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Decade of Migration, Session 1: How does the growth of the world’s cities reframe our understanding of the social, the economic and the political?

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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In the first panel of the Decade of Migration conference Ash Amin and Vicki Bell focus on cities.
Ash Amin outlines work set out in his book "City of Migrants", looking at the characteristic of the city and its construction of migrants and migrant experiences. Vicki Bell considers "Routes not taken", examining routes not taken in the field of memory studies and its relation to history based on research in Cordoba, Argentina. Part of the Decade of Migration Conference. This international conference marked the 10 year anniversary of COMPAS and looked to future research agendas. Bringing together leading academics and senior practitioners from across the world, this event discussed 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.

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
People
Ash Amin
Vicki Bell
Keywords
migration
immigration
compas
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 24/09/2014
Duration: 00:43:24

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