Welcome to the latest COMPAS Update
Please find below the latest COMPAS Update on all our recent research activities, events and publications, as well as plans for the future.
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Book launch: "Us and Them? The dangerous politics of immigration controls"
Monday 16 September, 18:00 - 19:30
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
This event launches Bridget Anderson's new book, which looks at migration within a long history of control over the mobility of the unsettled poor. It also examines the construction of differences between the foreigner and the citizen, and asks when and why these differences matter, and what their consequences are. There will be brief presentations from scholars representing a range of disciplines, discussing the relevance of this book for their work. Drinks and canapés will be provided.
RSVP: This event is open to all. To attend, please register by emailing communications@compas.ox.ac.uk
Bridget Anderson answers questions about her book in the first of a series of COMPAS author videos.
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Poetry and Photo Competition 2013
Poetry and Images on the Move
COMPAS is celebrating a decade of research on migration. To mark this occasion, COMPAS is running a photo and poetry competition focussing on the topic of people on the move - over the past decade, in the present and into the future.The winning entries will be awarded cash prizes. They will also be displayed or performed at a public event in Oxford in February 2014 and will feature in COMPAS publications.
Deadline: 11 October 2013
www.compas.ox.ac.uk/photocompetition
www.compas.ox.ac.uk/poetrycompetition
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IMPACIM Report Launch
30 September 2013, 10:15 - 12:30
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 48 Charles Street, London
The IMPACIM project will launch a UK Study Findings report on the impact of conditions of stay on the integration of family migrants, funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals. The event will be an opportunity to hear the key finding of the study.
There will also be a launch in Brussels on 30 October of a European Comparative Report (UK, Germany, Spain, Holland).
If you would like to attend either of these, please contact communications@compas.ox.ac.uk
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Rebordering: Critical Perspectives after Socialism
The next COMPAS Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term 2013, will run on Thursdays, 14:00 - 15:30, 17 October - 5 December.
This seminar series aims to explore bordering and migration after socialism. Contributions will collectively address the question of how the collapse of Eastern European and Soviet socialism has effected shifts in migration and bordering practices and politics, modes of cohabitation, as well as politics and analytics that aim to critically engage the current historical conjuncture.
All are welcome. It will take place in the Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS.
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Illegality, Youth and Belonging: International Symposium
25-26 October 2013
Harvard University
This is the second of two international symposia on legal status, rights and belonging that jointly investigate the migration and citizenship nexus in contemporary diverse societies. The symposia are jointly convened by Roberto G. Gonzales (Harvard University) and Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) with the contribution of Elaine Chase, Vanessa Hughes and Jenny Allsopp (University of Oxford), Helen B. Marrow (Tufts University) and Siwen Zhang (Harvard University).
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Date for Your Diary: Decade in Migration
21-22 February 2014
Merton College, Oxford
Marking the 10 year anniversary of COMPAS, this event will bring together leading academics and senior practitioners from across the world to discuss how migration research has re-configured the social sciences over the past 10 years and in turn how changes in the social sciences have influenced the study of mobility and migration, their patterns, consequences and policies.
More information will be available soon.
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EUMIA Missons
The UK team of the European Migrant Integration Academy (EUMIA) project has completed all but one of its field missions. The missions have explored functioning integration practices in European cities (London, Hamburg, Vienna, and Visby), interviewing stake-holders and beneficiaries.The final mission, to Vejle, Denmark, will be undertaken in September. Reports on the missions will be available soon.
In Visby, Sweden the project attracted some media attention. Ben Gidley was interviewed about the project on local radio and newspapers (in print and online).
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Work, Employment and Society Conference 2013
Bridget Anderson will participate in a plenary panel at the BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2013. The conference "States of Work: Visions and interpretations of work, employment, society and the state", 3-5 September at the University of Warwick, will assess the evidence and consider the theoretical implications of changing relations between work, society and the state.
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Studying migration at Oxford
Xiang Biao and Michael Keith have participated in podcast interviews about their own research and about the MSc Migration Studies course and the disciplinary strengths of the University of Oxford.
Michael Keith discusses his research on migration and the city and gives some background to the development of his research interests. He goes on to describe some of the impacts of immigration on politics in Europe. You can also hear how Xiang Biao first became interested in migration, studying at Oxford and the wide ranging research and strength of migration experts at the University of Oxford.
Michael Keith's interview
Xiang Biao's interview
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Should the City Grow? The value of sustainable development
Michael Keith spoke at an Oxford Futures Seminar on 20 June 2013. The seminar was hosted by the Oxford Civic Society and sponsored by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. This workshop explored issues around change in Oxford, in relation to housing, traffic and energy-savings.
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Imagine a City: How do you see future cities?
A new short film, featuring Michael Keith, explores what people want and expect from cities of the future. Michael and many others discuss how they would reimagine the city for the 21st century. The film "Imagine a City" was made at the New Cities Summit 2013 in Sao Paolo in early June. It was produced by Cisco, one of the founding members of the New Cities Foundation, and directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee, Miami University.
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Nick Van Hear at WANA Forum
Nick Van Hear gave a presentation entitled 'Diaspora engagement: transnational social security or durable solution in conflict settings?' at the West Asia North African (WANA) Forum on forced displacement in the WANA region, hosted by Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan in Amman in June 2013. He was subsequently invited to serve on the advisory board set up to draft guiding principles on 'Meeting the challenges of displacement in the WANA region'.
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Xiang Biao leads UN preparatory roundtable for the High-level Dialogue on Migration
Xiang Biao led a roundtable on gender dimensions of international migration as part of the Asia-Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the UN General Assembly High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development 2013 on 29-31 May 2013 in Bangkok. The meeting sought to identify key issues and propose policy recommendations for the High-level Dialogue on 'Migration and Development' in October 2013 in New York.
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Franck Düvell gave a talk on refugees on the margins of Europe
On 28 June, Franck Düvell spoke at the conference '20 years after the reform of the right to asylum in Germany: Demise or transformation of refugee protection'. The event took place at the Museum on Displacement in Berlin with participants ranging from high court judges and academics to local civil society representatives. Franck talked about 'Refugees on the margins of Europe: their legal, social and economic situation and modes of entry to the EU'. The event coincided with the launch of the German research network on refugees, see www.fluechtlingsforschung.net
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Two Journal Articles by Scott Blinder
Blinder, S., Ford, R. and Ivarsflaten, E. (2013), The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Antiprejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany. American Journal of Political Science. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12030
This article argues that the social norm against prejudice, and individual motivations to comply with it, are crucial elements omitted from prior analyses. In contemporary Western societies, most citizens receive strong signals that prejudice is not normatively acceptable. The article demonstrates that many majority-group individuals have internalized a motivation to control prejudiced thoughts and actions and that this motivation influences their political behavior in predictable ways.
Blinder, S. (2013), Imagined Immigration: The Impact of Different Meanings of 'Immigrants' in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain. Political Studies. doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12053
Public opinion research on immigration attitudes has largely overlooked the question of how survey respondents understand the term ‘immigrants’. This article investigates latent perceptions of immigrants, termed ‘imagined immigration’, among members of the British public.
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Rethinking Diaspora
This conference, held 1-2 July, was jointly organized by COMPAS and the Oxford Diasporas Programme (ODP). It focused on fundamental dynamics relating to the formation, maintenance, and impacts of diasporas. The conference aimed to integrate humanities and social science perspectives in order to investigate the impacts of these dynamics of diaspora. Partners at EMMA
(Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) and CoHaB (Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging) also participated.
Conference programme
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Integration, Disadvantage and Extremism
The aim of this symposium, held on 8 May, was to reflect on the government's integration strategy and to do so in the light of both contemporary developments and recent scholarship, bringing the most current evidence-based research to bear on urgent issues of policy for an invited audience of academic experts, policy makers and parliamentarians. The symposium was organised into three panels on integration and disadvantage today, integration and extremism, and is localism sufficient?
The symposium was organised by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London and COMPAS, University of Oxford, in partnership with the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism.
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Building Regionality into Immigration Policy: Does it Work? Evidence from Canada
Most European countries are ageing rapidly, with population and labour force decline being expected in the near future. The governments of most of these countries view managed immigration as the main way to expand their labour forces. However, most of these countries do not have in place immigration systems that "select the best". However, this is changing. Using micro-data collected in Canadian censuses, and matching methods, this talk, by
Robert E. Wright , University of Strathclyde, on 20 May, attempted to evaluate empirically whether such programmes are effective. The main aim of the analysis was to consider whether "lessons can be learned" from the Canadian experience that can be applied to the UK and other countries where points-based immigration systems are being introduced.
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COMPAS Social Media
COMPAS offers an interactive element to its website via our Facebook and Twitter pages. This involves general updates about events, a discussion forum for our seminar series and posts about COMPAS news and publications.
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