Asylum and Refugees

The COMPAS 2018 list of best books on migration

Rosaleen Cunningham

Furthering Refugia: Engaging with our Critics

Nicholas Van Hear

COMPAS Round Up Summer 2017

COMPAS communications team

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

MSc graduates

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

Myriam Cherti

What does it take to be truly one of us?

Mikal Mast

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

Nando Sigona & Rachel Humphris

On Contemporary Art and Migration [MSc guest blog]

Emine Yeter

Hierarchies of Displacement [MSc guest blog]

Emily Johanson

Refuge in Technology [MSc guest blog]

Aliyyah Ahad

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

Rachel Humphris & Nando Sigona

Imagining Refugia

Nicholas Van Hear

The Economic Outcomes of Refugees and Other Migrants in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Rights or Philanthropy: Emotions of Solidarity with Refugees

Serhat Karakayali

What is our moral obligation to the stranger?

Bridget Anderson

How could research have better anticipated the migration crisis?

Bridget Anderson

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016

Franck Düvell

Mobility, class and country of origin in the Western Balkans

Diana Ihring

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results

Franck Düvell

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015

Franck Düvell

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

Bobbie Mills

Refugee crisis, compassion and Eastern Europe

Dace Dzenovska

Immigration and Austerity: Only Connect

Bridget Anderson

People Move

Ben Doherty

What to do about Calais, in 50 words

Bridget Anderson

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

Gabriella Sanchez

Gendering the Irregular

Melanie Griffiths

Mothers’ Migration Motivations

Brandy Cochrane

Twenty years later the refugees are back

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Book Review: The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women

Angelo Tramountanis

Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’

Heaven Crawley, Franck Düvell, Katharine Jones, Simon McMahon and Nando Sigona

Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Guidance for Municipalities

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

Destination Europe? Understanding the dynamics and drivers of Mediterranean migration in 2015

Heaven Crawley, Franck Düvell, Katharine Jones, Simon McMahon and Nando Sigona

The COMPAS Approach

Ben Gidley, Rob McNeil and Emma Newcombe

Providing Protection. Access to Early Legal Advice for Asylum Seekers

Bridget Anderson and Sue Conlan

No Way Out, No Way In. Irregular Migrant Children and Families in the UK

Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes

No Way Out, No Way In. Irregular Migrant Children and Families in the UK. Executive Summary

Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes

Transit, Migration and Politics: Trends and Constructions on the Fringes of Europe

Franck Düvell

Migration and Integration: The Impact of NGOs on Future Policy Development in Ireland

Sarah Spencer

Migration and Integration: The Impact of NGOs on Future Policy Development in Ireland. Executive Summary

Sarah Spencer

Refugees and Other New Migrants: A Review of the Evidence on Successful Approaches to Integration

Sarah Spencer (ed.)

Developing DfID’s Policy Approach to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. Volume I: Consultancy Report and Policy Recommendations

Nicholas Van Hear, Stephen Castles

The evolution of migration trajectories of sub-Saharan African migrants in Turkey and Greece: The role of changing social networks and critical events

Franck Düvell, Valentina Mazzucato & Marieke Wissinka

Refugia Roundtable

Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett & Helma Lutz

The impact of hosting refugees on the intra‐household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective

Carlos Vargas‐Silva & Isabel Ruiz

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

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Isabel Ruiz

The impact of refugee experiences on education: evidence from Burundi

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Sonja Fransen & Melissa Siegel

‘Voice’ or ‘exit’? From the streets of Syria to the borders of the EU

Franck Düvell

Coherent Selves, Viable States: Eastern Europe and the “Migration/Refugee Crisis” (upcoming)

Dace Dzenovska

Return Migration and Economic Outcomes in the Conflict Context

Sonja Fransen, Isabel Ruiz & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Visions of Refugia: Territorial and transnational solutions to mass displacement

Robin Cohen & Nicholas Van Hear

Are Refugees’ Labour Market Outcomes Different from Those of Other Migrants? Evidence from the United Kingdom in the 2005–2007 Period

Isabel Ruiz & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Remittances Sent To and From the Forcibly Displaced

Carlos Vargas-Silva

New Narratives from the EU External Border – Humane Refoulement?

Bastian Vollmer

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

William Allen and Scott Blinder

The Labor Market Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Isabel Ruiz

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

Ben Doherty

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

Scott Blinder and William Allen

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

Reza Hasmath

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

Melanie Griffiths

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

Cresa L. Pugh

Being Children and Undocumented in the UK: A Background Paper

Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes

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

Géraldine Chatelard

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

Ellie Vasta

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

Ellie Vasta, Leander Kandilige

Differentiating Irregularity and Solidarity: Turkish Immigrants at Work in London

Ellie Vasta, Aykan Erdemir

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

Brad Blitz

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

Nicholas Van Hear, Anna Lindley

The Early Morning Phonecall: Remittances From a Refugee Diaspora Perspective

Anna Lindley

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

Cathy Gardner

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

Franck Düvell

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

Rutvica Andrijasevic

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

Alexander Betts, James Milner

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

Heaven Crawley

Re-casting Societies in Conflict

Nicholas Van Hear

The Realities of a New Asylum Paradigm

Liza Schuster

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

Alexander Betts

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

Nicholas Van Hear

Informal Employment and Immigrant Networks: A Review Paper

Ellie Vasta

The Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Europe

Liza Schuster

ECONREF Research Note: 1

The Health of Refugees in the UK

Zovanga Kone and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Research Brief

Understanding the dynamics of migration to Greece and the EU: Drivers, decisions and destinations

Heaven Crawley, Franck Duvell, Katharine Jones and Dimitris Skleparis

Research Brief

Unpacking a Rapidly Changing Scenario

Heaven Crawley, Franck Duvell, Nando Sigona, Simon McMahon, Katharine Jones

LAMFOR Policy Briefing 1

The Consequences of Refugee Return

Carlos Vargas-Silva

LAMFOR Policy Briefing 2

The Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Carlos Vargas-Silva

LAMFOR Policy Briefing 3

Conflict, Displacement and Education

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Near Futures online article

Eastern Europe, the Moral Subject of the Migration/Refugee Crisis, and Political Futures

Dace Dzenovska

Global Exchange briefings

What works in social-economic integration?

Jenny Phillimore

Research Resources Paper

Humanitarian Problems Relating to Migration in the Turkish-Greek Border Region: The crucial role of civil society organisations

Max Schaub

At the fringes of Europe: Transit migration in Ukraine and Turkey (FringeMig)

Franck Düvell | 2006

Early Legal Advice for Protection Applicants

Bridget Anderson | September 2012 – June 2014

Exploring Migration: Research and Drama in Schools

Bridget Anderson, Vanessa Hughes and Ida Persson | October 2014 – September 2015

Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks: London-Turkey-Ghana

Ellie Vasta | 2007 - 2009

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

Sarah Spencer and Jacqui Broadhead | May 2016 - May 2019

The Economic Integration of Refugees in the UK (ECONREF)

Carlos Vargas-Silva and Zovanga Kone | February 2017 - January 2019

The ethics and politics of the refugee crisis

Bridget Anderson and Emma Newcombe | May 2016- Mar 2017

The impact of the migration NGO sector on the development of migration policy: Ireland as a case study

Sarah Spencer | 2004

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)

Carlos Vargas-Silva | June 2013 – December 2015

The Socio-Economic Impact of Refugees on Local Communities

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Zovanga Kone | 2018 - 2020

Undocumented Migrant Children in the UK

Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes | January 2010 – June 2012

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis (MEDMIG)

Franck Düvell | Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

Utrecht Refugee Launchpad

Caroline Oliver and Sarah Spencer | November 2016 - October 2019