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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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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