COMPAS Research Resources

COMPAS has commissioned or produced background papers in order to set the Centre’s research projects in context. These vary in style and remit, and range from annotated bibliographies to scoping studies and methodology papers. They have provided useful background material for our researchers and may be of interest to others working in the field.

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INTEGRATION

Project: Integration, diversity and the economy

• "Diversity in the Labour Market: The Legal Framework and Support Services for Migrants entitled to work in the United Kingdom" by Alison Hunter (2007). Click here to download paper.

Project: Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain

• "Muslims in the London Borough of Newham" by Kaveri Harriss (2006). Click here for more details.
• "Muslims in Bradford" by Simon Ross Valentine (2006). Click here for more details.
  "Muslims in Birmingham: A Background paper" by Tahir Abbas (2005). Click here for more details.
• "An Annotated Bibliography of Recent literature on ‘Invisible' Muslim Communities and New Muslim Migrant Communities in Britain" by Serena Hussain (2005). Click here for more details.

Event: Franco-British Collaborative Workshop: "Two models - one integration crisis?" (27 April 2006)

• "Les Modèles d’intégration en France et en Grande-Bretagne Philosophies, politiques et institutions publiques" by Christophe Bertossi (2007). Click here to download paper.
• "French and British models of integration Public philosophies, policies and state institutions" by Christophe Bertossi (2007), translated from the French by Timothy Cleary. Click here for details.

Event: "Integration of Migrants: Engaging Employers, Unions and the Voluntary Sector" (4th July 2006)

• Background paper
• Conference report

Project: Social Integration of Migrants in Europe: A Review of the European Literature 2000 – 2006

• Literature review by Sarah Spencer, Associate Director, and Betsy Cooper, St Johns College, Oxford. Click here for details.
  

THE LABOUR MARKET AND MIGRATION

Project: Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU accession on low wage migrant labour in the UK

• "Changing status, changing lives? Methods, participants and lessons learnt" by Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson (2006) Click here for more details.

MIXED MIGRATION

Migration on the fringes of Europe: Transit Migration in Ukraine and Turkey (FringeMig)

• 'At the fringes of Europe: transit migration in Ukraine and Turkey', Project Briefing Document - Download
• Click here for information on an event held on Central and Eastern Migrations.
• Transit, Migration and Politics: Trends and Constructions on the Fringes of Europe, Franck Düvell. A Summary paper written for the EU Network on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) and COMPAS - Download
• A series of research reports on Central and East European Migration are now available.
  1. Ukraine – Europe’s Mexico?, Franck Düvell - Download
  2. On The Fringes of Europe: Refugees in Ukraine, Franck Düvell - Download
  3. Ukraine – Immigration and Transit Country for Chechen Refugees, Franck Düvell- Download

OTHER

Penninx R., D. Spencer and N. Van Hear, 2008, Migration and Integration in Europe: The State of Research. Click here to download the full report [.pdf].

Amanda Levinson(2005), The Regularisation of Unauthorized Migrants: Literature Survey and Country Case Studies. Click here for more details.

Lisa Arai (2005) Migrants & public services in the UK: A review of the recent literature. Click here for more details.