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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. 

News and notices

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.
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. 
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.
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. 

Events

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?
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.
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)
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! 

Publications

Have a read....
We've been releasing more publications in print and online since our last newsletter. Here's a few of them:  

Other highlights

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’.
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.
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! 
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:
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