Previous Seminar Series: 2010 - 2005

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Seminar Series Hilary 2012

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30
Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Migrants and welfare states: inclusion or exclusion?

Convened by the COMPAS Welfare Cluster

The aim of the series is to explore the relationship between the development of welfare states and the framework of entitlements and restrictions for migrants found in entry and settlement criteria, with the second half of the series focusing on the implications of welfare state inclusion or exclusion for the economic, social and civic participation of migrants.

 

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

19 January 2012
Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights    
Lydia Morris, University of Essex
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

26 January 2012
Between welfare states and markets: the migrant-policy nexus in comparative perspective and reflections on social rights and antidiscrimination law    
Virginie Guiraudon, French National Center for Scientific Research
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

2 February 2012
Entitlement, belonging and outsiderness: Britain's Gypsy Travellers in the twentieth century    
Rebecca Taylor, Birkbeck, University of London
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

9 February 2012
Migrants' access to goods and services in the context of international human rights law    
Aoife Nolan, Durham Law School
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

16 February 2012
Immigration, demographic governance and social policy in the late 20th century: British Pakistani families    
Kaveri Qureshi and Alison Shaw, University of Oxford
(Podcast unavailable)

23 February 2012
Shifts in the Public/Private Divide as mode of inclusion and exclusion    
Sarah van Walsum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

1 March 2012
The right to participate: law, equality, and the prospective impact on immigrant integration in Europe and abroad    
Thomas Huddleston, Migration Policy Group
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

8 March 2012
Experiences at the sharp end: Practitioners' perspectives on inclusion and exclusion    
Panel Discussion

Panel:

Migrants and the right to health: theory and practice
Fizza Qureshi, Project: London

Eligibility, Entitlement and Access to Justice
Ruthanna Barnett, Turpin & Miller LLP

Accessing education:  What are the barriers for migrant children and how can we promote their rights and entitlements?
Bill Bolloten, Refugee Education
Presentation

Wage theft and contribution evasion by employers: The consequences for migrant workers' employment and welfare rights
Nick Clark, London Metropolitan University

Seminar Series Michaelmas 2011

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

A chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, crime and citizenship

Convened by the COMPAS Citizenship and Belonging Cluster

Migration scholars and NGOs have often sought to disassociate popular associations between criminality and immigration: migrants are not criminals, nor are they necessarily more likely to commit crime. But this risks ignoring important 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 coercion. Both are highly racialised. 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 – in the US former prisoners are not eligible for further education grants, cannot access welfare payments or food stamps, and in 10 states, are denied the right to vote for life. This seminar series will interrogate the relation between immigration, criminality and citizenship, by exploring these issues.

Follow the COMPAS Seminar Series weekly discussion question on the COMPAS facebook page. Each week a new question will be posed based on the week's seminar, which we invite you to get involved in.

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

13 October 2011
Punishment and Migration between Europe and the United States: A Globalized "Less Eligibility”?
Dario Melossi, University of Bologna -Presentation Notes (.pdf)
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

20 October 2011
Ambivalence and Detention
Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford
(podcast unavailable on speaker's request)

27 October 2011
No rights for the wicked: human rights and foreign national prisoners
Fran Webber, Institute of Race Relations
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

3 November 2011
Crime or Survival? - the management of victims of trafficking, smuggling and enforced labour through the Criminal Justice and Immigration Systems
Liz Hales, University of Cambridge
(podcast unavailable on speaker's request)

10 November 2011
Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question
David Glover, University of Southampton
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

17 November 2011
Distant Identification and mobility Control: Police sciences, technology, and international cooperation in West Europe, 1900-1930
Ilsen About, Institut de recherches interdisciplinaires sur les enjeux sociaux
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

24 November 2011
Immigration and welfare chauvinism: Britain since 1800
David Feldman, Birkbeck, University of London
Oxford University podcast
iTunesU

1 December 2011
Cities, Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law
Nicholas de Genova, Goldsmiths, University of London

Seminar Series Trinity 2011

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Filling the Gaps on the Impacts of Immigration

Convened by Carlos Vargas-Silva

There is much discussion about the optimal number and desirable characteristics of migrants.  A key aspect of this discussion is the impact of immigration on the receiving society, including impacts on the provision of certain services, crime, local wages, social cohesion, neighbourhood dynamics and housing. In some cases, the academic research on these impacts has not kept pace with the policy discussion. As a result, in many cases, policies are based on assumptions, rather than facts. In other cases, there is academic research on the impact, but has been ignored in policy creation. This seminar series hopes to shed light on these issues by exploring the impacts of immigration on receiving countries.

 

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

5 May 2011
Migrants and the state of long term care in England: opportunities and challenges
Shereen Hussein, King's College London

12 May 2011
Crime and immigration
Brian Bell, London School of Economics

19 May 2011
Wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK
Cinzia Rienzo, Royal Holloway University of London

26 May 2011
Immigration, diversity and innovation
Max Nathan, London School of Economics

2 June 2011
How does diversity affect the British neighbourhood? Can it reinforce segregation?
Neli Demireva, Nuffield College, Oxford

9 June 2011
Understanding the neighbourhood impacts of new immigration
David Robinson, Sheffield Hallam University

16 June 2011 - CANCELLED
Public service reform and health sector migration: causes and consequences
Stephen Bach, King's College London

23 June 2011
Migration and the resilience and vulnerability of place
Mary Hickman, London Metropolitan University

Seminar Series Hilary 2011

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration

Convened by Scott Blinder and Rob McNeil

As migration to the UK has increased in number over the past decade or more, it has become a highly salient, heavily contested political issue as well.  Migration as an "issue" is now a focal point for British public opinion, media coverage, and political debate. This term's seminar examines the relationships among these elements.

We will examine how migration is represented in the media, and how media consumption can in turn construct the migrant experience as well. We will examine how various segments of the British public understand migration as a political issue, and how migration may be in turn transforming British politics. We will also take revealing looks at how migration policy and migration-related media coverage are generated, from both insiders' and outsiders' perspectives.

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

20th January  
The politics of migration in the UK: Catering to a public of (at least) two minds
Scott Blinder, COMPAS/Migration Observatory, Oxford University

27th January 
Between strategic nostalgia and banal nomadism: Arab diaspora watching satellite and digital television across Europe
Myria Georgiou, LSE

3rd February   
Immigration and Political Trust in Europe
Lauren McLaren, Nottingham University

10th February   
UK Immigration Policy and the Political Functions of Research
Christina Boswell, Edinburgh University

17th February
UK Public Opinion on Migration: Trends and Interpretations
Pamela Bremner, Ipsos-MORI

24th February   
Making the News - how the production and placement of news items affects the way we understand them

Chair: David Walker, Chairman of the Media Advisory Board for The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. Formerly of The Guardian, the Economic and Social Research Council

Media Panel:

Dr Samir Shah OBE, Chief Executive, Juniper Communications, former Head of Political Programming and Current Affairs at the BBC; Non-executive director of the BBC (2007-2010) and Chair of the  Runnymede Trust (1999-2009).

Hugh Pinney, Vice President, News and Sport, Getty Images.

Bill Lodge, Senior Production Journalist, the Daily Telegraph.

3rd March
When is an asylum seeker not an asylum seeker? The representation of immigration in the UK press 1996-2005
Paul Baker, Lancaster University

10th March  - CANCELLED. We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause.
Migration and the Press - is the media covering migration issues properly?
Media Panel 2

Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices

Convened by Ben Gidley, Nando Sigona, and Mette Louise Berg

"Integration" is a term that is used in many different places and contexts and is increasingly prominent within public debates about migration in the UK and elsewhere in the West. ‘Integration' remains vague in definition, which is perhaps one reason it can be useful in many varying contexts. Is it a new assimilationism, a reactionary retreat from multiculturalism, or a progressive, dynamic model for thinking about diversity? How does it relate to cohesion, to transnationalism and to cosmopolitanism? Can – and should – it be measured and monitored? How is it framed in relation to the different scales of governance and belonging, from the neighbourhood to the "super-diverse" city to the nation-state? This seminar series brings together scholars working ethnographically on everyday practices of integration with scholars working on the production, reproduction and contestation of integration discourse.

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30

Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

14th October  
The national integration paradigm: where are we now?
Adrian Favell, Aarhus University, Denmark

21st October 
Gender and interventions in integration
Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University

28th October   
Numbers and Needs – the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets
Anne Kershen, Queen Mary University, London

4th November   
Class, Nation and 'Race'. Migrants, Hegemony and the Cultural Politics of the State
Davide Pero, University of Notthingham

11th November
Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border
Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University

18th November   
Making Brick Lane: pasts, presents, futures
Claire Alexander, London School of Economics and Political Science

25th November
The Janus face of integration and diversity discourses and strategies
Floya Anthias, Roehampton University

2nd December 
'Integration' as Illiberal Exceptionalism in Migration Law: The Role of the European Union
Sergio Carrera, Centre for European Policy Studies

Oxford Graduate Migration Research Seminar: Michaelmas 2010

19 October - 30 November

Tuesdays 12.30 - 13.30 (except first seminar, which will be 13:00 - 14:00)

Lecture Room, 64 Banbury Road

This is an informal seminar: please feel free to bring lunch. Lectures will be followed by refreshments and discussion.

29th April   
Surfing on the Waves of Globalization. Reflections on the Hadrami
migrations around the Indian Ocean
Leif Manger, University of Bergen

6th May   
Rehoused but homeless. Forced migration and resettlement on Sri Lanka's
east coast
Cathrine Brun, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

13th May    
Permanently impermanent: Dubai's migrant workers
Syed Ali, Long Island University

20th May   
Muslim Women and the emergence of counter public spheres in Italy
Ruba Salih, University of Exeter

27th May   
Time for the pen, not the sword. Khat and consumption among diaspora
returnees in Somaliland
Peter Hansen, Danish Institute for International Studies

3rd June   
Religion in the Nepali Diaspora
Sondra Hausner and David Gellner, ISCA, University of Oxford

10th June   
Why focus on emotions when analysing migration? Concepts, methods, analysis
Maruska Svasek, Queen's University Belfast

17th June    
Caribbean Nurses in Britain: Victims, Heroines or Dutiful Daughters?
Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen

Seminar Series Hilary 2010

The Impact of Diasporas: Connection, Contestation, Convergence

Presented by COMPAS and IMI

Convened by Alan Gamlen, Nicholas Van Hear and Robin Cohen

Arising from flight to escape violent conflict or from migration for betterment, diasporas are among the most prominent and controversial manifestations of increased globalization. Few communities now seem unbound from their distant members and this connectivity has significant consequences for the world order. 

In a research proposal submitted to the Leverhulme Trust, we identify three fundamental dynamics that animate the formation of diasporas and shape their impacts – connectedness, contestation and convergence. 

Our aim in the research programme and in this associated seminar series is to investigate through comparative examples the social, economic, political and cultural impacts of diaspora:  what are these impacts; why, how, where and when do particular impacts arise; and who initiates and experiences these impacts?

Seminar Series Trinity Term 2009:

The Agency of Borders: Perspectives on UK Immigration Policy and Practice

Convenor: Sarah Spencer, CBE

28^th April, Professor Steve J Peers, School of Law, University of Essex 
EU Immigration and Asylum Law – the Implications for the UK

7^th May, Dr Keith Puttick, Department of Law, University of Staffordshire
Reinventing ‘the family’? The family/extended family members’ ‘right to reside’

14^th May, Professor Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Refuge or Rejection? Eliminating Asylum from UK Immigration Policy

21^st May, Dr Christina Boswell, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh
What Governments Really Want:  Rethinking the Migration

Policy Process 

26^th May, Professor Michael Keith, compas, University of Oxford
 Rethinking Integration and Cohesion: Policy Dynamics between the Multicultural and the Convivial

4^th June, Professor Allan Findlay, Department of Geography, University of Dundee
The Business of International Student Mobility and the UK knowledge economy

11^th June, Professor Andrew Geddes, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield
The Politics of Illegal Immigration in Britain

18^th June, Dr Sarah Kyambi, Deputy Director, The David Hume Institute
Migration Policy in Scotland: Reserved Powers, Diverging Agendas?

Seminar Series Hilary Term 2009:

Immigration and Low-wage Labour Markets

Convenor: Martin Ruhs

22nd January, Ken Mayhew, SKOPE, University of Oxford
Low-wage work in the EU and US

29th January, Stephen Nickell, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
The impact of immigration on occupational wages in Britain

5th February, Professor David Metcalf, LSE and Chairman of MAC
Labour shortages and immigration policy: The work of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) (Cancelled due to bad weather)

12th February, Don Devoretz, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Border thickness: Obese or svelte?

19th February, Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Economic research and labour immigration policy

26th February, Sonia McKay, London Metropolitan University
Undocumented worker transitions

5th March, Jo Moriarty, King’s College London
Immigration and the social care sector in the UK

12th March, Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Smoke, mirror and magic numbers: Immigration & labour markets

Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2008:

Migration, Welfare and Inequalities

Convenors: Hiranthi Jayaweera and Isabel Shutes

16th October, Professor Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University
Gender, Migration, Rights and Entitlements: Comparison of European Welfare Regimes, 

23rd October, Professor Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth
Shifting Boundaries: Migration, Welfare and the Credit Crunch,

30th October, Dr Isabel Shutes & Dr Alessio Cangiano, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Negotiating 'Needs' in the Provision of Social Care for Older People: the Role of Migrant Workers

3rd November,Dr Lucinda Platt, University of Essex
Social and Economic Mobility among Minority Ethnic Groups in Inter- and Intra-Generational Perspective

13th November, Professor Fiona Williams, University of Leeds
Theorising Migration and Home-based Care in European Welfare States

20th November, Dr Debbie Phillips, University of Leeds
Claiming Spaces: Negotiating Housing and Neighbourliness in Areas of New Migration in Bradford

27th November, Professor Chris Gaine, University of Chichester
Education and Migration: Diversity Reaches the White Highlands

Seminar Series Trinity Term 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

Convenor: 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

Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2007:

New Trends in Contemporary Migration

Convener: Ellie Vasta

11th October, Sondra Hausner, ISCA, University of Oxford
Migration and trafficking in South Asia : rhetoric and reality.

18 October, Sarah Spencer, COMPAS, University of Oxford
The Blair Effect: what is his legacy on immigration?

25 October, Rutvica Andrijasevic, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Sex trafficking and the politics of mobility in Europe

1 November, Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Changing status, changing fortunes? The impact of acquiring EU status on the earnings of East European migrants in the UK

8 November, Mette Berg, ISCA, University of Oxford
Generating Diaspora: Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

15 November, Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Migration and precarious labour: tautology or contradiction in terms?

22 November, Dimitrina Spencer, COMPAS, University of Oxford
States, Employers and Migrants: A dynamic Triad

29th November, Ellie Vasta, COMPAS, University of Oxford
The controllability of difference: immigrant integration and social solidarity

Seminar Series Trinity Term 2007:

Perspectives on African Migration

Convenors: Nicholas Van Hear (COMPAS) and Stephen Castles (International Migration Institute - IMI)

26 April, Leah Bassel, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Protection or Participation? Refugee Women and the Politics of Integration

3 May, Oliver Bakewell, International Migration Institute
Research Beyond the Categories: the importance of policy irrelevant research into forced migration

10 May, Ben Lampert, University College London
Diaspora and Development? Nigerian Organisations in London and their Transnational Linkages with 'Home'

17 May, Anna Lindley, Centre on Migration Policy and Society
Remittances in an Insecure Setting: A Somali Case Study

24 May, Raúl Delgado Wise, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
Special Event The reshaping of Mexican Labor Exports under NAFTA: Paradoxes and Challenges

31 May, JoAnn McGregor, University College London
Joining the BBC (British Bottom Cleaners): Zimbabweans and the UK Care Industry

Seminar Series Hilary Term 2007:

Migration on the Fringes of Europe: Trends, Patterns, Transformation

Convenor: Franck Düvell

18th January, Elspeth Guild (Professor of European Migration Law, Nijmegen University, Netherlands)
Who is a Neighbour? Examining Immigration and Asylum in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Instruments

25th January, Ben Ward (Associate Director for Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, London)
EU Externalization in Practice: the Cases of Ukraine and Libya

1st February Franck Duvell (Senior Researcher, COMPAS, Oxford)
Transit Migration on the Fringes of Europe : Myth or Reality?

Special Event 8th February, Andreas Wimmer (Professor of Sociology, UCLA) How (not) to Think about Culture and Ethnicity in Immigration Research 15th February, Ferruccio Pastore (Deputy Director, Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CeSPI), Rome) Migration in the Mediterranean

22nd February, Nick Mai (Research Fellow, London Metropolitan University)
Mobile Liminalities: the errant mobility of young Albanians and Romanians within the EU

1st March, Ahmet Icduygu (Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul)
Questioning the notion of "migration management": the case of Turkey as a country of emigration, immigration and transit

8th March, Irina Molodikova (Director, Migration Studies Seminar Programme, Central European University, Budapest)
Migration in post-Soviet Union countries

Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2006:

Disrupting Dichotomies in migration research, policy and practice

Convenor: Dr Bridget Anderson

12th October, Russell King, Head of Department of Geography, University of Sussex, and Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research
Students as migrants

19th October, John Davies, DPhil Researcher, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
Force and Deception: the Tools of the Anti-Traffickers

26th October, Franck Duvell, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, University of Oxford Questioning Convenient Concepts: The Sending Country/Receiving Country Dichotomy

2nd November, Martin Ruhs, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Numbers vs Rights: Trade offs in guest worker programmes

9th November, Liza Shuster, Department of Sociology, City University , London
A Clash of Cultures? What underlies the division between migration studies and race and ethnicity studies?

16th November, Sue Conlan, Tyndallwoods Solicitors, Birmingham
Dichotomies in Practice: an immigration practitioner's reflections

23rd November - Don Flynn, Project Director, Migrants' Rights Network (MRN)
Ghosts at the banquet: Undocumented migrants and the troubled conscience of global capitalism
 

Seminar Series Trinity Term 2006:

States and Emigrants

Convenor: Xiang Biao

27th April, Manolo Abella, Senior Research Fellow, COMPAS, Oxford; former Director of the International Migration Programme, International Labour Organization
Should labour migration be left to the market? Some lessons for origin states

4th May, Dr Mette ThunØ, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen
Wooing political and financial support from Chinese migrant populations: The Chinese state as a strategic operator of migration

11th May, Dr Hein de Haas, Research Officer, International Migration Institute, Oxford
Between courting and controlling: The Moroccan state and 'its' emigrants

18th May, Dr Marie Lall, Chatham House and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Embracing the forgotten child? Changes in India 's diaspora policy

25th May, Dr Nicholas Van Hear, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, Oxford
Diasporas and development in the wake of war

1st June, Francesco Ragazzi , Phd Candidate, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fulbright visiting Scholar, Northwestern University
'Diaspora' as a state category: The case of Croatia

8th June, Dr Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brokering labour: The state, migrants and Philippine transnationalisms

Seminar Series Hilary Term 2006:

Shaping Migration Research Strategies: National research centres, government policies and public attitudes

Convenor: Prof. Steven Vertovec

19 January 2006, Meyer Burnstein, formerly Canadian Ministry for Citizenship and Immigration, Ottawa
Shaping migration research strategies: Canadian experience                                 

26 January 2006, Prof. Rainer BaubÖck, Institute for European Integration Research (EIF), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 
Shaping migration research strategies: Austrian experience                                

2 February 2006, Prof. Marco Martiniello, Centre d’Études de l’Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM), University of Liège
Shaping migration research strategies: Belgian experience                                 

9 February 2006, Prof. Rinus Penninx, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam 
Shaping migration research strategies: Dutch experience                                

16 February 2006, Prof. Lucinda Fonseca, Centro de Estudos Geográficos (CEG), University of Lisbon 
Shaping migration research strategies: Portuguese experience                                

23 February 2006, Prof. Richard Black, Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex
Shaping migration research strategies: British experience                                 

2 March 2006, Dr Patrick Simon Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris
Shaping migration research strategies: French experience                                   

9 March 2006 - Prof. Friedrich Heckmann, European Forum for Migration Studies (EFMS), University of Bamberg
Shaping migration research strategies: German experience

Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2005:

Racism and the new immigration: theories and practices

Convenor: Ellie Vasta

20th October, Dr Rhetta Moran (RAPAR - Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research )
The Salford RAPAR SRB5 Project: a case study in Racism, Asylum and the Politics of Action Research

27th October, Dr Katharina Schram (Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Debating Race: Africans, African Americans and the White Researcher

3rd November, Dr Gargi Bhattacharyya (Birmingham)
Dangerous brown men - why the War on Terror is really about sex

10th November, Liz Fekete (Institute of Race Relations)
Xeno-racism: the threat to refugee protection

17th November, Prof. Han Entzinger (Rotterdam)
From multiculturalism to assimilation: how the Dutch went astray

24th November, Prof. Michel Wieviorka (CADIS, L'École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris )
Anti-Semitism in contemporary France : migrants and Muslims at stake?

1st December, Dr Yunas Samad (Bradford)
European Identity, Muslims and Islamophobia

Seminar Series Trinity Term 2005:

The Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

Convenor: Steve Vertovec

29 Apr, Ralph Grillo (Sussex)
Debating Cultural Difference in Multicultural Societies

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

Seminar Series Hilary Term 2005:

Contemporary International Migration - Key Issues

Convenor: Steve Vertovec

20th January, Jeff Crisp, Global Commission on International Migration
Migration and Global Governance

27th January, Nick Van Hear, COMPAS and Stephen Castles, RSC
The Migration-Asylum Nexus

3rd February, University of Sheffield
Immigrant Integration Andrew Geddes

10th February, John Salt, UCL
International Recruitment of Skills

17th February, Ron Skeldon, University of Sussex
Migration and Development 

24th February,  Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth and Phil Brown, University of Huddersfield
Migration, Work and Asylum

3rd March, Liza Schuster, COMPAS
Asylum Policy and Trends

10th March, Susan Martin, Georgetown University , ISIM
Gender and Migration

17th March, Rey Koslowski, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Real Challenges for Virtual Borders