List of Blogs

2016

Refuge in Technology [MSc guest blog]

Aliyyah Ahad

A night-time border encounter: Some reflections [MSc guest blog]

Tommaso Trillò

The dispersal of unaccompanied asylum seeking children: in whose best interests?

Rachel Humphris & Nando Sigona

Sophie’s journey: Three countries, three stories, same abuse

Emel Coşkun

Paradoxically European: how a spike in xenophobia revalues EU citizenship

Dora-Olivia Vicol

Targets for reducing migration: what do we control?

Madeleine Sumption

Reforming homelessness policies for migrants: 8 lessons from a working group of European cities

Jonathan Price

Imagining Refugia

Nicholas Van Hear

A new generation of thinkers: on ways forward for migration and development policy and research

Anduriña Espinoza-Wasil, Jessamy Garver-Affeldt, Asha Jibril, Matthew Longmore & Jiani Song

The paradoxes of (anti)racism in compulsory education

Pier-Luc Dupont

The Economic Outcomes of Refugees and Other Migrants in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Extremism in PREVENT

Giulia Liberatore

‘Living as Londoners do’: Cohesion, contradictions, and (religious) difference

Leslie Fesenmyer

Tanya: a migration story

Dace Dzenovska

Media agendas and the corrosive use of water metaphors

Sarah Walker

How migration visualisations persuade us that they are correct

William Allen

Rights or Philanthropy: Emotions of Solidarity with Refugees

Serhat Karakayali

Free movement of (overqualified) migrant workers

Szilvia Altorjai

How could research have better anticipated the migration crisis?

Bridget Anderson

Governance of International Skilled Migration: Scalar Politics and Network Relations

Micheline van Riemsdijk

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016

Franck Düvell

Understanding migration

Bastian Vollmer

Mobility, class and country of origin in the Western Balkans

Diana Ihring

Travelling home: Pleasures and phobias

Giulia Liberatore

2015

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results

Franck Düvell

Swedish ‘Revolution’ in Labour Immigration Policy

Frida Boräng & Lucie Cerna

Begging and the free movement of poverty

Sarah Walker

Tackling homelessness and destitution amongst excluded migrants through knowledge exchange: reflections on a meeting of five European cities

Jonathan Price

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015

Franck Düvell

Net migration statistics behind the headlines

Madeleine Sumption

Is ‘resilience’ a panacea?

Leslie Fesenmyer

Action for Inclusion in Europe

Caroline Oliver

The politics of belonging: Transnational Korean adoptees in Denmark

Youngeun Koo

7 brutal lessons I’ve learned 6 months on from the University of Oxford MSc in Migration Studies

Bobbie Mills

Leaving Palestine

Nicholas Van Hear

Refugee crisis, compassion and Eastern Europe

Dace Dzenovska

Which migration journal has the highest Impact Factor?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Immigration and Austerity: Only Connect

Bridget Anderson

Immigration Acts and health bills

Myriam Cherti

People Move

Ben Doherty

Tap LinkedIn for data gold dust

Carlos Vargas-Silva

What to do about Calais, in 50 words

Bridget Anderson

The base: From peasant revolution to labour migration management

Biao Xiang

Illegality vs Irregularity

Bridget Anderson

Changing the impact format: new groups, new engagement

Ida Persson

Gender and Migration: Reflecting on the Debate

Bridget Anderson

How did migration play out in the 2015 General Election?

Ben Gidley

EU migration and welfare benefits: Is unrestricted labour immigration compatible with an inclusive welfare state?

Martin Ruhs

Remittance revolution unlocks funds

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law

Catherine Briddick

The making of our categories

Ole Jensen

Securing a Good (Female) Coyote: Women and the Facilitation of Extralegal Border Crossings

Gabriella Sanchez

The conflicting policy agendas of immigration control and ending child poverty

Jonathan Price

Gendering the Irregular

Melanie Griffiths

The right to have rights: Safeguarding children from destitution

Ben Gidley

Gender, Migration, ‘Trafficking’ and the Troublesome Relationship between Agency and Force

Julia O'Connell Davidson

Mothers’ Migration Motivations

Brandy Cochrane

Italy’s oldest and newest migrants: Challenges for second generation Somalis

Giulia Liberatore

The enduring damage of displacement

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Twenty years later the refugees are back

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Gender, class and migration governance: A labour sending country perspective

Hiranthi Jayaweera

The Waiting Game: An experience with a point

Ida Persson

Centering orality: Exploring gendered wartime violence with South Sudanese women elders

Sara Maher

Not racist, just resentful

Ben Gidley

Book Review: The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women

Angelo Tramountanis

Urbanites: indifferent to difference?

Pier-Luc Dupont

Citizenship as a concept

Jonathan Price

What can our views on the EU reveal about our opinions on immigration?

Yvonni Markaki

What role does the EU play in influencing the development of integration policy?

Helen McCarthy

Border Crossings and Gender in the Greek Detention System

Mary Bosworth, Sharon Pickering and Andriani Fili

Valorised and Vilified: What Do ‘Citizens’ Do?

William Allen

Spousal Migration, Gender and UK Immigration Law

Helena Wray

The positive legacy of refugee camps

Carlos Vargas-Silva

On the mainstreaming of EAL provision in England

Ole Jensen

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

Sarah Turnbull

Backing themselves: East Timorese labour migrants in Oxford

Andrew McWilliam

Tibetan Women and Nuns: What’s Missing in Our Discussion on Borders and Gender?

Bodean Hedwards

Reflections on African Pentecostals in London and the ‘political’

Leslie Fesenmyer

Education and perceptions: learning about migration through theatre

Ida Persson

‘Victims of Trafficking’ and ‘Foreign Criminals’ – Constructing the state as our (masculine) saviour

Luke de Noronha

What do we know about the reasons for migration and the social and economic characteristics of migrants in the UK?

Ben Gidley

When ‘brain drain’ is a good thing

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Migrant Women’s Health in Spain: A Snapshot of the Consequences of the Royal Decree-Law of Sanitary Regulation 16/2012

Ana Ballesteros Pena and Anna Morero Beltrán

Studying Mobility in a Context of Immobility

Kareem Rabie

The messiness of research: My experience as a young female researcher at an Italian migrant detention centre

Francesca Esposito

The numbers game: illusions of control

Sarah Walker

Gender & migration: An introduction and a conversation

Bridget Anderson

Talking to Tamils: sharing research findings with the ‘researched’

Nicholas Van Hear

Race and Racism

Rachel Humphris

How do local authorities deal with the increasing diversity of their clients and residents?

Ben Gidley

What do I know about quantum mechanics?

Emma Newcombe

Everyday Resistance

Rob McNeil

Immigrant Investor Programmes: Navigating Economic and Political Tensions

Madeleine Sumption

Foreign fighters: time to recognise and study a new type of migration

Franck Düvell

The Life of a Multiple Migrant

Ayumi Takenaka

Migration and the political

Dace Dzenovska

The roots of radicalism: Family, society and the solace of religion

Morwari Zafar

Climate change and migration: COMPAS December Breakfast Briefing

Ben Gidley

2014

The floating label of ‘the migrant’

Bastian Vollmer

“It’s not just about the individual story”: Performing migrant experiences

Ida Persson

‘It is easy to come here but difficult to leave’: The ‘point of no return’ in migration trajectories

Franck Düvell

Understanding foreign fighters: COMPAS November Breakfast Briefing

Ben Gidley

Are migrant health professionals welcome in the UK?

Helen McCarthy

Schooling, mobility and belonging

Mette Louise Berg

A tale of two cities: Melilla and Calais

Myriam Cherti

What’s in a name? An overview of the latest COMPAS Breakfast Briefing

Ben Gidley

From New Helots to New Diasporas: a retrospective for Robin Cohen

Nicholas Van Hear

Immigration and ‘labour market tests’: Who should be protected against whom?

Martin Ruhs

Human rights in health: migrants in low-skilled work in Asia

Hiranthi Jayaweera

Italy’s story to tell on services for irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

The Upward Concentration of Chinese Emigration and the Rise of China

Biao Xiang

Turning British

Mikal Mast

Kenyan Pentecostals in London: Reflections on religion and migration

Leslie Fesenmyer

Barriers to EU citizenship: Insiders and outsiders in the context of the UK

Sarah Walker

The Light of Evidence 3: Continuing the policy debate

Ben Gidley

Hard Evidence: are migrants good for the economy?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Sticking plaster solutions? City-level responses to destitute migrant families

Jonathan Price

The course of true love never did run smooth

Melanie Griffiths

Saving the Lifeline: Studying the Somali diaspora involvement in the 2013-14 campaign

Giulia Liberatore

Colombia: A Wandering Country?

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Teaching practitioners about migration: Challenges and opportunities for ASEAN

Bridget Anderson

Boom and Bust: Where do migrant health professionals fit into the reforming NHS?

Helen McCarthy

The Scottish diaspora and Scottish independence

Rob McNeil

Reverse missionizing: Migration, Christianity, and civic engagement in London

Leslie Fesenmyer

Why should social scientists in migration studies care about big data?

William Allen

Norway’s not so cuddly welfare state

Sarah Spencer

Integration: a European research agenda

Ben Gidley

Numbers and Waves: The Effects of Media Portrayals of Immigrants on Public Opinion in Britain

Scott Blinder & Anne-Marie Jeannet

#Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies

Igor Calzada

The Would-Be Migrant

Biao Xiang

Anthology of writing about migration available free online

Michael Keith and Bridget Anderson

Claiming the flag

Ole Jensen

Nikkei Cuisine: understanding immigration through food

Ayumi Takenaka

Recognition and redistribution in Latin America: Reflections on the meaning of multiculturalism

Anna Krausova, Research Officer

Figuring out diaspora roles in social recovery

Nicholas Van Hear

The Crisis in Ukraine and its Implications for Migration in Europe

Franck Düvell

Notes on power in scenes of denunciation

Dace Dzenovska

Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Health and border control

Hiranthi Jayaweera

Re-Thinking ‘Risk’ in Migration

Esra Kaytaz, DPhil Social Anthropology

Final Destination Maghreb: The transformation of transit countries

Myriam Cherti

Al Qaeda, bureaucracy and migration as scalar intersection

Biao Xiang

Ten features of labour immigration policies in high-income countries

Martin Ruhs

Barriers to migration: Are policing and fencing the answer?

Mette Louise Berg

2013

Theresa May’s slavery bill won’t help domestic workers

Bridget Anderson and Julia O'Connell Davison, University of Nottingham

What we talk about when we talk about immigration

Mikal Mast

From the 2013 Syrian Refugee Conference to the 1938 Conference of Evian: How far have we come?

Franck Düvell

Migrants in the Census: How to find them, and what to do with them

Anna Krausova, Research Officer, Migration Observatory

Media, Public Opinion, Migration Policy: Multi- and Inter-Disciplinary Notes

William Allen

The Political Power of the Social Norm against Prejudice

Scott Blinder

Flight and Fight

Nicholas Van Hear

Defending the rights of migrants – a price worth paying

Vanessa Hughes

On borders and a wicked bird

Bastian Vollmer

Celebrating 10 years of COMPAS in numbers

Bridget Anderson and Emma Newcombe

The Good Worker

Dace Dzenovska

Migration in Scotland

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Mission integration: an update on the EUMIA project

Ole Jensen

City responses to irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Observing differences: asylum appeals in the UK

Melanie Griffiths, University of Bristol; Nick Gill, University of Exeter and Andrew Burridge, University of Exeter

The Diversity Turn

Mette Louise Berg and Nando Sigona

Saudi Arabia and its immigrants

Iain Walker

Documenting how immigrants are described in the British press: Why does comprehensiveness matter?

William Allen

Is it family migration if only one family member moves? Reflections on categories of migrants and classifications of migration

Leslie Fesenmyer

Windows: The 21st century migration experience

Biao Xiang

Light of Evidence 2: the wider debate on migration

Ben Gidley

Monarchy versus republicanism: does a naturalised citizen not have a choice?

Mikal Mast

Holding a mirror to ourselves: British Lifestyle migration

Caroline Oliver

The human rights of migrant workers: Why do so few countries care?

Martin Ruhs

The 2011 Census project

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Dream on

Nicholas Van Hear

Migration data and attitudes in the context of the Scottish independence referendum

Scott Blinder

Nostalgia and diversity: Understanding integration at the local level

Ben Gidley

Merger of Europe’s human rights and equality bodies is on the agenda: good news or bad for migrants’ rights?

Sarah Spencer

Stuck in traffic: How helpful is the trafficking framework?

Bridget Anderson

Taking popularity seriously

Bastian Vollmer

The Oxford Migration Studies Society: Conference News

Ka-Kin Cheuk, D.Phil Student, COMPAS and President, Oxford Migration Studies Society

Not your mother’s norms: The experience of second generation women in the Afghan-American diaspora

Morwari Zafar, DPhil Anthropology

“We want to hear from you” (or how informing works in a liberal democracy)

Dace Dzenovska

Immigration and Welfare: Beyond Us and Them

Bridget Anderson

Integration: linking research and learning

Ole Jensen

Family migration policies in the UK: What can academics contribute?

Vanessa Hughes

What Kinds of Immigrants Come or Stay? Illegality and UK Tabloid Portrayal of Immigrants

William Allen

Diasporic school associations

Mette Louise Berg

The uncertainties of diaspora research

Iain Walker

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – a film about migrants?

Mikal Mast

Migration and non-communicable diseases

Hiranthi Jayaweera

The infrastructural turn: the Chinese example

Biao Xiang

Before international research cooperation lies the UK border

Franck Düvell

Versta je me? (Do you understand me?)

Caroline Oliver

It’s about time

Marthe Achtnich and Roger Norum, COMPAS DPhil students

The economics of forced migration

Carlos Vargas-Silva

2012

Reflecting on migrant journeys

Nicholas Van Hear

The Iraqi diaspora in Germany and its role in reconstruction in Iraq

Menderes Candan, COMPAS Visiting Academic

Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Leveson Report

Scott Blinder

Five principles of integration: policies and inclusion

Ben Gidley

Yes, of course I know what Melvyn Bragg and Grange Hill are…..

Ida Persson

New guidance on integration from an unexpected source

Sarah Spencer

Elections in Ukraine: former migrant and boxer turned politician

Bastian Vollmer

Labour immigration policy: What do we want, and why?

Martin Ruhs

New Lives and Dreams: The Results

Ida Persson

Tourism and migration: two kinds of mobility

Vanessa Hughes

The Love of Learning: Migrants and Education

Caroline Oliver

From the Great Wall to maze pipelines

Biao Xiang

Integration and neighbourhood relations in South London

Ole Jensen

Dr Who and The Migrants

Bridget Anderson

Whose Dreams Are Alive? Thinking about News Media as Stories

William Allen

What is the Oxford University MSc in Migration Studies?

Mette Louise Berg

Recipe for a diaspora: take one millionaire…

Iain Walker

Two key unanswered questions about the fiscal impact of migration

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Four decades after the expulsion of Ugandan Asians

Nicholas Van Hear

Damned if you’re a migrant, damned if you’re not: Sri Lankan female domestic workers

Hiranthi Jayaweera

What do they talk about when they (Miliband and Cameron) talk about immigration?

Scott Blinder

The Light of Evidence

Ben Gidley

Our Migrations Journey into British Art

Emma Newcombe

The migrant as an invented subject: A response

Bridget Anderson

Are there such people as “migrants”?

Biao Xiang

New family rules v integration?

Sarah Spencer

Everyday multiculturalism

Ole Jensen

Sticks and stones…

Rob McNeil

An exclusive party?

Caroline Oliver

No Way Out, No Way In

Vanessa Hughes

Only connect? Migration and the right to the city

Michael Keith

On display in Stockholm

Bridget Anderson

Clandestine migration in the Greek-Turkish border region: shifting routes and complex control infrastructures

Franck Düvell

Controlling the purse strings

Victoria Kingsman

Dispatches from Chicago: The home of political science for four days every April

Scott Blinder

Dutch-American-British?

Mikal Mast

Pen-top emotion

Emma Newcombe

Who’s in?

Hiranthi Jayaweera

‘Can’t change one without the other’: Reforming labour immigration and labour markets in the Gulf States

Martin Ruhs

A different kind of mother’s day

Bridget Anderson

Gypsies, tramps and thieves?

Rob McNeil

Understanding a diaspora through Lamu Maulid

Iain Walker

Creating the Conditions for Integration

Ben Gidley

Border Crossing: Material Culture & Experience

Marisa Macari, COMPAS DPhil Student

Is there such a thing as migration?

Biao Xiang

Migration and Economic Growth

Carlos Vargas-Silva

They say the truth hurts – well, it’s given me a headache…

Rob McNeil

Where do you call home?

Ida Persson

A snapshot of urban dynamics

Ole Jensen

2011

Irregular Migration and Fundamental Rights in the EU: a continuing controversy

Franck Düvell

Migration and Generation

Mette Louise Berg

A picture paints a thousand words…..

Ida Persson

Spinning the Threads of Poverty: Cotton Subsidies and The Political Economy of Trafficking in Southern Benin

Neil Howard, PhD student, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, writing his thesis on anti-trafficking discourse and policy

How will climate change impact on migration?

Ben Gidley

Swedish Exceptionalism

Martin Ruhs

Time to embrace the Daily Mail…

Rob McNeil

Renationalization?

Biao Xiang

What do we really think about migration?

Rob McNeil

Shifting powers: two decades of migration and global turbulence

Nicholas Van Hear

British Attitudes to Immigration

Scott Blinder

Ethnography, diversity and urban space

Mette Louise Berg

EU citizenship, Roma mobility and anti-Gypsyism: time for reframing the debate?

Nando Sigona

Seven Years after the Eastern European Enlargement

Carlos Vargas-Silva

The Hadramis of the Indian Ocean: a diaspora and its networks

Iain Walker

Towards an understanding of integration at neighbourhood level

Ole Jensen

A sending country perspective: Imagining Europe from the outside

Bastian Vollmer

Health and wellbeing of migrants: the ethnic density effect and other factors

Hiranthi Jayaweera

Legal but Unfair: The High Stakes of the UK Immigration Detention System

Stephanie Silverman, DPhil Politics and International Relations

Research impact: thinking outside the tick box

Bridget Anderson

Real integration takes time

Ben Gidley