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IMI Seminar Series
IMI's Hilary term seminar series began successfully this month. Seminars are held each Wednesday from 1-2 pm in Seminar Room 2, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road. The series includes a great line up of speakers discussing a wide range of topics relating to migration. A sandwich lunch is provided. Find out who is speaking. |
Migration systems, Pioneer Migrants and the Role of Agency
A new paper co-authored by Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas and Agnieszka Kubal has been published in the latest issue of Journal of Critical Realism 11 (4), 413-437. The paper explores the role of pioneer migrants in the development of migration systems and marks the conceptual advancement stemming from the THEMIS project – Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems, bridging the links between migration studies, as an avenue for intellectual exploration, and broader currents of social theory. |
Aspirations and Capabilities in Migration Processes
A workshop was held by IMI to explore how conceptualizing and researching migration as a function of migration aspirations and migration capabilities can advance our understanding of migration processes at the micro-level. It brought together researchers who have explored these issues theoretically and/or empirically to how migration can be conceptualised as a function of aspirations and capabilities to achieve theoretical progress.
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Debating Development blog
The Oxford Department of International Development, including IMI, has launched a new blog, Debating Development. The blog will feature posts from academics and research students at the department and IMI. It will offer a forum for us to communicate and discuss the rich diversity of research being carried out here, and encourage a lively conversation both within the department and with those outside it who are interested in our work. |
Agnieszka Kubal new book
Agnieszka Kubal, Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, launched her book entitled ‘ Socio-Legal Integration. Polish Post-2004 EU Enlargement Migrants in the UK.’ at an IMI Seminar on Wednesday 28 November. Find out more about the event and read a short synopsis of the book.
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Vacancy
The IMI is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant (full time) to work on a major research project on “The determinants of international migration: A theoretical and empirical assessment of policy, origin and destination effects” ( DEMIG). The deadline for applications is 30 January.
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From Creolization to Relation
Olivia Sheringham, for the Oxford Diasporas Programme, conducted an interview with Patrick Chamoiseau, an important Martinican writer and thinker, as part of her fieldwork in Martinique. Chamoiseau comments on the evolution of the terms creole, creolization and more pertinently, relation, in the interview. Read the full interview.
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Complexities and Challenge in Afghan Migration
Call for papers: The University of Maastricht IS Academy Migration and Development project is hosting a two-day event on Afghan migration to discuss the current state of migration to and from Afghanistan. Abstracts of up to 250 words are to be submitted by 8 February 2013. Find out more.
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