Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social
Social demographer | Families, spatial mobility, inequality, life course | ERC grant @lifelongmove.bsky.social | CED & Sociology dept at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://vidalsergi.wordpress.com/
https://webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove
https://vidalsergi.wordpress.com/
https://webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove
Publication alert🚨
📢New article in International Migration Review!
w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration.
Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration.
Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Where to (Next)? Family and Childhood Migration Experience and Migration Aspirations in Adulthood - Claudia Brunori, Louise Caron, Sergi Vidal, 2026
Migration is increasingly recognized as a dynamic, often recurrent, and intergenerational process. Yet, little research has examined how childhood exposure to i...
doi.org
January 13, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Publication alert🚨
Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!
Moving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health
Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR.
Check it out, it’s open access:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR.
Check it out, it’s open access:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!
Proud (and a little sad to see him go): Jianji Chen defended last week his PhD in Demography at UAB—on family dynamics & older adults’ well-being. Congrats, Dr. Chen, and all the best ahead!
Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social
Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Proud (and a little sad to see him go): Jianji Chen defended last week his PhD in Demography at UAB—on family dynamics & older adults’ well-being. Congrats, Dr. Chen, and all the best ahead!
Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social
Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social
Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025.
Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.
Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025.
Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.
Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.
Reposted by Sergi Vidal
💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps
Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Excellent conference and powerful session on housing precarity organized by @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social. Homelessness, gender inequalities, and homeownership dynamics. I am grateful for the insights and discussion!
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Excellent conference and powerful session on housing precarity organized by @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social. Homelessness, gender inequalities, and homeownership dynamics. I am grateful for the insights and discussion!
📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population
The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...
link.springer.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
July 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
Reposted by Sergi Vidal
Great energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 !
@iussp.bsky.social
Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis
@iussp.bsky.social
Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis
July 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Great energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 !
@iussp.bsky.social
Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis
@iussp.bsky.social
Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis
Last Friday, Min Zhu successfully defended her PhD in Demography at UAB- @cedemografia.bsky.social with a dissertation on couple migration in China. Congratulations, Min, on this achievement - and best wishes for your career ahead!
June 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Last Friday, Min Zhu successfully defended her PhD in Demography at UAB- @cedemografia.bsky.social with a dissertation on couple migration in China. Congratulations, Min, on this achievement - and best wishes for your career ahead!
Reposted by Sergi Vidal
Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”!
Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.
Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!
Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.
Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!
June 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”!
Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.
Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!
Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.
Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!
Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social
• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)
Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…
Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…
• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)
Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming workshop Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course, organized by the LIFELONGMOVE team. Research increasingly shows that to fully understand patterns of spatial mobility, we need a life course perspective—one that draws on longitudinal data and methods.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)
Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…
Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…
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June 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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📢 Publication alert!
In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Redirecting
doi.org
May 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📢 Publication alert!
In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Get updates on other research published by members of the lifelongmove project team here: @lifelongmove.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Get updates on other research published by members of the lifelongmove project team here: @lifelongmove.bsky.social
Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.
Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
April 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.
If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.
Fresh from #PAA2025! Our PI Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social & co-authors presented new findings on the impact of lifelong neighborhood disadvantage and residential trajectories on socioeconomic outcomes.
📍📈 Stay tuned for more
📍📈 Stay tuned for more
April 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.
📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳
🗓️ Deadline: May 15
📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#Migration #Lifecourse
🗓️ Deadline: May 15
📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#Migration #Lifecourse
www.comparativepopulationstudies.de
April 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳
🗓️ Deadline: May 15
📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#Migration #Lifecourse
🗓️ Deadline: May 15
📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#Migration #Lifecourse
• CALL FOR PAPERS – 2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”
Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…
Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…
• CALL FOR PAPERS – 2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”
Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona). The proposed special issue aims to leverage a trajectory-based approach that fully accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of migration across time and space, providing deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications.
vidalsergi.wordpress.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
• CALL FOR PAPERS – 2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”
Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…
Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…
📢 Call for Papers
We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
Call for Papers for the 2026 Special Issue
| Comparative Population Studies
www.comparativepopulationstudies.de
February 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📢 Call for Papers
We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky.
Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
January 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky.
Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
Reposted by Sergi Vidal
January 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Today we had Naza Panichella visiting at @cedemografia.bsky.social UAB, and gave us a great lecture on couple's internal migration and gender inequality in six European country
December 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Today we had Naza Panichella visiting at @cedemografia.bsky.social UAB, and gave us a great lecture on couple's internal migration and gender inequality in six European country