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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

The mission of COMPAS is to conduct high quality research in order to develop theory and knowledge, inform policy-making and public debate, and engage users of research within the field of migration.T... Read more

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Are potential supporters of the English Defence League economic losers, protestors, Islamophobes or xenophobes?

Are potential supporters of the English Defence League economic losers, protestors, Islamophobes or xenophobes?

n recent years several European states have seen the emergence of 'counter-Jihad' movements, which in contrast to the es... Read more

20 May 2013

33mins

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Do Human Rights Treaties Help or Hurt Asylum-Seekers?: The U.K. Case

Do Human Rights Treaties Help or Hurt Asylum-Seekers?: The U.K. Case

Stephen Meili looks at how human rights treaties are applied in the UK court systems to applications by asylum seekers.

28 May 2013

43mins

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Immigration and the NHS

Immigration and the NHS

Carlos Vargas Silva, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for Immigration and democracy in the UK COMPAS Seminar S... Read more

27 Jul 2015

37mins

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'We don't want to be sent back and forth all the time': Chagossian reflections on compulsion and choice in the context of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return

'We don't want to be sent back and forth all the time': Chagossian reflections on compulsion and choice in the context of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return

This talk draws on a case study of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return within the living memor... Read more

14 Apr 2014

46mins

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The border is everywhere: Refugee journeys in Europe

The border is everywhere: Refugee journeys in Europe

Daniel Trilling, New Humanist Magazine, gives a talk for Shifting Powers, Shifting Mobilites COMPAS Seminar Series The w... Read more

27 Jul 2015

41mins

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Migration in the Media

Migration in the Media

Rob McNeil, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Immigration and democracy in the UK COMPAS Seminar Series... Read more

27 Jul 2015

28mins

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With a lot of help from my friends: How do migrants use social networks to access jobs?

With a lot of help from my friends: How do migrants use social networks to access jobs?

This briefing provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant a... Read more

20 May 2013

20mins

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Intergenerational and inter-ethnic wellbeing of migrants: an analysis for the UK

Intergenerational and inter-ethnic wellbeing of migrants: an analysis for the UK

This paper uses a UK nationally representative data set to examine the extent to which family migration history helps ex... Read more

9 Nov 2015

47mins

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Forced marriage and immigration policies: understanding diversity or punishing difference?

Forced marriage and immigration policies: understanding diversity or punishing difference?

Geetanjali Gangoli, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series on forced marriage and its implica... Read more

14 Apr 2014

41mins

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The Urban Outlaw as Rights Broker

The Urban Outlaw as Rights Broker

Nicholas Simcik Arese, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. As activists lam... Read more

27 Jul 2015

44mins

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Damaged trust and a changing electorate?: Migration as a contemporary political issue in the UK

Damaged trust and a changing electorate?: Migration as a contemporary political issue in the UK

Scott Blinder, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, gives a talk for the Immigration and democracy in the UK COMPAS Sem... Read more

27 Jul 2015

53mins

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Beyond the 'asylum-seeking market': spaces of responsibility and moments of care within the privatisation of asylum accommodation

Beyond the 'asylum-seeking market': spaces of responsibility and moments of care within the privatisation of asylum accommodation

Jonathan Darling, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series. In this seminar I draw on my cur... Read more

27 Jan 2016

47mins

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How informalities and diversification make an arrival neighborhood: International migrants in Kumkapi, Istanbul

How informalities and diversification make an arrival neighborhood: International migrants in Kumkapi, Istanbul

Kristen Biehl, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. As of the late 1950s, Is... Read more

27 Jul 2015

45mins

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Migration and the health trajectories of immigrants and host country nationals

Migration and the health trajectories of immigrants and host country nationals

Osea Giuntella, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series. Despit... Read more

27 Jan 2016

57mins

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The cage of freedom: Mobility and labour in contemporary Bangkok

The cage of freedom: Mobility and labour in contemporary Bangkok

Claudio Sopranzetti, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. This talk analyses... Read more

27 Jul 2015

48mins

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Arrival cities under occupation? Political economies of urban consolidation and rural migration in the contemporary West Bank

Arrival cities under occupation? Political economies of urban consolidation and rural migration in the contemporary West Bank

Kareem Rabie, CUNY Graduate Center, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. This talk explores the ar... Read more

27 Jul 2015

45mins

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The xenophobic city: Security, neoliberalisation and violence from the bottom of Aegean Sea to the centre of Athens

The xenophobic city: Security, neoliberalisation and violence from the bottom of Aegean Sea to the centre of Athens

Dimitris Dalakoglou, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. In 2010, it was re... Read more

27 Jul 2015

53mins

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The scale and scope of citizenship in early modern Europe: Preliminary estimates

The scale and scope of citizenship in early modern Europe: Preliminary estimates

Chris Minns, London School of Economics, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. This paper develops ... Read more

27 Jul 2015

46mins

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Safeguarding children from destitution: How do local authorities respond to families with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’?

Safeguarding children from destitution: How do local authorities respond to families with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’?

Sarah Spencer and Jonathan Price, COMPAS, Oxford, give a talk for the COMPAS series. This briefing presents the finding... Read more

14 Jul 2015

27mins

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What can the lived experiences of white working class communities tell us about social cohesion?

What can the lived experiences of white working class communities tell us about social cohesion?

This briefing explores the lived experiences and concerns of segments of the majority population in Higher Blackley, a w... Read more

21 May 2015

38mins

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