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Breakfast Briefing Series 2
September 2011 - June 2012
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB
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.
2012
March 9
What is the impact of new migration on cohesion and integration?
Speaker: Will Somerville, Migration Policy Institute, Shamit Saggar, University of Sussex, and Robert Ford and Maria Sobelewska, Manchester University
Speakers: Derek McGhee, University of Southampton, Paulina Trevena, CPC, University of Southampton, and Sue Heath, Morgan Centre, Manchester University
May 11
Migration policy and skills policy: substitutes or complements?
Speaker: Jonathan Portes, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
June 22
What is the relationship between new immigration and community change?
Speaker: David Robinson, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University
The Criminal, the Pauper, and the Foreigner in the Production of Citizenship
Monday 12 March 2012, 18:30 -20:00
Town Hall, Oxford
Speaker: Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley and Centre européenne de sociologie, Paris
The social and symbolic silhouette of the modern citizen is defined through contraposition with three deviant figures: the criminal, who violates the law and imperils the physical integrity of civil society from within; the pauper, who shirks the obligation of work and corrodes the moral integrity of the wage-labor compact from within; and the foreigner, who threatens to breach the membrane of national membership from without and is suspected of being prone to turning into a criminal or a welfare recipient. These three figures have been studied by different disciplines (criminology, social welfare, sociology/ethnic studies) and by different subfields inside of each discipline.
Wacquant proposes to bring them under a single analytic framework attentive to the material and symbolic charge of policies aimed at managing problem categories. He argues that the shift from rehabilitative to punitive criminal justice, the transition from protective welfare to disciplinary workfare, and from the administrative to the penal regulation of immigration are correlated and converging changes that partake of the building of the neoliberal state and fuel the politics of resentment in the age of social insecurity and ethnic anxiety.
The talk will be follow by a reception.
This event is open to all. To attend, please register by e-mailing communications@compas.ox.ac.uk
Citizenship and its Others
12 - 13 March 2012
Worcester College, Oxford
This symposium will explore the concept of citizenship by considering its Others. It will consider the relations between the others of the nation state as formally constituted (those who do not have the legal status of citizenship) and others of the nation state as a community of value (criminals, the workless, the sexually deviant).
These Others are politicised figures – 'folk devils' – and also legally constructed, and discourse and law are highly gendered and racialised.
Interrogating citizenship in this way will shed light on the concept of the good citizen, and enable us to discuss: Do we need to move beyond citizenship, and if so, how can we do so?
This symposium is organized by the COMPAS Citizenship and Belonging cluster and is by invitation only.