Country Chapter : France

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Demographic Change and Migration (2017) It is widely believed that migration will play a significant role in defining the future shape of Europe’s population. This short project was an attempt to review the evidence on some of the potential implications of this. Another objective was to help define the scope of any future work done by the JPI MYBL. For the purpose of this report, “migration” includes any change of normal residence that involves a move over a significant distance, to a new country or within a country, so that the new location becomes his or her own “usual residence”. This includes movement into and out of Europe, movement between countries and regions within Europe, and, though largely neglected here, the movement of refugees, family members, and students. The focus of the report is on the implications of migration for an ageing society (and not migration overall). In seven months an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Europe and Canada identified 55 different research gaps and 14 data infrastructure requirements. These gaps and requirements can be clustered in four main themes addressing the question how well migrants are received in host societies (Chapter 2), how they fare in the workforce (Chapter 3), in terms of health (Chapter 3) and in the pension system of the host society (Chapter 4). The Full Report of the project Demographic Change and Migration can be downloaded. Outline of the report The Core of the project ‘’Demographic Change and Migration’’ consists of the four thematic chapters which are Attitudes to Immigration and the Ageing of Societies, Migrants in the Health and Social Care Workforce, Health Among Older Populations of Migrant Origin, Health Among Older Populations of Migrant Origin and Migrants in the Pension System.