Networks

Multiple forms of migrant identity, association and belonging often develop within dense highly localised networks while sustaining transnational links to sending societies. COMPAS’ work in this area has focussed on networks that form part of the migration process, transnational connections and diasporic links.

Blog Posts

Governance of International Skilled Migration: Scalar Politics and Network Relations

Micheline van Riemsdijk

Books

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

Mette Louise Berg

Becoming the Other, Being Oneself: Constructing Identities in a Connected World

Iain Walker

Transcending Boundaries. Zhejiangcun: the Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing

Biao Xiang

Reports

The COMPAS Approach

Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

Immigration, Faith and Cohesion. Evidence from Local Areas with Significant Muslim Populations

Hiranthi Jayaweera, Tufyal Choudhury

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-DRC) and Republic of Congo (Congo) Country Study

Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

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

Robert Norton

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

Adam Higazi

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

Barbara Jettinger

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

Anna Lindley

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

Stephanie Riak Akuei

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

Promoting Knowledge Exchange Through Diaspora Networks (The Case of People’s Republic of China)

Biao Xiang

The Contribution of UK-Based Diasporas to Development and Poverty Reduction

Nicholas Van Hear

Journal Articles

Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?

Isabel Ruiza and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Working Papers

Governance of International Skilled Migration: Scalar Politics and Network Relations

Micheline van Riemsdijk

Belonging on the Move: The Question of Clan Amongst Somali Migrants

Farhan Samanani

Cast(e) in Bone: The Perpetuation of Social Hierarchy among Nepalis in Britain

Mitra Pariyar

Polish Migration to the UK: Continuities and Discontinuities

Franck Düvell, Michael Garapich

The Myth of “Weak Ties” and the Ghost of the Polish Peasant: Informal Networks of Polish Post-Transition Migrants in the UK and Germany

Malgorzata Irek

Young Adults of Latin American Origin in London and Oxford: Identities, Discrimination and Social Inclusion

Núria Roca i Caparà

“No One Comes Here on Their Own”: The System of Child Labour Migration in Bangladesh

Karin Heissler

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

Richard Allen

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

Ellie Vasta, Leander Kandilige

Anthropological Perspectives on Migrants’ Political Engagements

Richard Allen

Differentiating Irregularity and Solidarity: Turkish Immigrants at Work in London

Ellie Vasta, Aykan Erdemir

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

The Role of Transnational Networks and Legal Status in Securing a Living: Ghanaian Migrants in The Netherlands

Valentina Mazzucato

Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration Order

Richard Allen

Informal Employment and Immigrant Networks: A Review Paper

Richard Allen

Policy Options for Increasing the Benefits of Remittances

Jørgen Carling

Trends and Impacts of Migrant Transnationalism

COMPAS Communications

Other Publications

The Global Exchange approach to knowledge-exchange

Sarah Spencer

Projects

A Passport Home: The significance of belonging in the Comoros, Zanzibar, the UK and France

COMPAS Communications | August 2009 - July 2011

Converging cultures: The Hadrami diaspora in the Indian Ocean

COMPAS Communications | 2011-2013

Diaspora Engagement in War-Torn Societies

Nicholas Van Hear | January 2011 – December 2015

Female Muslim Leaders in Britain: Transnational Publics and Changing Forms of Leadership and Authority

COMPAS Communications | April 2015 – Jan 2017 (moved to another instution for remaining year)

Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks: London-Turkey-Ghana

Richard Allen | 2007 - 2009

Kenyan Pentecostals between ‘Home’, London, and the Kingdom of God

COMPAS Communications | December 2013 – December 2016

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

COMPAS Communications | April 2011 – June 2013

Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications | June 2005 – June 2007

PEAK Urban

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast, Rosaleen Cunningham, Bhawani Buswala and ChengHe Guan | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021

Political Engagements of Latin American Immigrants in the UK

Richard Allen | July 2004 – June 2006

Religious Faith, Space and Diasporic Communities in East London: 1880 – Present

COMPAS Communications | 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2015

Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology?

Michael Keith | 2006 – 2009

Social Contexts of Education and Learning in Retirement Migration

COMPAS Communications | March 2012 – October 2013