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27 March 2023

Forging New Lives: Congolese Refugees as Digital Creators
22 March 2023

Organised Migrants in Central America and Mexico: an exercise of collective (em)power(ment)
07 February 2023

Questioning the Narratives Underpinning Voluntary Return Programmes: Evidence from the IOM Morocco Return Scheme
12 January 2023

Alumni Insights: Applying to the MSc in Migration Studies
21 December 2022

COMPAS recommendations – The best books on migration we read this year
20 December 2022

A 2 Tone Process of Mutual Accommodation: The Integration Legacy of Terry Hall and The Specials
14 December 2022

Morocco’s World Cup: The diaspora choose to champion their motherland
12 December 2022

UK cities publish Inclusive Cities Action Plans to support the integration of all residents across the city
07 December 2022

Homes for Ukraine: lack of planning risks “squandering the kindness and goodwill of British people”
22 November 2022

What can Bad Bunny tell us about the mobility of the wealthy and inequality?
16 November 2022

Measuring social cohesion in contexts of displacement: do researchers agree?
10 November 2022

Frequently Asked Questions: Applying to the DPhil in Migration Studies
26 September 2022

Migrants, Taxes, and Fiscal Inclusion
16 September 2022

Twelve UK councils to publish Inclusive Cities Action Plans as part of Welcoming Week 2022
30 July 2022

New song: ‘Feed the Nation’ released, raising awareness of seasonal workers’ lived experiences in the UK
19 April 2022

From Fraternal Nations to Fratricidal War?
11 April 2022

Grassroot-level humanitarian aid and the paradoxes of logistics, regulation and geography in times of war
08 April 2022

On the anti-war movement in Russia: from street protests to guerrilla activism
05 April 2022

What happened to Robin?
25 March 2022

On navigating the Russian information environment
25 March 2022

“We’ve never been brothers”: Trauma and border fixing in Eastern Ukraine during the war
25 March 2022

Sitting out the crisis: sanctions, remittances, and patience in migrant Moscow
25 March 2022

What forms of displacement can be observed in Ukraine?
25 March 2022

Through the fog of war: the first month of the Russian invasion
25 March 2022

Political kinship: Receiving Ukrainian refugees while bordering Europe
23 March 2022

Destitution in the UK: how the No Recourse to Public Funds immigration condition affects poverty
21 March 2022

Spielberg’s Sharks
17 March 2022

New exhibition reveals the lives of seasonal migrant workers feeding the UK
17 March 2022

Seasonal migrant workers feeding the nation
25 February 2022

Ukraine refugees: how displacement could impact farms and families in the UK
24 January 2022

Why Visuals Matter for the Politics of Migration—Particularly Now
11 January 2022

Comuna 13: Displacement, conflict and hip-hop
10 January 2022

The links between Tamil migrant organisations in Germany and the UK and healthcare in Sri Lanka
20 December 2021

The rhetoric of governance in China under COVID-19
13 December 2021

The 2021 COMPAS Migration Book (etc.) review
30 November 2021

Exploring the experiences of London’s Latin American migrants in Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic
25 November 2021

No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis
24 November 2021

The Chinese City: A Messy Reality
18 November 2021

Has the pandemic shifted public opinion towards migrant workers in essential, but low-skilled, jobs?
12 November 2021

From “bogus” asylum seekers to “genuine” refugees; shifting discourses and attitudes towards Afghan migrants
07 November 2021

Adaptation Day at COP26 seen through the lens of the climate-migration nexus
03 November 2021

Applications now open for the next DPhil in Migration Studies cohort
27 October 2021

Climate crisis & displacement: one publication’s contribution to the debate
21 October 2021

Editorial decisions and audience feedback in crime reporting: What happens when migrants commit crimes?
19 October 2021

An infrastructure for resettlement – how well placed is UK local government to mobilise for the Afghan Resettlement Scheme?
11 October 2021

David Card, the academic who showed us how to estimate the impacts of immigration, wins Nobel Prize
08 October 2021

Student Blog: Afghan Women’s Bodies and the Politics of National Identity
21 September 2021

O²RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 – Winners announced
16 September 2021

Multiple Uncertainties: Migration from Afghanistan to Anywhere
08 September 2021

Afghan migrants’ experiences in Turkey and why it matters now
01 September 2021

DPhil in Migration Studies: reflections on the first year
26 August 2021

Asylum backlog hits more than 70,000 despite reduction in UK asylum applications
25 August 2021

The Power of Visual Stories in Talking About Migration
23 August 2021

How does social media affect our understanding of migrants and refugees?
18 August 2021

Melancholic migrants versus the successful second generation? Nuances in migrant happiness across generations and over time
13 August 2021

Launch of new guide for seasonal agricultural migrant workers in the UK
30 July 2021

People who have suffered financially during COVID more likely to support migrants’ access to services
20 July 2021

New short guidance for local authorities on community-based mentoring of migrant children
19 July 2021

The Oxford-Berlin research partnership sheds light on improving migrant inclusion in smaller cities and towns
08 July 2021

Taxation and migrants: a new research project looking at taxes
02 July 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated migrant workers’ conditions and enforced distinctions on national lines
30 June 2021

The Children of China’s Great Migration
23 June 2021

Olympic sports and identity: lessons from the boxing ring
21 June 2021

Online charts about migration follow similar visual conventions and why this matters politically
18 June 2021

On the 10th anniversary of Syrian refugees in Turkey; challenging the status quo
16 June 2021

What do we know about social networks under forced migration? Recent scholarship and new directions for research
15 June 2021

Local inclusion of migrants and refugees: a city’s perspective
27 May 2021

Forced worklessness and fatherhood
29 April 2021

COMPAS Gogglebox: What we’ve been watching in lockdown
28 April 2021

The Falcon, The Winter Soldier and Migration-Related Divisions
26 April 2021

Cumulative, Collaborative, Innovative: Studying Mobilities after COVID
22 April 2021

‘Only publish documents in English’ How COVID-19 changed language access in the UK
16 April 2021

EU made up much higher share of net migration after 2010 than official figures suggested
14 April 2021

In Conversation with Matthew Hayes on ‘Lifestyle Migration’ in Ecuador
09 April 2021

“The Claw is Our Master…”: Toy Story shows us how Priti Patel’s new asylum proposals work
06 April 2021

Mobility and immobility during the pandemic: Experiences on a journey from Amsterdam to Semarang
25 March 2021

Reflecting on the Interplay between Race, Ethnicity and Migration
24 March 2021

Migrants in and out of the National Health Service
11 March 2021

“It is the debt which kills the person”: Mobile livelihoods and long-lockdowns in Delhi
04 March 2021

Teaching migration in a year of pandemic
18 February 2021

Welcome to the new Emptiness website
01 February 2021

New report: early intervention improves long-term employment outcomes for refugees
28 January 2021

Indian overseas students’ deferred dreams
15 January 2021

Major new museum exhibition addresses UK asylum process
13 January 2021

From My Window: Quarantine and Hunger during the Rentrée at the University of Geneva
12 January 2021

Enhancing the impact of migration research with Latin Americans in London
12 January 2021

Refugees in new locations and destinations: lifelines and backlashes
11 January 2021

A homing journey: Notions of home during the COVID-19 pandemic
08 January 2021

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa: how many will come?

18 December 2020

Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender
17 December 2020

The COMPAS 2020 Migration Book Review: what we read when we stayed at home
16 December 2020

Reassessing Race and Ethnicity through a Migration Lens
14 December 2020

American Dirt: Mexploitation or a thrilling adventure?
11 December 2020

What does the Coronavirus Pandemic Mean for Academic Mobility?
08 December 2020

Making visible the experiences of young Latin Americans living in London
08 December 2020

Refugee education in Greece: disjointed, disconnected and inadequate
04 December 2020

The Humanitarian Corridors Project in Lebanon: “A Glimmer of Hope”
30 November 2020

How the (im)mobility affected the Scottish and Catalan independence movements during the Pandemic?
28 November 2020

No family reunion this holiday: International students stranded in Hong Kong in times of immobility
27 November 2020

The scramble, an abrupt end and uncertainty: Nigerian students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
27 November 2020

‘So many concerns’: Chinese students’ shifting perspectives on pursuing graduate studies in the US
26 November 2020

Why did/n’t they leave?: Understanding international postgrad students’ (im)mobility during COVID-19
25 November 2020

International branch campuses: What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?
25 November 2020

Gendered experiences of educational migrant returnees during the COVID-19 pandemic
24 November 2020

Seeing “Race” through a Prism: Relational Socio-racial Hierarchies and Immigration
23 November 2020

The university schemes aiming to improve access to higher education for forced migrants
21 November 2020

The Swedish Migration Agency and (im)mobility precariousness during COVID-19: Deportability & the threat to public health
19 November 2020

Futures in limbo: The impact of the pandemic on non-European students in Sweden
11 November 2020

Forgotten Palestinian Refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 Crisis
11 November 2020

Migration policy research in the times of the pandemic
06 November 2020

The unfinished politics of race and the uncertain status of migration studies in the UK
06 November 2020

Racism and Migration
05 November 2020

Coronavirus and mobility: Observations from Northeast Africa
03 November 2020

Free in, free out: Dutch policy marks an important first step toward firewall protection for irregular migrants in Europe
02 November 2020

Why Professor ‘in Migration Studies’?
28 October 2020

New research project investigates seasonal migrant work and food security during COVID-19 pandemic
19 October 2020

Voices from ‘backstage’: London nightworkers before and during the pandemic
12 October 2020

Deporting Black Britons: the ordering of movement as race-making
12 October 2020

Food and Forced Migration: a COMPAS Q&A on the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
05 October 2020

Are you looking to embark on doctoral research on a topic related to migration?
22 September 2020

What happened to the ‘Asian century’? COVID-19 in Australia and New Zealand
21 August 2020

Localizing Emergency Response: COVID-19 and the Future of Humanitarian Mobilities (Part II)
21 August 2020

Localizing Emergency Response: COVID-19 and the Future of Humanitarian Mobilities (Part I)
17 August 2020

Pandemic Exposure: ‘Platform’ Infrastructure in Public Use in India
12 August 2020

Being ‘on hold’: within the same territory, on different ground
10 August 2020

Don’t come close: The plight of street children during COVID-19’s ‘forced immobility’
06 August 2020

COVID-19 in Latin America: An economic and healthcare catastrophe
05 August 2020

Forgotten workers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: The plight of Japan’s foreign technical interns amidst COVID-19
05 August 2020

What a life in the host country: narratives of immigrants in Morocco amidst the pandemic
04 August 2020

Swimming against the tide: The fragility and resilience of refugees amid COVID-19 in Southwestern Nigeria
04 August 2020

Temporary workers in Canada: crossing borders in pandemic times
03 August 2020

End-time theories: COVID-19 conspiracy theories & the mobility of labourers in Ibadan under lockdown
31 July 2020

The emerging business of mobility (Part II)
30 July 2020

The emerging business of mobility (Part I)
27 July 2020

Armenian ‘Putinka’ and beyond: Are there any alternatives for returned labour migrants in their homeland?
24 July 2020

‘Learning’ to be self-reliant: What does COVID-19 mean for the refugee community in Hong Kong?
24 July 2020

New EU strategy acknowledges need for ‘safe reporting’ measures for all victims regardless of status
23 July 2020

Portugal, a beacon of migrant rights? It’s complicated
18 July 2020

COVID-19: Looming risks amongst Nepali migrant workers
15 July 2020

Lockdown in India: Exodus as an expression of grievance
15 July 2020

‘Have I really survived?’: On home, refuge, and quarantine in Rome
14 July 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
09 July 2020

Transnational herbal medicine practitioners along the Nigeria-Niger corridor in the time of a pandemic
09 July 2020

De-confine Borders: Towards a Politics of Freedom of Movement in the Time of the Pandemic
08 July 2020

Humanitarian Search and Rescue in the Aegean Sea: Stuck Between Two Crises
08 July 2020

Daily-wage migrant workers and government COVID-19 responses in Jordan
07 July 2020

COVID-19 and Canada’s mobile labour force
06 July 2020

Platform (im)mobilities: Migration and the gig economy in times of COVID-19
06 July 2020

When the invisibili become essenziali: Migrant workers’ rights in Italy during the pandemic crisis
03 July 2020

Pandemic statelessness in Mesoamerica
02 July 2020

Global crises and migrant futures (an historical view)
02 July 2020

COVID-19 and the post-Brexit immigration system
01 July 2020

The new Immigration Bill: closing the door on freedom of movement
01 July 2020

A pandemic, and then what? The effects of the coronavirus pandemic on migrant care workers in Germany
26 June 2020

COVID-19 may not have reached Syrian communities in the Middle East, but its domino effects have
25 June 2020

Hyper-precarious lives: Bangladeshi migrants on Azad visas in Qatar during COVID-19
24 June 2020

Migrant workers in the tourism industry: How has COVID-19 affected them and what does the future hold?
23 June 2020

Guatemala: From the border crisis to the immobility of the town of Patzún, the Mayan people at risk
19 June 2020

Shock Mobility: Convulsions in human migration are having large impacts (Part II)
18 June 2020

Shock Mobility: Convulsions in human migration are having large impacts (Part I)
17 June 2020

Making home on the move
15 June 2020

New Directions for the Journal Migration Studies
11 June 2020

Researching international student mobility into a post-pandemic future (Part II)
10 June 2020

Researching international student mobility into a post-pandemic future (Part I)
05 June 2020

Mobility Prohibitions and Shantytown Workers in Delhi
04 June 2020

Seasonal harvest workers during COVID-19
03 June 2020

Migration and Mobility after the 2020 Pandemic: The End of an Age?
02 June 2020

Emergency returns: COVID-19 and the repatriation of Filipino migrant workers
27 May 2020

The gyroscope-like economy (Part II)
26 May 2020

The gyroscope-like economy (Part I)
22 May 2020

Mixed Movements: Virus, Things, Persons, and Signs (Part II)
22 May 2020

Mixed Movements: Virus, Things, Persons, and Signs (Part I)
21 May 2020

COVID-19 and Challenges to the Future of Work
21 May 2020

Tracking the rapidly changing & complex responses to migrants with irregular status
20 May 2020

COVID-19 and its Impact on Remote Work
19 May 2020

The worst of both worlds: EU workers between Coronavirus and Brexit
17 May 2020

Unprecedented immobility? The case of stranded Filipino migrant nurses
15 May 2020

Immobilia
13 May 2020

Transnational mobilities of COVID discourse: The Question of Return
13 May 2020

COMPAS partners with China’s The Paper and Launches Webinar Series on COVID-19
12 May 2020

Locked In after Lockdown: Migrant Workers in Wuhan
07 May 2020

Safety is a political issue: Migrant domestic workers in China after the lock down
06 May 2020

Locked Down and Locked In: COVID-19 and African Migrants in India
06 May 2020

Are transnational marriages bad for integration?
05 May 2020

Borders never disappear
04 May 2020

From heroes to pariahs? Senegalese return migrants in the time of COVID-19
01 May 2020

The digital home office: householding revisited
30 April 2020

Between (Im)mobility and Resistance: ‘Low-Skilled’ Migrants in the Pandemic
29 April 2020

The Chinese ‘grid reaction’ in Italy
28 April 2020

“If I wear a face mask, everyone treats me like a disease”: the mask debate
27 April 2020

Unexpected two-way traffic between Comoros and Mayotte during the lockdown
27 April 2020

Intra-EU emergency bordering in Coronavirus: laying bare the burden of ‘free’ mobility
26 April 2020

The “Caring Class” behind the “Grid Reaction” against Coronavirus
23 April 2020

Is mobility a solution to domestic and family violence?
22 April 2020

Point-to-point labour transport: the post-lockdown securitization of mobility
21 April 2020

Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures?
20 April 2020

Regimes of (Im)Mobility in the Time of Pandemic
18 April 2020

Virologistics II: The logistics of viral transmission
18 April 2020

Virologistics I: The virus as logistical “force majeure”
17 April 2020

Mobile immobility: Circular migrants in India during the pandemic
16 April 2020

Big Data, epidemiology, & emerging challenges for migration research
16 April 2020

Rethinking EU Borders in the time of COVID-19
15 April 2020

Not for the people: pandemics and the selective foresight of western neoliberal capitalism
15 April 2020

New mobility challenges across Hispaniola in the era of COVID-19
14 April 2020

Mobilities, neo-nationalism and the lockdown of Europe: will the European Union survive?
14 April 2020

Evacuating the Greek Refugee Camps and strengthening Europe from Below
13 April 2020

Rush to Help: Overseas Chinese and the Movement of Face Masks
10 April 2020

Pandemic challenges for Chinese migrants in Hungary
10 April 2020

Living in fear during the COVID-19 crisis: migrant women with insecure immigration status and domestic violence
09 April 2020

What Role Can Tech Serve in the Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis?
09 April 2020

Emptiness and normality in eastern Germany
08 April 2020

Empty Houses in Locked-down London
08 April 2020

The Marooned Malaise: Covid-19 and Africa’s stolen futures
07 April 2020

What is the impact of refugee repatriation for communities of return?
07 April 2020

The Enigmas of Transport in COVID-19
07 April 2020

Firefighting the pandemic is inadvertently teaching India how to govern migration
06 April 2020

No more ‘back to normal’ – ‘normal’ was the problem: thoughts on Coronavirus
05 April 2020

The impact of immobility on intergenerational relations
03 April 2020

Social integration and cohesion in a time of social distancing
03 April 2020

The US – Mexico Border: A testing ground for digital warfare
02 April 2020

Dangerous Digital Liaisons: An inquiry into digital policies regarding migrant smuggling on social media
02 April 2020

How AI Is Being Used in Canada’s Immigration Decision-Making
02 April 2020

The mobility of a few for the survival of the many
02 April 2020

Aeromobilities’ underbelly revealed in COVID-19 crisis
01 April 2020

The new power of the technologies of immobility
31 March 2020

‘Unprecedented’ pandemic and the crisis of mobility in India
31 March 2020

When home does not exist, what does self-quarantine mean: street children in Tehran
30 March 2020

Hoarding: (Im)mobilizing things
29 March 2020

How and why the mobility of a virus has led to abolishing key civil liberties
27 March 2020

Emptiness (Part II): An uncertain spring
26 March 2020

Mobile Livelihoods in Stress
25 March 2020

In Heterotopic Times; (Im)mobility, Social-Distancing, and Surveillance
24 March 2020

Human mobility spreads COVID-19, but whose mobility?
24 March 2020

Down or Out? Mobility and the management of epidemics
23 March 2020

Emptiness (Part I): The empty streets of Blackpool
22 March 2020

The Corona-pandemic: from parasitic mobility to convenient crisis
20 March 2020

Here we cope, here we observe, here we think and think together: a response to Robin Cohen
20 March 2020

‘Take me home’: The coronavirus virus and panic mobility
20 March 2020

Borders in the Time of Coronavirus: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Upended the Global Mobility Paradigm
19 March 2020

On ‘reciprocity’ and ‘impact’: Some reflections from a junior researcher
18 March 2020

Locked-down cities, flying machines, and growing weeds: A note from China’s Epicentre
18 March 2020

Coronavirus: A (missed) chance to rethink racism?
13 March 2020

In response to ‘From Chain Reaction to Grid Reaction’.
12 March 2020

From Chain Reaction to Grid Reaction: Mobilities & Restrictions during SARS & Coronavirus
02 March 2020

The Ecological Footprint of Refugees
03 February 2020

Five lessons from an urban experiment in asylum reception
30 January 2020

REMINDER project launches new interactive online tool
22 January 2020

Are all migrants more entrepreneurial than the native-born?
20 January 2020

Most migrants living in the UK don’t feel that they belong to a group that is discriminated against
17 January 2020

What Does ‘Social Cohesion’ Mean for Refugees and Hosts? A view from Kenya
14 January 2020

Refugia – a new solution for displacement?
10 January 2020

Long Read: Curtains, at last, for the net migration target
18 December 2019

COMPAS’ 2019 recommendations: The best books on migration we read this year
18 December 2019

COMPAS book review: The Windrush Betrayal by Amelia Gentleman
10 December 2019

Dace Dzenovska awarded ERC grant for research on emptying towns and villages in Eastern Europe
27 November 2019

When a crime victim is an irregular migrant: “safe reporting of crime” or “leap of faith”?
22 November 2019

Australian immigration policy: The role and scope of points-tested visas
20 November 2019

Guest Blog: Latest Withdrawal Agreement Fails Romanian and Bulgarian Workers
15 November 2019

What should happen to immigration policy after Brexit?
31 October 2019

How ‘knowledge exchange’ is working to build more Inclusive Cities
28 October 2019

Guest Blog: More Britons willing to leave UK to escape Brexit uncertainty
27 October 2019

Upcoming Highlights in Migration Studies
17 October 2019

COMPAS Director’s Welcome to the new academic year
09 October 2019

COMPAS researcher Will Allen named Oxford Public Engagement with Research Leader
08 October 2019

Does the gap in migration research between high-income countries and the rest of the world matter?
26 September 2019

Oxford Berlin Partnership supports initiative to understand integration in smaller cities and towns
25 September 2019

Doctoral Programme in Migration Studies: Applications for 2020-21 now open
17 September 2019

Many more to come? Reflections on migration to Europe & migrant policy responses 2015-2019
23 August 2019

Who Counts in Crises?
17 July 2019

The impact of ethnic stereotypes on employment
10 June 2019

Reasons for Migration and the Labour Market Implications of Brexit
24 May 2019

Paul Hamlyn Foundation gift assures long-term stability for migration research initiatives
17 May 2019

Changing roles and new opportunities for the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity
29 April 2019

How mobile is home? Researching migrants’ living conditions in Europe and beyond
25 April 2019

New report explores barriers to employment for refugees and ‘asylum migrants’
15 April 2019

Routed Magazine
12 April 2019

From Migration Research to Policy: MSc Migration visit to Geneva
04 April 2019

The real forces shaping wages: ageing, education, migration, or technological changes?
29 March 2019

Turning the camera around: who watches the watchers?
08 March 2019

The Timespace of Emptiness
27 February 2019

Do the fiscal effects of EU migrants vary across European countries with different welfare states and labour market institutions?
28 January 2019

Stepping into the stories behind immigration data
18 December 2018

The COMPAS 2018 list of best books on migration
17 December 2018

In Conversation with Biao Xiang
07 December 2018

High Skilled Migration and Automation Uncertainty
04 December 2018

COMPAS Round-up Autumn 2018
28 November 2018

The Speed of Fright: Sharing EU migration research in a flash
21 November 2018

Migration and the Positive Role Employers Can Play
01 November 2018

Communication Breakdown in Austria – How Far-Right Fringe Groups Hijacked the Narrative on the Global Compact for Migration
30 October 2018

Furthering Refugia: Engaging with our Critics
24 October 2018

A Global Crisis in Care?
28 September 2018

The New DPhil in Migration Studies
07 August 2018

Public Attitudes Toward EU Mobility and Non-EU Immigration: A Distinction with Little Difference
16 July 2018

Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
12 July 2018

Europeans’ Attitudes To Immigration From Within And Outside Europe: A Role For Perceived Welfare Impacts?
12 June 2018

Sacralized Public Safety and Privatized Religious Care in Immigrant Family Detention
07 June 2018

Farewell clichés
23 May 2018

National institutions vs EU policies?
16 May 2018

COMPAS Round Up Spring 2018
06 March 2018

How data visualisations connect researchers with users
22 February 2018

Life After Graduation: Notes from a Migration Studies MSc Alumnus [MSc guest blog]
22 January 2018

Beyond Impact? Knowledge Exchange, Practice and Impact: Opportunities and challenges in new era for the academy

01 December 2017

Academic Talents in Singapore: Coming, Going or Staying?
30 November 2017

Media Reporting of Migrants and Migration: A Global Perspective
27 October 2017

COMPAS Round Up Autumn 2017
27 July 2017

COMPAS Round Up Summer 2017
20 July 2017

Migration, Diversity and Cities – IMISCOE 2017
02 May 2017

Does Immigration Enforcement Matter (DIEM) project news
24 February 2017

Viewing Life Through the Migration Lens: experiences and thoughts post-MSc
24 February 2017

Steppes and the city: rural to urban migration in Mongolia [MSc guest blog]
21 February 2017

Is ‘voluntary’ return the new way forward for managing irregular migration?
13 February 2017

Permanent Residence and the power of bureaucracy
07 February 2017

What does it take to be truly one of us?
31 January 2017

Making Migration Data Visible: Two Non-Technical Lessons for Researchers
24 January 2017

Child Mobility in the EU’s Refugee Crisis: What Are The Data Gaps And Why Do They Matter?
14 January 2017

Where next for migration studies? Reflecting and rethinking
15 December 2016

Why Migration Policymaking Needs More Migrant Voices [MSc guest blog]
29 November 2016

The Impact Factor of migration journals: An update
25 November 2016

The “new other” and the liberal-left
22 November 2016

Confessions of a Bad Migrant [MSc guest blog]
16 November 2016

Canada’s Oldest Internally Displaced Peoples [MSc guest blog]
15 November 2016

The new lefts
15 November 2016

Boundary Making and the Broad Ripples of Immigration Enforcement
08 November 2016

Summer may be long gone, but the debate over the burkini ban is far from over
04 November 2016

On Contemporary Art and Migration [MSc guest blog]
01 November 2016

What does a ‘post-facts’ world mean for migration research and evidence?
20 October 2016

A New Era for International Workers in Turkey?
18 October 2016

Belonging in the era of Brexit
17 October 2016

New migrant urbanisms and the United Nations Habitat III conference in Quito
14 October 2016

Hierarchies of Displacement [MSc guest blog]
10 October 2016

The Conservative migration plan: does it work for anyone?
07 October 2016

Common responses to the notion of Migration Studies [MSc guest blog]
30 September 2016

Migration, Disability, and Plain Language [MSc guest blog]
23 September 2016

Refuge in Technology [MSc guest blog]
16 September 2016

A night-time border encounter: Some reflections [MSc guest blog]
20 July 2016

The dispersal of unaccompanied asylum seeking children: in whose best interests?
18 July 2016

Sophie’s journey: Three countries, three stories, same abuse
05 July 2016

Paradoxically European: how a spike in xenophobia revalues EU citizenship
21 June 2016

Targets for reducing migration: what do we control?
14 June 2016

Reforming homelessness policies for migrants: 8 lessons from a working group of European cities
23 May 2016

Imagining Refugia
23 May 2016

A new generation of thinkers: on ways forward for migration and development policy and research
17 May 2016

The paradoxes of (anti)racism in compulsory education
10 May 2016

The Economic Outcomes of Refugees and Other Migrants in the UK
04 May 2016

Extremism in PREVENT
26 April 2016

‘Living as Londoners do’: Cohesion, contradictions, and (religious) difference
12 April 2016

Tanya: a migration story
22 March 2016

Media agendas and the corrosive use of water metaphors
08 March 2016

How migration visualisations persuade us that they are correct
01 March 2016

Rights or Philanthropy: Emotions of Solidarity with Refugees
23 February 2016

Free movement of (overqualified) migrant workers
20 February 2016

What is our moral obligation to the stranger?
09 February 2016

How could research have better anticipated the migration crisis?
02 February 2016

Governance of International Skilled Migration: Scalar Politics and Network Relations
26 January 2016

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016
21 January 2016

Understanding migration
19 January 2016

Mobility, class and country of origin in the Western Balkans
05 January 2016

Travelling home: Pleasures and phobias
29 December 2015

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results
21 December 2015

Swedish ‘Revolution’ in Labour Immigration Policy
08 December 2015

Begging and the free movement of poverty
01 December 2015

Tackling homelessness and destitution amongst excluded migrants through knowledge exchange: reflections on a meeting of five European cities
27 November 2015

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015
24 November 2015

Net migration statistics behind the headlines
10 November 2015

Is ‘resilience’ a panacea?
04 November 2015

Action for Inclusion in Europe
27 October 2015

The politics of belonging: Transnational Korean adoptees in Denmark
20 October 2015

7 brutal lessons I’ve learned 6 months on from the University of Oxford MSc in Migration Studies
13 October 2015

Leaving Palestine
06 October 2015

Refugee crisis, compassion and Eastern Europe
30 September 2015

Which migration journal has the highest Impact Factor?
22 September 2015

Immigration and Austerity: Only Connect
15 September 2015

Immigration Acts and health bills
09 September 2015

People Move
31 August 2015

Tap LinkedIn for data gold dust
13 August 2015

What to do about Calais, in 50 words
06 August 2015

The base: From peasant revolution to labour migration management
30 July 2015

Illegality vs Irregularity
30 July 2015

Changing the impact format: new groups, new engagement
24 July 2015

Gender and Migration: Reflecting on the Debate
22 July 2015

How did migration play out in the 2015 General Election?
15 July 2015

EU migration and welfare benefits: Is unrestricted labour immigration compatible with an inclusive welfare state?
15 July 2015

Remittance revolution unlocks funds
10 July 2015

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law
07 July 2015

The making of our categories
03 July 2015

Securing a Good (Female) Coyote: Women and the Facilitation of Extralegal Border Crossings
30 June 2015

The conflicting policy agendas of immigration control and ending child poverty
26 June 2015

Gendering Migration
25 June 2015

The right to have rights: Safeguarding children from destitution
19 June 2015

Gender, Migration, ‘Trafficking’ and the Troublesome Relationship between Agency and Force
15 June 2015

Mothers’ Migration Motivations
10 June 2015

Italy’s oldest and newest migrants: Challenges for second generation Somalis
05 June 2015

The enduring damage of displacement
03 June 2015

Twenty years later the refugees are back
29 May 2015

Gender, class and migration governance: A labour sending country perspective
27 May 2015

The Waiting Game: An experience with a point
22 May 2015

Centering orality: Exploring gendered wartime violence with South Sudanese women elders
20 May 2015

Not racist, just resentful
15 May 2015

Book Review: The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women
14 May 2015

Urbanites: indifferent to difference?
14 May 2015

Citizenship as a concept
12 May 2015

What can our views on the EU reveal about our opinions on immigration?
05 May 2015

What role does the EU play in influencing the development of integration policy?
01 May 2015

Border Crossings and Gender in the Greek Detention System
28 April 2015

Valorised and Vilified: What Do ‘Citizens’ Do?
24 April 2015

Spousal Migration, Gender and UK Immigration Law
24 April 2015

The positive legacy of refugee camps
21 April 2015

On the mainstreaming of EAL provision in England
17 April 2015

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention
14 April 2015

Backing themselves: East Timorese labour migrants in Oxford
10 April 2015

Tibetan Women and Nuns: What’s Missing in Our Discussion on Borders and Gender?
07 April 2015

Reflections on African Pentecostals in London and the ‘political’
01 April 2015

Education and perceptions: learning about migration through theatre
27 March 2015

‘Victims of Trafficking’ and ‘Foreign Criminals’ – Constructing the state as our (masculine) saviour
25 March 2015

What do we know about the reasons for migration and the social and economic characteristics of migrants in the UK?
23 March 2015

When ‘brain drain’ is a good thing
20 March 2015

Migrant Women’s Health in Spain: A Snapshot of the Consequences of the Royal Decree-Law of Sanitary Regulation 16/2012
17 March 2015

Studying Mobility in a Context of Immobility
13 March 2015

The messiness of research: My experience as a young female researcher at an Italian migrant detention centre
10 March 2015

The numbers game: illusions of control
06 March 2015

Gender & migration: An introduction and a conversation
03 March 2015

Talking to Tamils: sharing research findings with the ‘researched’
02 March 2015

Race and Racism
24 February 2015

How do local authorities deal with the increasing diversity of their clients and residents?
17 February 2015

What do I know about quantum mechanics?
12 February 2015

Everyday Resistance
10 February 2015

Immigrant Investor Programmes: Navigating Economic and Political Tensions
03 February 2015

Foreign fighters: time to recognise and study a new type of migration
27 January 2015

The Life of a Multiple Migrant
20 January 2015

Migration and the political
13 January 2015

The roots of radicalism: Family, society and the solace of religion
07 January 2015

Climate change and migration: COMPAS December Breakfast Briefing

16 December 2014

The floating label of ‘the migrant’
11 December 2014

“It’s not just about the individual story”: Performing migrant experiences
02 December 2014

‘It is easy to come here but difficult to leave’: The ‘point of no return’ in migration trajectories
26 November 2014

Understanding foreign fighters: COMPAS November Breakfast Briefing
19 November 2014

Are migrant health professionals welcome in the UK?
11 November 2014

Schooling, mobility and belonging
04 November 2014

A tale of two cities: Melilla and Calais
28 October 2014

What’s in a name? An overview of the latest COMPAS Breakfast Briefing
21 October 2014

From New Helots to New Diasporas: a retrospective for Robin Cohen
14 October 2014

Immigration and ‘labour market tests’: Who should be protected against whom?
08 October 2014

Human rights in health: migrants in low-skilled work in Asia
01 October 2014

Italy’s story to tell on services for irregular migrants
23 September 2014

The Upward Concentration of Chinese Emigration and the Rise of China
17 September 2014

Turning British
09 September 2014

Kenyan Pentecostals in London: Reflections on religion and migration
02 September 2014

Barriers to EU citizenship: Insiders and outsiders in the context of the UK
26 August 2014

The Light of Evidence 3: Continuing the policy debate
19 August 2014

Hard Evidence: are migrants good for the economy?
12 August 2014

Sticking plaster solutions? City-level responses to destitute migrant families
06 August 2014

The course of true love never did run smooth
29 July 2014

Saving the Lifeline: Studying the Somali diaspora involvement in the 2013-14 campaign
24 July 2014

Colombia: A Wandering Country?
16 July 2014

Teaching practitioners about migration: Challenges and opportunities for ASEAN
08 July 2014

Boom and Bust: Where do migrant health professionals fit into the reforming NHS?
24 June 2014

The Scottish diaspora and Scottish independence
17 June 2014

Reverse missionizing: Migration, Christianity, and civic engagement in London
03 June 2014

Why should social scientists in migration studies care about big data?
27 May 2014

Norway’s not so cuddly welfare state
21 May 2014

Integration: a European research agenda
13 May 2014

Numbers and Waves: The Effects of Media Portrayals of Immigrants on Public Opinion in Britain
06 May 2014

#Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies
29 April 2014

The Would-Be Migrant
22 April 2014

Anthology of writing about migration available free online
15 April 2014

Claiming the flag
03 April 2014

Nikkei Cuisine: understanding immigration through food
26 March 2014

Recognition and redistribution in Latin America: Reflections on the meaning of multiculturalism
18 March 2014

Figuring out diaspora roles in social recovery
11 March 2014

The Crisis in Ukraine and its Implications for Migration in Europe
05 March 2014

Notes on power in scenes of denunciation
25 February 2014

Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?
18 February 2014

Health and border control
12 February 2014

Re-Thinking ‘Risk’ in Migration
28 January 2014

Final Destination Maghreb: The transformation of transit countries
21 January 2014

Al Qaeda, bureaucracy and migration as scalar intersection
14 January 2014

Ten features of labour immigration policies in high-income countries
08 January 2014

Barriers to migration: Are policing and fencing the answer?
10 December 2013

Theresa May’s slavery bill won’t help domestic workers
04 December 2013

What we talk about when we talk about immigration
27 November 2013

From the 2013 Syrian Refugee Conference to the 1938 Conference of Evian: How far have we come?
19 November 2013

Migrants in the Census: How to find them, and what to do with them
12 November 2013

Media, Public Opinion, Migration Policy: Multi- and Inter-Disciplinary Notes
05 November 2013

The Political Power of the Social Norm against Prejudice
29 October 2013

Flight and Fight
22 October 2013

Defending the rights of migrants – a price worth paying
15 October 2013

On borders and a wicked bird
08 October 2013

Celebrating 10 years of COMPAS in numbers
01 October 2013

The Good Worker
24 September 2013

Migration in Scotland
18 September 2013

Mission integration: an update on the EUMIA project
10 September 2013

City responses to irregular migrants
03 September 2013

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)
28 August 2013

Observing differences: asylum appeals in the UK
21 August 2013

The Diversity Turn
13 August 2013

Saudi Arabia and its immigrants
08 August 2013

Documenting how immigrants are described in the British press: Why does comprehensiveness matter?
30 July 2013

Is it family migration if only one family member moves? Reflections on categories of migrants and classifications of migration
23 July 2013

Windows: The 21st century migration experience
17 July 2013

Light of Evidence 2: the wider debate on migration
09 July 2013

Monarchy versus republicanism: does a naturalised citizen not have a choice?
02 July 2013

Holding a mirror to ourselves: British Lifestyle migration
18 June 2013

The human rights of migrant workers: Why do so few countries care?
11 June 2013

The 2011 Census project
04 June 2013

Dream on
28 May 2013

Migration data and attitudes in the context of the Scottish independence referendum
21 May 2013

Nostalgia and diversity: Understanding integration at the local level
14 May 2013

Merger of Europe’s human rights and equality bodies is on the agenda: good news or bad for migrants’ rights?
07 May 2013

Stuck in traffic: How helpful is the trafficking framework?
01 May 2013

Taking popularity seriously
23 April 2013

The Oxford Migration Studies Society: Conference News
16 April 2013

Not your mother’s norms: The experience of second generation women in the Afghan-American diaspora
09 April 2013

“We want to hear from you” (or how informing works in a liberal democracy)
02 April 2013

Immigration and Welfare: Beyond Us and Them
27 March 2013

Integration: linking research and learning
19 March 2013

Family migration policies in the UK: What can academics contribute?
12 March 2013

What Kinds of Immigrants Come or Stay? Illegality and UK Tabloid Portrayal of Immigrants
05 March 2013

Diasporic school associations
26 February 2013

The uncertainties of diaspora research
19 February 2013

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – a film about migrants?
12 February 2013

Migration and non-communicable diseases
05 February 2013

The infrastructural turn: the Chinese example
29 January 2013

Before international research cooperation lies the UK border
22 January 2013

Versta je me? (Do you understand me?)
15 January 2013

It’s about time
08 January 2013

The economics of forced migration
18 December 2012

Reflecting on migrant journeys
11 December 2012

The Iraqi diaspora in Germany and its role in reconstruction in Iraq
04 December 2012

Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Leveson Report
27 November 2012

Five principles of integration: policies and inclusion
20 November 2012

Yes, of course I know what Melvyn Bragg and Grange Hill are…..
13 November 2012

New guidance on integration from an unexpected source
06 November 2012

Elections in Ukraine: former migrant and boxer turned politician
30 October 2012

Labour immigration policy: What do we want, and why?
23 October 2012

New Lives and Dreams: The Results
15 October 2012

Tourism and migration: two kinds of mobility
09 October 2012

The Love of Learning: Migrants and Education
02 October 2012

From the Great Wall to maze pipelines
24 September 2012

Integration and neighbourhood relations in South London
18 September 2012

Dr Who and The Migrants
11 September 2012

Whose Dreams Are Alive? Thinking about News Media as Stories
04 September 2012

What is the Oxford University MSc in Migration Studies?
28 August 2012

Recipe for a diaspora: take one millionaire…
21 August 2012

Two key unanswered questions about the fiscal impact of migration
14 August 2012

Four decades after the expulsion of Ugandan Asians
07 August 2012

Damned if you’re a migrant, damned if you’re not: Sri Lankan female domestic workers
31 July 2012

What do they talk about when they (Miliband and Cameron) talk about immigration?
24 July 2012

The Light of Evidence
17 July 2012

Our Migrations Journey into British Art
10 July 2012

The migrant as an invented subject: A response
04 July 2012

Are there such people as “migrants”?
26 June 2012

New family rules v integration?
19 June 2012

Everyday multiculturalism
13 June 2012

Sticks and stones…
06 June 2012

An exclusive party?
29 May 2012

No Way Out, No Way In
23 May 2012

Only connect? Migration and the right to the city
15 May 2012

On display in Stockholm
08 May 2012

Clandestine migration in the Greek-Turkish border region: shifting routes and complex control infrastructures
01 May 2012

Controlling the purse strings
24 April 2012

Dispatches from Chicago: The home of political science for four days every April
17 April 2012

Dutch-American-British?
10 April 2012

Pen-top emotion
03 April 2012

Who’s in?
27 March 2012

‘Can’t change one without the other’: Reforming labour immigration and labour markets in the Gulf States
21 March 2012

A different kind of mother’s day
14 March 2012

Gypsies, tramps and thieves?
06 March 2012

Understanding a diaspora through Lamu Maulid
28 February 2012

Creating the Conditions for Integration
21 February 2012

Border Crossing: Material Culture & Experience
14 February 2012

Is there such a thing as migration?
07 February 2012

Migration and Economic Growth
31 January 2012

They say the truth hurts – well, it’s given me a headache…
24 January 2012

Where do you call home?
17 January 2012

A snapshot of urban dynamics

13 December 2011

Irregular Migration and Fundamental Rights in the EU: a continuing controversy
08 December 2011

Migration and Generation
29 November 2011

A picture paints a thousand words…..
23 November 2011

Spinning the Threads of Poverty: Cotton Subsidies and The Political Economy of Trafficking in Southern Benin
15 November 2011

How will climate change impact on migration?
08 November 2011

Swedish Exceptionalism
02 November 2011

Time to embrace the Daily Mail…
25 October 2011

Renationalization?
18 October 2011

What do we really think about migration?
11 October 2011

Shifting powers: two decades of migration and global turbulence
04 October 2011

British Attitudes to Immigration
27 September 2011

Ethnography, diversity and urban space
20 September 2011

EU citizenship, Roma mobility and anti-Gypsyism: time for reframing the debate?
13 September 2011

Seven Years after the Eastern European Enlargement
06 September 2011

The Hadramis of the Indian Ocean: a diaspora and its networks
30 August 2011

Towards an understanding of integration at neighbourhood level
23 August 2011

A sending country perspective: Imagining Europe from the outside
16 August 2011

Health and wellbeing of migrants: the ethnic density effect and other factors
09 August 2011

Legal but Unfair: The High Stakes of the UK Immigration Detention System
02 August 2011

Research impact: thinking outside the tick box
27 July 2011

Real integration takes time

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