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IMI March newsletter is published

16 March 2015

IMI has published its termly newsletter, which includes a feature on the project 'African Perspectives on Human Mobility' as well as a readers' discount for a new Palgrave book series on migration, diasporas and citizenship

The effect of state policies and migrant organisations in Toronto and NYC

6 March 2015

A new paper by Ali R. Chaudhary and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo examines how non-profit immigrant organisations are shaped by different ‘contexts of reception’.

Mobile female traders from Mali in Dakar | Gunvor Jonsson

4 March 2015

Listen to this podcast from the 4 March 2015 seminar, part of the Hilary term 2015 IMI Seminar Series

The 'foreign criminal' in the UK unpacked in new paper

4 March 2015

This IMI working paper by MSc in Migration Studies alumni Luke de Noronha aims to unpack the figure of the 'foreign criminal'.

Hein de Haas awarded ERC consolidator grant to research ‘Migration as Development’

24 February 2015

Professor Hein de Haas, Co-Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), has been awarded a €1.75 million grant by the European Research Council to conduct a 5-year research project entitled ‘Migration as Development’.

Mobility as a cultural tradition in Ireland

23 February 2015

This IMI working paper by MSc in Migration Studies alumni Ina Ruckstuhl studies the Irish 'traveller' community since 1950.

New paper examines academic mobility

19 February 2015

A recent working paper from the Drivers and Dynamics of High-Skilled Migration project studies the mobility of Indian academics.

Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of the urban religious landscape in Morocco | Johara Berriane

10 February 2015

Listen to this podcast from the 11 February 2015 seminar, part of the Hilary term 2015 IMI Seminar Series

Intermarriage and the unhealthy assimilation of immigrant descendants | Osea Giuntella

4 February 2015

Listen to this podcast from the 04 February 2015 seminar, part of the Hilary term 2015 IMI Seminar Series

A conference on the Determinants of International Migration

2 February 2015

In a new blog Katharina provides a summary of the DEMIG conference 'Determinants of International Migration' that took place in Oxford from 23-25 September 2014.

Understanding the aspiration to stay

26 January 2015

This IMI working paper by MSc in Migration Studies alumni Kerilyn Schewel examines the subject of immobility for young adults in Senegal.

The Nation-State and Diaspora: The Case of Arab-American Writers | Jumana Bayeh (Macquarie University)

21 January 2015

Listen to this podcast from the 21 January 2015 seminar, part of the Hilary term 2015 IMI Seminar Series

IMI researchers awarded 'Editor's Choice Articles'

7 January 2015

Elena Fiddian-Qamiyeh's research was selected as ‘Editors’ Choice Article’ by the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Borders beyond control? | Blog by Hein de Haas

7 January 2015

A new article by Hein de Haas discusses whether borders are beyond control, as Jagdish Bhagwati famously argued in 2003. And asks what we actually know about the effects of immigration policies?

Why aspiring migrants continue using brokers

15 December 2014

Maybritt Jill Alpes sheds light on the relationships between migration brokers and aspiring migrants at their point of departure in this new working paper.