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COMPAS Newsletter
October 2014
Welcome to a new term at Oxford University and our latest COMPAS Update. Here we give a round up of COMPAS' research work and dissemination activities, including forthcoming events, recent publications and other news.
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COMPAS Visual Imagery Competition: Results
The winners of the COMPAS Visual Imagery competition have been selected!
1st place, photography
Getting Clear, by Marek Olszewski (above)
2nd place, photography
The Long Way Home, by Lana Al-Shami
1st place, illustrations
African Child - Mistrust, by Deborah Pennycate
Have a look at these and the 9 runners-up
Vote for your favourite on Facebook by the end of November.
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Three ESRC Migration Studies Studentships 2015 - 16
Applications are now open for three Oxford ESRC Migration Studies Studentships for the MSc in Migration Studies. The studentships are offered in recognition of the University of Oxford's research strength in interdisciplinary migration studies. To be eligible you must be planning to undertake a doctorate after the MSc. See here for details and how to apply.
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Three new impact grants given
COMPAS has recently been successful in securing 3 ESRC Knowledge Exchange IAA grants. One is for knowledge exchange activities, the second was a fellowship awarded to Mette Berg and the third is a kick start award given to an exciting new project linking migration and drama in schools.
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Joint blog series on citizenship
In addition to our regular COMPAS blog COMPAS has joined forces with Politics In Spires to bring you the all new blog series "Migration and Citizenship". Every Thursday a new blog is posted exploring the relationship between migration, the ‘migrant’ and ‘citizenship’. It aims to help us reflect on who counts as a migrant and will consider the impacts of immigration controls and associated policies on the meaning of citizenship.
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Breakfast Briefings
The COMPAS Breakfast Briefings Series is in its 5th series. They present topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues. These events are by invitation only, but if you would like to attend, just get in touch!
Next briefing: 12 December, Climate change and migration: how are they linked?
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Seminar Series: Arrival Cities
Our current seminar series runs 16 October - 4 December 2014. This seminar series focuses on arrival cities, exploring how migrants are inserted into the informal economy, how they form networks and how they claim the right to the city, how arrival neighbourhoods and cities function in the integration and onward transit of migrants, and how the formal and informal politics of these kinds of arrival zones work.
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Undocumented Migrant Children's Lives & Stories
The Old Fire Station, 8 December, 7pm. A performance of stories produced from research interviews with undocumented migrants about their their lives, particularly with regards to access to health care, employment, and education, shown as part of the "Exploring Migration: Research and Drama in Schools" project. (Free, simply register with communications@compas.ox.ac.uk)
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City Roundtable in Barcelona on Responses to Irregular Migrants
Over two days in October, COMPAS partnered with Barcelona City Council and the Eurocities Working Group on Migration and Integration to organise a roundtable on the challenges cities face in responding to the needs of irregular (undocumented) migrants. Eleven cities from eight EU countries participated in this rare opportunity to discuss an issue which receives little attention in policy or academic debates. The roundtable was hosted by Barcelona City Council and supported by funding from the Open Society Fellowship programme and an ESRC Impact Acceleration grant.
This is just an example of the activities undertaken by COMPAS, see more below!
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Have a read....
We've been releasing more publications in print and online since our last newsletter. Here's a few of them:
- Bastian Vollmer's recently released monograph, "Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom", looks at the development and convergence of the two countries' policies on irregular migration.
- Bridget Anderson has published the article Extreme exploitation is not a problem of human nature on "Beyond Trafficking and Slavery". She has also contributed a chapter immigration control looking at the case of Au Pairs and domestic worker visa holders in the book "When Care Work Goes Global".
- Ben Gidley helped produce the report 'Integration, Disadvantage and Extremism' for the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, examining the drivers of extremism in Britain. The ESRC also produced an evidence briefing based on this work.
- Nick Van Hear and Xiang Biao contributed to a special issue of the International Migration Review, published to mark the 50th anniversary of the journal.
- A new report on city-level responses to migrant facilities with restricted accesss to welfare benefits has been published by Sarah Spencer and Jonathan Price.
- The Migration Policy Institute has published the report "Advancing Outcomes for All Minorities: Experiences of Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policy in the United Kingdom",written by Ben Gidley and Sundas Ali.
- The Migration Observatory published the report "Highly Skilled Migration to the UK 2007-2013", based on research undertaken for the Financial Times, suggesting that the increase in recent migrant workers from within the EEA may be evidence of a "balloon effect", where reducing one form of migration increases another.
- Franck Düvell has co-edited the book "Transit Migration in Europe" together with Irina Molodikova and Michael Collyer. He also published the article "Human smuggling, border deaths and the migration apparatus" in the Migration Studies journal (Vol 2(3)). He also wrote an article for the LSE British Politics and Policy blog, "Irregular migration to the UK: 10 questions answered".
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Awards and Prizes
- "The Price of Rights" by Martin Ruhs won the 2014 Best Book Award by the American Political Science Association's Migration and Citizenship Section.
- In our last newsletter we told you that Evelyn Ersanili had been shortlisted for a Teaching Excellence award for her work on the MSc in Migration Studies, and we are delighted to tell you that she won!
- This year’s Dissertation Prize on the MSc in Migration Studies has been awarded to Kerilyn Schewel for her work on ‘Understanding the aspiration to stay: a case study of young adults in Senegal’.
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The Migration Observatory and the Scottish referendum
In the lead up to the Scottish vote for Independence on 19 September 2014, the Migration Observatory provided a suite of information exploring the differences between Scotland and the rest of the UK with regards to immigration, focussing on its demographic situation, demands and markets for migrant labour and public opinion, among other topics. The Migration Observatory also provided written evidence to the Scottish Parliament European and External Relations Committee.
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Decade of Migration: Multimedia
If you missed our 10 year anniversary event, "Decade of Migration, or simply want to revisit it, there are now videos and podcasts available! There are two videos that summarise the conference and the public event, and podcasts of some of the panels. Watch and listen now!
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There's been a lot happening at COMPAS. Have a look at some of the events we've held over the last several months. Our staff have also been busy in other places. Here are a few examples:
- Sarah Spencer gave a plenary presentation at the Metropolis conference in Milan in November. She spoke on "Undocumented Migrants: To Serve or Not to Serve". The panel considered the challenges that irregular migrants pose for cities and national governments regarding their service needs and the tension between meeting those needs and enforcing immigration controls.
- The Oxford Diaspora Programme organised a one day international art exhibition and performance programme. Doh Mix Meh Up: Diaspora and Identity in Art sought to explore the varied and multi-faceted experiences of migrants through art, photography, film, spoken word poetry, theatre and a panel discussion.
- Martin Ruhs is running the online course on "International Labour Migration: Economics, Politics and Ethics", which includes interviews with various COMPAS researchers. This global course discusses the key facts and fiction in debates about international labour migration.
- Bridget Anderson spoke on a panel at the Revisioning Gender conference in Sweden in June.
- Franck Düvell spoke on human smuggling at the EU Commission/Eastern Partnership's 6th Panel 'Migration and Asylum' in June. He travelled to Istanbul to lecture at the IV International Summer School of the Migration Research Centre at Koc University. Franck also represented COMPAS at the IMISCOE conference in August.
- Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson organised a panel debate, "Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration" with Hein de Haas (IMI) and Katrin Bennhold (New York Times). Listen to the podcast
- Nick Van Hear organised the event "From New Helots to New Diasporas". It recognised and celebrated the work of Robin Cohen (former Director of IMI), reviewing issues around international labour studies, African studies, the study of globalisation and cosmopolitanism, migration studies, and the study of diaspora and creolisation. Read Nick's blog about the event.
- Caroline Oliver took a break from her maternity leave to present a paper as invited speaker at Stockholm University's Department of Social Anthropology annual roundtable on 24th-25th October. The theme of this year's roundtable was 'Social Responsibility at a Distance: Caring, Parenting and Generation in Transnational Social Space'.
- COMPAS hosted the SSRC/COMPAS International Student Workshop and Conference on Migration and Development in Oxford in June.
- Ayumi Takenaka held a workshop exploring global onward migration, asking why some migrants move multiple times.
- Dace Dzenovksa co-convened the workshop "Political Desire in/of Europe: Sites, Subjects, and Forms of Politics".
- COMPAS also hosted a screening of the film "Bidesia in Bambai", and a talk on 'Rupture' and Reconciliation: Contextualising the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó’s Demands for Alternative Justice within an Ethnography of their Model of Society.
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