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| 257 | Creative Commons | What are the social and public service impacts of international migration at the local level? | Jon Simmons, Home Office Migration and Border Analysis, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breaskfast Breifing series | Jon Simmons | 27 Jan 2014 |
| 256 | Creative Commons | Biocultural perspectives on globalizing fat stigma | Professor Alexandra Brewis, Director of Human Evolution and Social Change and ASU-Mayo Obesity Solutions, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar series | Alexandra Brewis | 09 Dec 2013 |
| 255 | Creative Commons | Tropical Medicine Obesity, systems and complexity | Harry Rutter. Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series | Harry Rutter | 09 Dec 2013 |
| 254 | Creative Commons | Feeding the Elderly: A study of political, societal and individual practices regarding food for the elderly in Denmark 1880-2013 | Jenna Jensen, University of Copenhagen, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series | Jenna Jensen | 09 Dec 2013 |
| 253 | Creative Commons | Behavioural economics and eating habits | Michèle Belot, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Michèle Belot | 09 Dec 2013 |
| 252 | Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013) | In this seminar, Dr Julien Bonhomme (École normale supérieure, Paris) discusses the cultural significance of rumours of deadly alms and gift giving that first appeared in Senegal in 2010. | Julien Bonhomme | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 251 | Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of natural resources (10 May 2013) | In this seminar, Dr Gisa Weszkalnys (London School of Economics) focuses her study of the indeterminacy of natural resources on the small island state of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. | Gisa Weszkalnys | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 250 | Creative Commons | Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013) | In this seminar, Professor Michael Houseman (l'École pratique des hautes études, Paris) presents a brief analysis of several small ceremonies to make a theoretical argument about ritual in a new age and neopagan context. | Michael Houseman | 13 Nov 2013 |
| 249 | Brazilian serialities: imagining persons (24 May 2013) | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Joao de Pina-Cabral (University of Kent) discusses the creative use of personal names in Brazil. | Joao de Pina-Cabral | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 248 | Dorr-e Dari (The Pearl of Dari): An Ethnography of Poetry as a Social Practice among Afghans in Iran (23 May 2013) | This lecture formed part of the 2013 Evans-Pritchard Lecture series held at All Souls College, Oxford, in which Zuzanna Olszewska discussed 'Authentic Voices, Modern Selves: An Ethnography of Afghan Refugee Poetry and Personhood in Iran'. | Zuzanna Olszewska | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 247 | Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013) | David Zeitlyn discusses parallels between visual and digital anthropology and the dangers of historical myopia. It is too easy to disregard earlier parallels because of the mistaken claim that everything is new and different. | David Zeitlyn | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 246 | Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013) | Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) argues for a pluralisation of past, present and future. There are many unconnected or only partially connected literatures on time related issues. | David Zeitlyn | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 245 | Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013) | Professor Alexander Kiossev (University of Sofia in Bulgaria)drawing on his background in cultural studies, spoke about the ways in which 'alternative utopias' can enable creative imaginaries for the types of futures we are able to realise or create. | Alexander Kiossev | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 244 | Creative Commons | What are the consequences of changing policies for family migrants in the UK? | Caroline Oliver and Juan Camilo give a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. | Caroline Oliver, Juan Camilo | 02 Sep 2013 |
| 243 | Creative Commons | Building Regionality into Immigration Policy: Does it Work? Evidence from Canada | Professor Robert E Wright gives a talk for the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society. | Robert E Wright | 02 Sep 2013 |
| 242 | Creative Commons | What does the 2011 census tell us about ethnic diversity and integration in England and Wales? | Ludi Simpson and Stephen Jivraj give a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. | Ludi Simpson, Stephen Jivraj | 02 Sep 2013 |
| 241 | Creative Commons | Rethinking Migration: Joining the dots between migration, trade theory and business strategy | Diane Coyle discusses labour migration movements across borders through firm's decision problems and strategic thinking. | Diane Coyle | 02 Sep 2013 |
| 240 | Creative Commons | Feeling like a citizen, living as a denizen: deportees' sense of belonging | In the United States, the right to territorial belonging is the only inalienable right U.S. citizens have, and this right is exclusive to U.S. citizens. | Tanya Golash Boza | 29 May 2013 |
| 239 | Creative Commons | Lives in Limbo; Immigration, Schooling, and the and the Transition to Illegality | The recent political debates in the United States have raised awareness of the untenable situation facing more than 2.1 million undocumented immigrant children and young adults who have lived in the U.S. since childhood. | Roberto G Gonzales | 29 May 2013 |
| 238 | Creative Commons | Campzenship: rethinking the camp as a political space | Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series. | Nando Sigona | 29 May 2013 |
| 237 | Creative Commons | Citizenship Shadow; Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging, or, the Regularities of Migrant Irregularity | This talk introduces the proposition that citizenship and alienage (or migrant status) may be best understood as two key figures of a spectrum of bordered identities. | Nicholas de Genova | 29 May 2013 |
| 236 | Creative Commons | Care, Markets and Migration in European Welfare States: Why the study of migration is important to social policy and vice versa | Fiona Williams looks at different approaches taken by social policy to race, ethnicity, and migration, and proposes implications for social justice that emerge. | Fiona Williams | 29 May 2013 |
| 235 | Creative Commons | Decades of Migration and 'Europe' in Question | Nicholas de Genova examines what Europe is and means through the existence of migrants. | Nicholas de Genova | 29 May 2013 |
| 234 | Creative Commons | Migration and inter-generational replacement in Britain and Europe | Chris Wilson discusses replacement migration in Britain and Europe, from a demography perspective, explaining a newly developed system for looking replacement ratios. | Chris Wilson | 29 May 2013 |
| 233 | Creative Commons | The Price of Rights. Labour immigration policy and the rights of migrant workers | Martin Ruhs outlines the findings of his new book 'The Price of Rights', discussing the trade off between openness to migrants and access to rights. | Martin Ruhs | 28 May 2013 |
| 232 | Creative Commons | Border Regimes and Human Rights | David Miller examines the effects and results of border regimes on human rights, from a political philosophy perspective. He states that border regimes are damaging in terms of human rights. | David Miller | 28 May 2013 |
| 231 | Creative Commons | Do Human Rights Treaties Help or Hurt Asylum-Seekers?: The U.K. Case | Stephen Meili looks at how human rights treaties are applied in the UK court systems to applications by asylum seekers. | Stephen Meili | 28 May 2013 |
| 230 | Creative Commons | Integrating the human rights of migrants into the global governance of migration: the 2013 High-Level Dialogue and beyond | Oberoi discusses the process of migration being governed with a focus on human rights. | Pia Oberoi | 28 May 2013 |
| 229 | Creative Commons | In Defense of the Migrant Workers Convention: Standard Setting for Contemporary Migration | Bernard Ryan discusses the possibilities of the Migrant Workers Convention, the relevant committee and its work. | Bernard Ryan | 28 May 2013 |
| 228 | Creative Commons | What are the migration pathways of UK graduates? | It is often assumed that the pathway from home to university and onwards to the labour market is a linear upward trajectory, ultimately resulting in improved opportunities and social betterment. | Joanna Sage | 20 May 2013 |
| 227 | Creative Commons | With a lot of help from my friends: How do migrants use social networks to access jobs? | This briefing provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant and native men in the UK. The speakers will explore the determinants of using social networks as a channel for looking for jobs. | Jackie Wahba | 20 May 2013 |
| 226 | Creative Commons | Are potential supporters of the English Defence League economic losers, protestors, Islamophobes or xenophobes? | n recent years several European states have seen the emergence of 'counter-Jihad' movements, which in contrast to the established populist radical right eschew electoral politics and put stronger emphasis on mobilizing opposition to Islam and Muslims. | Matthew Goodwin | 20 May 2013 |
| 225 | Creative Commons | Status Food and State Food: Notes on Obesity in Cuba | Giovanna Neri, Study Coordinator in Clinical Trials, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Giovanna Neri | 29 Apr 2013 |
| 224 | Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (22 February 2013) by William Sax of the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, focuses on 'oracular authority and distributed agency' in the western Himalayas. | William Sax | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 223 | Capital's new frontier | Dr Catherine Dolan of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, discusses 'yoghurt mamas, solar sisters and the remaking of 'unusable Africa' at the bottom of the pyramid'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar from 15 February 2013. | Catherine Dolan | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 222 | Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (8 February 2013) by Joost Fontein from the Department of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh focuses on northern Zimbabwe fieldwork and research. | Joost Fontein | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 221 | Creative Commons | Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana | Carlo Severi (CNRS, Paris) presents an Anthropology Departmental Seminar (1 February 2013). | Carlo Severi | 18 Apr 2013 |
| 220 | Re-thinking 'Untamed Thoughts' Fifty Years On | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (25 January 2013), Dr Laura Rival discusses 'Claude Lévi-Strauss and the science of the concrete'. | Laura Rival | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 219 | Synchrony and Similiarity in Human Cooperation | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (30 November 2012) is presented by Emma Cohen of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford. | Emma Cohen | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 218 | The Evolution of Human Egalitarianism | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (9 November 2012) is by Dr Frank Marlowe (University of Cambridge, Department of Biological Anthropology) and is on the theme of evolutionary anthropology. | Frank Marlowe | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 217 | Digital Heritage Technologies and Issues of Community Engagement and Cultural Restitution in 'New Style' Ethnographic Museums | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (2 November 2012) is by Professor Mike Rowlands (University College London), in collaboration with Graeme Were (Brisbane). Its theme is material anthropology. | Mike Rowlands | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 216 | Creative Commons | Scientists as Abstainers | Matei Candea (University of Durham) presents 'An ethnography of inter-species trust without belief'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar (26 October 2012) with a theme of science and technology studies. | Matei Candea | 18 Apr 2013 |
| 215 | City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (19 October 2012), is presented by Professor Michael Keith, the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford. | Michael Keith | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 214 | The Biography of the Holy Ghost | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo. | Ramon Sarró | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 213 | The Ethnographic Dream | In this seminar for the anthropology research group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (10 October 2012), Dr Katherine Swancutt discusses 'doing fieldwork among native scholars and shamans', focusing on southwest China. | Katherine Swancutt | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 212 | Creative Commons | Beyond fat tax: What is the role and potential of food taxes? | Hannah Graff, National Heart Forum, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 22nd November 2012. | Hannah Graff | 25 Mar 2013 |
| 211 | Creative Commons | Network mathematics in the social sciences: concepts, applications, and perspectives into obesity and public health | Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz,Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 31st January 2013. | Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz | 25 Mar 2013 |
| 210 | Creative Commons | Infant feeding at home and in the nursery in post-1945 Britain: an oral history approach | Angela Davis, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 7th February 2013. | Angela Davis | 25 Mar 2013 |
| 209 | Creative Commons | Minority families and barriers to health care | Hiranthi Jayaweera, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Hiranthi Jayaweera | 25 Mar 2013 |
| 208 | Creative Commons | Treating obesity early in life: the common misunderstandings between parents and health care providers | Laurel Edmunds, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Laurel Edmunds | 25 Mar 2013 |
| 207 | Creative Commons | Children's eating habits and food preferences: determinants and consequences | Lucy Cooke, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Lucy Cooke | 25 Mar 2013 |
| 206 | Creative Commons | Researching migrant journeys: conceptual and methodological challenges | Roger Zetter thinks about the nature and challenges of researching migrant (specifically refugee) journeys. | Roger Zetter | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 205 | Creative Commons | Migration and multi-dimensional poverty in Moldovan communities: linking journeys and community development | Melissa Siegel looks at migration and poverty at community level in Moldova and Georgia, in relation to a 2 year research project funded by the European Commission. | Melissa Siegel | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 204 | Creative Commons | The smuggling of migrants and refugees into Europe: social and economic aspects | Thanos Maroukis talks about the social processes at play behind the migrant smuggling business. Based on his recently published book Thanos talks the audience throughout he methodology, theoretical framework and findings. | Thanos Maroukis | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 203 | Creative Commons | An arbitrary outcome: political and economic regulation of mobile labour | Hannah Cross, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas term 2012: Migration Journeys on 25th October 2012. | Hannah Cross | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 202 | Creative Commons | What do highly skilled French migrants in London teach us about European talent migration? | Drawing on qualitative data from an ESRC-funded project, this presentation will explore the nature and dynamics of intra-EU talent migration through a particular focus on the French highly-skilled working in London's financial and business sectors. | Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 201 | Creative Commons | The injustices of high- versus low-skilled temporary labour migration programs: With evidence from Canada | Among critics of temporary labour migration programs (TLMP), it is common to describe them as exploitative, rights-violating, and unfair. | Patti Tamara Lenard | 29 Jan 2013 |
| 200 | Creative Commons | Social marketing and public health with Change4Life | Podcast looking at the way in which public health campaigns, in particular the Change4Life campaign are marketed. By Kevin Chan, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. | Kevin Chan | 21 Jan 2013 |
| 199 | Creative Commons | What is the evidence about migrant living conditions in the private rented sector and how could they be improved? | Outlining a new report for the Housing and Migration Network UK, 'Migrants and the Private Rented Sector', published in February is the first national report to explore the needs and experience of new migrants who live in the private rented sector. | Gill Green, Neil Coles | 27 Nov 2012 |
| 198 | Creative Commons | What is the latest picture from migration statistics? | Jon Simmons, Home Office, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series. | Jon Simmons | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 197 | Creative Commons | What works in integration? | Vidhya Ramalingam, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. | Vidhya Ramalingam | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 196 | Creative Commons | Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity | Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Megan Waren | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 195 | Creative Commons | Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences? | Jennifer Baker,Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Jennifer Baker | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 194 | Creative Commons | Resilience building in trajectories towards sustainability: an examination of communal growing in the UK | Rebecca White, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Rebecca White | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 193 | Creative Commons | Visual political economies and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro | Udi Butler, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Udi Butler | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 192 | Creative Commons | Parents as gatekeepers: introduction to family therapy in obesity treatment | Paulina Nowicka, Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. | Paulina Nowicka | 05 Nov 2012 |
| 191 | 5 SOLDIERS - The Body Is The Frontline | Embodying soldier's physicality through research and training and how this approach affected the final production and audience experience. | Rosie Kay | 05 Nov 2012 | |
| 190 | Creative Commons | Migrants and the state of long term care in England: opportunities and challenges | Shereen Hussein talks about migrants and long term/social care. She looks at what is meant my international migrants and at what constitutes long term care in the labour market sector. She also looks at the relevant work force. | Shereen Hussein | 06 Sep 2012 |
| 189 | Migration and the resilience and vulnerability of place | Talk based on a UK wide study of immigration an social cohesion, done between 2005-2008. Exploring the lived lives and practices of new immigrants as well as the long term settled population and through this consider social cohesion policies in the UK. | Mary Hickman | 06 Sep 2012 | |
| 188 | Creative Commons | Understanding the neighbourhood impacts of new immigration | Looking at new migration and large scale migration since the early to mid 90's, reflecting on local impacts. He looks at neighbourhood effects of immigration, and local experiences of those arriving to and those already living in a particular place. | David Robinson | 06 Sep 2012 |
| 187 | Creative Commons | Wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK | Cinizia Rienzo discusses wage inequality and immigration in the US and the UK. She assesses if there is a relationship between the increasing number of immigrants and the increasing levels of wage inequality seen in both countries. | Cinizia Rienzo | 06 Sep 2012 |
| 186 | How does diversity affect the British neighbourhood? Can it reinforce segregation? | Looking at trust of one's own ethnic group and trust of other ethnic groups and how this is related to both contact and possible conflict in the neighbourhood setting. | Neli Demireva | 06 Sep 2012 | |
| 185 | Creative Commons | Crime and immigration | Brian Bell looks at the relationship between crime and immigration in the UK. He considers the relevant literature, political motivations, and the particular group of immigrants that his research focuses on. | Brian Bell | 06 Sep 2012 |
| 184 | Creative Commons | What is the relationship between new migration and community change? | Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration. | David Robinson | 20 Aug 2012 |
| 183 | Creative Commons | Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law | Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights. | Nicholas de Genoa | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 182 | Creative Commons | Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons | Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons". | Ash Amin | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 181 | Creative Commons | Homophily is not an explanation | Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together. | Talja Blokland | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 180 | Creative Commons | Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto | Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas. | Jayani Bonnerjee | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 179 | Creative Commons | Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs | David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism. | David Gilbert | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 178 | Creative Commons | Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground | Katharine Tyler speaks about her new book, which explores what it means to be white modern post-colonial societies, drawing on her fieldwork in semi-rural, rural and urban spaces in Leicestershire. | Katharine Tyler | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 177 | Creative Commons | New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire | Analysing the relationship between whiteness and Englishness, looking at processes of social inclusion and exclusion in the countryside, the migration of Eastern European workers to the countryside and rural discourses of community and multi-culture. | Helen Moore | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 176 | Creative Commons | Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods | Sarah Hackett explores the idea of the neighbourhood as a site where citizenship is practiced and negotiated, with particular focus on historical developments and settlements in Newcastle, UK and Bremen, Germany. | Sarah Hackett | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 175 | Negotiating urban citizenship: British Muslim encounters with new migrants | Deborah Phillips explores the 'neighbourhood' as a site where citizenship is practices and negotiated. She focuses particularly on the experiences of British Muslims in Bradford in their encounters with new migrants. | Deborah Phillips | 06 Aug 2012 | |
| 174 | Experiences at the sharp end: Practitioners' perspectives on inclusion and exclusion (Panel Discussion) | Four experts discuss their practical experiences of migrants' access to services and exclusion from services. Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series: Migrants and welfare states: inclusion or exclusion? | Fizza Qureshi, Ruthanna Barnett, Bill Bolloten, Nick Clark | 06 Aug 2012 | |
| 173 | Creative Commons | Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question | Professor Glover outlined the moral panic around aliens and Chinese labour in the 1906 election, relating the debate to the 1905 Aliens Act and to Chinese indentured layout to South Africa. | David Glover | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 172 | Creative Commons | Gender and interventions in integration | Eleonore Kofman discusses gender's role in relation to integration discourses, policies and practices. Part of the Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices (COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010) Series. | Eleonore Kofman | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 171 | Creative Commons | The national integration paradigm: where are we now? | Adrian Favell discusses his book 'Philosophies of Integration', taking a theoretical and philosophical approach to integration. | Adrian Favell | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 170 | Creative Commons | When is an asylum seeker not an asylum seeker? The representation of immigration in the UK press 1996-2005 | Paul Baker talks about how asylums seekers and refugees were presented in the national press and the variations in discourses over time and across types of press. | Paul Baker | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 169 | Creative Commons | UK Immigration Policy and the Political Functions of Research | Talk looking at the ways in which public administration and policy makers make use of academic research immigration policy making, looking at the British Home Office, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the European Commission. | Christina Boswell | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 168 | Creative Commons | Immigration and Political Trust in Europe | Lauren McLaren looks at immigration and political trust, with focus on recent research data. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series. | Lauren McLaren | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 167 | Creative Commons | Numbers and Needs - the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets | Anne Kershen discusses the comparisons between immigrant settlements in Shropshire and London's Tower Hamlets, exploring different issues of the migrant experience arising in the two areas. | Anne Kershen | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 166 | Creative Commons | Between strategic nostalgia and banal nomadism: Arab diaspora watching satellite and digital television across Europe | Myria Georgiou talks about uses of transnational television among Arab speaking populations in Europe to explore questions around citizenship. | Myria Georgiou | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 165 | Creative Commons | The politics of migration in the UK: Catering to a public of (at least) two minds | Scott Blinder discusses the portrayal of the British public's opinion on migration, and the reality behind it. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series. | Scott Blinder | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 164 | Creative Commons | 'Integration' as Illiberal Exceptionalism in Migration Law: The Role of the European Union | Sergio Carrera examines how the process of Europeanization, the development of the European Union, has played a role in migration law and on the meaning and mechanisms of integration. | Sergio Carrera | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 163 | Creative Commons | Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border | Discussion on the problematic of discussing integration in a context of security enforcement policies in the US and neoliberal policies, with a focus on immigrants in the US/Mexico border region and in the US as a whole. | Neil Harvey | 06 Aug 2012 |
| 162 | Creative Commons | What is the role of schooling in the integration and settlement process of new Polish migrants to the UK? | The EU Enlargement of 2004 entailed an intensive large-scale migration wave from Eastern European countries to the UK, in particular from Poland. | Pauline Trevena | 16 Jul 2012 |
| 161 | Creative Commons | Migration policy and skills policy: substitutes or complements? | There is a very significant tension at the heart of UK immigration policy. Basic economic intuition, as well as considerable empirical evidence, suggests that skilled immigrants will benefit the economy. | Jonathan Portes | 09 Jul 2012 |
| 160 | Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble' | In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brooks University) presents a few cases from Japan. 2 March 2012. | Joy Hendry | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 159 | Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions | In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012. | Marta Hanson | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 158 | Creative Commons | Collective Effervescence as Embodied Intoxication | Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory at the University Leeds, presented this paper at a workshop held in Oxford by the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in February 2012. | Philip Mellor | 27 Jun 2012 |
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