The Americas

The America’s have experienced a profound political transformation during recent years with the reconciliation of former Cold War foes and increasing calls for regional economic integration. These events have major implications for migration in the region. COMPAS’ work has ranged from investigating the role of schools in reproducing elites in socialist Cuba to exploring the generational divide between old and new Cuban diaspora members.

The America’s also host the US-Mexico corridor, one of the most important migration and remittances corridors in the world.  COMPAS’ work has also investigated the consequences of remittances for the Mexican economy.

Blog Posts

Confessions of a Bad Migrant [MSc guest blog]

Nina Swen

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

Samim Lambrecht

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

Michael Keith, Nicholas Simcik Arese and Andreza de Souza Santos

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

Jonathan Paul Katz

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

Gabriella Sanchez

The Life of a Multiple Migrant

Ayumi Takenaka

Colombia: A Wandering Country?

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Barriers to migration: Are policing and fencing the answer?

Mette Louise Berg

Border Crossing: Material Culture & Experience

Marisa Macari, COMPAS DPhil Student

Shifting powers: two decades of migration and global turbulence

Nicholas Van Hear

Books

The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration

Martin Ruhs

Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics and Nation among Cubans in Spain

Mette Louise Berg

Reports

Inclusive Cities US Knowledge Exchange

Jacqui Broadhead

The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations

Michael Keith

Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda: What Role for Migrant Rights and International Labour Migration?

Martin Ruhs

European Security Challenges. EU-US Immigration Systems

Franck Düvell and Bastian Vollmer

Migrant Rights, Immigration Policy and Human Development

Martin Ruhs

The Role of Migrant Care Workers in Ageing Societies: Report on Research Findings in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States

Sarah Spencer, Susan Martin, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Eamon O’Shea

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Surinam Country Study

Mies van Niekerk

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Synthesis Study

Nicholas Van Hear,Frank Pieke, Anna Lindley

The Regularisation of Unauthorized Migrants: Literature Survey and Country Case Studies

Amanda Levinson

Journal Articles

Risky closeness and distance in two fieldwork sites in Brazil

Andreza de Souza Santos

Visions of Refugia: Territorial and transnational solutions to mass displacement

Robin Cohen & Nicholas Van Hear

Cubans in the United States and Spain: The Diaspora Generational Divide

Mette Louise Berg, Susan Eckstein

Book Review – Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans

Leslie Fesenmyer

Don’t Fence Me In: Barricade Sociality and Political Struggles in Mexico and Latvia

Dace Dzenovska, Iván Arenas

Making “the People”: Political Imaginaries and the Materiality of Barricades in Mexico and Latvia

Dace Dzenovska, Ivan Arenas

Working Papers

Immigrant fertility in the midst of intensified enforcement

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & Esther Arenas-Arroyo

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

Saskia Blume

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

Martin Ruhs

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

Migration and Climate Change: An Overview

Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud, Paul de Guchteneire

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

Marion Panizzon

Coercion/Consent in Labour

Robert Steinfeld

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

Andreas Wimmer

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

Anastasia Bermúdez Torres

Diasporas Good? Diasporas Bad?

Steve Vertovec

Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration Order

Frank Pieke

The Political Importance of Diasporas

Steve Vertovec

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

Mette Louise Berg

Policy Options for Increasing the Benefits of Remittances

Jørgen Carling

Other Publications

World Migration Report chapter

Media Reporting of Migrants and Migration

Scott Blinder, William Allen and Rob McNeil

Projects

Diaspora Engagement in War-Torn Societies

Nicholas Van Hear, Giulia Liberatore and Leslie Fesenmyer | January 2011 – December 2015

La Lenin Transnational: Schooling and the Reproduction of Elites in Socialist Cuba

Mette Louise Berg | April 2011 – June 2013

PEAK Urban

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast, Bhawani Buswala, ChengHe Guan and Nicholas Simcik Arese | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021

The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights

Martin Ruhs | 2008 – 2014

The role of Migrant Health and Social Care Workers in Ageing Societies

Sarah Spencer, Alessio Cangiano, Isabel Shutes, Vanessa Hughes and Bridget Anderson | 2007 - 2009

Urban Transformations Coordination

Michael Keith, Nicola Headlam, Peter Grant, Igor Calzada, Andreza de Souza Santos, Nicholas Simcik Arese, Emma Newcombe, Mikal Mast and Nathan Grassi | 2015 - 2019

Urbanization from Below

Bridget Anderson | 2013 – 2016