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'We don't want to be sent back and forth all the time': Chagossian reflections on compulsion and choice in the context of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return

This talk draws on a case study of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return within the living memory of one community, and explores questions of freedom and force ethnographically:

Forced marriage and immigration policies: understanding diversity or punishing difference?

Geetanjali Gangoli, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series on forced marriage and its implications on immigration and human rights

Conceptualizing and Measuring Immigration Policies: The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Index

This seminar discusses the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Index. This project builds a dataset on immigration policies in all OECD countries for the period 1980-2010.

FMR 45 New OAS Conventions protecting IDPs against racism and discrimination

Two new Conventions approved in 2013 have the potential to offer greater protection to vulnerable groups, including IDPs, in the Americas.

FMR 45 The global governance of crisis migration

There is no coherent or unified global governance framework for the different areas that have been subsumed under the umbrella of ‘crisis migration’.

FMR 45 Environmental stress, displacement and the challenge of rights protection

Examination of migration histories and current politics in Kenya, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Ghana sheds light on how rights are articulated for groups and individuals displaced in a context of environmental stress and climate change.

FMR 45 Humanitarian border management

Humanitarian border management is one of the tools that can supplement the humanitarian response for migrants caught in a crisis situation.

FMR 45 Questioning ‘drought displacement’: environment, politics and migration in Somalia

The role of the recent drought in producing migration cannot be understood in isolation from human practices and past and concurrent political processes.

FMR 45 Health crises and migration

Individual and collective responses to health crises contribute to an orderly public health response that most times precludes the need for large-scale displacements.

FMR 45 Mexicans seeking political asylum

Banding together in response to a situation of this seriousness gives people strength and confidence, and provides emotional, social and – above all – legal and political support.

FMR 45 Criminal violence and displacement in Mexico

Rampant criminal violence, from direct coercion and physical threats to the erosion of the quality of life and livelihood opportunities, pushes people to move in a variety of ways.

FMR 45 Adolescence, food crisis and migration

Adolescents who migrate because of food crises face distinct risks. Specific strategies are needed to prevent and respond to this phenomenon.

FMR 45 Migrants on offshore islands of Bangladesh

Riverbank erosion and the consequent formation of new islands in the Bay of Bengal cause frequent changes in the shape and size of the delta, forcing the inhabitants to migrate frequently.

FMR 45 Choice and necessity: relocations in the Arctic and South Pacific

Relocation – whereby livelihoods, housing and public infrastructure are reconstructed in another location – may be the best adaptation response for communities whose current location becomes uninhabitable or is vulnerable to future climate-induced threats

FMR 45 Lessons from the development of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement filled a major gap in the international protection system for uprooted people.

FMR 45 Foreword on migrants in crisis

When it comes to protecting migrants' well-being and rights, smart practices abound. There are many practices that can and should become global standards.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Creation, imagination, speculation: age assessment and the asylum procedure

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Professor Gregor Noll (Lund University) recorded on 5 March 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

Roads of separation: infrastructure politics, "creeping migration" and de facto delimitation in rural Central Asia

Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism

Everyday practices at the Russia - China - Mongolia border

Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism

Postsocialist subject as a new other: global coloniality, border thinking and decolonial option

Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism

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