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Breakfast Briefing Series 3
September 2012 - June 2013
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 48 Charles Street, London W1J 5EN
8:30 - 9:45
At the Breakfast Briefing series COMPAS seeks to make available and discuss topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues.
14 June: What does the 2011 census tell us about ethnic diversity and integration in England and Wales?
12 July: What are the consequences of changing policies for family migrants in the UK?
Building Regionality into Immigration Policy: Does it Work? Evidence from Canada
Monday 20 May 2013, 14:00 - 15:30
64 Banbury Road
Most of the countries of Europe are ageing rapidly, with population and labour force decline being expected in the near future. Although political unpopular, the governments of most of these countries view managed immigration as being the main way to expand their labour forces. However, most of these countries do not have in place immigration systems that “select the best”. However, this is changing. For example, a points-based immigration system has been introduced in the United Kingdom. This system puts factors such as employability, skills and language ability (or more generally “human capital”) at the centre of immigration policy. Although the system is often portrayed as being new or novel it is not—it is a minor variant of the system introduced in Canada in 1967 and copied by Australia in 1973.
Using micro-data collected in Canadian censuses, and matching methods, this talk attempts to evaluate empirically whether such programmes are effective. The main aim of the analysis is to consider whether “lessons can be learned” from the Canadian experience that can be applied to the UK and other countries where points-based immigration systems are being introduced.
Attendance is open to all.
Speaker: Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde
Rethinking Diaspora
30 June - 2 July, 2013
St. Annes' College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
This conference is jointly organized by COMPAS and the Oxford Diasporas Programme.
The Oxford Diasporas Programme draws together a number of projects looking at the social, economic, political and cultural impact of diasporas through a range of disciplinary perspectives and research methods.
The programme identifies three fundamental dynamics relating to the formation, maintenance, and impacts of diasporas:
- Connecting: the way that diasporas create networks encompassing those back home, others in diaspora and, more widely, their imagined communities based on co-ethnicity or other identities.
- Contesting: the contradictory processes of inclusion of diasporas within and exclusion from territorially-bound communities, and the emergence of potentially conflicting identities.
- Converging: the way in which diasporic communities de-emphasize their origins and blend with indigenous or other migrant communities to create new social formations, cultures and practices.
This conference aims to integrate humanities and social science perspectives in order to investigate the impacts of these three dynamics of diaspora.
Registration for the conference now open.
Call for Papers: "Fielding challenges, challenging the field: The methodologies of mobility"
27 - 28 September 2013
Oxford
Ethnography has long been the hallmark of anthropology, and most social science disciplines now routinely employ qualitative ethnographic research methods. While the ethnographic method has adapted to shifts within the discipline, growing interest in mobility-related research prompts new methodological questions in the field(s) of anthropology.
The EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network invites papers that explore how ethnographers are responding to questions being raised in the study of mobility. We are interested, in particular, in the 'zones of awkward engagement' between mobility's methods and the production of ethnographic theory, and the ways in which ethnographies of movement may provide novel theoretical horizons for anthropology. We welcome papers that originally grapple with mobility at any scale and in both classic and unexpected settings.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to easamobworkshop@gmail.com by Monday, 20 May, 2013. Be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation, paper title and contact details in your email. Funding for travel and accommodation is available for EASA-member participants.
This event is jointly convened by Jamie Coates (Australian National University), Alice Elliot (University of Leuven) and Roger Norum (University of Oxford).
The workshop is jointly organised by The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) with the Anthropology and Mobility Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), and The Qualitative Methods Hub for the Social Sciences Division (OxQualHub), University of Oxford, Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe), University of Leuven
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