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COMPAS Newsletter
December 2013
Welcome to our new look quarterly 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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New books!
COMPAS Staff have recently published the following:
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Breakfast Briefings
The COMPAS Breakfast Briefing Series is now in it's 4th series and we have an exciting line up for the start of 2014. COMPAS Breakfast Briefings present topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues. These events are by invitation only, but if you would like to attend, get in touch!
14 February: Where does migration sit within the debate over the future of the UK and Scotland?
14 March: How can far-right extremism be tackled through policy? Lessons from 10 EU countries
11 April: What shapes migrant destitution and what can be done about it?
9 May: What is the role of NGOs in the Assisted Voluntary Returns of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants?
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Seminar Series: Boundaries of Freedom
Our next seminar series, runs 23 January - 13 March 2014. This seminar series will critically examine the distinctions between those immigrants who need to be 'rescued' and those who must be 'punished', but it will also engage with the hidden compulsions of immigration controls (such as worker sponsorship) and the liberally discomforting explicit force of detention and deportation.
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European Migrant Integration Academy
3-7 February 2014, Italy
The European Migrant Integration Academy is a 5-day training course, for public officials and other local stakeholders, where experiences are shared in order to raise standards and successes of integration practices across Europe. It is the culmination of the EUMIA project which has collected a catalogue of best practices for integration from a selection of European cities.
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A Decade in Migration
21-22 February 2014.
This international conference will mark the 10 year anniversary of COMPAS and look to future research agendas. Bringing together leading academics and senior practitioners from across the world we will 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. Registration and further details will be available in January.
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There's been a lot happening at COMPAS. Have a look at the events, and seminar series we've held over the last several months. Our staff have also been busy in other places and with internal events. Here are just a few examples:
- Bridget Anderson gave a paper in Valencia on "Citizenship and the Community of Value" at the 4th Human Rights Centres & Research Institutes International Meeting. She also spoke at the BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2013, gave a lecture on "Trafficking: beyond politics?" and Workshop: "Who counts as a slave?", at the Viadrina Summer University 2013. She also spoke at Cardiff University in October, about "Immigrants, Scroungers and Taxpayers: the politics of citizenship", as well as participated in a panel at the UWC Forum "Rethinking Today for Tomorrow".
- Michael Keith and Ben Gidley spoke at the Flexible City Symposium held in October, organised by the Oxford Future of Cities Programme.
- The IMPACIM project researchers launched a final report "The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants: A Comparative Report" at a private round-table in Brussels,organised with MPI Europe, and including discussants such as Eva Schultz (European Commission, DG Home, Unit B1 Immigration and Integration) who responded regarding the role the Commission could be taking in securing the fundamental rights of the family migrants, as well as Shannon Pfohman, the Deputy Director of the European network against Racism.
- Franck Düvell participated in the International Metropolis Conference 2013, presenting on Turkey and global migration, and irregular migration. Franck also addressed the Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development colloquium at the Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University on the subject 'Between wish and reality: migration aspirations, intentions and realisation'. He also participated in the latest British-Turkish High-Level Forum "Tatlidil", 1-3 November 2013
- Sarah Spencer ran a workshop on city services to irregular migrants at the Integrating Cities VI conference in September.
- Xiang Biao attended the Baku International Humanitarian Forum, 31 October – 1 November, 2013.
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Have a read....
We've not just been releasing books but also a number of other publications in print and online. Here's a few of them:
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Antiprejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany - Scott Blinder in AJPS, October 2013
- Turkey, the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Changing Dynamics of Transit Migration - Franck Düvell in the Mediterranean Yearbook 2013
- Flüchtlinge an den Grenzen Europas - Franck Düvell in Das Parlament published by the German Federal Authority for Political Education
- I am From Busia!’: Everyday Trading and Health Service Provision at the Kenya-Uganda Border as Place-Making Activities - Will Allen in the Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol 28/3
- Historical agency and the coloniality of power in postsocialist Europe - Dace Dzenovska in Anthropological Theory, December 2013 Vol.13/4
- Critical Social Innovation for a City-Regional Europe: Why & how? - Igor Calzada, for Social Innovation Europe
- COMPAS Working Papers Series: Two of our latest Working Papers include, "Young Latin Americans in Barcelona, London, and Oxford: Building Identities in Contexts of Inequality and Discrimination", by Núria Roca i Caparà and "Local Belonging, National Authenticity, and the Foreigner: The Encounter between Bangladeshi and Senegalese Street Hawkers and International Holidaymakers in Rome and Naples, Italy", by Phoenix Paz.
- A COMPAS blog by Iain Walker, "Saudi Arabia and its immigrants", was reprinted by Saudi-US Relations Information Service
- "Ethnographic experiments in transnational mobility studies" - Special Issue of "Ethnography" edited by Xiang Biao and Mika Toyota.
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We offer an MSc in Migration Studies – a nine-month interdisciplinary master’s programme analyses migration from a global perspective. Taught by world-class researchers, it introduces you to key migration methods, concepts and theories across the social sciences, and prepares you for further research or for a career in policy and international development. Find out what our recent graduates have to say about their studies. Various scholarships are available (including three ESRC Migration Studies Pathway Studentships) for those who plan to continue to study for a doctorate. (Deadline 24 January) You’ll find full details of how to apply on the University’s website.
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COMPAS Photo and Poetry Competitions
The winners have been announced for both these competitions. Thank you to all who entered! Our Schools Poetry Competition results will be announced early in the new year. View results: Photo / Poetry
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Funding News
Many COMPAS staff have had good funding news recently and look forward to the exciting work ahead:
- Scott Blinder and the Migration Observatory team have been awarded core funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
- Will Allen, in collaboration with Helen Kennedy at the University of Leeds, has been awarded funding for the project ‘Seeing Data: Are good big data visualisations possible?’ from the AHRC.
- Will has also been granted funding for two linked projects on civil society groups’ use of data-driven research, "Big Data, Big Visions: Challenges and Opportunities for British Civil Society Engagement with Data-Driven Research" (Toyota Foundation) and "Big Talk about Big Data: Discourses of Evidence and Data in British Civil Society" (EPSRC Digital Economy ‘Communities and Culture Network+’)
- Hiranthi Jayaweera has been awarded funding from the Open Society Foundation for her project on Sri Lankan women migrating as domestic workers to countries in the Middle East (West Asia).
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