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Please find below the latest International Migration Institute (IMI) update on all our recent research activities, events and publications.
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Moving into a new academic year is often a time of change, and I am writing now with news of some important changes at IMI. After much deliberation, I am stepping down as Director, which will enable me to focus more energy on my role as the Research Co-ordinator on Migration and Development for the Horn of Africa Research and Evidence Facility of the EU Trust Fund for Africa over the next couple of years. It has been a great privilege to play a role in building up IMI over the last ten years but it is now time to pass on the reins. I am very happy to announce that from the beginning of October, my colleague Mathias Czaika will take over as the Director of IMI. Mathias has played a vital role in the development of IMI and I know that he has new and exciting plans to take it forward into its second decade. I will continue to be part of IMI as a Senior Researcher but I am happy to pass on the responsibility for its future into the capable hands of Mathias and the rest of the IMI team.
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Mathias Czaika said: “Over the last 10 years IMI has not only been established as a place known for sound and thoughtful migration research but has also become a growing network of friends, colleagues, and collaborators around the globe. I consider it both a privilege and responsibility to take up this new role as IMI director, and it is my aim to continue the good work of my predecessors and to consolidate IMI as a research centre.”
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We are delighted to welcome Ruben Andersson, who joins us from the London School of Economics, as Associate Professor of Migration and Development from 1 August. An anthropologist whose research interests are on migration, borders and security with a focus on the West African Sahel and southern Europe, Professor Andersson will be teaching on the MSc in Migration Studies.
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Departures and arrivals
We extend our best wishes to Yasser Moullan, who leaves us after two and a half years at IMI as a Research Officer on projects on high-skilled migration and the migration of medical professionals. We wish Yasser all the best in his new position as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of Economics and Management of Indian Ocean (CEMOI), University of Reunion Island, which he begins in January 2017. We also congratulate him on the recent arrival of his daughter Inès.
Over the summer we also congratulated Marie-Laurence Flahaux on the arrival of her son Marius, and Gunvor Jónsson on the arrival of her daughter Amanda.
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Sunday 9 October 2016
A team of runners from IMI and the Refugee Studies Centre are running the Oxford Half Marathon on Sunday 9 October to raise funds for Asylum Welcome, the Oxford-based charity which welcomes asylum seekers, refugees and detainees who have fled persecution and danger in their own countries and seek refuge in Oxford and Oxfordshire. More...
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Wednesdays from 12 October 2016, 1pm, Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Our new seminar series, 'Border crisis, open borders, no border: Radical perspectives in migration studies', is convened by Julien Brachet and will feature invited speakers as well as IMI visiting fellows, who will tackle issues including border activism, migration governance, border surveillance and how international organisations see migration. More...
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Wednesday 26 October 2016, 1pm, Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ
In an event co-hosted with Border Criminologies and the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour of the University of Brighton will discuss recent human trafficking Strasbourg case law. More...
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This Research Brief from ICMPD presents findings from ongoing research in collaboration with IMI on migrants in countries in crisis. In this brief IMI's Robtel Neajai Pailey explores the long-term socio-economic implications of 'crisis-induced' return migration on countries of origin, based on case studies in Côte d'Ivoire, Lebanon, South Africa, Libya, Thailand and Central African Republic. More...
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Based on multi-sited fieldwork conducted in 2012 and 2013 with 202 Liberians in urban centres in West Africa, North America and Europe, Robtel Neajai Pailey examines the ‘Liberian citizenship’ construction through a historical prism. She argues that as Liberia transformed from a country of immigration to one of emigration, so too did conceptualisations of citizenship – moving from passive, identity-based citizenship emphasising rights and entitlements to more active, practice-based citizenship privileging duties and responsibilities. More...
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Hélène Thiollet looks at migration management in the Gulf monarchies since the 1930s, describing the dynamics of labour import and immigration policies and highlighting the hybrid nature of migration management. She explores the patterns and politics of migration management at the domestic, regional and international level over time to identify changes and continuity, finding that from the colonial premises to the 1970s and the oil boom, the patterns of labour import management proved consistent, shaping immigration as temporary and denying foreign workers socio-economic rights. More...
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Transnational transformations: Coupling migration and change
Marieke van Houte proposes an analytical framework to study the dual relationship between migration and change, addressing a two-fold question: what are the consequences of political developments on migration and transnational engagement, and what are the consequences of migration and transnational engagement on politics in the country of origin? More...
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In a new series of blog posts, MSc in Migration Studies alumni explore the application of their learning in their new roles. Read Tommaso Trillò sharing thoughts on his own experience of border crossing; Aliyyah Ahad on the increasingly important role played by tech solutions (including those designed by refugees) in responding to the needs of today's refugees, and Jonathan Paul Katz on the importance of plain language in communication with people with disabilities, including migrants with disabilities. More...
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As global leaders marked the first anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals, we looked back at Oliver Bakewell's reflection from December 2015 on whether the inclusion of migration in the Sustainable Development Goals raises more questions than it answers. More...
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As global leaders met in September at two key summits in New York to address large movements of refugees and migrants, Robtel Neajai Pailey urged them to recognise that, rather than being helpless, migrants have complex and dignified stories of human resilience. More...
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MULTIMEDIA
We publish a range of audio podcasts that includes lectures and discussions on migration issues from IMI events and the IMI seminar series that can be downloaded and listened to for free. All of our latest podcasts available to download from the IMI website, University of Oxford Podcasts and iTunes.
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IMI's Michaelmas term seminars will be available for download via Oxford Podcasts shortly after each takes place. Previous terms' seminar series podcasts are available for download now. More...
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