- Biography
Degrees
- BA(Hons) Geography, University of Liverpool, 1963. PhD, University of Liverpool, 1967.
Awards
- Royal Geographical Society, Edward Heath Award for contributions to the study of population and migration in Europe, 1993.
Brief Biography
- Professor, UCL, University of London, 1996 - (Emeritus 2008-)
- Director, Migration Research Unit, UCL (1989-)
- Co-Director. Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship (2003-)
- Consultant to OECD (1985-)
- EU (1995-97; 2000-2002), Council of Europe (1991-2006)
- Australian government (2003, 2005-2006), UK Home Office (1999-)
- National Audit Office (2004), Office for National Statistics (2002-)
- UK Population Theme Advisory Board (2006-)
- Catholic Bishops Conference: International Migration Advisory Board (2009-)
- Committees and Administration
Chairman, Migration Statistics Users Forum (2014-)
- Publications
- Salt J. and Bauer V., 2020, Managing Foreign Labour Immigration to the UK: Government Policy and Outcomes since 1945
- Salt J., 2018, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Wood, P. & Salt, J., 2018, Staffing UK universities at international campuses. Higher Education Policy 31(2), 181–199; doi:10.1057/s41307-017-0049-5
- Salt, J., OECD Secretariat, 2018. Recent developments in international migration movements and policies, 50-69 in International Migration Outlook, OECD, Paris.
- Salt J., 2017, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Salt, J., OECD Secretariat, 2017. Recent developments in international migration movements and policies, 38-55 in International Migration Outlook, OECD, Paris
- Salt, J., OECD Secretariat, 2016. Country Notes: Recent developments in international migration movements and policies, 237-312 in International Migration Outlook, OECD, Paris
- Salt J., 2016, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Salt, J., 2016, Mobilność, wiedza i nowoczesna komunikacja. In: A. Górny, P. Kaczmarczyk, M. Lesińska (eds.) Transformacje. Przewodnik po zmianach społeczno-ekonomicznych w Polsce. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, pp. 112-119. [Transitions. A guide to socio-economic changes in Poland.]
- OECD Secretariat, Salt, J., 2015. Recent developments in international migration movements and policies, 16-53 in International Migration Outlook, OECD, Paris.
- Salt J., 2015, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL
- Salt J., 2014, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL
- Salt, J. and Okolski, M. 2014 'Polish emigration to the UK after 2004: Why did so many come?'. 1-27 in Central and Eastern European Migration Review.
- Salt, J. and Wood, P.A. 2014. ‘Staffing UK university campuses overseas: lessons from MNE practice’. Journal of Studies in International Education, (18(1), 84-97). Available on-line at: click here
- OECD Secretariat, Lubyova, M. and Salt, J., 2013 Recent developments in international movements and policies 15-62 in International Migration Outlook, OECD, Paris.
- Salt J., 2013, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Salt, J. and Dobson, J.M., 2013 Cutting net migration to the tens of thousands: what exactly does that mean? Discussion Paper, Migration Research Unit, UCL.
- Salt J., 2012, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Wood, P.A. and Salt, J. 2012 ‘Shifting portfolios of international labour mobility among UK-based business consultancies’, Geoforum, 43 (4), 815-823.
- Salt, J. and Wood, P.A. 2012. ‘Recession and international corporate mobility’, Global Networks, 12(4): 425–45.
- OECD Secretariat, Lubyova, M. and Salt, J., 2012. Migration policy developments. 97-121 in International Migration Outlook, OECD, Paris.
- Salt, J., 2011, Trends in Europe’s international migration, 17-36 in Rechel, B., Mladovsky, P., Deville, W., Rijks, B., Petrova-Benedict, R. and McKee, M. (eds), Migration and Health in the European Union. Maidenhead, Open University Press.
- Salt J., 2011, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Salt, J., Dobson, J., Latham, A., Mateos, P., Wood, P.A., Dennet, A., Bauere, V., 2011, European Migration Network: Satisfying Labour Demand Through Migration. London, Home Office.
- Modood, T. and Salt, J, 2011, Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. 248-268 in Modood, T. and Salt, J., Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Salt, J, 2011, International students and the labour market. 132-149 in Modood, T. and Salt, J., Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Salt, J and Wood, P.A., 2011, Acquisition and mobility of expertise in global corporate labour markets. 84-107 in Modood, T. and Salt, J., Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Salt, J., 2011, Migration to and from the UK. 14-39 in Modood, T. and Salt, J., Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Modood, T. and Salt, J., 2011, Migration, minorities and the nation. 3-13 in Modood, T. and Salt, J., (Eds.) Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Garson, J-P. and Salt, J., 2011, 50 year review: international migration. in International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2011, OECD, Paris.
- Desiderio, M.V., Leibig, T. and Salt, J., 2011, Migration policy developments. in International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2011, OECD, Paris.
- Desiderio, M.V. and Salt, J., 2010, Main findings of the conference on entrepreneurship and employment creation of immigrants in OECD countries, 9-10 June 2010. 13-19 in Open for Business: Migrant Entrepreneurship in OECD Countries. OECD, Paris.
- Salt, J.. 2010, DEELSA Secretariat, Migration policy development. 54-82 in International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2010, OECD, Paris.
- Salt J., 2010, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Dobson, J., Latham, A. and Salt, J., 2010, European Migration Network Annual Report on Asylum and Migration Statistics for the UK 2007. London, Home Office UK Border Agency.
- Salt J., 2009, International Migration and the UK. Annual Report of the UK SOPEMI Correspondent to the OECD. London, Migration Research Unit UCL.
- Salt, J., 2009, ‘Business travel and portfolios of mobility within global companies’, in Deruder, B, Witlox, F., Beaverstock, J and Faulconbridge, J (efds.) Business Travel in the Global Economy. London, Ashgate.
- Salt, J., 2009, New forms of mobility in Europe: global corporate labour markets and the international movement of expertise. 15-25 in Duszczyka, M. and Lesinskiez, M. (eds.), Wspolczesne Migracje: Dylematy Europy I Polski, Warsaw, University of Warsaw Press.
- Dobson, J., Latham, A. and Salt, J., 2009, On the move? Labour migration in times of recession. What can we learn from the past? London, Policy Network Paper.
- Dobson, J. and Salt, J., 2009, Pointing the way? Managing UK immigration in difficult times. People and Place, 17(2), 16-29.
- Salt, J., 2008, Managing new migrations in Europe: Concept and reality in the ICT sector. 19-35 in Bonifazi, C., Okolski, M., Schoorl, J., Simon, P. (eds.), International Migration in Europe, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.
- Salt, J.. 2008, Migration policy development. 93-121 in International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2008, OECD, Paris.
- Salt, J., 2008, Global corporate labour markets and the international mobility of expertise. Managing Highly Skilled Labour Migration Seminar, Amsterdam, OECD, Paris.
- Millar, J. and Salt, J., 2008, Portfolios of mobility: the movement of expertise in transnational corporations in two sectors – aerospace and extractive industries. Global Networks, 8(1), 25-50.
- Bauere, V., Densham, P., Millar, J., Salt, J., 2007, Migrants from central and eastern Europe: local geographies. Population Trends, 129, Autumn 2007, 7-19.
- Salt, J., 2007, Europe’s migration streams: implications and policy concerns. Zeitschrift fur Bevolkerungswissenschaft, 32, 3-4, 469-504.
- Dobson, J. and Salt, J., 2006, Foreign Recruitment in Health and Social Care: Recent Experience Reviewed in International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Volume 2, Issue 3/4. pp.41-57.
- Salt, J. and Millar, J., 2006 , In whose interests? IT migration in an interconnected world economy. Population, Space and Place, 13, 41-58.
- Salt, J. and Millar, J., 2006, Foreign labour in the United Kingdom. Labour Market Trends, October, 335-355. Office for National Statistics.
- Salt, J. and Almeida, J.C., 2006, International migration in Europe. Patterns and trends since the mid-1990s. Revue Européene des Migrations Internationales, 22(2), 155-175.
- Salt, J. and Millar, J., 2006, International migration in interesting times: the case of the UK, People and Place, 14 (2), 14-24.
- Salt, J., 2006. Skilled migration: the UK and Australia. 245-294 in Birrell, B., Hawthorne, L. and Richardson, S. Evaluation of the General Skilled Migration Categories. Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra.
- Rendall, M. and Salt, J., 2005, The foreign-born population, 131-151 in Chappell, R. (ed.), Focus on People and Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
- Salt, J. and Clarke, J.A., 2005, Migration matters, Prospect, May, 46-51
- Salt, J., 2005, Current Trends in International Migration in Europe. Council of Europe, Strasbourg 177pp
- den Adel, M., Blauw, W., Dobson, J., Hoesch, K., and Salt, J., 2004, Recruitment and the migration of foreign workers in health and social care, IMIS- Beiträge, Vol 25, 201-230.
- Dobson, J. and Salt, J., 2004, Review of migration statistics, IMIS- Beiträge, Vol 25, 99-140
- Pinkerton, C.,McLaughlan, G. and Salt, J., 2004, Sizing the Illegal Population of the UK, Home Office, London.
- Salt, J., Clarke, J. and Wanner, P. (2004) International Labour Migration, Population Studies 44, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
- Salt, J. 2003. ‘A nemzetközi vándorlás összetétele és változása Európában’ [‘International migration in Europe – Patterns and developments’] in Demográfia Vol. 46. Budapest. 319-331.
- Clarke, J., Dobson, J., Koser, K., Pooley, C. and Salt, J. (2003) ‘The Ins and Outs of Migration’ in Connections, Summer 2003, Commission for Racial Equality. 10-12
- Clarke, J. and Salt, J. (2003) ‘Work permits and foreign labour in the UK: a statistical review’ in Labour Market Trends, November 2003, Vol. 111, No. 11, London: Office for National Statistics. 563-574
- Coleman, D., Compton, P and Salt, J., 2002, Demography of migrant populations: the case of the United Kingdom, 497-552 in Haug, W., Compton, P. and Courbage, Y. (Eds.), The Demographic Characteristics of Immigrant Populations, Population Studies No. 38, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
- Salt, J. and Clarke, J.A., Europe’s migrant groups, 17-55 in Haug, W., Compton, P. and Courbage, Y. (Eds.), The Demographic Characteristics of Immigrant Populations, Population Studies No. 38, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
- Salt, J., 2002, External migration and ethnic group, 93-103 in Haskey, J. (Ed.), Population Projections by Ethnic Group: a Feasibility Study, National Statistics, SMPS No. 67, HMSO, London.
- Salt, J., 2002, Hot property: the global market for skills, About the House: House of Representatives Magazine, Issue 14. Canberra.
- Salt, J., 2002, Global competition for skills: an evaluation of policies, 201-243 in Migration: Benefiting Australia, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra. ISSN 0 642 26068 0.
- McLaughlan, G. and Salt, J., 2002, Migration Policies Towards Highly Skilled Foreign Workers, Home Office, London. 156pp. ISBN 1 84082 8544.
- Schmidt, S. and Salt, J., The development of free movement in the European Union, in Papademetriou, D. and Meyers, D.W. (eds.), Caught in the Middle: Border Communities in an era of Globalisation, 2001, Carnegie Endowment Publications, Washington DC.
- Dobson, J., McLaughlan, G., and Salt, J., International Migration and the United Kingdom, 66-70 in Home Office, Bridging the Information Gaps, 2001, London.
- Dobson, J., Koser, K., McLaughlan, G., and Salt, J., International Migration and the United Kingdom: Recent Patterns and Trends, RDS Occasional Paper 75, 2001, Home Office, London, 280pp.
- Salt, J. and Clarke, J.A., Foreign labour in the United Kingdom, Labour Market Trends, October 2001, 473-483.
- Salt, J., Current Trends in Migration in Europe. 2000, 2001 Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
- Salt, J. The business of international migration, 86-108 in Siddique, M.A.B. (ed.) International Migration into the 21st Century. Essays in Honour of Reginald Appleyard, 2001. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
- Grants
- 2010, European Migration Network, Home Office
- Intra-Company Transfers in the IT sector, 2009. Home Office, Migration Advisory Committee.
- Economic Downturn and Migration, 2009. Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- European Migration Network, 2009. Home Office.
- Leverhulme Research Programme: Migration and Ethnicity, 2003-2011. A joint programme with the University of Bristol involving eight research projects over 5 years.
- The Political Economy of Migration in an Integrating Europe, 2001-04. A collaborative project involving the Universities of Coimbra, Osnabruck, Amsterdam, Milan, Berne and UCL. Funded through the EU 5th Framework research programme.
- Research Interests
Main Areas of Interest
International migration in Europe and the UK, especially labour migration; global movements by the highly skilled; migrant trafficking and human smuggling; international migration statistics; staffing strategies in UK university international branch campuses.
Current Research Positions
- Co-Director, Migration Research Unit, UCL.
- OECD SOPEMI Committee, UK Correspondent