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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The national integration paradigm: where are we now?

Adrian Favell discusses his book 'Philosophies of Integration', taking a theoretical and philosophical approach to integration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Impact of European Court of Human Rights' Decisions and Turkish Code Reforms Pertaining to the Headscarf on Islamist Women in Turkey: Enabling Emancipation or Legitimizing Discrimination?

Sarah Ficher, (American University), gives a talk for the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region held on Tuesday 12 June, 2012 in St Antony's College.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The racial crisis of America's civil rights state: Transformation of the State, American Style

Keynote Speech by Professor Desmond King FBA (University of Oxford) for the Third Conference of 'Transformations of the State' (11 May), which forms part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme, with an introduction by Heike Klüver.

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.

Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

Challenges for Transitional Justice: The View from the Latin American Experience

Marcie Mersky, Director of Program Office, International Center for Transitional Justice; Chair of Impunity Watch gives a talk as part of the OTJR seminar series and as part of the Oak Series on Amnesty.

Negotiating Space, Buying Time

In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) discusses 'the performance of housing politics in a Bangkok community under siege'. 2 December 2011.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

The Media-Industrial Complex: Comparing the influence of Murdoch and Berlusconi?

Steven Barnett, Westminster and Benedetta Brevini, City University, give a talk for the Reuters Institute Seminar series.

Challenges for Media Democratization in Brazil and Latin America

Dr Carolina Matos, former LSE fellow, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series on 6th June 2012.

The Decade Ahead: The US Role in the World (2012 Fulbright Lecture)

Ambassador Thomas Pickering delivers the second Annual Oxford Fulbright Lecture on International Relations. This lecture took place on 18 May 2012.

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