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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.
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
🔊 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
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 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