COMPAS Research
Building on an extensive knowledge within the migration field, work at COMPAS tackles the dynamic interplay between process and outcomes. The migration process includes social, economic, political and other forces shaping migration, migrant decision-making, migrant networks, brokers and infrastructures, and experiences en route and on arrival. The notion of migration outcomes includes social, economic, political and cultural integration or exclusion, incorporation or integration into the labour market and neighbourhoods, the impact on those left in the homeland, and other issues that arise after migration itself.
The centre’s research is grouped around four inter-related thematic clusters:
- The Dynamics of Migration:
focussing on the institutions, practices and relationships that shape experiences of life on the move and their influences on outcomes in sending, transit and destination countries. - Migrants and Labour Markets:
analysing the socio-economics of international labour migration, particularly the economics and politics of labour shortage, precarious labour, and shifts in immigration status and employment over time. - Migration, the State and Governance:
addressing relationships between migration and the state, the state’s impact on migration processes and outcomes, and the role of migration in transformation of the state and governance at international, national and local levels. - Migrants, Civil Society and Everyday Life:
exploring everyday social interactions of migrant and established communities, including how social relations are negotiated, modified, challenged and reproduced.