Dominique Jolivet

Dominique Jolivet is a postdoctoral researcher with an interdisciplinary background in international trade, human geography, development studies, and political sociology.  Her research bridges migration and development studies to theorise the welfare-migration nexus by approaching “welfare” as a structure, a process, and an experience. Moving beyond the economic and protective dimensions of welfare, she incorporates lifestyle and well-being considerations in (im)mobility aspirations and decisions. Her current work examines how migration and welfare regimes in Africa and Europe evolve amid social and environmental change, and how these shifts shape livelihoods, lifestyles, and capabilities to move or stay. She has extensive experience in designing, conducting and managing research projects in African and European contexts and has collected and analysed both quantitative and qualitative data.

Dominique works at the Public and Occupational Health Department of Amsterdam UMC and the International Institute of Social Studies (Erasmus University Rotterdam). She has previously held research positions at the University of Almería, the International Migration Institute (University of Oxford), Maastricht University, and the University of Amsterdam.  

Selection of recent publications

Jolivet, D. (2025). Integrating lifestyle and welfare aspirations in (im)mobility decisions: perspectives from a relatively disadvantaged group in Tangier, Morocco. Comparative Migration Studies, 13(1), 78.

Jolivet, D. (2024). Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience. International Migration Review, 58(4), 2204-2238.

Zickgraf, C., Jolivet, D., Fry, C., Boyd, E., & Fábos, A. (2024). Bridging and breaking silos: Transformational governance of the migration–sustainability nexus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(3), e2206184120.