IMI Archive
In this section, you will find information on past IMI blog posts, news, and events. For the most recent IMIn blog posts, news and events please refer to the main menu.
Past IMI Blog posts
Climate refugees: The fabrication of a migration threat
8 June 2020
In recent years, it has become popular to argue that climate change will lead to massive North-South movements of ‘climate refugees’. Concerns about climate change-induced migration have emerged in the context of debates on global warming. Without any doubt, global warming is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity, and the lack of willingness of states and the international community to address it effectively – particularly through reducing of carbon emissions – is a valid source of major public concern and global protest.
The unfolding of the ‘refugee crisis’ in Denmark and Sweden
18 May 2017
MSc Migration Studies student Katryna Mahoney reflects on a recent study trip to Copenhagen and Malmö
Migration from Turkey to the UK
Professor Ibrahim Sirkeci charts the history of reciprocal migration between Turkey and the UK and predicts future movements
The potential cost of visa regimes
8 May 2017
Dr Emre Eren Korkmaz pleads for greater equity and transparency in visa regimes
Turkey’s diaspora engagement policy under the Justice and Development Party
24 April 2017
Dr Bahar Baser tracks the development of Turkey's diaspora-building
Past IMI News
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: IMI Winter Academy 2026
5 September 2025
How Migration Really Works
5 September 2025
Call for Workshop Participants: Researching Migration Policy in Autocratizing Countries
19 June 2025
Is your research pushing up against autocratic constraints? This workshop might be for you.
Working Paper: The Geography of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes across Europe, 2002-2014
13 December 2024
Mathias Czaika and Armando Di Lillo explore the geo-spatial connectivity of anti-immigrant attitudes across Europe
New working paper by IMI fellow Robin Cohen on Sunak’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policy
17 May 2023
IMI fellow Robin Cohen and Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford had published a new COMPAS working paper "Will Sunak’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policy have perverse consequences?".