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For several decades the majority of advanced countries have had to deal with vast socio-demographic changes, such as decreasing population, low fertility level, ageing population and immigration from less developed areas of the planet. Policies acting directly on these phenomena can encounter some feasibility problems. In fact, these policies are positioned between individual and public interests, and can be at odds with human rights or modern attitudes centred on individual freedom. However, their acceptability increases when population policies apply instruments from social and economic policies to indirectly influence causes of demographic phenomena or to influence their consequences. The 2009 Quetelet Seminar will be devoted to population policies, those already implemented or to be implemented, in industrialized countries, and more specifically in Europe (including Russia) and in North America. The conference will be structured as both a theoretical reflection on population policies – their aims, their fields of action – and as a presentation of case-studies. Empirical studies will mainly concern policies that support having children, policies for ageing and migration policies. We also encourage contributions in other fields of application of population policies. We will devote particular attention to four axes, defined below according to questions of particular importance to be addressed.