COMPAS Working Papers
Series Editor - Ali Rogers
The working paper series is designed to communicate work in progress and to disseminate key findings in areas related to the core research themes of COMPAS. The series includes contributions from COMPAS staff, colleagues and invited authors.
For further information please contact Jenny Newman - communications@compas.ox.ac.uk
WP-09-72
"No one comes here on their own": The system of child labour migration in Bangladesh
Karin Heissler
WP-09-71
The controllability of difference: social solidarity and immgrant integration.
Ellie Vasta
WP-09-70
International student migration and social stratification in China
XIANG Biao and Wei SHEN
WP-09-69
Migrant Labour in Kazakhstan: A cause for concern?
Bridget Anderson and Blanka Hancilova
WP-09-68
Migration from Iraq between the Gulf and the Iraq wars (1990-2003): historical and socio-spatial dimensions
Géraldine Chatelard
WP-09-67
A Global perspective on Transnational Migration: Theorizing Migration without Methodological Nationalism
Nina Glick-Schiller
WP-09-66
Coercion/Consent in Labour
Robert Steinfeld
WP-08-65
Towards an EU Blue Card? The Delegation of National High-Skilled Immigration Policies to the EU Level
Lucie Cerna
WP-08-64
“Illegal immigrant”: Victim or Villain?
Bridget Anderson
WP-08-63
Why Engage Diasporas?
Alan Gamlen
WP-08-62
Transnationalising Civil Society?: 'Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on how to Transnationalise Citizenship
Martin Bak Jorgensen
WP-08-61
The Paper Market:'borrowing' and 'renting' of identity documents
Ellie Vasta
WP-08-60
A Ritual Economy of 'Talent': China and Overseas Chinese Professionals
Xiang Biao
WP-08-59
Local Attachments and Transnational Everyday Lives: Second Generation Italians in Switzerland
Susanne Wessendorf
WP-07-58
Libyan Nationals in the United Kingdom: Geo-political considerations and trends in asylum and return
Brad Blitz
WP-07-57
New Europeans on the move: a preliminary review of the onward migration of refugees within the European Union
Anna Lindley and Nicholas Van Hear
WP-07-56
Legality and Labour: Chinese Migration, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK and China
Frank N. Pieke & Xiang Biao
WP-07-55
Battles in Time: the Relation between Global and Labour Mobilities
Bridget Anderson
WP-07-54
Between courting and controlling: The Moroccan state and 'its' emigrants
Hein de Haas
WP-07-53
Accommodating diversity: why current critiques of multiculturalism miss the point
Ellie Vasta
WP-07-52
'London the Leveller': Ghanaian work strategies and community solidarity
Ellie Vasta and Leander Kandilige
WP-07-51
Are you being served? Employer demand for migrant labour in the UK 's hospitality sector
Gareth Matthews and Martin Ruhs
WP-07-50
Anthropological Perspectives on Migrants' Political Engagements
Davide Però
WP-07-49
Political exclusion and the politics of recognition among the second generation: the Swiss citizenship debate
Susanne Wessendorf
WP-07-48
Motherhood, Apple Pie and Slavery: Reflections on Trafficking Debates
Bridget Anderson
WP-07-47
The early morning phonecall: remittances from a refugee diaspora perspective
Anna Lindley
WP-07-46
French and British models of integration public philosophies, policies and state institutions
Christophe Bertossi
WP-07-45
The 2006 French Immigration and Integration Law: Europeanisation or Nicolas Sarkozy's Presidential Keystone?
Meng-Hsuan Chou and Nicolas Baygert
WP-07-44
How (not) to think about ethnicity in immigrant societies: A boundary making perspective
Andreas Wimmer
WP-07-43
The role of transnational networks and legal status in securing a living: Ghanaian migrants in The Netherlands
Valentina Mazzucato
WP-07-42
Differentiating irregularity and solidarity: Turkish Immigrants at work in London
Aykan Erdemir and Ellie Vasta
WP-06-41
Diasporas good? Diasporas bad?
Steven Vertovec
WP-06-40
Numbers vs. Rights: Trade-offs and guest worker programmes
Martin Ruhs and Philip Martin
WP-06-39
Colombian migration to Europe: Political transnationalism in the middle of conflict
Anastasia Bermúdez Torrez
WP-06-38
Greasing the wheels of the flexible labour market: East European labour immigration in the UK
Martin Ruhs
WP-06-37
EU and the Migration-Development Nexus: What Prospects for EU-Wide Policies?
Meng-Hsuan Chou
WP-06-36
The Externalisation of EU Asylum Policy: The Position of African States
Alexander Betts and James Milner
WP-06-35
'Roots-migrants':transnationalism and 'return' among second-generation Italians in Switzerland
Susanne Wessendorf
WP-06-34
Can the government manage migration? A study of UK legislation and policy from 1996-2006
Cathy Gardner
WP-06-33
Crossing the fringes of Europe: Transit migration in the EU's neighbourhood
Franck Düvell
WP-06-32
Diaspora Engagement Policies: What are they, and what kinds of states use them?
Alan Gamlen
WP-06-31
States of insecurity: Consequences of Saharan transit migration
Michael Collyer
WP-06-30a
REVISED VERSION NOW AVAILABLE. The origins and functions of illegality in migrant labour markets: An analysis of migrants, employers and the state in the UK (Previously 'Semi-compliance in the migrant labour market')
Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson
WP-06-29
Islam as a symbol of protest: Reactions of Dutch-Moroccan youths to the Debate on Islam
Lenie Brouwer
WP-06-28
A very private business: migration and domestic work
Bridget Anderson
WP-06-27
How to Balance Rights and Responsibilities on Asylum at the EU's Southern Border of Italy and Libya
Rutvica Andrijasevic
WP-06-26
From Ethnic Minorities to Ethnic Majority Policy: changing identities and the shift to assimilationism in the Netherlands
Ellie Vasta
WP-06-25
The Emergence of Super-Diversity in Britain
Steven Vertovec
WP-05-24
Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration Order
Frank N. Pieke
WP-05-23
Evidence on Attitudes to Asylum and Immigration: What We Know, Don't Know and Need to Know
Heaven Crawley
WP-05-22
Re-casting Societies in Conflict
Nicholas Van Hear
WP-05-21
Deserving of Decent Work: The Complications of Organizing Irregular Workers Without Legal Rights
Nicole Silverman
WP-05-20
The Realities of a New Asylum Paradigm
Liza Schuster
WP-05-19
Immigrants and the Politics of Governance in Barcelona
Davide Però
WP-05-18
Migration and Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Diversity in Europe : An overview of issues and trends
Steven Vertovec and Susanne Wessendorf
WP-05-17
International Migration and Knowledge
Allan Williams
WP-05-16
Does Migration Research Matter in China ? A Review of Migration Research and its Relations to Policy Since the 1980s
Xiang Biao and Tan Shen
WP-05-15
"No Pizza without Migrants": Between the Politics of Identity and Transnationalism: Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland
Susanne Wessendorf
WP-05-14
Backlash Against Diversity? Identity and Cultural Politics in European Cities
Ralph Grillo
WP-05-13
The Political Importance of Diasporas
Steven Vertovec
WP-05-12
How far are the left-behind left behind? A preliminary study in rural China
Xiang Biao
WP-05-11
Theoretical Fashions in Australian Immigration Research
Ellie Vasta
WP-05-10
The Brain Drain is Dead, Long Live the New Zealand Diaspora
Alan Gamlen
WP-05-09
What does 'efficiency' mean in the context of the global refugee regime?
Alexander Betts
WP-04-08
Policy options for increasing the benefits of remittances
Jørgen Carling
WP-04-07
Migration and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Literature Review with Focus on Peru and Argentina
Mette Louise Berg
WP-04-06
'I went as far as my money would take me': conflict, forced migration and class
Nicholas Van Hear
WP-04-05
The epidemiology of migration and AIDS in South Africa
Mark Lurie
WP-04-04
Skilled health professionals' migration and its impact on health delivery in Zimbabwe
Abel Chikanda
WP-04-03
Trends and Impacts of Migrant Transnationalism
Steven Vertovec
WP-04-02
Informal Employment and Immigrant Networks: A Review Paper
Ellie Vasta
WP-04-01
The Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Europe
Liza Schuster