Events held in 2011
COMPAS Photo Competition 2011
Traces of Belonging
This year's photography competition looked for images that reflect the theme of 'Traces of Belonging'.
COMPAS was particularly interested in images with a historical or social connotation that visually convey what it means to settle in a new place.
Competition terms and conditions
The Politics & Practice of Justice, Immigration & Crime: Practitioners' Perspectives
Thursday 1 December, 16:30 - 18:30
64 Banbury Road
This workshop is the culmination of the COMPAS organised seminar series "A chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, crime and citizenship".
This series has explored the relationships between immigration and criminality: both ‘immigrant’ and ‘criminal’ for example, are set in opposition to the (good) citizen, both are important administrative categories for states, and comprise groups upon whom the state can exercise significant degrees of coercon. Both are highly racialised and gendered. There are also historical continuities: mobility has long been associated with criminality, through vagabondage and the problem of ‘masterless men’, gypsies and Roma, and ‘illegal immigrants’. Both groups can share social and political disabilities that are state legitimated.
The workshop will facilitate discussion between academics and those more directly engaged in political and the practical responses, and between those engaged in issues and theory on crime, and those engaged in issues and theory on immigration. It will explore what considering the two together means for the politics of immigration, crime and citizenship.
All welcome.
Learning, citizenship and integration
Thursday 17 November 2011
Abbey Centre, Westminster, London
This half-day policy colloquium is organised by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE).
The event is prompted by the completion of a major piece of work by the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London, with support from the ESRC and European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals.
The research included both a survey and in-depth interviews with the UK's new citizens, and explored the relationship between integration and citizenship and experiences of the naturalisation process, which includes ESOL with Citizenship courses.
Ben Gidley will be among the speakers.
The event is by invitation only.
Turkey and the current reform of the migration and asylum legislation. To good to be true?
Wednesday 9 November, 16:00 - 18:00
Seminar Room 62, Kellogg College, 60 Banbury Road
This lecture is organised by the Turkish Migration Studies Group
Speaker: Prof. Dr Kemal Kirisci, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Over recent years, Turkey has liberalised its visa regime and now permits easy entry of the citizens of many Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and CIS countries. Also the new (draft) asylum and immigration law some claim, would be amongst the most humane and liberal in Europe. Finally, the invitation to academics and NGOs to becoming stakeholders in this process implies a significant change of Turkish policy making processes. This raises questions like: what are the main determinants of this reform process, EU accession conditions or Turkey’s own economic and political interests? Does this change Turkey’s role in the region? How will the public respond? Does the integration of NGOs as stakeholders herald a change in the political culture, is Turkey moving from a country that has often been criticised for its human rights record to becoming a moral leader?
Turkish Migration Study Group (TurkMiS) - Fifth Meeting
14 October 2011, 13:00 - 17:00
Kellogg college, 60 Banbury Road, Stopforth Metcalfe room
The group consists of students and researchers involved in projects and activities related to Turkish Migration. TurkMiS aims to concentrate research conducted at Oxford University, across the various departments, colleges and institutes, on migration from, to and through Turkey and its vicinity and related politics in the fields of migration, refugees, European affairs and international relations. The meetings aim to present what is known, to identify knowledge gaps and encourage research into these. The event provides the opportunity to hear about various research projects and activities currently being undertaken.
If you would like to attend, please contact franck.duvell@compas.ox.ac.uk
Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space
22 - 23 September 2011
The intensification of global flows in the current period has led scholars to describe cities like London as 'super-diverse': a 'diversification of diversity', with a population characterised by multiple ethnicities, countries of origin, immigration statuses, and age profiles.
The aims of this conference are: to address the missing dimension of migration and mobility in the literature on urban space, and the missing dimension of spatiality in the literature on diversity; and to develop new modes of inquiry appropriate to the contemporary challenge of super-diversity.
Click here for more information and registration.
Further information about COMPAS research on urban change and settlement
The Call for Papers for this conference is now closed - no further submissions will be accepted
Playing the Numbers Game? Understanding the Coalition’s Immigration Policy
Monday 5 September
Council Chamber, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies,
Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Control over the numbers of entries has been a longstanding concern of Britain's immigration and asylum policy. Since coming to power in 2010, however, the Conservative-Liberal coalition has for the first time set a target for net migration. In pursuit of that target, it has introduced caps for certain economic migration categories. The target has also been the background to proposals for new restrictions on international students, family migration, domestic workers and access to settlement.
This seminar will provide an opportunity for reflection on the Coalition's immigration policy to date. How is its focus on targets and caps within immigration control to be explained? Is it defensible to use numbers in this way, either normatively or practically? Which other objectives, or consequences, may be identified in Coalition immigration policy, particularly in the current consultations on settlement and family reunion?
Attendance at the event is by invitation only.
This seminar is jointly organised by COMPAS and the Migration and Law Network
COMPAS Breakfast Briefings
At the Breakfast Briefing series COMPAS seeks to make available and discuss topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues.
The series will run October 2010 - July 2011 (Series 1).
Completed Breakfast Briefings
Mapping Turkish International Migration Studies: Old Questions, New Challenges
Turkish Migration Studies Group (TurkMiS)
Inaugural seminar, keynote lecture
Wednesday, 22 June, 16:00 – 18:00
Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 60 Banbury Road, Oxford
Turkey has long been a major sending country of migrants and there are 3.7 million Turks and their descendants now living in the EU. However, Turkey has increasingly become a receiving and transit country for migrants. Its population is likely to grow from 75 to 90 million between now and 2050 but is already undergoing demographic transformation and has begun ageing. The Turkish economy is amongst the fastest growing in the OECD, and Turkey is becoming a strong regional power; it thus has potential to become a new gravity centre in the Mediterranean migration system. It is even suggested by some sources that Turkey should become a member of the ‘rising powers’ group, also known as the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). These and other issues will be explored by the newly founded Turkish Migration Studies group. This seminar will present state of the art of research and is the first of a new series.
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COMPAS DPhil Workshop
Friday, 17 June, 12:00 - 18:00
COMPAS Boardroom
COMPAS will host a DPhil workshop on four doctoral presentations on Muslims in Britain, Afghan Diasporas, Mumbai's ex-mill workers and Hmong diaspora.
If you are interested in attending all or any part of the event, please email marisa.macari@anthro.ox.ac.uk or kristen.biehl@anthro.ox.ac.uk so that we may register you, and cater appropriately.
Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise
Thursday 2 June, 17:00 - 20:00
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford
At this launch event Professor Robin Cohen, Director, International Migration Institute, will introduce the Oxford Diasporas Programme.
Keynote speaker: Professor Khachig Tölölyan, Wesleyan University, and editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
This will be followed by drinks at Wadham College.
Registration is necessary. Please email ann.cowie@qeh.ox.ac.uk
TurkMiS Migration Study Group - Fourth Meeting
20 May, 12:00 - 17:00
Kellogg College, Mawby Room, 62 Banbury Road, OX2 6PN
Convened by Franck Düvell, this fourth meeting consisted of a reporting slot, two presentations and discussion.
Presentations:
- Marieke Wissink, Nijmegen University, "Migrant decision-making in a transit migration hub in Turkey" (tbc)
- Zeynep Engin, Imperial College London, and Aysegul Kayaoglu, Université catholique de Louvain, "Turkish Speaking Community in Britain and Potential Policy Challenges"
The group consists of students and researchers involved in projects and activities related to Turkish Migration. TurkMiS aims to concentrate research conducted at Oxford University, across the various departments, colleges and institutes, on migration from, to and through Turkey and its vicinity and related politics in the fields of migration, refugees, European affairs and international relations. The meetings aim to present what is known, to identify knowledge gaps and encourage research into these. The event provides the opportunity to hear about various research projects and activities currently being undertaken.
Making Connections: Migration, Gender and Care Labour in Transnational Context
14-15 April, 2011
The conference sought to develop connections between different aspects of the study of migrant care labour in transnational contexts: between state policies in care, migration and labour markets and the gendered and racialised divisions that shape these; in the relationship between both sending and receiving countries; and in the different scope and contexts of care work from so-called informal or unskilled home-based labour to the professional migration of, for example, nurses.
Launch of the Migration Observatory
29 March 2011, 18:00 - 20:00
COMPAS held a reception marking the formal launch of the Migration Observatory.
The Migration Observatory is a multi-media platform, providing user-friendly access to authoritative and independent analysis of data on migrants and migration issues in the UK, set in an international context.
It aims to inform media, public and policy debates, and to generate high quality research on international migration and public policy issues. The Observatory will draw on the expertise of a wide range of departments and research centres at the University of Oxford.
The launch was held in London and speakers included Immigration Minister Damian Green, Guy Goodwin, Office for National Statistics and Baroness Oona King.
Astor Lecture 2011
The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Are Changing the US and Their Homeland
10 March 2011, 17:00 - 18:00
Seminar Room, Rothermere American Institute,
Susan Eckstein, Professor of International Relations and Sociology, Boston University and Astor visiting lecturer 2011
Immigrant studies typically focus on contrasts between foreign-born and their progeny born where they resettle. This talk addressed how such analyses leave undocumented and unexplained differences among first generation immigrants, rooted in different pre-migration experiences.
Podcast
TurkMiS Migration Study Group - Third Meeting
11 March 2011, 13:00 - 17:30
COMPAS Boardroom, 58 Banbury Road, OX2 6QS
Convened by Franck Düvell, this third meeting will consist of a reporting slot, two presentations and then a discussion about the way forward.
The group's second meeting saw a packed agenda with three project briefs and two extended papers on migration politics.
Presentations:
Mathieu Ichou, Observatory for Social Change, CNRS-Sciences Po, will speak on second-generation Turkish immigrants’ educational underachievement in France
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, will present the case of EU-Turkish immigration control nexus.
The group consists of students and researchers involved in projects and activities related to Turkish Migration. TurkMiS aims to concentrate research conducted at Oxford University, across the various departments, colleges and institutes, on migration from, to and through Turkey and its vicinity and related politics in the fields of migration, refugees, European affairs and international relations. The meetings aim to present what is known, to identify knowledge gaps and encourage research into these. The event provides the opportunity to hear about various research projects and activities currently being undertaken.
Social Externalities: Workshop 2 - Economy and Culture
ESRC Research network and workshops on the ‘Rising Powers’
January 2011, Delhi
This workshop followed on from a very successful colloquium held in Beijing in October 2010, and foreshadows a London workshop in June 2011. The workshop was the first stage in developing a research network supported by the British Economic and Social research Council that interrogates the dynamics of the ‘Rising Powers’ in the BRICS.