GLMM Senior Fellow

Françoise De Bel-Air (Ph.D.) is a researcher and consultant based in Paris, France. A socio-demographer by training, she specializes in the demography of Arab countries, especially in the Middle East and the Gulf region. Currently a Senior Fellow at the Gulf Labour Markets, Migration, and Population (GLMM) programme of the Gulf Research Center Foundation (GRCF, Geneva) since 2013, she was a Senior Fellow at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan for several years, and a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. Her research focusses on political demography, as well as on the demographic and socio-political dynamics in the region: youth, family structures, labour and forced migration, migration, and population policies. She published two edited volumes and over fifty book chapters, scientific articles, and research papers on population issues in the Arab region. Her recent publications on migration and Gulf states include “Asian Migrants in the Gulf”, in Shah. N. (Ed). Covid-19 Crisis and Asian Migration, Lahore: Lahore School of Economics, 2021; The Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 and Low Oil Prices on Migrants and Remittances in the Arab Region (with B. Nilsson), UNDP-RBAS Research Papers, 2021; “Youth Unemployment and Alienation in the Middle East: A Critical View”, in: Salvatore, A.; Hanafi, S. and Obuse, K. (Eds). The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022; and “The Politics of Migration in the Gulf States”, in: AlMezaini, Kh. and Alexander; K. (Eds). Introduction to Gulf Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

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