Previous Seminar Series:
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2008:
Migration, Welfare and Inequalities
Convenors: Hiranthi Jayaweera and Isabel Shutes
16th October: Gender, Migration, Rights and Entitlements: Comparison of European Welfare Regimes, Professor Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University
23rd October:Shifting Boundaries: Migration, Welfare and the Credit Crunch,
Professor Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth
30th October: Negotiating 'Needs' in the Provision of Social Care for Older People: the Role of Migrant Workers, Dr Isabel Shutes & Dr Alessio Cangiano, COMPAS, University of Oxford
3rd November: Social and Economic Mobility among Minority Ethnic Groups
in Inter- and Intra-Generational Perspective, Dr Lucinda Platt, University of Essex
13th November: Theorising Migration and Home-based Care in European Welfare States, Professor Fiona Williams, University of Leeds
20th November: Claiming Spaces: Negotiating Housing and Neighbourliness in Areas of New Migration in Bradford, Dr Debbie Phillips, University of Leeds
27th November: Education and Migration: Diversity Reaches the White Highlands, Professor Chris Gaine, University of Chichester
Global Migration Governance Project Events:
The seminar is part of the Global Migration Governance project (www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/migration) and
is jointly convened by the Centre for International Studies (CIS), the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), The Centre on
Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) and the Global Economic Governance Programme (GEG).
You can download the 'Refugees in International Relations' seminar schedule for Michaelmas Term 2008 here.
Friday 3 October, 2008
Workshop on Global Migration Governance
To be held 3-4 October
Location: University of Oxford
See 20081003workshop.pdf for further details.
Friday 17 October, 2008 at 2.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 1):
A Realist Approach to the Strategy of Humanitarianism
Professor Jack Snyder (Columbia University)
Location: Swire Seminar Room, 12 Merton Street, University College, Oxford
Monday 20 October, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 2):
International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Regime
Alexander Betts (Oxford University)
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Monday 27 October, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 3):
The Limitations of Mainstream International Relations Theories for Understanding the Politics of Forced Migration
Amitav Acharya (Bristol University)
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Monday 3 November, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 4):
International Society, Global Order and Refugees
Andrew Hurrell (Oxford University)
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Monday 17 November, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 5):
Constructivism and Refugees
Michael Barnett (University of Minnesota)
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Monday 24 November, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 6):
The Global Governance of Forced Migration
Sophia Benz and Andreas Hasenclever (Tubingen University)
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Monday 1 December, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 7):
The Securitisation of Forced Migration
Anne Hammerstadt (University of Kent)
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Friday 5 December, 2008 at 5.00pm (Michaelmas Term 2008 Week 8):
Refugees and the Regional Dynamics of Peace-building
James Milner (Carleton University)
Location: Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Seminar Series Trinity 2008:
Migration and Cultural Production
Convenors: Mette Berg and Rutvica Andrijasevic
24th April, PROFESSOR J BAILY, Dept. of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
Music and Migration: Afghanistan as a Case Study
1st May, PROFESSOR DINA IORDANOVA, Dept. of Film Studies, University of St. Andrews
Budding Channels of Peripheral Cinema: the Long Tail of Global Film Circulation
8th May, DR ALAN GROSSMAN & DR AINE O'BRIEN, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, DIT Aungier, Dublin
Situating Migrant Political Agency through Documentary Practice: Here to Stay (NB: film showing)
15th May, DR NIRMAL PUWAR,
Dept. of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Culture(s) of Production
Seminar Series Hilary Term 2008:
Critical Epistemologies of Migration
Convened by Dimitrina Spencer
24th January - William Berthomiere, Director, MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers, France - Studying the Globalization of International Migrations from a Social Geography Perspective
31 January - Dr Kaveri Harriss, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) - Love in a Pakistani Family
7th February - Dr Katy Gardener, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex - Journeys and the life course: some reflections on transnational fieldwork
14th February - Zuzanna Olesewska, ISCA, University of Oxford - Literature and Migrant - Subjectivity: Methodological reflections on studying the poetry of Afghan refugees in Iran
21st February - Dr Maja Povrzanovic Frykman, Associate Professor, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare & Dept. of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden - "Experimental" Ethnicity in Diasporic Encounters
28th February - Professor Ulf Brunnbauer, Osteuropa-Institut Freie Universität Berlin - Studying Migrants and Migrations Policies in the Balkans: Historical Perspectives, 19-20th centuries
6 March - Prof dr Jeanne Gaakeer, Professor of Legal Theory and Literary Jurisprudence at Erasmus University Rotterdam Law School, and judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court of Middelburg, the Netherlands - Crises of Evidence, crises of truth
Michaelmas Term 2007
'New trends in contemporary migration'
Convener: Ellie VASTA
- 11th October: Migration and trafficking in South Asia : rhetoric and reality. SONDRA HAUSNER, ISCA, University of Oxford
- 18 October: The Blair Effect: what is his legacy on immigration?
SARAH SPENCER, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 25 October: Sex trafficking and the politics of mobility in Europe
RUTVICA ANDRIJASEVIC, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 1 November: Changing status, changing fortunes? The impact of acquiring EU status on the earnings of East European migrants in the UK
MARTIN RUHS, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 8 November: Generating Diaspora: Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain
METTE BERG, ISCA, University of Oxford - 15 November: Migration and precarious labour: tautology or contradiction in terms?
BRIDGET ANDERSON, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 22 November: States, Employers and Migrants: A dynamic Triad
DIMITRINA SPENCER, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 29th November: The controllability of difference: immigrant integration and social solidarity
ELLIE VASTA, COMPAS, University of Oxford
COMPAS Seminar Series- Trinity Term 2007
Convenors: Nicholas Van Hear (COMPAS) and Stephen Castles (International Migration Institute - IMI)
- 26 April Protection or Participation? Refugee Women and the Politics of Integration
Leah Bassel, Department of International Development, University of Oxford - 3 May Research Beyond the Categories: the importance of policy irrelevant research into forced migration
Oliver Bakewell, International Migration Institute - 10 May Diaspora and Development? Nigerian Organisations in London and their Transnational Linkages with 'Home'
Ben Lampert, University College London - 17 May Remittances in an Insecure Setting: A Somali Case Study
Anna Lindley, Centre on Migration Policy and Society - 24 May - Special Event The reshaping of Mexican Labor Exports under NAFTA: Paradoxes and Challenges
Raúl Delgado Wise, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico - 31 May Joining the BBC (British Bottom Cleaners): Zimbabweans and the UK Care Industry
JoAnn McGregor, University College London
Migration on the Fringes of Europe: Trends, Patterns, Transformation
Convenor: Franck Düvell
- 18th January
Who is a Neighbour? Examining Immigration and Asylum in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Instruments
Elspeth Guild (Professor of European Migration Law, Nijmegen University, Netherlands) - 25th January
EU Externalization in Practice: the Cases of Ukraine and Libya
Ben Ward (Associate Director for Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, London) - 1st February
Transit Migration on the Fringes of Europe : Myth or Reality?
Franck Duvell (Senior Researcher, COMPAS, Oxford) - Special Event
8th February
How (not) to Think about Culture and Ethnicity in Immigration Research
Andreas Wimmer (Professor of Sociology, UCLA) - 15th February
Migration in the Mediterranean
Ferruccio Pastore (Deputy Director, Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CeSPI), Rome) - 22nd February
Mobile Liminalities: the errant mobility of young Albanians and Romanians within the EU
Nick Mai (Research Fellow, London Metropolitan University) - 1st March
Questioning the notion of "migration management": the case of Turkey as a country of emigration, immigration and transit
Ahmet Icduygu (Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul) - 8th March
Migration in post-Soviet Union countries
Irina Molodikova (Director, Migration Studies Seminar Programme, Central European University, Budapest)
Disrupting Dichotomies in migration research, policy and practice
Convenor: Dr Bridget Anderson
- 12th October - Students as migrants
RUSSELL KING, Head of Department of Geography, University of Sussex, and Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research - 19th October - Force and Deception the Tools of the Anti-Traffickers
JOHN DAVIES, D.phil Researcher, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex - 26th October - Questioning Convenient Concepts: The Sending Country/Receiving Country Dichotomy
FRANCK DUVELL, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 2nd November - Numbers vs Rights: Trade offs in guest worker programmes
MARTIN RUHS, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, University of Oxford - 9th November - A Clash of Cultures? What underlies the division between migration studies and race and ethnicity studies?
LIZA SHUSTER, Department of Sociology, City University , London - 16th November - Dichotomies in Practice: an immigration practitioner's reflections
SUE CONLAN, Tyndallwoods Solicitors, Birmingham - 23rd November - Ghosts at the banquet: Undocumented migrants and the troubled conscience of global capitalism
DON FLYNN, Project Director, Migrants' Rights Network (MRN)
'States and Emigrants'
Click on the links to see further details on the speakers and presentations.
- 27th April - Should labour migration be left to the market? Some lessons for origin states - Link
MANOLO ABELLA, Senior Research Fellow, COMPAS, Oxford; former Director of the International Migration Programme, International Labour Organization - 4th May - Wooing political and financial support from Chinese migrant populations: The Chinese state as a strategic operator of migration - Link
DR METTE THUNØ, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen - 11th May - Between courting and controlling: The Moroccan state and ‘its' emigrants - Link
DR HEIN DE HAAS, Research Officer, International Migration Institute, Oxford - 18th May - Embracing the forgotten child? Changes in India 's diaspora policy - Link
DR MARIE LALL, Chatham House and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - 25th May - Diasporas and development in the wake of war - Link
DR NICHOLAS VAN HEAR, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, Oxford - 1st June - ‘Diaspora' as a state category: The case of Croatia - Link
MR FRANCESCO RAGAZZI , Phd Candidate, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fulbright visiting Scholar, Northwestern University - 8th June - Brokering labour: The state, migrants and Philippine transnationalisms - Link
DR ROBYN MAGALIT RODRIGUEZ, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
‘Racism and the new immigration: theories and practices'
(Michaelmas Term 05)
- 20th October - ‘The Salford RAPAR SRB5 Project: a case study in Racism, Asylum and the Politics of Action Research'
DR RHETTA MORAN (RAPAR – Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research ) - 27th October - ‘Debating Race: Africans, African Americans and the White Researcher '
DR KATHARINA SCHRAMM (Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) - 3rd November - ‘Dangerous brown men - why the War on Terror is really about sex ' DR GARGI BHATTACHARYYA (Birmingham)
- 10th November - ‘Xeno-racism: the threat to refugee protection '
LIZ FEKETE (Institute of Race Relations) - 17th November - ‘From multiculturalism to assimilation: how the Dutch went astray'
PROF. HAN ENTZINGER (Rotterdam) - 24th November – ‘Anti-Semitism in contemporary France : migrants and Muslims at stake?'
PROF. MICHEL WIEVIORKA (CADIS, L'École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ) - 1st December – ‘European Identity, Muslims and Islamophobia'
DR YUNAS SAMAD (Bradford)
The Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
(Trinity Term 05)
- 29 Apr: Ralph Grillo (Sussex) ‘Debating Cultural Difference in Multicultural Societies'. Click here for further information on related working paper.
- 6 May: Nadje Al-Ali (Exeter) ‘Gender, Identity and Reconstruction: Diasporic Spaces of Iraqi women'
- 13 May: Ayse Caglar (Central European University) ‘Immigrant Incorporation and Politics of Scale'
- 20 May: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo) ‘Dynamics of Openness and Closure in Contemporary Majority/Minority Situations'
- 27 May: Michael Peter Smith (California-Davis) ‘The Mexican Migrant as Political Subject and Transnational Citizen'
- 3 June: Louise Lamphere (New Mexico) ‘Migration, Multiculturalism and Identity: Navajo Perspectives'
- 10 June: Jock Collins (University of Technology, Sydney) ‘Ethnic Precincts as Contradictory Tourist Spaces: The Case of Sydney , Australia '
'Contemporary International Migration – Key Issues'
(Hilary Term 05)
- 20th January - Migration and Global Governance Jeff Crisp, Global Commission on International Migration
- 27th January - The Migration-Asylum Nexus Nick Van Hear, COMPAS and Stephen Castles, RSC
- 3rd February - Immigrant Integration Andrew Geddes, University of Sheffield/ Click here to download powerpoint presentation (.pdf)
- 10th February- International Recruitment of Skills John Salt, UCL
- 17th February - Migration and Development Ron Skeldon, University of Sussex
- 24th February - Migration, Work and Asylum Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth and Phil Brown, University of Huddersfield
- 3rd March - Asylum Policy and Trends Liza Schuster, COMPAS
- 10th March - Gender and Migration Susan Martin, Georgetown University , ISIM
- 17th March - Real Challenges for Virtual Borders, Rey Koslowski, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Click here to download the report on which this presentation was based (.pdf).
For details on other forthcoming events click here