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@UniofOxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society conducting high-quality research, developing theory & facilitating knowledge exchange. Based at the School of Anthropology.
💡Happening this Thursday!

Join Sophie Hinger and Francina Guggenberger of Osnabrück University for a discussion on local governance and knowledge production around asylum accommodation and urban spaces of migration in Germany. Register hu-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Don’t miss our next ‘Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure’ seminar! 🏙️

This week, Heike Hanhörster, Technische Universität Berlin, discusses “The ‘Stable Neighbourhood’ Planning Paradigm in Times of Migration and Diversity.”

Register: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/welcom...
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
💡Happening this week!

Welcoming Cities, Arrival Infrastructure: Introductory Panel.

Join us this Thursday at 3:45 PM for a discussion on welcoming, arrival, integration, and inclusion in cities as sites of migration.

➡️ Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Professor Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS and the PEAK Urban project, reflects on the idea of an open city and its connection to migration.

🎙️ Listen to the Migration Oxford podcast here: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/pedal-power-...
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
In our latest blog, Ishret Binte Wahid of @soasuni.bsky.social explores the lived experiences of male Bangladeshi labour migrants in the UAE. Read more ⬇️ www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/frag...
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🔊 Listen to our latest episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, where experts from the MIGNEX project, which explores questions of migration and global development, discuss:

Who is the anti-migration agenda serving, and what are the alternatives?

podcasts.ox.ac.uk/bitter-carro...
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🏙️New Seminar Series - Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure.

Convened by @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity and Nihad El-Kayed of @dezim-institut.de, this series will tackle questions of welcoming, arrival, integration, and inclusion in cities.
October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
THIS WEEK📢📢📢

What factors promote or inhibit immigrant senses of #belonging? How can we utilise #research findings to encourage greater inclusiveness and empowerment of #immigrants within #British society?

✨Promoting Immigrant Belonging and Well-Being Across National and Cultural Contexts✨⬇️
September 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
TODAY! Why are #refugees often seen as distant figures? What are the perceptions in #SouthKorea, a country with one of the world’s lowest refugee acceptance rates?

Join us for this #free film screening to explore themes of #displacement and broader implications for society. Register👉 bit.ly/42ZHPjv
May 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
TOMORROW!

🎭Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations
⌚15:45-17:00 BST
🏡The Hub OX2 6PN
Register👇
bit.ly/42ZHPjv

We're delighted to host this #film screening, followed by an exclusive Q&A with Eun Hye Son, Journalist at Korean Broadcasting System and COMPAS Visiting Academic. Join us!
May 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Now for a #film screening to mark the finale of our seminar series this term!...

🎭Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations
🗓️15 May
⌚15:45-17:00 BST
🏡The Hub, Kellogg College OX2 6PN

Register your space👇
www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ar...
May 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
TODAY!!
How are cities hospitable and open with the arrival of strangers, #newcomers and #migrants? How are they remade and remapped through #art? What is the Open City Project?

Join us for this #free COMPAS event to explore themes of #city #LondonMigrants and #urban life. Register👇
bit.ly/42ZHPjv
May 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
TOMORROW!!

🎭Migration and the Arts of Co-Production: Urban Mobilities and Carceral London
⌚15:45-17:00 BST
🏡Mawby Room OX2 6PN
👇Register your space👇
bit.ly/42ZHPjv

We welcome Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum of UCL; Professor Michael Keith of COMPAS and PEAKUrban; and Eda Yazici of MiMo Bristol. Join us!
May 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🤯"Within the past 10 years, Germany has turned into one of the key major actors in #migration #politics in the world...second after the U.S. when it comes to #international migrants." @tabouchadi.bsky.social @naikaforoutan.bsky.social

Hear from Naika in this clip...
🎧Listen now:
bit.ly/3XGUNkz
May 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Onto the next event in our seminar series this term!..

🎭Migration and the Arts of Co-Production: Urban Mobilities and Carceral London
🗓️8 May
⌚15:45-17:00 BST
🏡Mawby Room @KelloggOx OX2 6PN

Register your space👇
www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ar...
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
💭"Many #European countries have now strong far-right parties, have #FarRight heads of #government... [there] will be a dominant question of how these countries conduct themselves #internationally and nationally."

Hear from Tarik in this clip...

🎧Listen now to the full episode:
bit.ly/3XGUNkz
May 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How do you make it through the #CustomsGates of the ‘British’ Arts scene? How can presenting #artistic work in another #language or cultural perspectives shine a spotlight on #alternative forms of creativity?

⌚15:45-17:00 BST
🏡Mawby Room @kelloggoxford.bsky.social
OX2 6PN & online
🎫 bit.ly/42ZHPjv
May 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🌟NEW EPISODE RELEASE!

#Geopolitics, #irregular movement, the rise of the far-right: these are just some of the buzzwords that might be populating your morning news #headlines. But what are the implications for #immigration policy? ...🧵
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are delighted to present our Seminar Series for Trinity Term 2025!🎭

Convened by Nathan Grassi here at COMPAS, this seminar series focuses on how the Arts can advance and illuminate #migrationresearch, elevating the experiences of individuals and acknowledging value across #artistic practices...
April 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🎺"We can all hear before we can see. We can all hear before we're born"

Have you ever been snapped into a moment or memory with a sound? Why is sound such a vital component of #storytelling? Hear from Stuart Fowkes of @citiesandmemory.bsky.social in this clip from our #MigrationSounds episode...
April 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
✈️"It so successfully makes you a part of people's migration journeys... that's the read value of this." How do you get an audio-based research project off the ground? Where do you begin? Hear from Rob McNeil of @migobs.bsky.social, in this clip...
April 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In this special episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, we turn the microphone to Migration Sounds, a partnership project between @citiesandmemory.bsky.social and us at @compasoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

How can sound shape research? Why is this important? Hear from Delphine in this clip...
April 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🌟What is an #expert-by-experience?

Recent #research highlights how safety nets fails to meet rising demands and needs of #vulnerable people in the UK. As #local #authorities operate on overstretched budgets, #community researchers like Ann offer valuable expertise through experience of the system🧵
March 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Over 2.6 million people are locked out of the #welfare state in the UK and subject to ‘no recourse to public funds’ #NRPF, an immigration policy restricting access to social security. How can local #government respond?

Hear from Rupinder in this clip...

🎧Listen to the full episode: bit.ly/3XGUNkz
March 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We welcome experts Rupinder Parhar; Ann, a community researcher and member of COMPAS' Experts by Experience Advisory Board; and @lucyleon.bsky.social, Researcher at the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity. Hear from Lucy in this clip...
March 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM