Carlos Vargas-Silva is Professor in Migration Studies and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He has a joint appointment between the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, and the Oxford Department for International Development.
Carlos was Director of COMPAS from October 2019 to September 2023 and was the (founding) Director of the DPhil in Migration Studies at Oxford from October 2018 to September 2023.
The overarching theme of his research is the interaction of migration with labour markets, public services, and health outcomes, with a key focus on the role of policy in affecting those interactions. An important contribution of his work has been the application of concepts from economics to conceptualise migration decisions and the impacts of migration on host communities in the forced migration context. Bringing additional insights from other social sciences, he has developed conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to investigate the evidence in this context.
Carlos is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration Studies, published by Oxford University Press.
Carlos teaches in the MSc in Migration Studies at Oxford. He also supervises doctoral students interested in migration (in intersection with labour markets, development, and/or public policy) and welcomes new potential DPhil students interested in these areas. He also works with a vibrant group of post-doctoral fellows and is available for collaboration with early career researchers who want to consolidate their research in these topics.
Recent features: Prof Carlos Vargas-Silva on the politics of box ticking and the many myths around migration, Oxford Profiles
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Carlos Vargas-Silva | 2018 - 2023
Carlos Vargas-Silva | Oct 2020 - May 2022
Carlos Vargas-Silva | 2015 - 2016
Carlos Vargas-Silva, Myriam Cherti, Denis Kierans and Lucy Leon | October 2022 – September 2025
Carlos Vargas-Silva, Madeleine Sumption and COMPAS Communications | February – April 2015
Sarah Spencer, Carlos Vargas-Silva and COMPAS Communications | January 2015 – March 2017
Carlos Vargas-Silva, Madeleine Sumption, Rob McNeil and William Allen | January 2017 - December 2019
Carlos Vargas-Silva | February 2017 - January 2019
Carlos Vargas-Silva | June 2013 – December 2015
Carlos Vargas-Silva | 2018 - 2020
Carlos Vargas-Silva and William Allen | May 2020 - November 2021
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