List of Blogs

2023

Forging New Lives: Congolese Refugees as Digital Creators

Marie Godin (COMPAS Researcher) and Ghislain Bahati (founder of a refugee-led organisation Kintsugi)

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

Jorge Morales (University of Colima, Mexico) and Abril Rios (DPhil candidate, COMPAS)

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

Sabina Barone, PhD candidate, University College London (UCL)

Alumni Insights: Applying to the MSc in Migration Studies

COMPAS Communications

2022

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

COMPAS Communications

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

Rob McNeil

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

Myriam Cherti

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

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Kristen McCollum

Frequently Asked Questions: Applying to the DPhil in Migration Studies

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Migrants, Taxes, and Fiscal Inclusion

Nicolette Makovicky and Dora-Olivia Vicol

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

Denis Kierans

From Fraternal Nations to Fratricidal War?

Ina Zharkevich

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

Claudia Eggart

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

Maria Gunko

What happened to Robin?

Jonathon Turnbull

On navigating the Russian information environment

Roosa Rytkönen

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

Anna Balazs

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

Madeleine Reeves

What forms of displacement can be observed in Ukraine?

Emma Rimpiläinen

Through the fog of war: the first month of the Russian invasion

Volodymyr Artiukh

Political kinship: Receiving Ukrainian refugees while bordering Europe

Dace Dzenovska

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

Jacqui Broadhead

Spielberg’s Sharks

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Seasonal migrant workers feeding the nation

Bethany Robertson, Roxana Barbulescu, Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Rob McNeil and Madeleine Sumption

Why Visuals Matter for the Politics of Migration—Particularly Now

William Allen, Marnie Howlett

Comuna 13: Displacement, conflict and hip-hop

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Sascha Krannich, Cecile van Maanen & Laura-Alina Fabich

2021

The rhetoric of governance in China under COVID-19

Siyu Tang

The 2021 COMPAS Migration Book (etc.) review

COMPAS Communications

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

Abhishek Saha

The Chinese City: A Messy Reality

Kevin Wang

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

Mariña Fernández-Reino and Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Leila Hadj Abdou & Andrea Pettrachin

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

Suzana Carp

Applications now open for the next DPhil in Migration Studies cohort

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Marion Couldrey

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

Benjamin Till Landis & Will Allen

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

Jacqui Broadhead

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

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Saher Ali

Multiple Uncertainties: Migration from Afghanistan to Anywhere

Zahide Erdoğan

Afghan migrants’ experiences in Turkey and why it matters now

Atakan Keskin and Emre Eren Korkmaz

DPhil in Migration Studies: reflections on the first year

Daisy Pollenne

The Power of Visual Stories in Talking About Migration

Johannes Walter

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

Anya Jhoti

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

Isabelle Monnickendam

Taxation and migrants: a new research project looking at taxes

Dora-Olivia Vicol, Nicolette Makovicky, Denis Kierans

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

Raluca Bejan, Kristi A Allain & Tracy Glynn

The Children of China’s Great Migration

Rachel Murphy

Olympic sports and identity: lessons from the boxing ring

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

William Allen

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

Emre Eren Korkmaz

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

Kristen McCollum

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

Gilda Borriello & Loren Landau

Forced worklessness and fatherhood

Candice Morgan-Glendinning & Melanie Griffiths

COMPAS Gogglebox: What we’ve been watching in lockdown

COMPAS Communications

The Falcon, The Winter Soldier and Migration-Related Divisions

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Cumulative, Collaborative, Innovative: Studying Mobilities after COVID

Biao Xiang

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

Jacqui Broadhead

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

Raluca Bejan

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

Rob McNeil

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

Pamungkas (Yudha) Dewanto

Reflecting on the Interplay between Race, Ethnicity and Migration

Bani Gill and Marie Mallet-Garcia

Migrants in and out of the National Health Service

Mariri Niino, Lauren Brown and Zehui Qiu

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

Bhawani Buswala

Teaching migration in a year of pandemic

Yasmin Y. Ortiga

Welcome to the new Emptiness website

Michelle Chew

Indian overseas students’ deferred dreams

S Irudaya Rajan & Anand P Cherian

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

Irene Praga

Refugees in new locations and destinations: lifelines and backlashes

Pablo S. Bose

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

Alejandra Castellanos Breton, Lisa Marie Perez Sosa, & Jose Guillermo Ricalde

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

Peter Walsh

2020

Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender

Francesca Esposito

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

COMPAS Communications

Reassessing Race and Ethnicity through a Migration Lens

Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania

American Dirt: Mexploitation or a thrilling adventure?

Rob McNeil

What does the Coronavirus Pandemic Mean for Academic Mobility?

Jenna Althoff

Making visible the experiences of young Latin Americans living in London

Domiziana Turcatti & Claudia Lopez-Prieto

Refugee education in Greece: disjointed, disconnected and inadequate

Arthur Peirce

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

Hannah Markay

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

Lore M. Purroy Sánchez & Emre Eren Korkmaz

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

Ka Wang Kelvin Lam and Aikins Amoako Asiama

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

Oyewo Adetola Elizabeth

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

Eric de Roulet

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

Marnie Howlett & Dean Thompson

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

Achille Versaevel & Jorica Pamintuan

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

Chiedza Mutsaka Skyum

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

Luisa Feline Freier & Matthew Bird

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

Claire Fletcher

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

Gloria Gemma

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

Kenna Simm

Forgotten Palestinian Refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 Crisis

Cevdet Acu

Migration policy research in the times of the pandemic

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Michael Keith

Racism and Migration

John Solomos

Coronavirus and mobility: Observations from Northeast Africa

Günther Schlee

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

Ruben I. Timmerman

Why Professor ‘in Migration Studies’?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Julius-Cezar MacQuarie & Shirley Martin

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

Luke de Noronha

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

Kristen McCollum

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

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Vidya Ramachandran

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

William Jernigan

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

William Jernigan

Pandemic Exposure: ‘Platform’ Infrastructure in Public Use in India

Aditi Surie

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

Chrysi Kyratsou

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

Temilorun Olanipekun

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

Alinis Aranguren, Samanta Morales & Saskia Harkema

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

Kazue Takamura

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

Benachour Saidi

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

Tosin Durodola

Temporary workers in Canada: crossing borders in pandemic times

Veronica Alfaro

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

Anyah Richard

The emerging business of mobility (Part II)

Biao Xiang

The emerging business of mobility (Part I)

Biao Xiang

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

Nare Gasltyan & Mihran Galstyan

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

Ka Wang Kelvin Lam

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

Nicola Delvino

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

Margarida Teixeira

COVID-19: Looming risks amongst Nepali migrant workers

Anurag Devkota

Lockdown in India: Exodus as an expression of grievance

Manish Maskara

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

Khaled Karri & Eleanor Paynter

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

Oluwasegun Ajetunmobi

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

Charles Heller

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

Jude Bennett & Pat Rubio Bertran

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

Shaddin Almasri

COVID-19 and Canada’s mobile labour force

Barbara Neis, Kerri Neil, Katherine Lippel

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

Moritz Altenried, Manuela Bojadžijev, Mira Wallis

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

Asia Della Rosa & Asher Goldstein

Pandemic statelessness in Mesoamerica

Jorge E. Cuéllar

Global crises and migrant futures (an historical view)

John Starosta Galante

COVID-19 and the post-Brexit immigration system

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Peter Walsh

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

Anna Safuta & Kristin Noack

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

Ann-Christin Wagner, Shaher Abdullateef & Lisa Boden

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

Lamea Momen & Priya Deshingkar

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

Helen Dempster & Cassandra Zimmer

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

Saúl Aguilar

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

Biao Xiang

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

Biao Xiang

Making home on the move

Shivangi Kaushik

New Directions for the Journal Migration Studies

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Yi’En Cheng, Peidong Yang & Cora L. Xu

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

Yi’En Cheng, Peidong Yang & Cora L. Xu

Mobility Prohibitions and Shantytown Workers in Delhi

T G Suresh

Seasonal harvest workers during COVID-19

Roxana Barbulescu & Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Alan Gamlen

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

Karen Anne S. Liao

The gyroscope-like economy (Part II)

Biao Xiang

The gyroscope-like economy (Part I)

Biao Xiang

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

Do Dom Kim

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

Do Dom Kim

COVID-19 and Challenges to the Future of Work

Nilanjan Raghunath & Tony Tan

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

Sarah Spencer

COVID-19 and its Impact on Remote Work

Nilanjan Raghunath & Tony Tan

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

Denny Pencheva

Unprecedented immobility? The case of stranded Filipino migrant nurses

Yasmin Y. Ortiga

Immobilia

Nick Van Hear

Transnational mobilities of COVID discourse: The Question of Return

Laavanya Kathiravelu & Arokkiaraj Heller

Locked In after Lockdown: Migrant Workers in Wuhan

Willy Sier

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

Chaoguo Xing

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

Bani Gill

Are transnational marriages bad for integration?

Sarah Spencer

Borders never disappear

Agnieszka Halemba

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

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

The digital home office: householding revisited

Chris Hann

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

Domiziana Turcatti

The Chinese ‘grid reaction’ in Italy

Antonella Ceccagno and Alessandra Salvati

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

Juan Zhang

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

Iain Walker

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

Polina Manolova

The “Caring Class” behind the “Grid Reaction” against Coronavirus

Jack Linzhou Xing

Is mobility a solution to domestic and family violence?

Vidya Ramachandran

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

Biao Xiang

Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures?

Steven Vertovec

Regimes of (Im)Mobility in the Time of Pandemic

Xiao Ma

Virologistics II: The logistics of viral transmission

Brett Neilson

Virologistics I: The virus as logistical “force majeure”

Brett Neilson

Mobile immobility: Circular migrants in India during the pandemic

Indrajit Roy

Big Data, epidemiology, & emerging challenges for migration research

Kenneth Horvath

Rethinking EU Borders in the time of COVID-19

Elspeth Guild and Didier Bigo

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

Manolis Pratsinakis and Yannis Tzaninis

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

Bridget Wooding

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

Adrian Favell and Ettore Recchi

Evacuating the Greek Refugee Camps and strengthening Europe from Below

Julia Schweers and Daniel Kersting

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

Biao Zeng

Pandemic challenges for Chinese migrants in Hungary

Pál Nyíri and Fanni Beck

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

Cathy McIlwaine

What Role Can Tech Serve in the Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis?

Agnes Medinaceli Baldivieso

Emptiness and normality in eastern Germany

Friederike Pank

Empty Houses in Locked-down London

Mayanka Mukherji

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

Loren B Landau

What is the impact of refugee repatriation for communities of return?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

The Enigmas of Transport in COVID-19

John Surico

Firefighting the pandemic is inadvertently teaching India how to govern migration

Mukta Naik

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

Bridget Anderson

The impact of immobility on intergenerational relations

Piero Vereni

Social integration and cohesion in a time of social distancing

Jacqui Broadhead

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

Erin Harris

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

Johanna Bankston

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

Roxana Akhmetova

The mobility of a few for the survival of the many

Barclay Bram Shoemaker

Aeromobilities’ underbelly revealed in COVID-19 crisis

Lin Weiqiang

The new power of the technologies of immobility

Sharifah Muhammad Talib Alhinai

‘Unprecedented’ pandemic and the crisis of mobility in India

Vyoma Dhar Sharma

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

Shahram Khosravi

Hoarding: (Im)mobilizing things

Dace Dzenovska

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

Franck Düvell

Emptiness (Part II): An uncertain spring

Mathilde Morin

Mobile Livelihoods in Stress

Biao Xiang

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

Georgios Glouftsios

Human mobility spreads COVID-19, but whose mobility?

Qiujie Shi and Tao Liu

Down or Out? Mobility and the management of epidemics

Jennifer Holdaway

Emptiness (Part I): The empty streets of Blackpool

Dace Dzenovska

The Corona-pandemic: from parasitic mobility to convenient crisis

Stephan Scheel

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

Biao Xiang

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

Robin Cohen

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

Gilda Borriello and Asli Salihoglu

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

Domiziana Turcatti

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

Ou Ning

Coronavirus: A (missed) chance to rethink racism?

Domiziana Turcatti

In response to ‘From Chain Reaction to Grid Reaction’.

Tianlong You

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

Biao Xiang

The Ecological Footprint of Refugees

Jean-Francois Maystadt

Five lessons from an urban experiment in asylum reception

Sarah Spencer

Are all migrants more entrepreneurial than the native-born?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Cory Rodgers

Refugia – a new solution for displacement?

COMPAS Communications

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

Rob McNeil

2019

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

COMPAS Communications

COMPAS book review: The Windrush Betrayal by Amelia Gentleman

Rob McNeil

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

Nicola Delvino

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

Alan Gamlen and Henry Sherrell

Guest Blog: Latest Withdrawal Agreement Fails Romanian and Bulgarian Workers

Raluca Bejan

What should happen to immigration policy after Brexit?

Madeleine Sumption

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

Jacqui Broadhead

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

Daniel Auer and Daniel Tetlow

Upcoming Highlights in Migration Studies

Alan Gamlen

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

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Sarah Spencer

Who Counts in Crises?

William Allen

The impact of ethnic stereotypes on employment

Mariña Fernández-Reino

Reasons for Migration and the Labour Market Implications of Brexit

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Sarah Spencer and Jacqui Broadhead

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

Ilka Vari-Lavoisier

Routed Magazine

Max Cohen

From Migration Research to Policy: MSc Migration visit to Geneva

Saskia Llewellyn, Will Jernigan and Elisabetta Grisson

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

COMPAS Communications

Turning the camera around: who watches the watchers?

Rob McNeil

The Timespace of Emptiness

Dace Dzenovska

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

Marcus Österman, Joakim Palme & Martin Ruhs

Stepping into the stories behind immigration data

William Allen

2018

The COMPAS 2018 list of best books on migration

COMPAS Communications

In Conversation with Biao Xiang

Anne Schnitzer & Emrah Celik

High Skilled Migration and Automation Uncertainty

Nilanjan Raghunath

COMPAS Round-up Autumn 2018

COMPAS communications team

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

Rob McNeil

Migration and the Positive Role Employers Can Play

Jacqui Broadhead

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

Klaudia Wegschaider

Furthering Refugia: Engaging with our Critics

Nicholas Van Hear

A Global Crisis in Care?

Fiona Williams

The New DPhil in Migration Studies

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

COMPAS Communications

Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks

Osea Giuntella, Carlos Vargas-Silva & Catia Nicodemo

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

COMPAS Communications

Sacralized Public Safety and Privatized Religious Care in Immigrant Family Detention

Gregory Lee Cuéllar

Farewell clichés

COMPAS Communications

National institutions vs EU policies?

Martin Ruhs, Joakim Palme

COMPAS Round Up Spring 2018

COMPAS communications team

How data visualisations connect researchers with users

William Allen

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

Kamyar Jarahzadeh

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

Jacqui Broadhead

2017

Academic Talents in Singapore: Coming, Going or Staying?

Lucie Cerna & Meng-Hsuan Chou

Media Reporting of Migrants and Migration: A Global Perspective

William Allen and Rob McNeil

COMPAS Round Up Autumn 2017

COMPAS communications team

COMPAS Round Up Summer 2017

COMPAS communications team

Migration, Diversity and Cities – IMISCOE 2017

Jacqui Broadhead

Does Immigration Enforcement Matter (DIEM) project news

COMPAS Communications

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

MSc graduates

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

Faraz Shibli

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

COMPAS Communications

Permanent Residence and the power of bureaucracy

COMPAS Communications

What does it take to be truly one of us?

Mikal Mast

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

William Allen

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

Nando Sigona & Rachel Humphris

Where next for migration studies? Reflecting and rethinking

COMPAS Communications

2016

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

Yan Matusevich

The Impact Factor of migration journals: An update

Carlos Vargas-Silva

The “new other” and the liberal-left

Dace Dzenovska

Confessions of a Bad Migrant [MSc guest blog]

Nina Swen

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

Samim Lambrecht

The new lefts

Nicholas Van Hear

Boundary Making and the Broad Ripples of Immigration Enforcement

Melanie Griffiths

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

Marie Godin & Giulia Liberatore

On Contemporary Art and Migration [MSc guest blog]

Emine Yeter

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

William Allen

A New Era for International Workers in Turkey?

Selman Salim Kesgin

Belonging in the era of Brexit

COMPAS Communications

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

Michael Keith, Nicholas Simcik Arese & Andreza De Souza Santos

Hierarchies of Displacement [MSc guest blog]

Emily Johanson

The Conservative migration plan: does it work for anyone?

COMPAS Communications

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

Bobbie Mills

Migration, Disability, and Plain Language [MSc guest blog]

Jonathan Paul Katz

Refuge in Technology [MSc guest blog]

Aliyyah Ahad

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

Tommaso Trillò

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

Rachel Humphris & Nando Sigona

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

Emel Coşkun

Paradoxically European: how a spike in xenophobia revalues EU citizenship

COMPAS Communications

Targets for reducing migration: what do we control?

Madeleine Sumption

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

COMPAS Communications

Imagining Refugia

Nicholas Van Hear

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

Anduriña Espinoza-Wasil, Jessamy Garver-Affeldt, Asha Jibril, Matthew Longmore & Jiani Song

The paradoxes of (anti)racism in compulsory education

Pier-Luc Dupont

The Economic Outcomes of Refugees and Other Migrants in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Extremism in PREVENT

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

Tanya: a migration story

Dace Dzenovska

Media agendas and the corrosive use of water metaphors

COMPAS Communications

How migration visualisations persuade us that they are correct

William Allen

Rights or Philanthropy: Emotions of Solidarity with Refugees

Serhat Karakayali

Free movement of (overqualified) migrant workers

COMPAS Communications

What is our moral obligation to the stranger?

COMPAS Communications

How could research have better anticipated the migration crisis?

COMPAS Communications

Governance of International Skilled Migration: Scalar Politics and Network Relations

Micheline van Riemsdijk

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016

COMPAS Communications

Understanding migration

COMPAS Communications

Mobility, class and country of origin in the Western Balkans

Diana Ihring

Travelling home: Pleasures and phobias

COMPAS Communications

2015

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results

COMPAS Communications

Swedish ‘Revolution’ in Labour Immigration Policy

Frida Boräng & Lucie Cerna

Begging and the free movement of poverty

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015

COMPAS Communications

Net migration statistics behind the headlines

Madeleine Sumption

Is ‘resilience’ a panacea?

COMPAS Communications

Action for Inclusion in Europe

COMPAS Communications

The politics of belonging: Transnational Korean adoptees in Denmark

Youngeun Koo

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

Bobbie Mills

Leaving Palestine

Nicholas Van Hear

Refugee crisis, compassion and Eastern Europe

Dace Dzenovska

Which migration journal has the highest Impact Factor?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Immigration and Austerity: Only Connect

COMPAS Communications

Immigration Acts and health bills

COMPAS Communications

People Move

Ben Doherty

Tap LinkedIn for data gold dust

Carlos Vargas-Silva

What to do about Calais, in 50 words

COMPAS Communications

The base: From peasant revolution to labour migration management

Biao Xiang

Illegality vs Irregularity

COMPAS Communications

Changing the impact format: new groups, new engagement

Ida Persson

Gender and Migration: Reflecting on the Debate

Bridget Anderson

How did migration play out in the 2015 General Election?

Ben Gidley

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

Martin Ruhs

Remittance revolution unlocks funds

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law

Catherine Briddick

The making of our categories

Ole Jensen

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

Gabriella Sanchez

The conflicting policy agendas of immigration control and ending child poverty

Jonathan Price

Gendering Migration

Melanie Griffiths

The right to have rights: Safeguarding children from destitution

Ben Gidley

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

Julia O'Connell Davidson

Mothers’ Migration Motivations

Brandy Cochrane

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

Giulia Liberatore

The enduring damage of displacement

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Twenty years later the refugees are back

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Hiranthi Jayaweera

The Waiting Game: An experience with a point

Ida Persson

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

Sara Maher

Not racist, just resentful

Ben Gidley

Book Review: The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women

Angelo Tramountanis

Urbanites: indifferent to difference?

Pier-Luc Dupont

Citizenship as a concept

COMPAS Communications

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

Yvonni Markaki

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

Helen McCarthy

Border Crossings and Gender in the Greek Detention System

Mary Bosworth, Sharon Pickering and Andriani Fili

Valorised and Vilified: What Do ‘Citizens’ Do?

William Allen

Spousal Migration, Gender and UK Immigration Law

Helena Wray

The positive legacy of refugee camps

Carlos Vargas-Silva

On the mainstreaming of EAL provision in England

COMPAS Communications

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

Sarah Turnbull

Backing themselves: East Timorese labour migrants in Oxford

Andrew McWilliam

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

Bodean Hedwards

Reflections on African Pentecostals in London and the ‘political’

COMPAS Communications

Education and perceptions: learning about migration through theatre

COMPAS Communications

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

Luke de Noronha

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

COMPAS Communications

When ‘brain drain’ is a good thing

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Ana Ballesteros Pena and Anna Morero Beltrán

Studying Mobility in a Context of Immobility

Richard Allen

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

Francesca Esposito

The numbers game: illusions of control

COMPAS Communications

Gender & migration: An introduction and a conversation

COMPAS Communications

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

Nicholas Van Hear

Race and Racism

Rachel Humphris

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

COMPAS Communications

What do I know about quantum mechanics?

COMPAS Communications

Everyday Resistance

Rob McNeil

Immigrant Investor Programmes: Navigating Economic and Political Tensions

Madeleine Sumption

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

COMPAS Communications

The Life of a Multiple Migrant

Richard Allen

Migration and the political

Dace Dzenovska

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

Morwari Zafar

Climate change and migration: COMPAS December Breakfast Briefing

COMPAS Communications

2014

The floating label of ‘the migrant’

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

Understanding foreign fighters: COMPAS November Breakfast Briefing

COMPAS Communications

Are migrant health professionals welcome in the UK?

COMPAS Communications

Schooling, mobility and belonging

COMPAS Communications

A tale of two cities: Melilla and Calais

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

From New Helots to New Diasporas: a retrospective for Robin Cohen

Nicholas Van Hear

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

COMPAS Communications

Human rights in health: migrants in low-skilled work in Asia

COMPAS Communications

Italy’s story to tell on services for irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

The Upward Concentration of Chinese Emigration and the Rise of China

Biao Xiang

Turning British

Mikal Mast

Kenyan Pentecostals in London: Reflections on religion and migration

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

The Light of Evidence 3: Continuing the policy debate

COMPAS Communications

Hard Evidence: are migrants good for the economy?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

COMPAS Communications

The course of true love never did run smooth

Melanie Griffiths

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

COMPAS Communications

Colombia: A Wandering Country?

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Teaching practitioners about migration: Challenges and opportunities for ASEAN

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

The Scottish diaspora and Scottish independence

Rob McNeil

Reverse missionizing: Migration, Christianity, and civic engagement in London

COMPAS Communications

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

William Allen

Norway’s not so cuddly welfare state

Sarah Spencer

Integration: a European research agenda

COMPAS Communications

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

Scott Blinder & Anne-Marie Jeannet

#Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies

COMPAS Communications

The Would-Be Migrant

Biao Xiang

Anthology of writing about migration available free online

Michael Keith

Claiming the flag

COMPAS Communications

Nikkei Cuisine: understanding immigration through food

Richard Allen

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

Anna Krausova, Research Officer

Figuring out diaspora roles in social recovery

Nicholas Van Hear

The Crisis in Ukraine and its Implications for Migration in Europe

COMPAS Communications

Notes on power in scenes of denunciation

Dace Dzenovska

Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Health and border control

COMPAS Communications

Re-Thinking ‘Risk’ in Migration

Esra Kaytaz, DPhil Social Anthropology

Final Destination Maghreb: The transformation of transit countries

COMPAS Communications

Al Qaeda, bureaucracy and migration as scalar intersection

Biao Xiang

Ten features of labour immigration policies in high-income countries

COMPAS Communications

Barriers to migration: Are policing and fencing the answer?

COMPAS Communications

2013

Theresa May’s slavery bill won’t help domestic workers

Bridget Anderson and Julia O'Connell Davison, University of Nottingham

What we talk about when we talk about immigration

Mikal Mast

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

COMPAS Communications

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

Anna Krausova, Research Officer, Migration Observatory

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

William Allen

The Political Power of the Social Norm against Prejudice

COMPAS Communications

Flight and Fight

Nicholas Van Hear

Defending the rights of migrants – a price worth paying

COMPAS Communications

On borders and a wicked bird

COMPAS Communications

Celebrating 10 years of COMPAS in numbers

COMPAS Communications

The Good Worker

Dace Dzenovska

Migration in Scotland

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Mission integration: an update on the EUMIA project

COMPAS Communications

City responses to irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Observing differences: asylum appeals in the UK

Melanie Griffiths, University of Bristol; Nick Gill, University of Exeter and Andrew Burridge, University of Exeter

The Diversity Turn

COMPAS Communications

Saudi Arabia and its immigrants

COMPAS Communications

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

William Allen

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

COMPAS Communications

Windows: The 21st century migration experience

Biao Xiang

Light of Evidence 2: the wider debate on migration

COMPAS Communications

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

Mikal Mast

Holding a mirror to ourselves: British Lifestyle migration

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

The 2011 Census project

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Dream on

Nicholas Van Hear

Migration data and attitudes in the context of the Scottish independence referendum

COMPAS Communications

Nostalgia and diversity: Understanding integration at the local level

COMPAS Communications

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

Sarah Spencer

Stuck in traffic: How helpful is the trafficking framework?

COMPAS Communications

Taking popularity seriously

COMPAS Communications

The Oxford Migration Studies Society: Conference News

Ka-Kin Cheuk, D.Phil Student, COMPAS and President, Oxford Migration Studies Society

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

Morwari Zafar, DPhil Anthropology

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

Dace Dzenovska

Immigration and Welfare: Beyond Us and Them

COMPAS Communications

Integration: linking research and learning

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

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

William Allen

Diasporic school associations

COMPAS Communications

The uncertainties of diaspora research

COMPAS Communications

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – a film about migrants?

Mikal Mast

Migration and non-communicable diseases

COMPAS Communications

The infrastructural turn: the Chinese example

Biao Xiang

Before international research cooperation lies the UK border

COMPAS Communications

Versta je me? (Do you understand me?)

COMPAS Communications

It’s about time

Marthe Achtnich and Roger Norum, COMPAS DPhil students

The economics of forced migration

Carlos Vargas-Silva

2012

Reflecting on migrant journeys

Nicholas Van Hear

The Iraqi diaspora in Germany and its role in reconstruction in Iraq

Menderes Candan, COMPAS Visiting Academic

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

COMPAS Communications

Five principles of integration: policies and inclusion

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

New guidance on integration from an unexpected source

Sarah Spencer

Elections in Ukraine: former migrant and boxer turned politician

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

New Lives and Dreams: The Results

COMPAS Communications

Tourism and migration: two kinds of mobility

COMPAS Communications

The Love of Learning: Migrants and Education

COMPAS Communications

From the Great Wall to maze pipelines

Biao Xiang

Integration and neighbourhood relations in South London

COMPAS Communications

Dr Who and The Migrants

COMPAS Communications

Whose Dreams Are Alive? Thinking about News Media as Stories

William Allen

What is the Oxford University MSc in Migration Studies?

COMPAS Communications

Recipe for a diaspora: take one millionaire…

COMPAS Communications

Two key unanswered questions about the fiscal impact of migration

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Four decades after the expulsion of Ugandan Asians

Nicholas Van Hear

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

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

The Light of Evidence

COMPAS Communications

Our Migrations Journey into British Art

COMPAS Communications

The migrant as an invented subject: A response

COMPAS Communications

Are there such people as “migrants”?

Biao Xiang

New family rules v integration?

Sarah Spencer

Everyday multiculturalism

COMPAS Communications

Sticks and stones…

Rob McNeil

An exclusive party?

COMPAS Communications

No Way Out, No Way In

COMPAS Communications

Only connect? Migration and the right to the city

Michael Keith

On display in Stockholm

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

Controlling the purse strings

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

Dutch-American-British?

Mikal Mast

Pen-top emotion

COMPAS Communications

Who’s in?

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

A different kind of mother’s day

COMPAS Communications

Gypsies, tramps and thieves?

Rob McNeil

Understanding a diaspora through Lamu Maulid

COMPAS Communications

Creating the Conditions for Integration

COMPAS Communications

Border Crossing: Material Culture & Experience

Marisa Macari, COMPAS DPhil Student

Is there such a thing as migration?

Biao Xiang

Migration and Economic Growth

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

Rob McNeil

Where do you call home?

COMPAS Communications

A snapshot of urban dynamics

COMPAS Communications

2011

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

COMPAS Communications

Migration and Generation

COMPAS Communications

A picture paints a thousand words…..

COMPAS Communications

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

Neil Howard, PhD student, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, writing his thesis on anti-trafficking discourse and policy

How will climate change impact on migration?

COMPAS Communications

Swedish Exceptionalism

COMPAS Communications

Time to embrace the Daily Mail…

Rob McNeil

Renationalization?

Biao Xiang

What do we really think about migration?

Rob McNeil

Shifting powers: two decades of migration and global turbulence

Nicholas Van Hear

British Attitudes to Immigration

COMPAS Communications

Ethnography, diversity and urban space

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

Seven Years after the Eastern European Enlargement

Carlos Vargas-Silva

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

COMPAS Communications

Towards an understanding of integration at neighbourhood level

COMPAS Communications

A sending country perspective: Imagining Europe from the outside

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

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

Stephanie Silverman, DPhil Politics and International Relations

Research impact: thinking outside the tick box

COMPAS Communications

Real integration takes time

COMPAS Communications