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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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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Three new integration projects funded by the EIF

The European Integration Fund is funding three new projects that COMPAS is involved in. 

Ben Gidley will be working on two projects. "UPSTREAM: Developing Effective Strategies for the Mainstreaming of Integration Governance", will explore how the governance and effectiveness of integration measures are affected by mainstreaming at the EU, national and local level. The project "Integration Policies: Who benefits?" will identify and measure integration outcomes, integration policies, and other contextual factors that can impact policy effectiveness. 

Bridget Anderson will lead the UK team on the project "WORK>INT: Assessing and enhancing integration in workplaces". This will look at integration in the workplace, contributing to the development of a shared, proactive, growth- and integration-oriented culture of diversity management in some of the most migrant-intensive European cities. 

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Does immigration enforcement matter?

The ESRC has funded a new project to be conducted by Franck Düvell and Bastian Vollmer. "Does immigration enforcement matter? Irregular immigrants and control policies in the UK" will aim to provide an explanation as to why, despite increasingly strict immigration policies and continuously enhanced law enforcement politics, irregular migration in the UK continues and even increases. It is a three-year project, running from 1 November 2013 to 31 October 2016.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

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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Breakfast Briefings Flyer

COMPAS Breakfast Briefings

Topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues is provided in an accessible format for policy makers and other research users.

The fourth COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series runs September 2013 - June 2014. 

Upcoming Briefings:

27 September: What are the social and public service impacts of international migration at the local level?

18 October: More migrants, fewer rights?: How shall we balance openness and rights in labour immigration policy?

22 November: What choices and constraints do undocumented migrants experience in the labour market?

Podcasts of previous presentations are available.

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Fielding challenges, challenging the field: The methodologies of mobility

27 - 28 September 2013
Oxford

Along with the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network, COMPAS is hosting a workshop that will explore how ethnographers are responding methodologically to new questions being raised in the study of mobility and migration. The workshop will see paper presentations from several dozen internationally-based junior and senior academics, with Oxford-based panel discussants including Dace Dzenovska (COMPAS), Eric Meyer (OII), David Mills (Education), Jonny Steinberg (African Studies) and David Zeitlyn (ISCA).

For more information and to register, visit http://compas.ox.ac.uk/mobmeth.

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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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NEWS & NOTICES

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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Portrayals in National British Newspapers

The Migration Observatory has published a new report about migrants in the news. The report "Migrants in the News: Portrayals of Immigrants, Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in National British Newspapers, 2010 to 2012" looks at the language that newspapers use to discuss migrants and migration and how this can provide us with important insights into the nature of the discourse on migration and the role of newspapers in it.

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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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Migration related 2011 census data

The Migration Observatory is making migration-related 2011 Census data available through a suite of outputs, including region specific profiles, videos, interactive charts, interactive maps, press releases and commentaries.

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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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PUBLICATIONS

IMPACIM Reports Released

The IMPACIM project has released two new reports. "Changing European Welfare States and the Evolution of Migrant Incorporation Regimes" explores changing European welfare states and their incorporation of migrants in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. It outlines key features of the social welfare regimes of the four countries in the project, providing insights into the contexts through which migrants’ entitlement to, or exclusion from, key welfare state provisions can be explained.

The legal report, "Family Migration and Access to Social and Economic Rights under the Legal Regimes of the EU and the Council of Europe", provides an overview of the case law of the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights on access to social rights by foreigners resident in European states and in particular by their third country national family members.

Project working papers outlining the team's thinking and knowledge in this field are also available.

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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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Online articles by Bridget Anderson

Bridget Anderson has recently published two online articles, for The Conversation, and Tikkun. 

"No Borders: Struggling for a Global Commons" by Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma, and Cynthia Wright is part of a special series on immigration associated with Tikkun’s Summer 2013 print issue. It looks at the assumptions about the meaning of 'migrant' and an open border policy. 

"Immigration and employment: two sides of the same coin", published by The Conversation looks at migration, employers, and zero-hour contracts. 

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Lecture by Xiang Biao published

Xiang Biao gave the 2012 Asia Lecture at York University, Canada, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of York Center for Asia Research. The lecture, entitled "The Intermediary Trap: International Labour Recruitment, Transnational Governance and State-Citizen relations in China", has now been released.

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Rethinking Migration

COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2013

The aim of this series was to explore 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. Each seminar focused on one of the six COMPAS core research themes; flows and dynamics, labour markets, citizenship and belonging, urban change and settlement, welfare, and the Migration Observatory.

Listen to the seminar podcasts

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COMPAS Breakfast Briefings

Briefing summary documents and podcasts of recent Breakfast Briefings are available: 

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

June: What does the 2011 census tell us about ethnic diversity and integration in England and Wales?

July: What are the consequences of changing policies for family migrants in the UK?

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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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Migration: Theory and Practice

This conference, run by the Oxford University Migration Studies Society on 4 May explored different approaches to understanding migration, highlighted the way practice can inform theory, and discussed how academic theory can be used in practical situations.

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Special screening of Margreth Olin’s award-winning documentary: Nowhere Home

Nowhere Home is a film that follows the fortunes of a number of young people from Salhus, a Norwegian centre offering temporary residence to unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people as they approach adulthood. While they all hope to remain in Norway, the threat of deportation when they turn 18—and uncertain futures in countries like Afghanistan or Iraq—hangs over them. A showing of this film was organised by the Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP) in collaboration with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford and the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham.

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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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SOCIAL MEDIA

Screenshot of the COMPAS Blog

COMPAS Blog

The COMPAS Blog provides information and discussion points about work taking place at COMPAS. It allows our researchers to share their thoughts, work, and reactions to migration issues taking place globally.

Recent topics have included: The Diversity TurnDocumenting how immigrants are described in the British pressIs it family migration if only one family member moves?Windows: The 21st century migration experienceLight of Evidence 2: the wider debate on migration, The human rights of migrant workers: Why do so few countries care?The 2011 Census projectDream on

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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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COMPAS podcasts

COMPAS podcasts are available from previous Seminar Series, Breakfast Briefings, and one-off events. Visit the COMPAS feed on the University of Oxford podcasting page or the COMPAS iTunesU feed to listen. 

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