Early Career Researcher Away Day (September 2017)
Early Career Researchers (late stage DPhil and Post-Doc) of themes related to migration and mobility at the University of Oxford were invited for a day of connecting, discussing and sharing experience.
Academic Speed-Dating' Network Lunch (October 2017)
First networking lunch:
This event was held in the format of an ‘academic speed-dating’: eight to ten participants of different disciplines and academic levels were given 3min/2 slides each to present their work, followed by 2min of Q&A.
Academic Speed-Dating Network Drinks on Keyword 'Exile (November 2017)
Network event held in the format of 'academic speed-dating' offering up to 5 mini-presentations of max 5min each by a selection of network participants from different disciplines. Networking opportunit - in small groups and individually. Presentations focused on the keyword 'exile'.
Academic Speed-Dating Network Drinks (February 2018)
presentations will be focused on the keyword 'inclusion'
Academic Speed-Dating Network Lunch (April 2018)
Keyword 'HUMAN TRAFFICKING'
Academic Speed-Dating Network Drinks (November 2018)
Keyword 'Family'
Migration Process and Bureaucracy Academic 'Speed Dating' (October 2019)
Call for Presenters - Academic 'Speed-Dating' on keyword 'Bureaucracy'
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Early Career Researcher Away Day - Migration and Mobility Network (November 2017)
The goal of this event was to kickstart a migration ECR cohort that reached across departments and research centres and includes ECR migration scholars from across the divisions.
The day will covered the following broad themes:
- The funding landscape for early career scholars
- Shared experiences from ECRs working on migration at Oxford
- Taking stock of ECR interests & skills
- Opportunities for migration research: current and in the near future
- Representing and supporting ECRs at Oxford: needs and strategies
Oxford Migration Conference (May 2018)
Crossing Borders/Crossing Disciplines: Rethinking Inclusion, Exclusion, and Human Migration
A conference that aimed to generate new inter- and multi-disciplinary insights and ideas on the theme of inclusion/exclusion. Abstracts were invited from researchers at all academic levels addressing processes of inclusion/exclusion in relation to human migration and mobility from all disciplinary perspectives.
God and the Migrant (May 2018)
Oxford Migration and Mobility Network Workshop
A workshop in response to Robert W. Heimburger’s God and the Illegal Alien: United States Immigration Law and a Theology of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Introduction by Robert Heimburger (Oxford Pastorate, Seminario Bíblico de Colombia, and IFES)
With responses by:
- Margaret B. Adam (Theology, St Stephen’s House and University of Chester)
- Therese Feiler (Theology, Harris Manchester College)
- Paul Yowell (Law, Oriel College)
Migration and Urban Transformation in Latin America and the UK (June 2018)
Invitation to Early Career Researchers from the UK and Brazil to apply to attend a workshop on migration and urban transformations. The workshop aimed to cover a wide range of themes, including: housing, health, employment, language, community relations, citizenship, education, subjective well-being relating to migrants in the UK and Latin America.
Book Launch: From Surviving to Living (July 2018)
Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women's Writing
During the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, acts of extreme violence were committed against women. The book presents a critical study of Rwandan women’s published testimonies, seeking to understand how Rwandan women genocide survivors respond to and communicate such experiences.
- Welcome address by Sir Ralph Waller, Principal of Harris Manchester College followed by a series of short talks.
- Introduction: Dr Isabel Ruiz (Fellow and Tutor in Economics, Harris Manchester College)
- Presentation of book: Dr Catherine Gilbert (Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
- Response: Liliane Umubyeyi (Oxford Rwandan Community)
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Refugee Studies Centre, Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2018
To be or not to be: questioning the value of refugee status (October 2018)
Convened by Professor Matthew Gibney, Professor Cathryn Costello, and Professor Tom Scott-Smith.
Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018 | In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA (October 2018)
Speaker: Pierre Krähenbühl, UNRWA Commissioner-General
Asylum after empire: postcolonial legacies in the politics of asylum seeking (October 2018)
International Society and the Risk of Statelessness (November 2018)
Speaker: Dr Kelly Staples, University of Leicester
Refugee Studies Centre, Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term 2018 (November 2018)
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Darling, Durham University
The Kindertransport: contesting memory (November 2018)
Speaker: Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton, University of Southampton
Border Rescue (November 2018)
Speaker: Dr Kieran Oberman, University of Edinburgh
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Migrants and the Economy: Realities and Representations Seminar Series
Seminar series organised as part of the REMINDER project, funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme, which explored the economic and social impacts of migration and political and media narratives about it.
Immigrant franchise and immigration policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era (October 2018)
Numbers, narratives, neither, both? How different kinds of message evidence impact public perceptions about immigration in Great Britain (October 2018)
Numbers, narratives, neither, both? How different kinds of message evidence impact public perceptions about immigration in Great Britain
William L. Allen, University of Oxford
Is it ethnicity or religion? Evidence from a cross-national field experiment on labour market discrimination (October 2018)
Mariña Fernández-Reino, University of Oxford
In her study, Mariña explored ethnic penalties in the labour market based on her research in five European countries.
Immigration and well-being: A neighbourhood-level analysis (November 2018)
Speaker: Corrado Giulietti, University of Southampton
Speed-Geeking Migration Challenge (November 2018)
Speed Geeking the Many Dimensions of Migration (November 2018)
International migration can be a massive, multi-layered and mind-bending subject, so the REMINDER Project compressed everything you need to know about EU migration into a set of six-minute presentations! Academics cut the waffle and raced against the clock to share their innovative and exciting research.
Selective Emigration after Germany’s Failed 1848 Revolutions and the Rise of the Nazi Party (November 2018)
With Toman Barsbai, University of St. Andrews
Does it really matter how different we are? Ancestry distances and income in the United States (November 2018)
Valeria Rueda, University of Oxford
Welfare and immigration: Evidence from Germany (November 2018)
Speaker: Esther Arenas-Arroyo, University of Oxford
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Cognition & Migration: Researching Mobile Identities (November 2018)
Conference: International migration has emerged as a major global concern, not just because of its economic and political implications, but also fundamental questions that it raises about integration, assimilation, and social cohesion. We have little understanding of the cognitive implications of international migration, either on the migrants or the society they move into. The network aimed to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda on this vital issue.
Mobility/Migration Research Day (January 2019)
One-day event:
- Welcome and setting the scene: Ilka Vari-Lavoisier (Trento/Compas) and Nick Van Hear (Compas)
- Mette Louise Berg (UCL) ‘The pleasures and perils of a new journal: reflections on starting up Migration and Society’
- Nick Van Hear (Compas) ‘On dealing with journals’
- Melanie Griffiths (Birmingham) ‘Go home or face arrest: reflections on the hostile environment in the UK’
- Alejandro Miranda Nieto (Trento) ‘Temporalities of Homemaking’
- Yali Chen (Geneva/Compas) ‘Subjectivity online within transnational migration: how Chinese migrant women shift powerlessness through WeChat’
- Tom Western (RSC) ‘Listening with Displacement’
- Dan Hicks and Sarah Mallet (Pitt Rivers) ‘Lande: the Calais “Jungle” and Beyond’ (project @ Pitt Rivers Museum)
- Music: Alejandro Miranda Nieto (Trento)
Mobility Research Day (March 2019)
An afternoon of presentations and discussions followed by a presentation from Susan Banki’s on her forthcoming book, entitled Homeland activists without a home: the ecosystem of exile politics.
Oxford Migration Conference: Spaces of (Im)mobility (May 2019)
A collaborative conference aiming to bring together multiple disciplinary perspectives to explore how human mobility is mediated from above and below.
Speakers and moderators included: Catherine Briddick, Mary Bosworth, and Lorenzo Pezzani from Forensic Oceanography.
Mobility and Migration Research Day (June 2019)
An array of talks on various areas of migration/mobility research, including a session by Prof Robin Cohen on writing and publishing books.
Children and Borders (June 2019)
A colloquium that explored how children and childhood have responded to – and negotiated – borders.
SEMINAR: Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief: The Hidden Legacy (July 2019)
In their relation with the State, hard borders have gained relevance due to the increasing politicisation and criminalisation of migration, and securitisation discourse and policies.
Olga Jubany received her doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently Associate Professor and Serra Hunter Fellow at the Social Anthropology Department, Director of the European Social Research Unit, and coordinator of the research Group on Gender, Identity and Diversity at the University of Barcelona.
Many more to come? Reflections on migration to Europe and migration policy responses 2015-2019 (September 2019)
Seminar
Speaker:
Rainer Münz is adviser on migration and Demography at EPSC, the in-house think tank advising the President of the European Commission.
Migration and Mobility Network Committee Formation (October 2019)
An event aiming to form a new committee of those who would like to be more involved in the running of the network, in particular, event organisers for our regular academic speed-dating events.
Crimmigration and Refugees in Australia: Visa Cancellation on Criminality Grounds and 'Living in the Community' as Punishment and Deterrence (October 2019)
Our first event this term, co-hosted with Border Criminologies, where Dr. Anthea Vogl shared her work on Crimmigration in Australia.
Datafy, choke and disregard. Refugees’ subjectivities and asylum’s digital disruptions in Greece (October 2019)
A presentation that focused on the financialisation of refugee humanitarianism in Greece, bringing attention to the Cash Assistance Programme, which is the first EU-funded project in Europe of financial support to the asylum seekers, coordinated by UNHCR. This latter consists in the delivery of a monthly financial support to asylum seekers given on debit cards inside hotspots and refugee camps.
The Map is Not the Territory: Story-making, Place and Performance (October 2019)
Speaker
Dame Marina Warner is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer.
Lecture
‘Home is where I set my foot’ (La mia casa è dove poggio i piedi) is a motto used by refugees and forced migrants in Palermo, who frequent the café Moltivolti in Ballaro, the historic, multicultural heart of the city. In this lecture, Marina Warner explored the potential of imaginative tale-spinning in establishing a sense of place and belonging and discussed how words and stories, myths and legends can help give character to unfamiliar territory and build connections and community.
"Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present" (November 2019)
But if migration is as old as the hills, why is it now so politically sensitive? Why do migrants leave? Where do they go, in what numbers and for what reasons? Do migrants represent a threat to the social and political order?
Talk by Robin Cohen is Emeritus Professor and Former Director of the International Migration Institute, funded by the Oxford Martin School (2009-11). He is Senior Research Fellow at Kellogg College.
Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2020-21 (November 2019)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities.
A FILM DISCUSSION EVENING ON: SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER (November 2019)
Shelter without Shelter relates a story of great hopes, profound challenges, and varying strategies for sheltering forced migrants. Filmed across Europe and the Middle East, this feature length documentary takes you behind the scenes to hear from the people who created these shelters and the migrants who have to live in them.
Documentary film-makers: Tom Scott-Smith (Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration) and Mark E Breeze (Director of Studies in Architecture, St. John’s College, Cambridge)
The event showed extracts from the film followed by discussion with Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E Breeze.
Migration and Mobility Research Day (December 2019)
Organised by COMPAS & Migration and Mobility Network
- Welcome and setting the scene: Ilka Vari-Lavoisier (U. of Trento/COMPAS/IC Migrations) and Nick Van Hear (COMPAS)
- Giorgia Donà (Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging -- University of East London) and Marie Godin (Refugee Studies Center, Oxford) ‘Mobile digital technologies and migrants in transit: negotiating techno-borderscapes’ Discussant: Marie Mallet-Garcia (COMPAS, Oxford)
- Anna Tsalapatanis (Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford) ‘Where are you really from? Normative Schemes of Intelligibility and Encounters of Address’ Rebecca Buxton (ODID, Oxford) ‘When temporary protection is a moral harm’
- Elsa Gomis (School of Art, Media, and American Studies, University of East Anglia) ‘Visual motifs of migration and imaginary. Presentation of a creative-critical Ph.D through filmmaking’ Screening and discussion of extracts from her film The People Behind the Scenes
Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain (February 2020)
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2020 - Feminism, Categorisation and Forced Migration
This interdisciplinary series explored a range of topics in refugee law, politics and history with particular attention being paid to feminist and/or gendered approaches to displacement and mobility and the categorisation(s) of people as 'refugees', 'citizens', 'settlers' or 'migrants'.
Series convenor: Dr Catherine Briddick, Martin James Departmental Lecturer in Gender and Forced Migration
Introducing Manus Prison Theory: Knowing Border Violence (February 2020)
Manus Prison theory is a coherent intellectual, creative and political project inspired by four years of ongoing research and organising between Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian in what we refer to as a shared philosophical activity. It aims to analyse the detention industry by identifying its connections with other forms of violence and domination; this approach focuses on how systems of oppression are interconnected, mutually reinforcing and multipliable.
Spearkers
- Behrouz Boochani is Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Sciences at UNSW, author and journalist was incarcerated as a political prisoner by the Australian government on Manus Island and is now held in Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea). His book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador 2018) has won numerous awards including the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature.
- Omid Tofighian is an award-winning lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in citizen media, popular culture, displacement and discrimination. He is Adjunct Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW; Honorary Research Associate for the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney; faculty at Iran Academia; and campaign manager for Why Is My Curriculum White? - Australasia.
Panel discussion: Mobility, Migration and the Bioeconomy (February 2020)
Panel:
- Dr Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford)
- Professor Sarah Green (University of Helsinki)
- Dr Hans Lucht (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen)
- Dr Madeleine Reeves (The University of Manchester)
- Professor Nikolas Rose (King’s College London)
- Dr Marthe Achtnich, (University of Oxford)
The panel addressed questions of how multiple modes of value creation through mobility might operate, from bodies to data, from borders to people and animals, and from mobility itself, as well as how unauthorised movement, local and transnational border governance might interface with other trends towards the economization of life.
Coronavirus and Mobility Forum (ongoing initiative)
spearheaded by Prof Biao Xiang., online roundtable/forum to explore issues and research questions around mobility and Covid-19.
Oxford Migration Conference 2020 (May 2020)
hosted by the Oxford Migration Studies Society in collaboration with Routed Magazine. The conference focused on explaining, comparing and unpacking the stories that surround refugees, migrants and migration.
Emerging Scholars Network (Annual Workshop 10th-13th November 2020)
A UNHCR and UNSW signing ceremony and panel discussion.
The Kaldor Centre’s fifth annual Emerging Scholars Network workshop. A virtual event that featured the latest research on the following areas and themes:
Discourse and network analysis
Empowering emerging scholars in forced migration: a UNHCR and UNSW signing ceremony and panel discussion
- The Asia-Pacific researchgroup (incl.an update on Ryerson University’s CERC in Migration and Integrationand theLERRN initiative)
- The Gender & Diversity research group
- Law and responsibility sharing
- Borders and carceral spaces
- International protection
- the Africa research group
Panel:
- Gillian Triggs, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
- Chair Prof Geoff Gilbert, Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network Secretariat
- Prof Jane McAdam, Kaldor Centre Director
- Prof Nicholas Fisk, UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
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Topical panel: ‘Refugees and Migrants in the shadow of Covid19’ (November 2020)
Introduction /Chair: Kathryn Allinson (University of Bristol)
Part 1: Refugee and Migrant ‘immobility’ during a Pandemic
- Dr. Elif Kuskonmaz (Portsmouth University): Use of personal data to control borders in the time of Covid19
- Marta Gionco (PICUM): Measure to support undocumented migrants during the Covid19 pandemic
- Emilie McDonnell (University of Oxford): The Right to Leave (to seek asylum) and Externalised Migration Control during Covid19
Part 2: The Right to Rights of refugees and migrants during a Pandemic
- Prof. M. Murat Erdogan (Turkish German University): Urban refugees in Turkey during a pandemic
- Chai Patel (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants): Refugee and migrant access to healthcare during Covid19
- Antonella Napolitano (Privacy International): Privacy of migrants and refugee data
Engaging with intersectional approaches to the study of migration politics - Call for Abstracts (November 2020)
Panel proposal for the European Conference on Politics and Gender, 7 – 9 July 2021 in Ljubljana. The panel aimed to stimulate dialogue among scholars of the politics of migration, especially those who use feminist- and queer approaches to explore these politics in relation to broader processes of in/exclusion and systems of oppression.
MMN Networking Event: Migration and Museums (November 2020)
The first Migration and Mobility Network networking event of the 2020-2021 academic year focused on Migration and Museums, with participants from the Migration Museum, COMPAS, Multaka Oxford, and the University of Oxford.
PhDs and ECRs online writing retreats by the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (November 2020)
The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research organised an online writing retreat for PhDs and early career researchers.
Revisiting Transnationalism (November 2020)
Since the first introduction of the term in the 1990s (Glick Schiller, Basch & Blanc‐Szanton, 1992), transnationalism has become a key theme in much research on migration, refugees and diaspora.
Seminar to bring together our research with varied groups of migration in different global regions to critically reflect upon what is meant by transnationalism.
Speakers:
- Dr Antia Mato Bouzas: ‘Transnationalism: some considerations about migrants’ experiences in the Gulf’
- Prof Louise Ryan – ‘Using a social networks lens to analyse dynamic transnational practices through the life course’
The critical role of ethics in forced migration research: Refugee participation, Do No Harm, and the IASFM Code of Ethics (December 2020)
Research on forced migration provides critical input into the processes that help shape policy on displacement and humanitarian response.
Webinar in which we will discussed the ethical challenges faced in researching situations of forced migration, how these relate to the application in practice of the principle of “do no harm” and the IASFM Code of Ethics. We heard from researchers, a refugee post-graduate student, as well as a camp manager, who shared their experience and exchanged views on these questions.
The Migration-Development Nexus for Chinese Health Professionals in Africa (February 2021)
Seminar: Author: Olivia Gieskes (University of Edinburgh)
Migration and Mobility Network: Road of a migrant (February 2021)
Documentary screening
The film
Road of a migrant follows a unique event for Ukraine and Europe – a yearly, 10-day-long walking Pilgrimage from Sambir (Lviv region, Ukraine) to Zarvanytsja (Ternopil region, Ukraine) dedicated to and organized by Ukrainian labor migrants and their family members.
OXFORD MIGRATION CONFERENCE 2021: Borders and Justice (May 2021)
The online platform has allowed for a broader scope of panellists than ever before. Alongside presentations authors were also invited to contribute to Routed Magazine, giving the temporary conference community a more permanent interface. An evaluation of the historical foundations of borders, the conference will trace how (post)-colonial notions of exclusion and inclusion inform the realities of the border, exploring technologies of border control, border discrimination, detention, encampment, deportation and criminalisation and the impact of Covid-19 on all of these areas.
Deportation, its Contestations, and its Aftermath (June 2021)
A one-day conference brings together graduate students and early-career scholars from various institutions across the world to unpack three main issues raised by deportation:
- evolving state measures of border enforcement, and the processes of racialisation that they (re-)produce;
- innovative forms of contesting enforcement measures across different national contexts;
- and the aftermath of deportation set within wider socio-political dynamics in migrants' countries of origin.
Workshop: Ethics in the field (November 2021)
The workshop aimed to be a space for discussing main issues related to a variety of methodological aspects including consent, anonymity, copyright and payment and adopted a decolonial approach aiming to raise an awareness of reciprocal projections that can influence the research.
Speakers
- Prof. Loren Landau (Oxford Department of International Development)
- Dr. Hari Reed (Advocacy coordinator at Asylum Welcome Oxford)
- Prof. Naomi Sunderland (Griffith University).
Networking event for DPhils and ECRs: “Interdisciplinarity in Migration Research” (December 2021)
An event with three objectives:
(1) to exchange ideas about how to conduct interdisciplinary migration research
(2) to invite DPhils and ECRs scholars to take on an active role in the Migration and Mobility Network and discuss the future directions of the Network
(3) to meet, connect, and enjoy some wine tasting under the guidance of our wine specialist
Part 1: Sharing experiences and challenges of interdisciplinary migration research
Speakers:
- Guadalupe Chavez (DPhil, Department of Politics and International Relations )
- Hallam Tuck (DPhil, Centre for Criminology); Roxana Akhmetova (DPhil, COMPAS)
- Francesca Esposito (British Academy Newton International Fellow, Centre for Criminology)
- Manolis Pratsinakis (Onassis Fellow, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, COMPAS)
Part 2: Connecting meaningfully
Part 3: Networking purposefully
Part 4: Looking ahead together
Call for Papers/Submissions* MMN Conference: "Measuring Migration: How? When? Why?" (February 2022)
Call for Papers/Submissions* & Conference
Confirmed speakers include:
- Cris Beauchemin (Institut National d’Études Démographiques);
- Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford);
- Ridhi Kashyap (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford);
- Isabel Ruiz (Department of Economics, University of Oxford);
- Nikola Sander (Federal Institute for Population Research., BiB);
- Olivier Sterck (Department of International Development, University of Oxford);
- Carlos Vargas-Silva (Centre on Migration Policy and Society, University of Oxford)
Confirmed discussants include:
- Will Allen (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford);
- RB Bhagat (International Institute for Population Sciences);
- Matthew Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford);
- Madeleine Sumption (Migration Observatory, University of Oxford);
- Francesco Rampazzo (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford);
- Funda Ustek-Spilda (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
Roundtable Series: "Visualising Migration and Mobility" (February 2022)
This series comprised of two online roundtable events.
Roundtable 1: Beautiful Images, Contentious Politics: Visual Modes and Representation
Confirmed Speakers:
- Dr Elsa Gomis (Filmmaker and Doctor in Film Studies)
- Prof Matthew Nicholls (Visiting Professor in Classics, University of Reading; Senior Tutor, St John’s College, University of Oxford)
- Moderated by Dr William L Allen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford)
Roundtable 2: Visualising Truths: The Politics of Omission, Manipulation, and Erasure
Confirmed Speakers:
- Anthony Bourached (Co-Founder, Oxia Palus; PhD Candidate in Machine Learning and High Dimensional Neuroscience, UCL)
- Federica Cocco (Journalist, Data Team of The Financial Times)
- Prof Gillian Rose (Professor of Human Geography; Head of School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
- Moderated by Dr Marnie Howlett (Departmental Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford)