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Welcome to the latest COMPAS UpdatePlease find below the latest COMPAS Update on all our recent research activities, events and publications, as well as plans for the future. This email contains hyperlinks which are highlighted in blue and will open in new windows. If you have difficulty following the links, please visit our online version at: |
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS |
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Pathways in and out of irregular migrationThe COMPAS project Clandestino: Counting the Uncountable - Data and Trends across Europe - Irregular Migration in the UK, was completed in 2009. However, it's findings around sources of data and estimates of irregular migration, pathways into irregularity, policies and discourses on irregular migration continue to be published. A new special issue of the European Journal of Migration and Law, has been edited by Franck Düvell, "The Pathways in and out of Irregular Migration in the EU: A Comparative Analysis". It presents the comparative analysis of the country-specific findings including: prevention of irregular entry at the borders of the EU and the prevention of access to the various social systems, legal constructions of irregular migration, discursive responses and regularisation policies. At the end of October, Franck Düvell was invited to give a key note at the annual European Migration Network (EMN) conference. He presented 'Irregular migration in Europe revisited', much of which was based on the Clandestino project. He was also invited to present to the EU's Council's Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA), a high-level decision making body that includes over 200 member state representatives. |
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Building strategies to protect childrenPresenting early findings from the Undocumented Migrant Children project, Nando Sigona spoke at the workshop "Building Strategies to Protect Children in an Irregular Migration Situation in Europe". He focussed on irregular migrant children and public services in the UK. The final report from the project will be published in February 2012. The event sought to spread understanding of the challenges children in an irregular migration situation - children of undocumented migrants and children who are undocumented themselves - face in accessing their fundamental rights to education, healthcare and housing in Europe, and to develop strategies to overcome them. A summary of the event has been provided by the Migrants Rights Network. |
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Religion, separation and exclusion in the diasporas of East LondonAs part of the Oxford Diaspora Programme, The Religious faith, space and diasporic communities in East London:1880 - present project has begun its archival and oral history research into the contested histories of faith-based civil-society institutions in one area of London. The final project hopes to enhance understanding of the impact of faith-based community organizations on diaspora inclusion and exclusion in a world city. Two exercises in scoping and mapping archival holdings focussing on Muslim and Christian histories have been completed, and a third recently started around Jewish histories. The completed studies have been followed by two pieces of in-depth archival research by new team members Eve Colpus and Nazneen Ahmed, both based in the History department. In addition to the archival work, the project team have delivered a number of talks, seminars and lectures to both academic audiences and lay audiences in East London, in order to communicate the launch of the project, develop a shared analytical approach, disseminate early ideas and begin a process of community engagement in East London. |
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS |
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COMPAS Breakfast BriefingsTopical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues is provided in an accessible format for policy makers and other research users. These events are by invitation only, but podcasts of previous presentations are available now. Next Briefing: Friday 9th December 2011
What does new Home Office evidence on the Migrant Journey and family migration tell us about migration to the UK? |
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A chrysalis for every kind of criminal? Mobility, crime and citizenship
COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2011 The last seminar in this series will be held this Thursday at 14.00 - 15.30 in the Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford. It will be followed by a panel discussion with practitioners in 64 Banbury Rd (16:30 - 18.30). All are welcome to attend and there is no need to register. Podcasts will be available shortly after each seminar. Please add your comments to our facebook discussion around the seminars. |
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The Criminal, the Pauper, and the Foreigner in the Production of Citizenship
Public Lecture, Monday 12 March 2012, 18:30 -20:00 The social and symbolic silhouette of the modern citizen is defined through contraposition with three deviant figures: the criminal, who violates the law and imperils the physical integrity of civil society from within; the pauper, who shirks the obligation of work and corrodes the moral integrity of the wage-labor compact from within; and the foreigner, who threatens to breach the membrane of national membership from without and is suspected of being prone to turning into a criminal or a welfare recipient. These three figures have been studied by different disciplines (criminology, social welfare, sociology/ethnic studies) and by different subfields inside of each discipline. The talk will be follow by a reception. This event is open to all. To attend, please register by e-mailing: communications@compas.ox.ac.uk |
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PREVIOUS EVENTS |
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COMPAS Photo Competition 2011 Winners announced
With a large number of very impressive entries to the COMPAS Photo Competition 2011 - Traces of Belonging, judges Michael Keith and Paul Halliday had some difficult choices to make. The winning image was submitted by Martin Coyne, entitled 'Jerusalem'. Second place was awarded to Vrinda Seksaria. View the winning and shortlisted entries |
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Urban change and diversity in IstanbulA COMPAS event held on 29 October in Istanbul explored migration and governance in the city. The roundtable, organised by the project Global migration and the right to the cities of the future, sought to examine the nature of diversity and integration across European cities. Specifically addressing the inter-dynamics of migration and changing forms of urban governance and spatial form in Istanbul as a means to building an interdisciplinary network with urbanists and researchers. |
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Hiranthi adds to health care conferenceIn late September, Hiranthi Jayaweera spoke on gender and health at the Migrants' Rights Network's conference "Access to Universal Health Care in the Age of Migration". The conference sought to highlight experiences from NHS services in working to provide migrant communities with health services, drawing in particular on the experiences of the East London borough, Newham PCT. |
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NEWS & NOTICES |
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MSc in Migration Studies - January Application DeadlineThe interdisciplinary MSc in Migration Studies at Oxford University is jointly offered by the School of Anthropology and the Oxford Department of International Development. The course draws on the intellectual resources of its two parent departments and the three world-leading migration research centres at Oxford (COMPAS, IMI and RSC). Lectures and tutorials are given by leading scholars from across these units and the University.
The programme allows students to explore human mobility in a historical and global perspective, and to address the complex relations between global political economy, migratory experiences, and government and social responses. |
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COMPAS BlogThe COMPAS Blog provides information and discussion points about work taking place at COMPAS. It will focus on what researchers are thinking about, working on, and reactions to migration issues taking place globally. Topics have already included Cotton Subsidies and the Political Economy of Trafficking; the Impact of Climate change on Migration and Swedish Exceptionalism. |
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COMPAS Facebook DiscussionIn an attempt to offer a more interactive element to our website and to extend the audience discussion around our seminar series we have set up weekly discussion points on facebook. So far we have not had a huge uptake so please do visit and like the COMPAS facebook page. And let us know whether this online forum is worthwhile. |
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Bridget Anderson presented to TEDxEastEndThe TedxEastEnd event "Society Without Borders" featured 14 speakers from various different disciplines including journalism, comedy, policy, architecture, sociolinguistics and finance along with writers, activists, actors and scientists. The event will explore ideas and various perspectives on migration. Bridget imagined a world without borders. |
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Thinking Behind the Numbers: Understanding Public Opinion on Immigration in BritainThe report "Thinking Behind the Numbers: Understanding Public Opinion on Immigration in Britain" was released by the Migration Observatory on 14 October.
For half a century opinion polls have consistently shown that the public in Britain favours a reduction in immigration. But answers to basic questions about people’s preferences for reducing, increasing or maintaining prevailing levels of immigration provide only a very partial understanding of the British population’s views on this issue.To try to build a more detailed understanding of public attitudes to immigration the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford commissioned polling firm Ipsos MORI to ask a series of questions about immigration and immigrants to a representative sample of 1,002 adults living in the Britain. |
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The Migration Observatory in the newsThe Migration Observatory was recently in the news for its analysis of official migration data published last week by the Office for National Statistics. The Observatory stated that the Government would have to cut net migration from outside the EU by at least 70 per cent if it is to hit its target of cutting total net migration to the “tens of thousands”- Full Press Release. To keep to date with the work of the Migration Observatory please follow them on Twitter, visit their website or sign up to the newsletter. |
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Franck Düvell present at the first Tadlidil ForumFranck Düvell was invited to address the inaugural meeting on 8 October of the British-Turkish High Level Forum (Tadlidil) in Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire. He was invited by the former UK Foreign Secretary Rt Hr Jack Straw. The aim of this forum is to foster British-Turkish relations. |
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Citizenship, deportation and belonging: a new special issueBridget Anderson has edited a Special Citizenship Studies issue together with co-editors, Matthew J. Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) and Emmanuela Paoletti (UNHCR): "Citizenship, deportation and the boundaries of belonging". The special issue explores how the practice of deportation often reveals the 'faultlines' of modern citizenship: contradictions and tensions within formal (governmental and judicial) accounts of who is a member of the state, and between the multiple borders of belonging drawn by people in their daily lives. |
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Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion in ItalyDr Nando Sigona has, with Dr Isabella Clough Marinaro (Arcadia University), co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies on 'Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion: the Roma and Sinti in contemporary Italy'. |
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