Speaker Series Do welfare policies matter for immigrant entrepreneurship? An analysis in the context of France Dr. Michael Samers

Dr. Michael Samers, Full Professor of Economic and Urban Geography and affiliated faculty of International Studies at the University of Kentucky, will give a talk discussing the impact of welfare policies on immigrant entrepreneurship in France.

Dr. Michael Samers (BA Clark University, MS University of Wisconsin, and DPhil Oxford University) is Full Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, having previously taught at the Universities of Liverpool and Nottingham. His research has focused on the political economy of immigration in Europe and specifically France, the relationship between labor markets and immigration in cities, alternative forms of economic and financial development (including Islamic banking and finance) and most recently, the consequences of AI and robotics for urban employment. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of numerous articles and books, including the forthcoming Handbook of Migration and Nationalism (with Jens Rydgren, Edward Elgar, 2023), Cities, Migration, and Governance (with Felicitas Hillmann, Routledge, 2023), Migration, 1st edition (Routledge, 2010; also translated into Italian and Korean), and Migration, 2nd edition (with Michael Collyer, Routledge, 2016). Between 2006 and 2012, he served as Co-editor of Geoforum, and in 2013-2014, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Université Lille II in France.