current debates and to outline the contours of a migration policy that is more informed, fairer and more concerned with people’s well-being. Several classes from secondary schools in the Île-de-France region have been invited to attend the event and ask questions of the speakers.