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The free movement of EU citizens has had significant implications for intra-European migration and settlement. There have been concerns about its impact on welfare states, and many EU states have introduced length of stay requirements for social assistance as a consequence. It has also been accompanied by greater restrictions on the movement of ‘Third Country Nationals’. In the study of migration the European Union (EU) is often differentiated into the EU15 or the old EU, EU8/10, the countries that joined the EU in 2004, and the A2 (Romania and Bulgaria). The A2 were subject to transitional measures limiting free movement until 2014.

Blog Posts

The Power of Visual Stories in Talking About Migration

Johannes Walter

The worst of both worlds: EU workers between Coronavirus and Brexit

Denny Pencheva

Mobilities, neo-nationalism and the lockdown of Europe: will the European Union survive?

Adrian Favell and Ettore Recchi

Dangerous Digital Liaisons: An inquiry into digital policies regarding migrant smuggling on social media

Johanna Bankston

Guest Blog: Latest Withdrawal Agreement Fails Romanian and Bulgarian Workers

Raluca Bejan

Guest Blog: More Britons willing to leave UK to escape Brexit uncertainty

Daniel Auer and Daniel Tetlow

Many more to come? Reflections on migration to Europe & migrant policy responses 2015-2019

Sarah Spencer

National institutions vs EU policies?

Martin Ruhs, Joakim Palme

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?

COMPAS Communications

Permanent Residence and the power of bureaucracy

COMPAS Communications

The new lefts

Nicholas Van Hear

Belonging in the era of Brexit

COMPAS Communications

The Conservative migration plan: does it work for anyone?

COMPAS Communications

A night-time border encounter: Some reflections [MSc guest blog]

Tommaso Trillò

Paradoxically European: how a spike in xenophobia revalues EU citizenship

COMPAS Communications

Targets for reducing migration: what do we control?

Madeleine Sumption

The paradoxes of (anti)racism in compulsory education

Pier-Luc Dupont

Tanya: a migration story

Dace Dzenovska

Rights or Philanthropy: Emotions of Solidarity with Refugees

Serhat Karakayali

Free movement of (overqualified) migrant workers

COMPAS Communications

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016

COMPAS Communications

Mobility, class and country of origin in the Western Balkans

Diana Ihring

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results

COMPAS Communications

Begging and the free movement of poverty

COMPAS Communications

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015

COMPAS Communications

Refugee crisis, compassion and Eastern Europe

Dace Dzenovska

People Move

Ben Doherty

What to do about Calais, in 50 words

COMPAS Communications

EU migration and welfare benefits: Is unrestricted labour immigration compatible with an inclusive welfare state?

Martin Ruhs

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law

Catherine Briddick

Urbanites: indifferent to difference?

Pier-Luc Dupont

What can our views on the EU reveal about our opinions on immigration?

Yvonni Markaki

Books

Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’

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

School of Europeanness

Dace Dzenovska

Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain

Giulia Liberatore

Ukrainian Migration and the European Union – Dynamics, Subjectivity, and Politics

Bastian Vollmer

Reports

Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Guidance for Municipalities

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

Exploiting the Opportunity? Low-Skilled Work Migration After Brexit

Madeleine Sumption and Mariña Fernández-Reino

Unsettled Status? Which EU Citizens are at Risk of Failing to Secure their Rights after Brexit?

Madeleine Sumption

European Cities and Migrants with Irregular Status: Municipal initiatives for the inclusion of irregular migrants in the provision of services

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

Recruitment in Britain: Examining employers’ practices and attitudes to employing UK-born and foreign-born workers

Madeleine Sumption

Outside and In: Legal Entitlements to Health Care and Education for Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe

Sarah Spencer

Background report: Migrant workers in the UK healthcare sector

COMPAS Communications

Research Report: Workplace integration of migrant health workers in the UK

COMPAS Communications

UPSTREAM: The Politics of Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policies. Case study of the United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

The COMPAS Approach

Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

Irregular Migrants in Italy: Law and Policy on Entitlements to Services

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

Providing Protection. Access to Early Legal Advice for Asylum Seekers

Bridget Anderson and Sue Conlan

Report on the Rights and Obligations of Citizens and Non-Citizens in Selected Countries. Principles of Eligibility Underpinning Access to State Territory, Citizenship and Welfare

Bridget Anderson, Isabel Shutes and Sarah Walker

IMPACIM: Analysis of Existing Quantitative Data on Family Migration: United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: Country Case Study on the Impacts of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants: Qualitative Findings United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: Mapping the Conditions of Stay and the Rationale for Entitlements and Restrictions for Family Migrants in the United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. A Comparative Report

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. Executive Summary

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. National Report UK

COMPAS Communications

Residential Integration – Towards A Sending Country Perspective

Ben Gidley, Maria Luisa Caputo

AMICALL: Final Transnational Report Executive Summary

Ben Gidley, Elizabeth Collett

AMICALL: Country Report – United Kingdom

Hannah Jones

AMICALL: Country Research Report – United Kingdom

Hannah Jones

AMICALL: Final Evaluation Report

Marjorie Mayo, Alison Rooke

AMICALL: Final Transnational Report

Ben Gidley, Elizabeth Collett

EUMAGINE: Perceptions, Imaginations, Life-Satisfaction and Sociodemography: The Case of Ukraine

Franck Düvell,Bastian Vollmer, Yuriy Bilan, Yulia Borshchevska, Iryna Lapshyna, Svitlana Vdovtsova

Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants (IMPACIM). Background Paper and Project Outline

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications

AMICALL: Country Context Paper – UK

COMPAS Communications

European Security Challenges. EU-US Immigration Systems

COMPAS Communications

EUMAGINE: Ukraine: Country and Research Areas Report

Bastian Vollmer, Yuriy Bilan, Iryna Lapshyna, Svitlana Vdovtsova

Clandestino: Ethical Issues in Irregular Migration Research

Franck Düvell, Bastian Vollmer, Anna Triandafyllidou

Clandestino: Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable. Data and Trends across Europe: Country Report – UK

COMPAS Communications

Migrants’ Lives Beyond the Workplace. The Experiences of Central and East Europeans in the UK

Bridget Anderson,Martin Ruhs,Sarah Spencer, Ben Rogaly

Changing Status, Changing Lives? Methods, Participants and Lessons Learnt

Bridget Anderson, Martin Ruhs, Sarah Spencer, Ben Rogaly

Fair Enough? Central and East European Migrants in Low-Wage Employment in the UK

Bridget Anderson, Martin Ruhs, Sarah Spencer, Ben Rogaly

The Contribution of the Voluntary Sector to Migrant Integration in Europe

Sarah Spencer, Sarah Cooke

Introductory Programmes and Initiatives for New Migrants in Europe

Sarah Spencer, Anna di Mattia

Journal Articles

Acceptable in the EU? Why some immigration restrictionists support European Union mobility

COMPAS Communications

Emptiness and Its Futures: Staying and leaving as tactics of life in Latvia

Dace Dzenovska

Towards a new politics of migration?

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

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

Dace Dzenovska

Postcode Lottery for Europe’s Undocumented Children: Unravelling an Uneven Geography of Entitlements in the European Union

Sarah Spencer

Fundamental Rights for Irregular Migrants: Legal Entitlements to Healthcare and School Education Across the EU28

Sarah Spencer

EU Migration to and from the UK After Brexit

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Book Review – Territoriality and Migration in the EU Neighbourhood-Spilling over the Wall

COMPAS Communications

Working Papers

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

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

Yvonni Markaki

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

Pier-Luc Dupont

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

Martin Ruhs

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

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

Lucie Cerna

Battles in Time: The Relation Between Global and Labour Mobilities

COMPAS Communications

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

Nicholas Van Hear, Anna Lindley

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

Meng-Hsuan Chou, Nicolas Baygert

A Very Private Business: Migration and Domestic Work

COMPAS Communications

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

COMPAS Communications

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

Meng-Hsuan Chou

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

Richard Allen

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

COMPAS Communications

Backlash Against Diversity? Identity and Cultural Politics in European Cities

Ralph Grillo

The Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Europe

COMPAS Communications

Other Publications

Commentary

Measuring Success: Will We Ever Know How Many Eligible EU Citizens Did Not Apply for Settled Status?

Madeleine Sumption

Trends report

Migrants in the Welsh Labour Market

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Review

Migration Policy Making in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society

Sarah Spencer

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

Information portal

UK Coordination of the European Website on Integration

Jacqui Broadhead

Research Brief

Unpacking a Rapidly Changing Scenario

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

Near Futures online article

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

Dace Dzenovska

Policy Brief

Consistent Support and Mutual Learning Required

COMPAS Communications

Global Exchange briefings

What works in social-economic integration?

Jenny Phillimore

Policy Briefing

City Responses to Migrants with Irregular Status

Sarah Spencer

In Conversation

Super-diversity and the City

Sarah Spencer

Precarious workers, troubled nation – the reconfiguration of national attachment through precarious work. A case study of Romanian migrants in London

COMPAS Communications | October 2013 - December 2016

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