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Please find below the latest International Migration Institute (IMI) update on all our recent research activities, events and publications.

NEWS

Welcome to new IMI team members

IMI is delighted to welcome two new team members. Robtel Neajai Pailey joins us as Senior Research Officer on the Migrants in Countries in Crisis project, funded by ICMPD, which will feature case studies in West Africa. Marie Godin joins the European Welfare Systems in Times of Mobility project, funded by NORFACE, which aims to understand the role of welfare systems in destination and origin countries for migration patterns within and towards Europe.

Robin Cohen retires

IMI bids farewell at the end of this month to professor emeritus and former director of IMI, Robin Cohen, wishing him a very happy retirement.

The five-year, Leverhulme Trust-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme, of which Robin is principal investigator, concludes at the same time. Its work continutes through numerous forthcoming publications and the programme website.

EVENTS

The Changing Face of Global Mobility conference programme announced


13–15 January 2016, St Anne's College, University of Oxford

Limited places are available for this conference, which celebrates the first decade of IMI. 55 international scholars will present over three days. Programme and registration...

Hilary term seminar series: Migration, Politics and Social Change


Held every Wednesday at 1pm, speakers in Hilary term will include Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University), Laura Morales (University of Leicester) and Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo). Full programme to publish shortly...
 

RESEARCH

EUMAGINE data released
 

EUMAGINE: Imagining Europe from the Outside investigated the impact of perceptions of human rights and democracy on migration aspirations and decisions. Funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, the EUMAGINE project involved more than thirty researchers in seven countries who worked to understand how people in Morocco, Senegal, Turkey and Ukraine relate to the possibility of migration. Following the end of the project in 2013, its data is now available to interested researchers. Access the data...

 

IMI data releases


The datasets and the metadata of the THEMIS project have been deposited for secure archive in the UK Data Service, a link to which will shortly be available. The data include surveys conducted in both areas of origin in Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine (total 1,246 respondents) and destinations in Norway, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK (total 2,859 respondents).

The THEMIS project also gathered a large volume of qualitative data through over 630 semi-structured interviews. The interview guidelines will be published but it has not been possible to make available the interviews. Details will be available on the IMI website shortly.

 
Three major databases from the DEMIG project will now be made available in early 2016:
  • DEMIG POLICY tracks around 6,500 migration policy changes enacted by 45 countries around the world, mostly in the 1945–2013 period;
  • DEMIG TOTAL reports immigration, emigration and net migration flows for up to 161 countries covering various periods of time from the early 1800s to 2011;
  • DEMIG C2C captures long-term country-to-country global migration flows from 1946 to 2011 for 34 reporting countries.
The databases will be available at: www.imi.ox.ac.uk/data

 

STUDY

MSc in Migration Studies 2016/17: upcoming application deadlines
 

The MSc in Migration Studies is taught by world-class researchers from IMI and COMPAS. This intensive nine-month graduate taught degree analyses migration from a global perspective and as an integral part of development and social change. The course introduces key migration concepts, methods and theories across the social sciences, and prepares students for further research or for a career in policy and international development. Next application deadline: Friday 22 January 2016. More information...

PUBLICATIONS

Beyond Networks: Feedback in international migration

This collection, edited by Oliver Bakewell, Godfried Engbersen, Maria Lucinda Fonseca and Cindy Horst, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2015. It explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the UK and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today. The volume proceeds from the findings of the THEMIS project. More...

Times of uncertainty in Europe: migration feedback loops in four Moroccan regions

In this article, part of the special issue of the Journal of North African Studies, Revisiting Moroccan Migrations, Dominique Jolivet investigates how the current economic crisis in Europe is negatively affecting the working and living conditions of migrants and might change the lives and migration aspirations of non-migrants in regions of origin. More...

Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies (ed. Anna Triandafyllidou) offers a comprehensive study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. Mathias Czaika and Hein de Haas contribute a chapter on evaluating migration policy effectiveness, and Oliver Bakewell's chapter examines migration within developing areas, offering some African perspectives on mobility. More...

Return Migration to Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo: Intention and Realization

Marie-Laurence Flahaux uses life event history data collected by the MAFE project survey of migrants in Europe and return migrants in their countries of origin to analyse, first, the initial return intentions of Senegalese and Congolese migrants to Europe, and second, the realisation of those intentions. More...

IMI WORKING PAPERS

Culture seen as a commons: Osmosis, crossroads and the paradoxes of identity

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo) reflects on diversity, creolisation, the politics of difference and questions of social identity in a paper derived from a keynote speech given at the Oxford Diasporas Programme Impact of Diasporas event held in September 2015. More...

Internationalisation and diversification of Indian academic careers

Sorana Toma, Maria Villares-Varela and Mathias Czaika investigate the major patterns and drivers of interlinked geographical and career mobilities of Indian-born researchers and scientists. Based on a global survey of 4,600 Indian researchers and 40 in-depth interviews, their study provides evidence on the internationalisation of careers and the diversification of destinations of Indian-born academics. More...

The impact of land policies on international migration: The case of the Brasiguaios

Marcos Estrada (University of Warwick) looks at the how the 'national' land polices of the second half of the twentieth century in Brazilian and Paraguayan reshaped ‘local’ social relations in both countries. More...

MULTIMEDIA


We publish a range of audio podcasts that includes lectures and discussions on migration issues from IMI events and the IMI seminar series that can be downloaded and listened to for free. All of our latest podcasts available to download from the IMI website, University of Oxford Podcasts and iTunes.

IMI Michaelmas term Seminar Series

IMI's Michaelmas term seminar series, which focused on migration and social protection, is available for download. Among this term's speakers were:

Oliver Bakewell: The changing face of social protection in Africa's cities.
Listen to the full podcast…

Jessica Hagen-Zanker (Overseas Development Institute): Access to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to adequate coverage Listen to the full podcast...

Hope and uncertainty in African migration: Life after deportation to Ghana

Trinity term Visiting Fellow Nauja Kleist (Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies) presented her research in a special seminar on 17 November. Nauja's research focuses on return migration in the context of restrictive mobility regimes in Europe and Africa, within theories on hope, (im)mobility, social fields, gender, and belonging. Listen to the full podcast...

Hein de Haas busts seven migration myths

Former IMI co-director Hein de Haas presented 'Behind the headlines: investigating the drivers and impacts of global migration' on 10 November at the Oxford Martin School. Drawing on the results of the DEMIG project, Hein presented evidence to expel seven migration myths, from the idea that we now live in an era of unprecedented migration, to the belief that development in poorer countries will reduce emigration.
Watch the video...

'The migrant and refugee crisis' - A panel discussion on responses and solutions

On Monday 26 October this panel discussion, led by Oxford academics including Robin Cohen, evaluated recent events, considering old precedents along with new answers to what has been deemed one of the most pressing migration crises in European history.
Watch the video...
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