📢 Publication Alert

I am thrilled to share that a new article from my PhD thesis, Industrial Structure Rationalisation, Upgrading, and the Geography of Intercity Migration in China, has just been published in Population, Space and Place.

🔗 Read the article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....

A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.

Big congratulations, Ali! 🎉

Many thanks to my amazing supervisors and co-authors Y. Vierboom, M. Evans, @jmikolai.bsky.social, H. Kulu, and M. Myrskylä. Special thanks as well to the @imprs-phds.bsky.social and @cpc-cg.bsky.social for the support!

Amid welfare retrenchment in many countries, the findings of this study point to the importance of centering family networks, home-based care, and ageing in place in discussions of residential (im)mobilities in later life.

Population ageing raises the question of where and with whom people live as they grow older. We find that the answers can be different but also in many ways similar for parents and childless adults, especially when they face physiological health challenges.

Hot off the press 🔥 My first PhD chapter is now published as a research article in Population, Space and Place! @mpidr.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

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Proud winners of the #BSPS2025 conference quiz!

📕 NEW @migrantlife.bsky.social paper by @jmikolai.bsky.social and Hill Kulu, published in Advances in Life Course Research

Investigates how #partnership, #fertility, and #employment changes interact in the lives of #immigrants’ descendants in the UK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“We explain that secular transition happens in three steps: first, public ritual participation declines; second, the importance of religion to individuals declines; and third, people shed religious affiliation”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It would be interesting to look at how parents and children maximize, if at all, their close proximity in response to health challenges. My first chapter, also published as an MPIDR working paper, and my third ongoing project aim to answer this.
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We find that parents live within 30 minutes of car journey to their nearest child. Modest evidence of their growing spatial separation is due to structural drivers, including educational expansion and increasing rates of divorce. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

A key innovation of this study lies in the application of OpenStreetMap to calculate more realistic distances, & we also pay attention to the gender dynamics between parents and children, e.g., mothers live closer to their sons, while father-daughter pairs are living the farthest.

I am happy to share that my second PhD chapter is now published as an @mpidr.bsky.social working paper. Using Finland's population register data, we study more recent trends in older parents' proximity to their adult children—a conduit of support in later life.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/publicati...

There should be a list of a few demographers' accounts that we can follow. I'll share it when I have found it! 😄

Where my fellow population researchers at?