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Migration research at Oxford: Dr Evelyn Ersanilli

In this podcast Farhan Samanani interviews MSc Migration Studies lecturer Dr Evelyn Ersanilli to find out more about her research, and the advantages of studying migration and working at the University of Oxford.

Studying migration at Oxford: Dr Xiang Biao

MSc Migration Studies course convener, Dr Xiang Biao provides some insight into the course in this interview with doctoral student Carolin Fischer.

Panel discussion: Why do people migrate?

This podcast presents a panel discussion on 'why people migrate', convened as part of the introductory lecture of this MSc course.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system

Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2013. Seminar by Dr Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh) recorded on 15 May 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

Is there 'White Flight?' in England? Why Whites in Homogeneous English Wards Are More Opposed to Immigration

Prof. Kaufmann (Birbeck College) investigates whether Whites in homogeneous English neighbourhoods oppose immigration more.

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

The injustices of high- versus low-skilled temporary labour migration programs: With evidence from Canada

Among critics of temporary labour migration programs (TLMP), it is common to describe them as exploitative, rights-violating, and unfair.

What is the evidence about migrant living conditions in the private rented sector and how could they be improved?

Outlining a new report for the Housing and Migration Network UK, 'Migrants and the Private Rented Sector', published in February is the first national report to explore the needs and experience of new migrants who live in the private rented sector.

Rethinking impact with social media

Oxford-based researcher Nando Sigona started his blog "Postcards from..." in 2008. Since then his use of social media has expanded into Twitter and Podcasting to engage wider communities in his research on migration, asylum and minority issues.

Rethinking impact with social media

Oxford-based researcher Nando Sigona started his blog "Postcards from..." in 2008. Since then his use of social media has expanded into Twitter and Podcasting to engage wider communities in his research on migration, asylum and minority issues.

What is the relationship between new migration and community change?

Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration.

Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law

Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights.

Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons

Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons".

Homophily is not an explanation

Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together.

Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto

Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas.

Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs

David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism.

Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground

Katharine Tyler speaks about her new book, which explores what it means to be white modern post-colonial societies, drawing on her fieldwork in semi-rural, rural and urban spaces in Leicestershire.

New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire

Analysing the relationship between whiteness and Englishness, looking at processes of social inclusion and exclusion in the countryside, the migration of Eastern European workers to the countryside and rural discourses of community and multi-culture.

Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods

Sarah Hackett explores the idea of the neighbourhood as a site where citizenship is practiced and negotiated, with particular focus on historical developments and settlements in Newcastle, UK and Bremen, Germany.

Negotiating urban citizenship: British Muslim encounters with new migrants

Deborah Phillips explores the 'neighbourhood' as a site where citizenship is practices and negotiated. She focuses particularly on the experiences of British Muslims in Bradford in their encounters with new migrants.

Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question

Professor Glover outlined the moral panic around aliens and Chinese labour in the 1906 election, relating the debate to the 1905 Aliens Act and to Chinese indentured layout to South Africa.

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