The Dynamics of Migration - Other Activities
- EVENT – COMPAS Annual Conference 2009 – New Times: Economic Crisis, Geo-Political Transformation and the Emergent Migration Order. This year’s annual conference will look at the implications for the global migration order – and for regional, national and local migration orders – of economic, political, social and other kinds of ‘shocks’ associated with the overall restructuring of the global political economy since the end of the Cold War, using the current crisis as a point of departure. The conference will be held on 21st and 22nd September 2009, at St Hugh’s College, Oxford and registration will open early in the summer.
- COLLABORATIVE PROJECT – Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers and the Organization of Transnational Mobility: The global expansion of the role ‘migrant brokers’ is an increasingly important and yet understudied component of transnational migration. This three-year collaboration, starting in July 2009, between Xiang Biao, Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University) and Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) will investigate the dramatic growth in the number of small flexible broker firms such as headhunters, law firms and consultants that facilitate movement within increasingly bureaucratic immigration systems. This project will comprise a number of workshops and publications, an online forum and exchange visits, each aiming to share empirical evidence that considers different aspects of the brokerage system within a wider framework of migration and globalization.
- COLLABORATIVE PROJECT - Transit, Migration and Politics: Trends and Constructions on the Fringes of Europe, led by Franck Düvell. This project, funded by the IMISCOE network, has enabled scholars in this field to collborate on theoretical analyses of this issue. A successul event held in 2008, is now leading to a number of publications, including two edited books and the special issue of a journal.
