2013
Diversity, Cohesion and change in South London neighbourhoods: Concordia Discors Launch
Monday 10 June, 17:30 - 20:00
City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
We are launching the final report of the Concordia Discors project on cohesion and integration in neighbourhoods. The London report presents our findings in two South London neighbourhoods. The European report presents findings from across five cities and eleven neighbourhoods in Spain, Italy, Hungary and Germany as well as the UK. The project explored how people get on at the local scale, how policy communities respond, and how local media frames the local debate.
At the launch, we will present the findings and screen a film about five cities, followed by invited responses from the London Borough of Southwark, local residents, and integration policy expert Jill Rutter, with time for discussion.
This event is by invitation only.
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 politically 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
Integration, Disadvantage and Extremism
Wednesday 8 May 2013, 13:00 - 17:45
Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, House of Commons
The aim of this symposium is to reflect on the government's integration strategy and to do so in the light of both contemporary developments and recent scholarship. We intend to bring the most current evidence-based research to bear on urgent issues of policy for an invited audience of academic experts, policy makers and parliamentarians.
John Mann MP will open the symposium, which is organised into three panels.
Integration and disadvantage today
Rob Berkeley (Runnymede Trust)
Anthony Heath (University of Oxford)
Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex) and Becky Taylor (Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London)
Integration and extremism
Matthew Goodwin, (University of Nottingham)
Nasar Meer (Northumbria University)
Dave Rich (Community Security Trust)
Is localism sufficient?
Ben Gidley (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Dean Godson (Policy Exchange)
Maleiha Malik (University College London)
The symposium is being organised by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London and COMPAS, University of Oxford, in partnership with the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism.
Please note, places are limited and by invitation only. If you would like to participate please let us know by replying to pearsinstitute@bbk.ac.uk, stating your institutional affiliation and/or area of interest.
Migration: Theory and Practice
Saturday 4 May 2013, 8:45 - 17:30
Manor Road Building, University of Oxford
This conference, organised by the Oxford Migration Studies Society, will bring together an international group of panellists presenting topics on labour migration, diaspora and return, religious and family life and globalisation and technologies.
The conference is sponsored by COMPAS, the International Migration Institute (IMI), the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), the Department of International Development (ODID), the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Registration is open until 27 April.
Special screening of Margreth Olin’s award-winning documentary: Nowhere Home
Tuesday 30th April 2013
6.15pm introductory talk, 6.30pm screening
The Ultimate Picture Palace, Cowley Road, Oxford
Nowhere Home follows the fortunes of a number of young people from Salhus, a Norwegian centre offering temporary residence to unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people as they approach adulthood. While they all hope to remain in Norway, the threat of deportation when they turn 18—and uncertain futures in countries like Afghanistan or Iraq—hangs over them. A visceral and provocative film, Nowhere Home scrutinises what Human Rights Watch has called one of the ‘major moral dilemmas’ facing Europe today. (Year: 2012 / 90m. Distributor: Norwegian Film Institute)
Watch the trailer online.
Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions). Online booking now open.
Proceeds go to Asylum Welcome (Charity no. 1092265).
This filming is organised by the Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP) in collaboration with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford and the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham
8th TurkMiS Seminar
Friday 26 April 2013, 13:00 - 17:00
Oxford, Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Road
Presentations:
- Alessio d’Angelo, Middlesex University, The Turkish and Kurdish communities in the UK, results from the 2011 census, and their welfare situation in times of crisis
- Seref Kavak, Keele University, Ethnopolitics in the Diaspora: The Case of Kurds from Turkey in the UK
- Deniz Eroglu, University of Essex, The making of asylum policies in Turkey: analysis of non-‐governmental organizations, political elites and bureaucrats
- Aysegul Kayaoglu, LSE, Turkey, Internal Displacement and Migratory Perceptions
There is one presentation places left. All themes are welcome but those working on migration, asylum or related policy issues in Turkey are encouraged.
To attend, please contact franck.duvell@compas.ox.ac.uk
Agenda (please note required reservations)
Annexation, Autonomy, or Independence? The Politics of Cuban Identity in the Émigré Communities of New York and Florida, 1840s-1890s
Thursday 18th April 2013, 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6QS
Hosted by the ESRC Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS)
This seminar will explore the changing modalities of diasporic identities among émigré Cuban workers in the nineteenth century, including tensions between Creole and Peninsular orientations, and tensions between different conceptions of nationalism and internationalism in the anarchist and labour movements.
For information, please contact Ben Gidley, COMPAS, ben.gidley@compas.ox.ac.uk
Within and beyond citizenship: Lived experiences of contemporary membership
April 11- 12, 2013
Oxford
The symposium will investigate the interplay between forms and modes of contemporary membership, migration governance (both immigration and emigration), and the politics of belonging. This will be achieved through in-depth examinations of a range of experiences of membership including, but not limited to: ethnic minorities; citizen children of undocumented migrant parents; former unaccompanied asylum seeking children; people with dual citizenship; 'failed' asylum seekers; and stateless people. Participants are invited to discuss issues such as the position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration and emigration states; the nexus between human mobility, immigration control, and citizenship; the tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights; and the intersection of 'race' and other social cleavages and legal status.
This is the first of two international symposia investigating the relationship between legal status, rights and belonging. The symposia are jointly organised by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford with the School of Social Service Administration,University of Chicago and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and the Oxford Institute of Social Policy at the University of Oxford.
For more information visit the RSC page: Within and beyond citizenship: Lived Experiences of Contemporary Membership
Still a Travesty? Justice in Immigration Bail Hearings: Launch of the Second report of the Bail Observation Project
Tuesday 9th April 2013, 19:30
Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
For over 25,000 people detained each year in the UK under immigration law powers, the right to apply for bail is a fundamental right that they need to be able to exercise. This report, based on the observation of 220 bail hearings, shows how that right is curtailed and the how the fairness of procedure in the bail court is gravely compromised.
The event is chaired by Bridget Anderson, and will include a discussion about the report, the project's continuation, personal experiences of the pail process, the legal background and recommendations for the way forward.
Speakers include practitioners, volunteers, researchers, and a former detainee. These include, Gill Baden, Bridget Walker, Caroline White, Bill MacKeith, and Melanie Griffiths.
To attend, please email communications@compas.ox.ac.uk
Latin American and Caribbean migration research workshop
Monday 11 March 2013, 10am-1pm
61 Banbury Road
(NB: this is an internal workshop for Oxford staff and DPhil students only)
In recent years research on Latin American migration flows towards Europe and, more recently, the reversal of such flows in the wake of the economic crisis, has proliferated. It is thus an opportune moment to bring together researchers to share our ideas and research interests and to bring out some of the interconnections, contrasts and points of comparison within our research.
The workshop aims to bring together scholars, including doctoral students, based in Oxford, who work on and who are interested in Latin American and Caribbean migration issues, to discuss possibilities for collaboration and networking within and beyond Oxford.
To sign up, please e-mail communications@compas.ox.ac.uk by 1 March 2013
Migration Film Showings: Migrant Lives and Stories
Tuesdays, Hilary Term 4.30pm
Pauling Centre, 58A Banbury Road
Convened by Mette Berg
Week 1 (15 Jan)
Here to Stay, Alan Grossman and Aine O’Brien 2006 (documentary, 72 mins.)
Week 3 (29 Jan)
Marrying a stranger (Shabba), Daisy Asquith 2002 (documentary, 50 mins.)
Week 5 (12 Feb)
Last Train Home, Lixin Fan 2009 (documentary, 85 mins.)
Week 7 (26 Feb)
Last of the Dictionary Men, Tina Gharavi 2008 (documentary)
International Migration and the 2011 UK Census
Monday 25 February, 13:45-14:45
Dahrendorf Seminar Room, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford is hosting a workshop on the 2011 UK Census.
Speakers:
Emma Wright, Head of Population Analysis, UK Office for National Statistics
Peter Stokes, Vensus Statistical Design Manager, UK Office for National Statistics
For more information about the event, please contact
carlos.vargas-silva@compas.ox.ac.uk
To attend, email lindsey.robinson@compas.ox.ac.uk