IMI seminar series starting 27 April

Climate refugees: The fabrication of a migration threat

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

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

Dr Emre Eren Korkmaz pleads for greater equity and transparency in visa regimes

Turkey’s diaspora engagement policy under the Justice and Development Party

Dr Bahar Baser tracks the development of Turkey's diaspora-building

How might the Turkish referendum outcome affect Turkey’s policies towards refugees and migrants?

Dr Emre Eren Korkmaz ponders the implications of Turkey's recent referendum on constitutional amendment for its refugees and migrants at home and abroad

Going back to give back: Young diasporans and Ethiopian development

Dr Alpha Abebe reflects on the complex relationship between diasporans and 'development'

Due diligence and labour rights – migrants and refugees in the textile sector

Dr Emre Eren Korkmaz reflects on recent steps by the OECD and others towards better protecting refugee & migrant workers in the garment sector

Steppes and the city: rural to urban migration in Mongolia

MSc Migration Studies alumnus Faraz Shibli explores how rural-to-urban migration - and restriction around that movement - is changing a society previously defined by nomadism

‘They say we don’t pay taxes’: Undocumented tax-paying migrants living in the UK

Geraldine Adiku urges that simplifying processes of regularisation will help migrants lead better lives

Migration, insecurity and development in Central Africa

Dr. Papa Demba Fall advocates for the need for a regional approach to confront challenges of migration, insecurity and development in Central Africa

Migratory flows, colonial encounters and the histories of transatlantic slavery

Dr Olivette Otele explores how histories of transatlantic slavery impact on contemporary questions of migration

To return or not to return, that is the question: highly skilled return migrants to Ghana

Why migration policymaking needs more migrant voices

MSc Migration Studies alumnus Yan Matusevich calls for a change to the diversity deficit that causes a critical absence of migrant voices in policymaking

‘We search for Life’: Mobilities, infrastructure and the Congolese from Eastern DR Congo

Exploring everyday as well as conflict-driven migrations of Congolese in the Great Lakes region

Confessions of a 'bad migrant'

MSc Migration Studies alumna Nina Swen wonders what lies behind the often uncontested distinctions drawn between 'migrants' and 'expats'

Deporting ‘illegal’ migrants: an open letter to President-elect Trump

Marieke van Houte considers how the President-elect will follow through on his well-publicised plans for undocumented migrants

Summer may be long gone, but the debate over the burkini ban is far from over

Researchers Marie Godin and Giulia Liberatore (COMPAS) reflect on a recent MSc Migration Studies panel discussion

On contemporary art and migration

MSc Migration Studies alumna Emine Yeter explores how contemporary art can universalise the migrant experience, and perhaps even help us to imagine possibilities otherwise abandoned in politics and law

BBC Panorama’s investigation and the Syrian refugee workers in the Turkish garment industry

Following the exposure of refugee and child labour in the Turkish garment industry, Dr Korkmaz looks at the historical relationship between informal and formal sectors in Turkey, how this is changing, and what steps must be taken to combat child and informal labour, and to provide decent work for all workers, irrespective of nationality

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