List of Working Papers

Series editor: Mariña Fernández-Reino

The aim of the COMPAS Working Paper Series is to share new research in the field of migration with a wide audience of academics and policy practitioners. We welcome papers from any social science discipline that relate in some way to the COMPAS research agenda on migration.

COMPAS staff, Visiting Academics, Research Affiliates and DPhil students are invited to submit their research to the COMPAS Working Paper Series, but we welcome submissions from other academics and graduate students at the University of Oxford.

The working paper series is designed to communicate work-in-progress that will be eventually published as a journal article or book chapter. However, some journals do not admit papers that have been already published as working papers and may consider them ‘prior publication’. It is the responsibility of the authors to make sure that the publication in the COMPAS Working Paper Series does not risk their chances for future publication in a journal or book. If the working paper and journal article differ greatly, please ensure the title is different too.

All working papers will be reviewed by COMPAS staff.

Formatting guidelines

All submissions must include the following information:

– Title
– Author(s)’ name and contact details
– Abstract of 250 words
– The main text should not exceed 9,000 words, including references
– Tables, images and charts should be included within the text
– The bibliography may be in a style of your choosing as long as it is used consistently
– Line spacing of 1.5
– The following statement will be shown on the title page – ‘The views expressed in this document are those of its author and should not be regarded as representing the views of COMPAS.’

Please submit files as word documents. COMPAS will format the text according to our Working Paper publication template.

Submissions should be sent to Mariña Fernández-Reino (marina.fernandez-reino@compas.ox.ac.uk).

2023

Will Sunak’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policy have perverse consequences? A research agenda

Robin Cohen

Golden passports: European Commission and European Parliament reports built on quicksand

Hans Ulrich Jessurun d’Oliveira

2022

It’s All about Blood, Baby! The European Commission’s Ongoing Attack against Investment Migration in the Context of EU Law and International Law

Dimitry V. Kochenov & Elena Basheska

Nationality-Based Bans from the Schengen Zone: Dissecting a Populist Proposal and Its Unlawful Implementation by Poland and the Baltic States

Sarah Ganty, Dimitry V. Kochenov & Suryapratim Roy

Investment Migration Globally: The Dynamics of Supply and Demand

Kristin Surak

The Economics of Investment Migration: The Citizenship and Residence Industry and Economic Outcomes

Kristin Surak

Local Responses to Migrants with Precarious Status: Frames, Strategies and Evolving Practices in Europe

Adrienne Homberger, Maren Kirchhoff, Marie-Laure Mallet, Ilker Ataç, Simon Güntner & Sarah Spencer

2021

Victims of Citizenship: Feudal Statuses for Sale in the Hypocrisy Republic

Dimitry Kochenov

The Integration of Refugees in Romania: A Non-Preferred Choice

Raluca Bejan

Mutual aid in the Central Mediterranean: The responses of search and rescue NGOs to Italy’s and the EU’s governance of the border

Giovanni Penna

A Terrible Great Idea? COVID-19 ‘Vaccination Passports’ in the Spotlight

Oskar Josef Gstrein, Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov & Andrej Zwitter

2020

The Weight of Public Opinion: Tracing the Social and Political Genealogy of the British Nationality Act 1981

Carl Altaner

Migrations in Latin America and the Mediterranean compared: Violence, state cruelty and (un-)institutional resistance

Various contributors

Locating Privilege in Transnational Mobilities: The Case of Diplomatic Communities

Sarah Ayumi Ginoux

Nonaligned Mobilities and the Post-Yugoslav Political Imaginary

Helena Ratté

Family Separation and Family Detention: The Punitive Construction of a False Binary along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Julia Romani Yanoff

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

Charles Heller

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

Alan Gamlen

Constructing statelessness: Migration, indigeneity and citizenship law in Southeast Asia

Will Jernigan

2019

Aspirations, capabilities and (im)mobility: Integration policy and migration experiences in Germany

Timo Schmidt

2018

Elephant and Castle: Mapping (Super-)Diversity in the 2011 UK Census

Anna Krausova

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

Yvonni Markaki

‘We the Sudanese refugees’: examining how tensions between identity and identification play out in protests

Rosanna O’Keeffe

Debt-migration and workers’ remittances

Gazi M. Hassan & Mark J. Holmes

Defining diaspora: Expanding upon process-oriented analysis of diaspora engagement

Jeffrey Hallock

Differences in labour market outcomes between natives, refugees and other migrants in the UK

Isabel Ruiz & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Immigrant enforcement and children’s living arrangements

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & Esther Arenas-Arroyo

Internal borders and migration in India

Zovanga L. Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Çağlar Özden & Siddharth Sharma

Immigrant fertility in the midst of intensified enforcement

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & Esther Arenas-Arroyo

2017

Strategies and policy effects in the global talent race: foreign academics in Singapore

Lucie Cerna & Meng-Hsuan Chou

2016

Theorising the (de)construction of ethnic stigma in compulsory education

Pier-Luc Dupont

Chiefs, Migrants and the State: Mobility in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

Nathalie Raunet

“A privilege, not a right”: Contemporary debates on citizenship deprivation in Britain and France.

Bobbie Mills

Governance of International Skilled Migration: Scalar Politics and Network Relations

Micheline van Riemsdijk

Re-thinking Immigrant Investment Funds

Alan Gamlen, Chris Kutarna, & Ashby Monk

2015

Swedish Labour Immigration Policy: The Role of Unions, Employers and Political Parties

Frida Boräng & Lucie Cerna

Call me illegal: The semantic struggle over seeking asylum in Australia

Ben Doherty

Is unrestricted immigration compatible with inclusive welfare states? The (un)sustainability of EU exceptionalism

Martin Ruhs

Masculinity and the ‘Ideal Victim’ in the US Trafficking Discourse

Saskia Blume

The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Diasporas and Conflict

Nicholas Van Hear & Robin Cohen

Unpacking the Figure of the “Foreign Criminal”: Race, Gender and the Victim-Villain Binary

Luke de Noronha

The Making of the Irish Traveller Community: Mobility Discourse, Settlement Policies and the Irish state 1950-2010

Ina Ruckstuhl

Understanding the Aspiration to Stay: A Case Study of Young Adults in Senegal

Kerilyn Schewel

2014

The Interactions of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing

Reza Hasmath

Understanding the Electoral Breakthrough of Golden Dawn in Greece: A Demand and Supply Perspective

Roxani Roushas

Belonging on the Move: The Question of Clan Amongst Somali Migrants

Farhan Samanani

The Internationalisation of Higher Education: Three European Universities in Comparative Perspective

Lucie Cerna

Foreign Detachment: The Making and Unmaking of Cross-Border Ties

Roger Waldinger

Numbers and Waves, the Illegal and the Skilled: The Effects of Media Portrayals of Immigrants on Public Opinion in Britain

Scott Blinder, Anne-Marie Jeannet

Constructing Immigrants: Portrayals of Migrant Groups in British Newspapers, 2010-2012

William Allen and COMPAS Communications

Chinese Student Migration and Integration in the UK: An Exploration of Links to and Engagement with Local Communities in Nottingham

Bin Wu

2013

Deterring the “Boat People”: Explaining the Australian Government’s People Swap Response to Asylum Seekers

Reza Hasmath

The Christianisation of Afghan and Iranian Transit Migrants in Istanbul: Encounters at the Biopolitical Border

Shoshana Fine

Frenzied, Decelerating and Suspended: The Temporal Uncertainties of Failed Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees

Melanie Griffiths

How to Understand the Outcomes of Migration Policy? A Study of the Return Agreement Between Norway and Ethiopia

Cathrine Eide

Is Citizenship the Answer? Constructions of Belonging and Exclusion for the Stateless Rohingya of Burma

Cresa L. Pugh

Immigration and Extreme-Right Voting in France: A Contextual Analysis of the 2012 Presidential Elections

Sebastien Rojon

Local Belonging, National Authenticity, and the Foreigner: The Encounter Between Bangladeshi and Senegalese Street Hawkers and International Holidaymakers in Rome and Naples, Italy

Phoenix Paz

Young Latin Americans in Barcelona, London, and Oxford: Building Identities in Contexts of Inequality and Discrimination

Núria Roca i Caparà

2012

What Does “The Migrant” Tell Us About the (Good) Citizen?

COMPAS Communications

Exclusionary Rhetoric Expansionist Policies? Right-wing Parties and Immigration Policy-making in Italy

Elif Çetin

Imagined Immigration: The Different Meanings of “Immigrants” in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain

COMPAS Communications

The Sweden Democrats: Anti-Immigration Politics under the Stigma of Racism

Vidhya Ramalingam

Physical Insecurity and Anti-Immigration Views in Western Europe

Mihail Chiru, Sergiu Gherghina

Migrant Britain, Sustainable Germany: Explaining Differences in the International Migration of Health Professionals

Kirsten Hoesch

Fragile Convivialities: Everyday Living Together in Two Stateless but Diverse Regions, Catalonia and Casamance

Tilmann Heil

“And They Lived Happily Ever After?”: Ecuadorian’s Re-Socialisation in the Spanish Labour Market Through Regularisation of Immigration Status

Charlotte Fiala

Return to the Isle of Man: The Implications of Internment for Understanding Immigration Detention in the UK

Stephanie Silverman

2011

The Importance of Peers: Assimilation Patterns among Second-Generation Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe

Syed Ali, Tineke Fokkema

Polish Migration to the UK: Continuities and Discontinuities

Franck Düvell, Michael Garapich

Cast(e) in Bone: The Perpetuation of Social Hierarchy among Nepalis in Britain

Mitra Pariyar

The Relationship Between Immigration Status and Rights in the UK: Exploring the Rationale

Sarah Spencer, Jason Pobjoy

The Myth of “Weak Ties” and the Ghost of the Polish Peasant: Informal Networks of Polish Post-Transition Migrants in the UK and Germany

Malgorzata Irek

Openness, Skills and Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Labour Immigration Programmes in 46 High- and Middle-income Countries

COMPAS Communications

Conceptualizing the Integration of Immigrants and Other Groups

Didier Ruedin

Nepali Nurses in Great Britain: The Paradox of Professional Belonging

Sondra L. Hausner

Commonplace Diversity and the “Ethos of Mixing”: Perceptions of Difference in a London Neighbourhood

Susanne Wessendorf

“Daughters-in-law of Korea?”: Policies and Discourse on Migration in South Korea

Young Jeong Kim

Young Adults of Latin American Origin in London and Oxford: Identities, Discrimination and Social Inclusion

Núria Roca i Caparà

2010

Voluntary Return Programmes: Could they Assuage the effects of the Economic Crisis?

Piotra Plewa

Standing Together Apart: Bilateral Migration Agreements and the Temporary Movement of Persons Under “Mode 4” of GATS

Marion Panizzon

Being Children and Undocumented in the UK: A Background Paper

COMPAS Communications

Migration and Climate Change: An Overview

Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud, Paul de Guchteneire

Immigration Detention in America: A History of its Expansion and a Study of its Significance

Stephanie Silverman

Labor Shortages and US Immigration Reform: Promises and Perils of an Independent Commission

Martin Ruhs, Philip Martin

Building Demography into Migration Research: Population Change and the Latent Demand for Migration in 21st Century Europe

Richard Allen

2009

Coercion/Consent in Labour

Robert Steinfeld

A Global Perspective on Transnational Migration: Theorizing Migration Without Methodological Nationalism

Nina Glick-Schiller

Migration From Iraq Between the Gulf and the Iraq Wars (1990-2003): Historical and Socio-Spatial Dimensions

Géraldine Chatelard

Migrant Labour in Kazakhstan: A Cause for Concern?

Bridget Anderson, Blanka Hancilova

International Student Migration and Social Stratification in China

Biao Xiang, Wei Shen

The Controllability of Difference: Social Solidarity and Immgrant Integration

Richard Allen

“No One Comes Here on Their Own”: The System of Child Labour Migration in Bangladesh

Karin Heissler

“To Belong or Not to Belong”: Is that the Question?’ Negotiating Belonging in Multi-Ethnic London

Ellie Vasta, Sofia Hamaz

Globalisation Backlash? The Influence of Global Governance in Trade and Immigration

Lucie Cerna, William Hynes

2008

Local Attachments and Transnational Everyday Lives: Second Generation Italians in Switzerland

Susanne Wessendorf

A Ritual Economy of ‘Talent’: China and Overseas Chinese Professionals

Biao Xiang, Xiang Biao

The Paper Market: “Borrowing” and “Renting” of Identity Documents

Richard Allen

Transnationalising Civil Society?: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on how to Transnationalise Citizenship

Martin Bak Jorgensen

Why Engage Diasporas?

Alan Gamlen

“Illegal Immigrant”: Victim or Villain?

COMPAS Communications

Towards an EU Blue Card? The Delegation of National High-Skilled Immigration Policies to the EU Level

Lucie Cerna

2007

Differentiating Irregularity and Solidarity: Turkish Immigrants at Work in London

Ellie Vasta, Aykan Erdemir

The Role of Transnational Networks and Legal Status in Securing a Living: Ghanaian Migrants in The Netherlands

Valentina Mazzucato

How (Not) to Think about Ethnicity in Immigrant Societies: A Boundary Making Perspective

Andreas Wimmer

The 2006 French Immigration and Integration Law: Europeanisation or Nicolas Sarkozy’s Presidential Keystone?

Meng-Hsuan Chou, Nicolas Baygert

French and British Models of Integration Public Philosophies, Policies and State Institutions

Christophe Bertossi

The Early Morning Phonecall: Remittances From a Refugee Diaspora Perspective

Anna Lindley

Motherhood, Apple Pie and Slavery: Reflections on Trafficking Debates

COMPAS Communications

Political Exclusion and the Politics of Recognition Among the Second Generation: The Swiss Citizenship Debate

Susanne Wessendorf

Anthropological Perspectives on Migrants’ Political Engagements

Richard Allen

Are You Being Served? Employer Demand for Migrant Labour in the UK’s Hospitality Sector

Martin Ruhs, Gareth Matthews

“London the Leveller”: Ghanaian Work Strategies and Community Solidarity

Ellie Vasta, Leander Kandilige

Accommodating Diversity: Why Current Critiques of Multiculturalism Miss the Point

Richard Allen

Between Courting and Controlling: The Moroccan State and ‘Its’ Emigrants

Hein de Haas

Battles in Time: The Relation Between Global and Labour Mobilities

COMPAS Communications

Legality and Labour: Chinese Migration, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK and China

Biao Xiang

New Europeans on the Move: A Preliminary Review of the Onward Migration of Refugees Within the European Union

Nicholas Van Hear, Anna Lindley

Libyan Nationals in the United Kingdom: Geo-political Considerations and Trends in Asylum and Return

Brad Blitz

2006

The Emergence of Super-Diversity in Britain

COMPAS Communications

From Ethnic Minorities to Ethnic Majority Policy: Changing Identities and the Shift to Assimilationism in the Netherlands

Richard Allen

How to Balance Rights and Responsibilities on Asylum at the EU’s Southern Border of Italy and Libya

Richard Allen

A Very Private Business: Migration and Domestic Work

COMPAS Communications

Islam as a Symbol of Protest: Reactions of Dutch-Moroccan Youths to the Debate on Islam

Lenie Brouwer

The Origins and Functions of Illegality in Migrant Labour Markets: An Analysis of Migrants, Employers and the State in the UK

COMPAS Communications

States of Insecurity: Consequences of Saharan Transit Migration

Michael Collyer

Diaspora Engagement Policies: What Are They, and What Kinds of States Use Them?

Alan Gamlen

Crossing the Fringes of Europe: Transit Migration in the EU’s Neighbourhood

COMPAS Communications

Can the Government Manage Migration? A Study of UK Legislation and Policy From 1996-2006

Cathy Gardner

“Roots-migrants”: Transnationalism and “Return” Among Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland

Susanne Wessendorf

The Externalisation of EU Asylum Policy: The Position of African States

Alexander Betts, James Milner

EU and the Migration-Development Nexus: What Prospects for EU-Wide Policies?

Meng-Hsuan Chou

Greasing the Wheels of the Flexible Labour Market: East European Labour Immigration in the UK

COMPAS Communications

Colombian Migration to Europe: Political Transnationalism in the Middle of Conflict

Anastasia Bermúdez Torres

Numbers vs. Rights: Trade-offs and Guest Worker Programmes

Martin Ruhs, Philip Martin

Diasporas Good? Diasporas Bad?

COMPAS Communications

2005

What Does “Efficiency” Mean in the Context of the Global Refugee Regime?

Alexander Betts

The Brain Drain is Dead, Long Live the New Zealand Diaspora

Alan Gamlen

Theoretical Fashions in Australian Immigration Research

Richard Allen

How Far Are the Left-Behind Left Behind? A Preliminary Study in Rural China

Biao Xiang

The Political Importance of Diasporas

COMPAS Communications

Backlash Against Diversity? Identity and Cultural Politics in European Cities

Ralph Grillo

“No Pizza without Migrants”: Between the Politics of Identity and Transnationalism: Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland

Susanne Wessendorf

Does Migration Research Matter in China ? A Review of Migration Research and its Relations to Policy Since the 1980s

Biao Xiang, Tan Shen

International Migration and Knowledge

Allan Williams

Migration and Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Diversity in Europe: An Overview of Issues and Trends

Steve Vertovec, Susanne Wessendorf

Immigrants and the Politics of Governance in Barcelona

Richard Allen

The Realities of a New Asylum Paradigm

COMPAS Communications

Deserving of Decent Work: The Complications of Organizing Irregular Workers Without Legal Rights

Nicole Silverman

Re-casting Societies in Conflict

Nicholas Van Hear

Evidence on Attitudes to Asylum and Immigration: What We Know, Don’t Know and Need to Know

Heaven Crawley

Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration Order

Richard Allen

2004

The Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Europe

COMPAS Communications

Informal Employment and Immigrant Networks: A Review Paper

Richard Allen

Trends and Impacts of Migrant Transnationalism

COMPAS Communications

Skilled Health Professionals’ Migration and its Impact on Health Delivery in Zimbabwe

Abel Chikanda

The Epidemiology of Migration and AIDS in South Africa

Mark Lurie

“I Went As Far As My Money Would Take Me”: Conflict, Forced Migration and Class

Nicholas Van Hear

Migration and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Literature Review with Focus on Peru and Argentina

COMPAS Communications

Policy Options for Increasing the Benefits of Remittances

Jørgen Carling