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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...

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THEMIS: 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:...

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THEMIS: 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...

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THEMIS: 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,...

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THEMIS: 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...

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THEMIS: 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...

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THEMIS: 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...

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THEMIS: 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:...

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Hilary Seminar Series 2014: The numbers game

'The numbers game: Targets and indicators in UK immigration policy' presented by Christina Boswell (University of Edinburgh).

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Hilary 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).

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THEMIS: ‘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)...

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Hilary 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

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Hilary 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

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Emigration 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...

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Trinity 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

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Applying 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

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What 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

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Learning 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,...

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Legislating 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...

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Immigrant 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...

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The 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...

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Reverse 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...

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Hope 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,...

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Access 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...

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Hyper-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...

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Transnational 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...

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Migration, 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...

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Migration 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...

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Who 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...

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A 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...

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When 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...

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Cross 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...

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Ethnicity, 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...

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The 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...

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Birthplace, 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...

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Emigration 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...

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From 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...

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The 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...

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'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...

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Humanitarian 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...

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Between 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...

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Cyclone–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...

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Governing 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...

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North–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...

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Gender, 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...

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Migratory 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...

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African 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...

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'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...

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Integration 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...

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Trade 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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