Andreu Domingo presents new book on demography and the involution discourse

Andreu Domingo, lecturer and deputy director of the Centre for Demographic Studies at the UAB, presents the book La coartada demográfica y el discurso de la involución en España (Icaria Editorial), of which he is the editor. The presentation will take place on Thursday 2 November in Barcelona. He will be accompanied at the event by the demographer and lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University, Clara Cortina.

The thesis of the book is that the evolution of the population, the main phenomena of its dynamics - fertility, mortality and migration - as well as its structure, and individual demographic behaviour are being used as an alibi for the discourse of involution promoted by neoconservatives and extreme right-wing populists.

Andreu Domingo Valls, PhD in Sociology and MA in Demography, is the main researcher of the group "Globalisation, migrations and space". He was also president of the Association of Historical Demography (ADEH), which brings together demographers from Spain and Portugal, and is currently a numerary member of the Institute of Catalan Studies (Philosophy and Social Sciences section). He has published several books. His speciality is international immigration and family formation and demographic theory.