COMPAS Research Projects
Our research projects cover a wide range of issues on national and international migration. Search according to topic or geographical region.
- Making sense of the war in Ukraine
- Understanding Attitudes and Policy Preferences in Response to South-South Migration
- Feeding the Nation: seasonal migrant workers and food security during COVID-19 pandemic
- Migration and Museums Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
- The Autumn Academy
- The Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
- Tracking Public Attitudes and Preferences for Post-COVID-19 Labour Migration Policies
- “Safe reporting” of crime for victims and witnesses with irregular migration status in the USA and Europe
- H2020-Smart Cities and Communities-REPLICATE lighthouse project
- Migration, diasporas and planning for cosmopolitan urbanity in smaller municipalities in the UK and Germany
- Migration Making Places and Making People: New Narratives of Inclusion
- The Socio-Economic Impact of Refugees on Local Communities
- Balancing Citizenship of Insiders and Outsiders
- Border Fence: Mobility, Infrastucture, and Geopolitics in the Latvian-Russian Borderlands
- Female Muslim Leaders in Britain: Transnational Publics and Changing Forms of Leadership and Authority
- Messaging Mobility: Exploring and Creating New Narratives About Migration and Human Movement in a Changing World
- Migration Services in Wales
- Representing Freedom: How Mobility is Remade Through Data Visualisation
- Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms (REMINDER)
- The Economic Integration of Refugees in the UK (ECONREF)
- The ethics and politics of the refugee crisis
- Urban Transformations and Foresight Future of Cities Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
- Utrecht Refugee Launchpad
- An Introduction to International Migration Issues: Analysis for Georgia and the EU
- Begging, Work and Citizenship
- Immigration and the NHS
- Online Tool to Improve the Assessment of Destitute Families’ Eligibility for Support
- Precarious workers, troubled nation – the reconfiguration of national attachment through precarious work. A case study of Romanian migrants in London
- The employment and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in South East Asia
- Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis (MEDMIG)
- Voluntary Sector Safeguarding Services for Migrant Children and Families: Opportunities and Challenges
- Exploring Migration: Research and Drama in Schools
- Immigrants and Employment Discrimination
- Integration Policies: Who Benefits?
- Local Government Welfare Responses to Children and Families who Have ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’
- Migration and Poverty in the UK
- Seeing Data: Are Good Big Data Visualisations Possible?
- Servicing Super-Diversity: ESRC IAA Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
- Sri Lankan migrant women domestic workers: health insurance provision, access to healthcare and health status
- The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)
- Topologies of Governance in the Context of Eastern European Migration to the UK
- Urban Transformations Coordination
- WORK>INT: Assessing and enhancing integration in workplaces
- Action towards inclusion in Europe
- Diaspora Politics
- Early Legal Advice for Protection Applicants
- European Migrant Integration Academy (EU-MIA)
- The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights
- UPSTREAM: Developing Effective Strategies for the Mainstreaming of Integration Governance
- Welfare, neighbourhood and new geographies of diversity
- Big Data, Big Visions: Challenges and Opportunities for British Civil Society Engagement with Data-Driven Research
- Big Talk about Big Data: Discourses of ‘Evidence’ and Data in British Civil Society
- Border Security: Discourses and Practices in the UK
- Converging cultures: The Hadrami diaspora in the Indian Ocean
- Does Immigration Enforcement Matter (DIEM)?
- Eumagine: Imagining Europe from the Outside. The Cases of Ukraine, Turkey, Senegal and Morocco
- Kenyan Pentecostals between ‘Home’, London, and the Kingdom of God
- La Lenin Transnational: Schooling and the Reproduction of Elites in Socialist Cuba
- Marriage Migration and Integration
- Migration and the Marketisation of Social Care: The Employment of Migrant Workers under Cash-for-Care Schemes in the UK
- Migration in the Media and Public Opinion in Britain
- Relative Distance: Kinship, Generation, and Reproduction between Kenya and the United Kingdom
- Social Contexts of Education and Learning in Retirement Migration
- Tried and Trusted? The role of NGOs in the Assisted Voluntary Returns of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants
- Urbanization from Below
- Attitudes to Migrants, Communication and Local Leadership (AMICALL)
- Concordia Discors
- Factors impacting on effectiveness of National Human Rights Institutions
- Imagined Immigration: The Different Meanings of “Immigrants” in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain
- Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants (IMPACIM)
- Service Provision to Irregular Migrants in Europe
- The Great Departure: Staying and Leaving as Tactics of Life After Post-Socialism
- Undocumented Migrant Children in the UK
- A Passport Home: The significance of belonging in the Comoros, Zanzibar, the UK and France
- Citizenship and Integration in the UK
- Diaspora Engagement in War-Torn Societies
- Equality for whom?
- Fundamental rights situation of irregular immigrants in the European Union (FRIM)
- Religious Faith, Space and Diasporic Communities in East London: 1880 – Present
- Social Externalities: China, India, Africa
- The Health Status of Migrants and Access to Health Care in the UK
- A need for migrant labour? Labour shortages, immigration and public policy
- An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London
- Cohesion, integration, migration: urbanism, city change, and the future of multiculturalism
- Complicit Becoming: Tolerance Work and Europeanization After Socialism
- Counting the Uncountable: Data and Trends across Europe – Irregular Migration in the UK (Clandestino)
- Engaging with Diversity: Multiculturalism, Integration and Identity
- European network of cities for local integration policies for migrants (CLIP)
- Expulsion, Membership and Political Community: Historical and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks: London-Turkey-Ghana
- Recession, Vulnerable Workers and Immigration
- Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology?
- The role of Migrant Health and Social Care Workers in Ageing Societies
- Who Cares? Researching and Meeting the Needs of Migrant Care Workers
- Diversity, Integration and the Economy
- Migrant workers and vulnerable employment: a review of existing data
- Polish and Lithuanian Workers: Opportunities and Challenges for Trades Unions
- Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain
- At the fringes of Europe: Transit migration in Ukraine and Turkey (FringeMig)
- Changing identities and the shift to assimilationism in the Netherlands
- Political Engagements of Latin American Immigrants in the UK
- The Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers
- The return of the guest worker? Temporary migration programmes in theory and practice
- Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU Enlargement on low wage migrant labour in the UK
- Emigration Dynamism and Social Transformation in Northeast China
- Forced Labour and Immigration in the UK
- The impact of the migration NGO sector on the development of migration policy: Ireland as a case study