THEMIS: ‘Now smells like revolution': migrants' activism, subjectivities, and...
Gabriela Quevedo presents her paper '‘Now smells like revolution': migrants' activism, subjectivities, and agency in contemporary London' in Parallel session V(E) of the conference Examining Migration...
View ArticleTHEMIS: The ‘Neogramscian approach’: using 'Critical Theories' to explain...
Robert Westermann presents his paper 'The ‘Neogramscian approach’: using 'Critical Theories' to explain migration systems' in Parallel session V(E) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics:...
View ArticleTHEMIS: Accounting for diversity in Polish migration in Europe: motivation...
Lucinda Platt presents her paper 'Accounting for diversity in Polish migration in Europe' co-authored by Renee Luthra & Justyna Salamonska in Parallel session VI(B) of the conference Examining...
View ArticleTHEMIS: Beyond migrant lives: The rise and fall of meso-level actors
Joana Sousa Ribeiro presents his paper 'Beyond migrant lives: the rise and fall of meso-level actors' in Parallel session VI(B) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond,...
View ArticleTHEMIS: Transformative stages of migrant identity: a diachronic and...
Oana Romocea presents her paper 'Transformative stages of migrant identity' in Parallel session VI(C) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 Part of my...
View ArticleTHEMIS: Citizens of Kazakhstan in a Russian city: factors facilitating and...
Larisa Kosygina presents her paper 'Citizens of Kazakhstan in a Russian city: factors facilitating and limiting transnational activities' in Parallel session VI(C) of the conference Examining Migration...
View ArticleTHEMIS: Egypt: Migration, revolution, and social change
Philip Marfleet presents his paper 'Egypt: Migration, revolution, and social change' in Parallel session VI(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 For...
View ArticleTHEMIS: Elites and emulators: the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European...
Erlend Paasche presents his paper 'Elites and emulators: the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European migration system' in Parallel session VI(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics:...
View ArticleHilary Seminar Series 2014: The numbers game
'The numbers game: Targets and indicators in UK immigration policy' presented by Christina Boswell (University of Edinburgh).
View ArticleHilary Seminar Series 2014: Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights?
'Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights? The Europeanization of family migration policies in France, Germany, and the Netherlands' presented by Saskia Bonjour (Leiden University).
View ArticleTHEMIS: ‘Brain-gain' return of India’s high-skilled entrepreneurs
Malasree Neepa Acharya presents her paper '‘Brain-gain' return of India’s high-skilled entrepreneurs: Home, transformation, and power politics in the cosmopolitan global south' in Parallel session V(D)...
View ArticleHilary Seminar Series 2015: Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of...
'Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of the urban religious landscape in Morocco', presented by Johara Berriane
View ArticleHilary Seminar Series 2015: Mobile female traders from Mali in Dakar
Mobile female traders from Mali in Dakar (Senegal): Place-making abroad and on the move, presented by Gunvor Jonsson
View ArticleEmigration from Central and Eastern Europe: Origin Country Perspectives
MIGRATION AND MODERNIZATION IN POLAND: AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE presented by Marcin Galent (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) Migrants from Central and Eastern Europe have become an...
View ArticleTrinity seminar series 2015: Remaining 'attached strangers': Encounters,...
Remaining 'attached strangers': Encounters, relationships and the future of African migrants in China, presented by Linessa Dan Lin
View ArticleApplying a gender lens to migration and development: insights from research...
Applying a gender lens to migration and development: insights from research in Southern Africa: presented by Belinda Dodson
View ArticleWhat archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the...
What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millenia: presented by Nicolas Zorzin
View ArticleLearning how to feel: Spiritual knowledge and emotionally-based narratives of...
IMI Trinity term Visiting Fellow Rafael Cazarin gives an exceptional seminar on narratives of social transformation amongst Nigerian and Congolese pastors in diaspora The celebration of conferences,...
View ArticleLegislating for transnational ageing: a challenge for the Dutch and French...
What motivates policymakers to initially develop these very specifically-targeted policy proposals which contradict the territorial logic of the welfare state? Transnational mobility presents...
View ArticleImmigrant integration and social capital formation: evidence from New Zealand
Comparing immigrant and native-born social capital formation via New Zealand data which permits a distinction between indicators of stocks of social capital and indicators of investment in the form of...
View ArticleThe changing face of social protection in Africa's cities
Examining how social protection is conceptualised in research in African contexts and reviewing the extent to which these different approaches can take into account the changing populations of urban...
View ArticleReverse welfare magnet
Would a narrower gap in social services provision help to manage migration from developing countries? Income gap is widely accepted to be the single-most compelling factor that determines migration...
View ArticleHope and uncertainty in African migration: Life after deportation to Ghana
IMI Visiting Fellow Nauja Kleist presents her research on return migration in the context of restrictive mobility regimes in Europe and Africa, within theories on hope, (im)mobility, social fields,...
View ArticleAccess to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to...
The main destinations of migrants are the mega cities and other urban areas, yet governments are ill-prepared to receive this large influx of people and internal migrants are exposed to a new set of...
View ArticleHyper-mobile migrant workers and the lack of social protection within the...
Case study of hyper-mobile migrants employed on large-scale construction sites in the Netherlands, highlighting the ways these workers express their agency in dealing with a cross-border employment...
View ArticleTransnational health insurances and the involvement of Congolese immigrants...
Looking at the impact of financial remittances on immigrant relatives’ access to healthcare via community-based health insurances For many years, the migration and development literature has looked at...
View ArticleMigration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series...
Ali Chaudhary and Marieke van Houte introduce the seminar series on migration, politics and political change and their TRANSMIC project, examining the links between migration, citizenship, and...
View ArticleMigration through marriage: Analysing struggles around mobility and its...
An ethnographic border regime analysis showing that the governing of migration remains an attempt to control rather than effecting a total control of movement, and that marriage becomes an important...
View ArticleWho is acting for what change? A relational approach to transnational...
This paper investigates why Afghans in the wider diaspora take action in certain ways. This paper investigates why Afghans in the wider diaspora take action in certain ways. It builds on the analysis...
View ArticleA multilevel citizenship puzzle: Residence and citizenship in national and...
Rainer Baubock explores the citizenship puzzle - citizenship status and its relevance in contemporary democracies In contemporary democracies, the franchise in national elections has been largely...
View ArticleWhen the diaspora takes charge: state making and diaspora return in Rwanda
Simon Turner explores state and nation building in Rwanda since its 1994 genocide Over the past sixty years, Rwanda has experienced massive population displacements due to ethnic tensions, war and...
View ArticleCross border migration as the transnational social question
Thomas Faist shows how the 'transnational social question' relates to political conflicts around the inequalities connected to cross-border migration in immigration and emigration contexts On a world...
View ArticleEthnicity, socialization, policy preferences or social structure?...
Laura Morales compares the political party preferences of migrants across Europe The objective of this paper is to study the party preferences of migrants in a comparative perspective. While long...
View ArticleThe micro-politics of mobility and immobility
Jørgen Carling looks at the politics of the individual and the role of power relations in mobility and immobility This presentation is part of the 2016 IMI Hilary Term seminar series, which seeks to...
View ArticleBirthplace, bloodline and beyond: How 'Liberian citizenship' is currently...
Robtel Neajai Pailey interrogates how Liberian citizenship has been constructed across time and space This presentation interrogates whether or not an ‘authentic’ Liberian citizen actually exists based...
View ArticleEmigration and the distribution of income per natural: Evidence from Egypt
Joachim Jarreau investigates whether the benefits of migration actually reach the poorest households We study the impact of emigration on income distribution of Egyptian households, using longitudinal...
View ArticleFrom coffee to industry: Changes in migrants' characteristics in metropolitan...
Presenting his PhD research, Visiting Fellow Guilherme Ortega explores migrant characteristic in Campinas metropolitan area, Brazil The overall aim of this work is to investigate the migratory...
View ArticleThe cultural tranmission of the fertility transition: Evidence from internal...
Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics) looks at theories of migrants' social remittances in a historical context relating to fertility in 19th century France France experienced a demographic...
View Article'To have and have not': International migration, poverty and inequality in...
Mouhoub el Mouhoud considers the effects of emigration on poverty and inequality by drawing on an original survey conducted in Algeria This presentation considers the effects of emigration on poverty...
View ArticleHumanitarian non-state actors and the delocalised EU border of the Central...
Paolo Cuttitta looks at how different humanitarian non-state actors (from large-scale international organisations to small local NGOs) operate in different spaces of the delocalised EU border Non-state...
View ArticleBetween knowledge and power: Understanding how international organisations...
Antoine Pécoud (University of Paris 13) critically analyses the reports produced by international organisations on migration, shedding light on the way these actors frame migration and develop their...
View ArticleCyclone–migration–adaptation nexus in the social context of Bangladesh
Bishawjit Mallick investigates how coastal communities in Bangladesh perceive, react and adapt to a cyclone disaster, and what role migration and non-migration play in recovering devastated livelihoods...
View ArticleGoverning migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification,...
Vicki Squire examines similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migration through death’ across the US–Mexico (Sonoran) and in the EU–North African (Mediterranean) contexts Border deaths...
View ArticleNorth–South migration and postcolonial encounters: Portuguese labour migrants...
Lisa Åkesson unsettles the image of migrants’ border crossing as solely taking place in South–North direction by looking at the contemporary postcolonial Portuguese labour migration to Angola Global...
View ArticleGender, violence and vulnerability: Examining the politics of protection in...
Examining the ways in which gender has been used as a category of analysis in the current refugee 'crisis', and whether in effect international organisations, NGOs, and EU governments have really...
View ArticleMigratory flows, colonial encounters and the histories of transatlantic slavery
Olivette Otele explores how histories of transatlantic slavery impact on contemporary questions of migration Transatlantic slavery is a complex history of encounters between people of African and...
View ArticleAfrican migration to and from Europe: Rethinking circular migration
Antony Otieno Ong'ayo presents an alternative approach to the management of migration in the context of EU–Africa migration relations The effects of contemporary migration dynamics within and from...
View Article'All the money I raised, I raised from Ghana': Understanding reverse...
In the context of Ghanaians in the UK, Geraldine Adiku explores how migrant remittance practices are not only from 'developed' to 'developing' country; many are sent in the reverse direction, a fact...
View ArticleIntegration of Brits in Turkey and Turks in Britain
Ibrahim Sirkeci explores integration patterns of English-speaking movers in Turkey and those of Turkish-speaking movers in Britain International migration studies have largely focused on movers from...
View ArticleTrade unions, agency (migrant) workers and the insiders/outsiders debate:...
Dr. Valeria Pulignano gives a presentation for the International Migration Institute Trinity Term 2017 seminar series.
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