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Oliver Bakewell is a Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, part of the Oxford Martin School.
He has a PhD and MSc in Development Studies and BA in Mathematics. He has worked with self-settled and camp based refugees in southern, central and east Africa. Before joining IMI, he worked as a researcher in an NGO, focusing on development practice.
Oliver's current research interests include: discourses of migration, continuities and discontinuities in patterns of migration within Africa, the use of papers in managing migration; and the relationship between migrants and diaspora groups and ‘mainstream’ development actors.
Recent publications:
Bakewell, O. (2005). "Community Services In Refugee Aid Programmes:
Leading the Way in the Empowerment of Refugees or a Sop to Humanitarian Consciences." In Forced Migration And Global Processes: a view from forced migration studies. F. Crepeau, D. Nakache, M. Collyer et al.
(eds). Lanham MD, Lexington Books.
Bakewell, O. (2004). Repatriation: Angolan Refugees or Migrating Villagers? In Refugees and the Transformation of Society: Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics. P. Essed, G. Frerks and J. Shrivers (eds). New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books.
Bakewell, O. with B. Pratt and J. Adams. (2003). Sharpening the Development Process: A Practical Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation.
Oxford, INTRAC.