🎧 NEW podcast ‘How welcoming are UK cities for newcomers? Jacqueline Broadhead @compasoxford.bsky.social highlights that creating welcoming, inclusive cities is not simply an ideal; it is essential for the future of increasingly diverse urban spaces. Listen now: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/how-welcomin...

To mark #InternationalMigrantsDay, our colleagues, affiliates, and students reflect on the books that have enriched their understanding of migration in 2025 📖 🔗 Access the full list of recommendations: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/comp...

It’s International Migrants Day, a good time to highlight our free Reporting Migration course for journalists and those working on migration in the UK, developed with NCTJ and the Open University: www.nctj.com/cpd-courses/... - offering a grounding in history, law, policy and data.

NEW: Researchers have released a first-of-its-kind dataset examining how names are perceived differently across Europe, with a focus on ethnic discrimination and racial bias. ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Writing for @telegraph.co.uk, @msumption.bsky.social, Director of The Migration Observatory, highlights the gaps in data on many aspects of the immigration system in the UK and underscores the importance of good data to form migration policy 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

The UK government has today launched its Child Poverty Strategy, designed to tackle the root cause of poverty for all children. We welcome the inclusion of recommendations from our Understanding Migrant Destitution project. ⬇️

NEW: Migration Oxford podcast episode 🎙️ Should we be optimistic about the future of welcoming newcomers in UK cities? @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social, Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, explores this important topic with host Rob McNeil. 🔊 podcasts.ox.ac.uk/how-welcomin...

Writing for @uk.theconversation.com @lucyleon.bsky.social Senior Researcher, explains why the UK government’s upcoming Child Poverty Strategy must address the impact of immigration policy if it is to improve life for all children.  Read the full article: 🔗 theconversation.com/to-truly-tac...

Since 2017, the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh has shifted from an acute emergency to a protracted refugee situation. COMPAS affiliate, Mohammad Tarikul Islam, breaks down the consequences of long-term displacement for both refugees and host communities. 📖 ➡️ www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

The UK government has set out how it plans to reform the UK’s asylum and returns system. Researchers from @migobs.bsky.social, based at COMPAS, have been digesting the goverment's policy paper. Hear from @msumption.bsky.social on BBC Newscast.🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/curation/m001bm45/p0mh7c8q

How do arrival infrastructures - from churches to cafés - shape newcomers’ first steps in a new place? 📍 @swessendorf.bsky.social will explore this question in tomorrow’s seminar, ‘Infrastructure of Kindness in the Context of Migrant Arrival.’

As #COP30 discussions unfold, our Director, Michael Keith, highlights that the role of urbanisation must not be overlooked in future climate strategies - a view that remains highly relevant. Read the full piece, published last year in the @financialtimes.com: 🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-01...

@mweihmayer.bsky.social, one of our recently appointed researchers, shares why knowledge exchange must be a central component of future migration policymaking, and how her experience and ambitions will shape her approach. 🌍 Hear from Melissa: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/global-excha...

💡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...

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...

In his latest article for the American Ethnological Society, Erick Moreno Superlano, COMPAS DPhil student, reflects on why Venezuelan middle-class migrants may support stricter immigration policies in the U.S. 📖 Read in full: americanethnologist.org/online-conte... bsky.app/profile/amet...

💡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...

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-...

🎙️ New: Migration Oxford podcast episode - Pedal Power: Open City and The Bike Project. Community, refugees, and urban life: what’s cycling got to do with it? Our speakers, Michael Keith and Eda Yacizi, discuss. 🚲 Listen here:https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/pedal-power-open-city-and-bike-project

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...

🔊 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...

🏙️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.

Register below for this hybrid @compasoxford.bsky.social panel on migration attitudes and well-being, happening in three weeks #migcitsky

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✨⬇️

Together with Michail Moschovokos (@ec.europa.eu - Research and Innovation), Giulio Maria Mancini (@euhomeaffairs.bsky.social), Fabian Bach (Eurostat), @deniskierans.bsky.social (@compasoxford.bsky.social), @flaczko.bsky.social (former @iom.int), @bircantuba.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel),

📚Next week, I’ll have the pleasure of discussing my book with @javierpsandoval.bsky.social, Abril Ríos Rivera and Soledad Álvarez at @compasoxford.bsky.social Join us to talk about the US-Mexican border, humanitarianism and colonialism ✨ ⏰ 20th June, 2:00 -3:30 pm (via zoom) register below ⤵️

@lucyleon.bsky.social and I also published an evidence briefing setting out recent @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social and @compasoxford.bsky.social research on this topic www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publication/...

How do asylum practices & shift towards temporary protection impact the well-being & future aspirations of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 refugees? Marie Mallet-Garcia @compasoxford.bsky.social, @lnare.bsky.social, Synnøve Bendixsen (UiB), @camilleschmoll.bsky.social ‬ & Are Knudsen @cmi.no ➡️ Mon 26 May 🕦 3 pm 📍/ zoom

As a small grassroots organisation doing research to influence policy, it’s motivating to hear from @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social @compasoxford.bsky.social that we’ve got some things right: Short briefing papers ✅ influencing media ✅ Next steps for us: building connections with local governments.

It's Refugee Week (16-22 June) and there's lots of exciting initiatives going on! We watched the Solidarity Knows No Borders film series by @migrantsorganise.bsky.social. The films bring together learnings from #grassroots organisers taking action to end hostile #immigration policies. Check it out!

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Cutting edge findings offered by our very own DPhil candidate Vittorio Bruni at COMPAS @oxford-anthro.bsky.social and @oliviersterck.bsky.social 💡📚 Check out the article: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

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

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!

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...

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

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!

🤯"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

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...

💭"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

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

"One might rightfully ask: what exactly do we mobilize, when we mobilize emptiness?" COMPAS' @dacedzenovska.bsky.social, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration, explores the place and space of emptiness with the research team in this latest article👇 #OpenAccess #MigrationResearch

🌟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? ...🧵

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...

🎺"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...

✈️"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...

Tune into this @compasoxford.bsky.social podcast for discussion about sound and human migration, as we reflect on our Migration Sounds project:

A really important study on public opinion on irregular migrants access to services. Our @compasoxford.bsky.social practical CMISE guidance sets out how city policy makers can put this into practice cmise.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cm...

🌟NEW EPISODE RELEASE🌟 What does #migration sound like? Migration Sounds features 120 #sounds of migration across 51 countries from Argentina to Australia, with personal stories from diaspora communities and people who have migrated all over the world🎶 🎧Listen now to the full episode bit.ly/3XGUNkz

🌟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🧵