COMPAS Research Projects

2018

• Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus (MIGNEX)
• Migration Making Places and Making People: New Narratives of Inclusion
• The Socio-Economic Impact of Refugees on Local Communities

2017

• Border Fence: Mobility, Infrastucture, and Geopolitics in the Latvian-Russian Borderlands
• City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE)
• Inclusive Cities
• Messaging Mobility: Exploring and Creating New Narratives About Migration and Human Movement in a Changing World
• Multi-religious encounters in precarious urban settings
• PEAK Urban
• Refugia: a new transnational polity in the making
• 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)
• Utrecht Refugee Launchpad

2016

• Online Tool to Improve the Assessment of Destitute Families’ Eligibility for Support

2015

• Topologies of Governance in the Context of Eastern European Migration to the UK
• Urban Transformations Coordination

2013

• Does Immigration Enforcement Matter (DIEM)?

2017

• Balancing Citizenship of Insiders and Outsiders
• Female Muslim Leaders in Britain: Transnational Publics and Changing Forms of Leadership and Authority
• Migration Services in Wales
• The ethics and politics of the refugee crisis
• Urban Transformations and Foresight Future of Cities Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

2016

• An Introduction to International Migration Issues: Analysis for Georgia and the EU
• Begging, Work and Citizenship
• Immigration and the NHS
• 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

2015

• 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)
• WORK>INT: Assessing and enhancing integration in workplaces

2014

• 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

2013

• 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
• 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

2012

• 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

2011

• 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

2010

• The Health Status of Migrants and Access to Health Care in the UK

2009

• 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

2008

• 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

2007

• Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain

2006

• 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

2005

• 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

2004

• 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