The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Migrants, Civil Society and Everyday Life

Global migration and the process of globalization have brought about changes that have impacted on communities and neighbourhoods as well as on the nation-state. In many countries the arrival of new migrants is politically contentious. The growth of immigration and diversity in western democracies has contributed to some unease about national and local identities. Research in this cluster aims to understand how, in a plural and complex world, ways can be developed of living together and accommodating difference. It explores how such practices and processes work in civil society, among individuals and groups, in their associations and organizations at local, national and transnational levels.

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Projects

• Tolerance and Multiculturalism: a study of the relationship between tolerance, diversity and transnationalism
• Cohesion, integration, migration: urbanism, city change, and the future of multiculturalism
• Religious Identities and practice, 'community cohesion' and young people in educational settings.

Other Activities

• Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities - A Special Issue of Subjectivity (forthcoming, December 2009)
• Diasporic Cultural Politics after Castro
• Social Solidarity - book proposal
• Theories of Migration and Social Change - A special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (forthcoming, 2010)

Previous Projects

• Changing Identities and the shift to assimilationism in the Netherlands
• Engaging with diversity: multiculturalism, integration and identity
• Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks (Plus sub projects on Turkey and Ghana)
• Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain

Linked Work

• Current project - The health status of migrants and access to health care in the UK
• Previous project - Police cooperation in internal enforcement of immigration control - Germany, United Kingdom and the United States of America
• Previous project - Network of Cities for Local Integration Policy (CLIP)
• Previous project - Political Engagements of Latin American Immigrants in the UK
• Previous project - The impact of the migration NGO sector on the development of migration policy: Ireland as a case study
• Previous project - Filipinos and care work in the UK