The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

2013

WP-13-105
Frenzied, Decelerating and Suspended: the Temporal Uncertainties of Failed Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees
Melanie Griffiths

WP-13-104
The Christianisation of Afghan and Iranian transit migrants in Istanbul: encounters at the biopolitical border
Shoshana Fine

WP-13-103
Deterring the ‘Boat People’: Explaining the Australian Government’s People Swap Response to Asylum Seekers
Reza Hasmath

2012

WP-12-102
Return to the Isle of Man: The Implications of Internment for Understanding Immigration Detention in the UK
Stephanie J. Silverman

WP-12-101
‘And they lived happily ever after’? Ecuadorian’s re-socialisation in the Spanish labour market through regularisation of immigration status
Charlotte Fiala

WP-12-100
Fragile convivialities: everyday living together in two stateless but diverse regions, Catalonia and Casamance
Tilmann Heil

WP-12-99
Migrant Britain, sustainable Germany: Explaining differences in the international migration of health professionals
Kirsten Hoesch

WP-12-98
Physical Insecurity and Anti-Immigration Views in Western Europe
Mihail Chiru and Sergiu Gherghina

WP-12-97
The Sweden Democrats: Anti-Immigration Politics under the Stigma of Racism
Vidhya Ramalingam

WP-12-96
Imagined Immigration: The Different Meanings of “Immigrants” in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain
Scott Blinder

WP-12-95
Exclusionary Rhetoric Expansionist Policies? Right-wing Parties and Immigration Policy-making in Italy
Elif Çetin

WP-12-94
What does ‘The Migrant’ tell us about the (Good) Citizen?
Bridget Anderson

2011

WP-11-93
Young adults of Latin American origin in London and Oxford: Identities, discrimination and social inclusion
Núria Roca iCaparà

WP-11-92
“Daughters-in-law of Korea?”: Policies and Discourse on Migration in South Korea
Young Jeong Kim

WP-11-91
Commonplace diversity and the ‘ethos of mixing’: Perceptions of difference in a London neighbourhood
Susanne Wessendorf

WP-11-90
Nepali Nurses in Great Britain: The Paradox of Professional Belonging
Sondra L. Hausner

WP-11-89
Conceptualizing the Integration of Immigrants and Other Groups
Didier Ruedin

WP-11-88
Openness, Skills and Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Labour Immigration Programmes in 46 High- and Middle-income Countries
Martin Ruhs

WP-11-87
The Myth of ‘Weak Ties’ and the Ghost of the Polish Peasant: Informal Networks of Polish Post-Transition Migrants in the UK and Germany
Malgorzata Irek

WP-11-86
The Relationship between Immigration Status and Rights in the UK: Exploring the Rationale
Sarah Spencer and Jason Pobjoy

WP-11-85
Cast(e) in Bone: The Perpetuation of Social Hierarchy among Nepalis in Britain
Mitra Pariyar

WP-11-84
Polish Migration to the UK: Continuities and Discontinuities
Franck Düvell and Michal Garapich

WP-11-83
The Importance of Peers: Assimilation Patterns among Second-Generation Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe 
Syed Ali and Tineke Fokkema

2010

WP-10-82
Building Demography into Migration Research: Population Change and the Latent Demand for Migration in 21st Century Europe
Alessio Cangiano

WP-10-81
Labor Shortages and US Immigration Reform: Promises and Perils of an Independent Commission
Philip Martin and Martin Ruhs

WP-10-80
Immigration Detention in America: A History of its Expansion and a Study of its Significance
Stephanie J. Silverman

WP-10-79
Migration and Climate Change: an overview
Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire

WP-10-78
Being children and undocumented in the UK: A background paper
Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes

WP-10-77
Standing together apart: Bilateral migration agreements and the temporary movement of persons under “mode 4” of GATS
Marion Panizzon

WP-10-76 (for a copy of the paper, please contact the author)
For Love and Money: Second-Generation Indian Americans in the Indian Knowledge Economy
Sonali Jain

WP-10-75
Voluntary Return Programmes: Could they Assuage the effects of the Economic Crisis?
Piotra Plewa

2009

WP-09-74
Globalisation Backlash? The Influence of Global Governance in Trade and Immigration
Lucie Cerna and William Hynes

WP-09-73
‘To belong or not to belong': Is that the question?' Negotiating belonging in multi-ethnic London
Sofia Hamaz and Ellie Vasta

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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