The Migration Studies Society
The MIGRATION STUDIES SOCIETY aims to connect people in Oxford examining any facet of migration and cultural pluralism and build dialogue and relationships across disciplines and affiliations, by organising forums for socializing, resource and information sharing, and research support.
Society members include students and researchers from the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), the International Migration Institute (IMI), anthropology, politics, history, geography, and sociology. Organization is conducted at weekly open meetings by a planning committee drawn from Society members.
Projects include regular social events, weekly newsletters, website building, research presentation seminars, publications, and special events such as speakers, field trips, workshops, and inter-university conferences and exchanges.
Graduate Migration Seminars
The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) and the Migration Studies Society co-convene the Oxford Migration Graduate Student Seminar, a weekly lunchtime forum for graduate students from any department to present their migration-related work. The seminars will take place on: Wednesdays from 13.00 to 14.00, Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road.
Graduate Migration Seminar Michaelmas Term 2008:
Introducing Migration at Oxford
Convenors: Betsy Cooper, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Asli Okyay, & Amber Stechman
15 October Everyday life of Everyday People: Migration and Urbanization in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai
Toby Lincoln (DPhil Candidate, Department of Chinese Studies)
22 October Migration at Oxford University – An Introduction
Oliver Bakewell (Research Officer, International Migration Institute)
Alexander Betts (Director, Global Migration Governance Project)
Nick Van Hear (Acting Director, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society)
Roger Zetter (Director, Refugee Studies Centre)
29 October The Disease of Traveling: African Migration to Cairo and Beyond
Robert McKenzie (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
5 November Migration as Long Engagement: The Case of Japanese Women Married to non-Japanese Men in the UK
Mao Wada (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
12 November The Mirage of Migration. Migration Aspirations and Immobility in a Malian Soninke Village
Gunvor Jónsson (Research Assistant, International Migration Institute)
19 November Globalisation and Migrant Labour: Mapping Exercise of Migrant Workers in two selected council areas of Northern Ireland
Steve McPeake (PhD Candidate in Business and Management, University of Ulster)
26 November Asylum, ‘Terror’ and the European ‘Security State’: the Politics of Fear
Fran Cetti (PhD Candidate in Refugee Studies, University of East London)
3 December Loving or Loathing Eros Ramazzotti: Ethnic Reification, Transnational Relations and Belonging among Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland’
Susanne Wessendorf (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
This is an informal seminar; please feel free to bring lunch from 12.45 onward.
Please contact migsoc@herald.ox.ac.uk to be added to the Migration Society email list.