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For several decades, researchers based at the University of Oxford have been addressing one of the most compelling human stories; why and how people move. Combining the expertise of the Centre on Migration Policy and Society, the Refugee Studies Centre, Border Criminologies in the Department of Law, the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment, and scholars working on migration and mobility from across divisions and departments, the University has one the largest concentrations of migration researchers in the world. We all come together at Migration Oxford.
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| 26 | Immigration Policy in Transatlantic Perspectives | Geopolitics, irregular movement, the rise of the far-right: these are just some of the buzzwords populating your morning news headlines. But where is the relationship between Europe and the U.S. heading? What are the implications for immigration policy? | Naika Foroutan, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 15 Apr 2025 | |
| 25 | Creative Commons | Migration Sounds | 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. | Rob McNeil, Stuart Fowkes, Delphine Boagey, Jacqui Broadhead | 26 Mar 2025 |
| 24 | NRPF and the UK Welfare System | Over 2.6 million people are locked out of the welfare state in the UK and now subject to ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF), an immigration policy restricting access to social security. How can local government respond? | Rupinder Parhar, Ann, Lucy Leon, Rob McNeil | 27 Feb 2025 | |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Gendered Aspects of Ukraine’s Displacement Crisis | With war comes displacement. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced millions to flee homes and rebuild elsewhere. What role does a women's agency play in navigating the complexities of displacement and building resilience? | Daryna Dvornichenko, Tania Orlova, Jacqui Broadhead, Rob McNeil | 14 Feb 2025 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Asymmetrical Sympathies: the Global North’s Response to Protection Seekers | Why are some countries across the Global North more open and accepting towards refugees than others? How can asymmetrical sympathies and differential treatments be better understood? We search for answers with an expert panel. | Isabelle Lemay, Bridget Anderson, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 23 Aug 2024 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | Global Migration Data: Making Sense of the Numbers | Why does official data tell us so little about migration? Why do some migration statistics seem to clash? How can we shape this “age of migration data” for better? | Frank Laczko, Elisa Mosler Vidal, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 16 Jul 2024 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | Intersecting Crises: Housing and Forced Migration in Oxford | How does housing relate to migration and asylum issues? Using the City of Oxford as a case study, we consider the affordability and accessibility of housing to newcomers and the impact this has on refugee and asylum seekers. | Tiger Hills, Hari Reed, J, Rob McNeil | 30 Apr 2024 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | Diaspora Communities: Powerful Partners Driving Change | What makes diaspora communities unique? We learn about the roles of diasporas, contributions to development and humanitarian initiatives across the globe and unpack how people living in diaspora drive change in their communities. | Alan Gamlen, Larisa Lara, Martin Russell, Rob McNeil | 20 Mar 2024 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | Artivism and Migration | Intersections of art and activism are used as a tool to promote diversity, address human rights and make calls to action in contexts of migration. What is artivism and how can it support individuals to tell their own stories? | Salma Zulfiqar, Natalia Federenko, Ruth Nyabuto, Rob McNeil | 20 Feb 2024 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | Municipal IDs and Local Citizenship | For irregular migrants, the inability to provide proof of identity affects nearly every aspect of life. We explore cities that have introduced municipal ID cards to enhance social integration and enable access to key services. | Myriam Cherti, Albert Gamarra, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 18 Jan 2024 |
| 16 | Emptiness, War and Migration | In the UK, migration debates tend to be about the idea of fullness – concepts of arrivals, overcrowding, competition for resources – but what about emptiness? We learn why it is such an important part of understanding migration. | Maria Gunko, Volodymyr Artiukh, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 07 Nov 2023 | |
| 15 | Automating Immigration in the Digital Age | What do advancements in AI mean for immigration? We discuss the current and emerging practices of new technologies in the field, and explore developments in the use of predictive analytics, automated risk assessment and profiling. | Derya Ozkul, Caterina Rodelli, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 29 Sep 2023 | |
| 14 | Creative Commons | Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war | Why did Iraq fail to prove its WMD absence before the 2003 invasion? This seminar examines new evidence from Iraq and United Nations sources to shed light on the internal debates leading up to the 2003 war. | Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley | 10 Jul 2023 |
| 13 | Creative Commons | The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State | This talk examines the Shi‘ite political parties linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and their influence over the state, exploring their strategies for legitimacy in politics, religion, and society. | Inna Rudolf, Maryam Alemzadeh | 10 Jul 2023 |
| 12 | Creative Commons | The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism | This talk explores the impact of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 on militant Islamism using new evidence. | Thomas Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley | 10 Jul 2023 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | The Aftermath of Forced Return | With the help of our panel, we discuss forced return migration and the different power dynamics at play. What are the difficulties of forced returnees to home countries and what are the differences between the wealth and influence of certain states? | Matthew Gibney, Guadalupe Chavez, Maggie Loredo, Delphine Boagey | 27 Jun 2023 |
| 10 | Precarious Migrants | We often think of migration in binary terms of regular or irregular migration; legal or illegal, but often people move in between these states and are left in an insecure status. How does this precarity effect a migrant’s access to services in cities? | Marie Mallet-Garcia, Shams Asadi, Wanjiku Ngotho-Mbugua, Delphine Boagey | 19 May 2023 | |
| 9 | Creative Commons | Politics of Emigration | In this episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, we are discussing the politics of emigration. All countries are countries of immigration and of emigration, yet the politics of emigration are often less obsessed over as attitudes toward immigration. | Anna Kyriazi, Julia Rone, Madeleine Reeves, Rob McNeil | 21 Feb 2023 |
| 8 | Who Counts? Data and Migration | We discuss the role of data science in migration studies, joined by Dr. Emre Korkmaz, lecturer in migration and co-author of Data Science for Migration and Mobility and Christina Pao, PhD student and co-organiser of the Measuring Migration Conference 2022 | Emre Korkmaz, Christina Pao, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead | 19 Jan 2023 | |
| 7 | Creative Commons | Gendered Migration | How does gender affect experiences of migration and communities left behind? In the age of a controversial Nationality and Borders Bill, we ask how current policies interact with gender and find out what happens when a gender lens on migration is ignored. | Jacqui Broadhead, Rob McNeil, Melissa Siegel, Alphonsine Kabagabo | 05 Oct 2022 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | BONUS- Immigration to Innovation | Aditi Anand (Artistic Director, Migration Museum) takes us on an extended tour of the immersive Taking Care of Business exhibition and introduces us to the stories behind migrant businesses we often don't get to hear. | Aditi Anand | 13 Sep 2022 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Immigration to Innovation | We take a tour round the Taking Care of Business exhibition at the Migration Museum and hear about new research into refugee entrepreneurialism. | Aditi Anand, Gilda Borriello | 06 Sep 2022 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Movement of Money | As we enter a period of global instability, we ask what role remittances will play and how we can improve data collection on remittances to better understand their vital importance on a local and global scale. | Carlos Vargas-Silva, Dilip Ratha | 08 Aug 2022 |
| 3 | Rwanda and refoulement: Can the 1951 Refugee Convention survive? | In this episode of the Migration Oxford Podcast, we ask if the 1951 Refugee Convention is under attack. | Catherine Briddick, Sabir Zazai | 16 May 2022 | |
| 2 | Citizenship Deprivation | As the controversial Nationality and Borders Bill works its way through parliament in the UK, we investigate Clause 9 which focuses on citizenship deprivation and the rights of the Home Secretary to take somebody's citizenship away. | Abhishek Saha, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead, Zoe Gardner | 08 Apr 2022 | |
| 1 | Leaving Ukraine | We discuss the war on Ukraine and the almost unprecedented speed and size of the movement of people fleeing the country. We discuss the displacement taking place, how refugees are being received in Europe, and the impact this will have on post-EU Britain. | Roxana Barbulescu, Emma Rimpiläinen, Volodymyr Artiukh, Rob McNeil | 23 Mar 2022 |