The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

The Dynamics of Migration

The complex relationship between migration and social transformation is investigated by re-thinking the migration process itself. Research in this area looks at the practices, relationships, institutions and networks that shape experiences of life on the move. While taking account of the outcomes of migration, the prime focus of work within the cluster is on the migration trajectory, including decision-making, preparation, organisation, movement and arrival. Research concentrates on movements to and within Europe, but set these within broader global trends.

Projects

• At the fringes of Europe: transit migration in Ukraine
• Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology?
• Clandestino. Undocumented Migration. Counting the Uncountable. Trends and Data Across Europe
• Moving on: relocation and re-grouping among former refugees in the European Union
• Eumagine: Imagining Europe from the outside. The cases of Ukraine, Turkey, Senegal and Morocco
• Refugee Diasporas

Other Activities

In additon to core-research projects, work is also ongoing on a number of other activities related to this thematic cluster. Including:

• EVENT – COMPAS Annual Conference 2009 – New Times: Economic Crisis, Geo-Political Transformation and the Emergent Migration Order.  
• COLLABORATIVE PROJECT – Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers and the Organization of Transnational Mobility
• COLLABORATIVE PROJECT - (Irregular) Transit Migration in Europe: Theory, Politics, Research Methodology and Ethics
• BOOK PROJECT - Transit migration in the European Space, editors: Franck Düvell (lead), Irina Molodikova, Michael Collyer, Hein de Haas, Amsterdam University Press, IMISCOE book series
• SPECIAL ISSUE of the journal Population, Space and Place, Critical Approaches to Transit Migration, editors Franck Düvell, Michael Collyer, Hein de Haas
• SPECIAL ISSUE of the journal International Migration, Irregular Migration in Europe, editors, Franck Düvell, Anna Triandafyllidou, Dita Vogel
• PROJECT PROPOSAL - Does Immigration Enforcement Matters? New irregular labour immigration versus new control policies in the UK, Franck Düvell, Bastian Vollmer

Further details and complete list of activities please click here.

Previous Projects

• Emigration Dynamism and Social Transformation in Northeast China
• Migrants’ Remittances in Insecure Settings: The Somali case

Linked Work

• Previous project - Police cooperation in internal enforcement of immigration control - Germany, United Kingdom and the United States of America