The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Migrants, the State and Governance

This cluster explores the dynamic relationship between migration and the state at global, national and local levels in sending and receiving contexts, contributing to COMPAS’ overall approach of locating migration within debates on wider social, political and economic change. It develops an understanding of the factors that shape why and how the state and other policy actors impact on migration and migration outcomes, and how that impact is mediated through governance processes. It analyses the increasingly complex terrain of citizenship, immigration status, rights and entitlements, developing understanding of the outcomes of changing policy regimes for the relationship between the state, communities, families and individuals, and for power relations and inequalities based on race, gender, class and immigration status.

Further details on the aims and issues that this cluster of research will tackle

Research Projects

• The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights
• Expulsion, Membership and Political Community: Historical and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
• The Health Status of Migrants and Access to Health Care in the UK

Other activites

• No Borders Special Issue

Other Activities

• Open borders special issue
• Kazachstan
• Philosophy workshop

Previous Projects

• Integration, Diversity and the Economy
• Network of Cities for Local Integration Policy (CLIP)
• Political Engagements of Latin American Immigrants in the UK
• Police cooperation in internal enforcement of immigration control - Germany, United Kingdom and the United States of America

Linked Work

• Previous project - Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks (Plus sub projects on Turkey and Ghana)
• Previous project - Integration, Diversity and the Economy