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This course examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. It considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. It also examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. The course includes optional field trip to New York City. This course examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. It considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. It also examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. The course includes optional field trip to New York City.

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immigration | immigration | migration | migration | lawrence | lawrence | chinatown | chinatown | U.S.-Mexico border | U.S.-Mexico border | Great Migration | Great Migration | The Jazz Singer | The Jazz Singer | Lower East Side | Lower East Side | ethnicity | ethnicity | New York City | New York City | New Immigration | New Immigration | Filipino | Filipino | american imperialism | american imperialism | cuban-american | cuban-american | multiculturalism | multiculturalism | caribbean migration | caribbean migration | asian immigration | asian immigration

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In this podcast Farhan Samanani interviews MSc Migration Studies lecturer Dr Evelyn Ersanilli to find out more about her research, and the advantages of studying migration and working at the University of Oxford. The discussion includes Evelyn's research interests, some interesting aspects of her work and research, and some insights about working at Oxford. Evelyn Ersanilli is a Departmental Lecturer in Migration Studies at the Department of International Development (QEH). She holds an MSc in Interdisciplinary Social Science (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and a PhD in Sociology (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands). Previously she worked as a post-doc at the Social Science Research Centre (WZB) in Berlin and the International Migration Institute in Oxford. Evelyn's research Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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MSc Migration Studies | economics | migration | migration studies | immigration | MSc Migration Studies | economics | migration | migration studies | immigration

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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: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 This paper deals with both emigration and return, applying a systems approach on 'forced migrants'. Empirically based on more than 100 in-depth interviews and 7 focus group discussions with Iraqi Kurdish emigrants and returnees to/from the UK and Norway, this paper explores the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European migration system through three time periods, 1975-1991, 1992-1998, and 1999 until today. The first wave, comprised of political elites, were often granted asylum by sympathetic host states in Europe. Through their existentially important remitta

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THEMIS | migration | emigration | return migration | forced migration | iraq | kurds | united kingdom | Norway | THEMIS | migration | emigration | return migration | forced migration | iraq | kurds | united kingdom | Norway | 2013-09-26

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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: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 This paper deals with both emigration and return, applying a systems approach on 'forced migrants'. Empirically based on more than 100 in-depth interviews and 7 focus group discussions with Iraqi Kurdish emigrants and returnees to/from the UK and Norway, this paper explores the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European migration system through three time periods, 1975-1991, 1992-1998, and 1999 until today. The first wave, comprised of political elites, were often granted asylum by sympathetic host states in Europe. Through their existentially important remitta Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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THEMIS | migration | emigration | return migration | forced migration | iraq | kurds | united kingdom | Norway | THEMIS | migration | emigration | return migration | forced migration | iraq | kurds | united kingdom | Norway | 2013-09-26

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Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2013. Seminar by Dr Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh) recorded on 15 May 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. This presentation examined some of the difficulties involved in the production and assessment of evidence about torture in the British asylum system. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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torture | immigrants | immigration | migration | asylum | refugees | torture | immigrants | immigration | migration | asylum | refugees

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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. Migration scholars and NGOs have often sought to disassociate popular associations between criminality and immigration: migrants are not criminals, nor are they necessarily more likely to commit crime. But this risks ignoring important relationships between immigration and criminality, both 'immigrant' and 'criminal' for example, are set in opposition to the (good) citizen, both are important administrative categories for states, and comprise groups upon whom the state can exercise significant degrees of coercion. Both are highly racialised. There are also historical continuities: mobility has long Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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racism | integration | immigration | society | Britain | migration | Chinese immigraiton | politics | racism | integration | immigration | society | Britain | migration | Chinese immigraiton | politics | 2011-11-10

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Lydia Morris discusses the stratification of rights as a way to explain rights given or constrained by the state, in the migration context. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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human rights | compas | discrimination | welfare state | racism | immigration | migration | welfare | migrants rights | human rights | compas | discrimination | welfare state | racism | immigration | migration | welfare | migrants rights

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Immigrant studies contrasts between foreign-born and their progeny born where they resettle. Eckstein shows how analyses leave undocumented and unexplained differences among first generation immigrants, rooted in different pre-migration experiences. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Immigrant studies | Cuban | immigrants | migration | Cuba | Immigrant studies | Cuban | immigrants | migration | Cuba | 2011-03-10

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Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson (COMPAS, University of Oxford) give a COMPAS Breakfast Briefing on 11th November 2010. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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immigration | society | migration | policy | politics | migrant workers | immigration | society | migration | policy | politics | migrant workers | 2010-11-11

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Professor Stephen Constantine (Lancaster University) presents research on migration within the British world and the effects it has on the marginalisation of different social groups. Professor Stephen Constantine, of Lancaster University, presents research, included in his recent work with Marjory Harper, 'Migration and Empire' (a part of the Oxford History of the British Empire series), on migration within the British world. Prof Constantine's research examines marginal groups, the experiences and treatment of the marginalised, and, lastly, deportation and the marginalised. This engaging presentation spans the breadth of the empire, drawing significant conclusions about migration in all areas, both geographically and socially, of Britain's imperial world. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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deportation | immigration | marginalised | marginalized | migration | migrant workers | British empire | deportation | immigration | marginalised | marginalized | migration | migrant workers | British empire | 2011-01-28

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A panel discussion hosted by Kellogg College on Friday 29th November 2013. The panellists discuss the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development. The regulation of international migration and migrant rights are among the most contested public policy issues around the world. In 2013-14 a series of high-level policy meetings (including the High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Stockholm) will debate the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development. Do we need more global governance of international migration? If so, why and what should it aim to achieve? How, if at all, should international migration be integrated in the post-2015 development agenda? Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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migration | immigration | emigration | development | diaspora | migration | immigration | emigration | development | diaspora | 2013-11-29

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A panel discussion hosted by Kellogg College on Friday 29th November 2013. The panellists discuss the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development. The regulation of international migration and migrant rights are among the most contested public policy issues around the world. In 2013-14 a series of high-level policy meetings (including the High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Stockholm) will debate the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development. Do we need more global governance of international migration? If so, why and what should it aim to achieve? How, if at all, should international migration be integrated in the post-2015 development agenda? Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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migration | immigration | emigration | development | diaspora | migration | immigration | emigration | development | diaspora | 2013-11-29

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Martin Ruhs, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Breifing series Many low-income countries and development organisations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organisations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights, a new book by COMPAS economist Martin Ruhs, shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admis Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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migration | UK Migration | human rights | labour immigration | labour | politics | migration | UK Migration | human rights | labour immigration | labour | politics | 2013-10-18

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Hein de Haas presents his paper 'Migration system dynamics: evidence from global data' co-authored by Mathias Czaika in Parallel session III(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond held in Oxford from 24-26 Sept 2013 This paper provides a critical assessment of migration systems theory based on an analysis of global migration patterns between 1960 and 2000. Migration systems theory pioneered by Mabogunje (1970), predicts that migration that one form of exchange between countries or places, such as trade, is likely to engender other forms of exchange such as people, in both directions. This echoes earlier arguments by Ravenstein (1885; 1889) and Lee (1966) that migration in one direction is likely to engender a counterflow in the opposite direction. In this

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migration systems theory | international migration | migration determinants | reciprocity | migration systems theory | international migration | migration determinants | reciprocity | 2013-09-25

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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, 24-26 Sept 2013 This paper examines the migration from East European countries to Portugal as a particular pattern of the named `southern European model´ (Baldin-Edwards, 1999; King, 2000). It discusses this sub-system through the analysis of the emergence, development and decline of migratory dynamics. Biographic interviews to physicians and nurses coming from Russia Federation, Moldova and Ukraine to Portugal are explored in order to sustain the debate. These non-EU citizens arrived in Portugal without their credentials recognised before they left their country of origin; as a consequence,

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THEMIS | migration | biographic methods | migration process | migration system | structure and agency | THEMIS | migration | biographic methods | migration process | migration system | structure and agency | 2013-09-26

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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, 24-26 Sept 2013 This paper examines the migration from East European countries to Portugal as a particular pattern of the named `southern European model´ (Baldin-Edwards, 1999; King, 2000). It discusses this sub-system through the analysis of the emergence, development and decline of migratory dynamics. Biographic interviews to physicians and nurses coming from Russia Federation, Moldova and Ukraine to Portugal are explored in order to sustain the debate. These non-EU citizens arrived in Portugal without their credentials recognised before they left their country of origin; as a consequence, Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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THEMIS | migration | biographic methods | migration process | migration system | structure and agency | THEMIS | migration | biographic methods | migration process | migration system | structure and agency | 2013-09-26

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Hein de Haas presents his paper 'Migration system dynamics: evidence from global data' co-authored by Mathias Czaika in Parallel session III(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond held in Oxford from 24-26 Sept 2013 This paper provides a critical assessment of migration systems theory based on an analysis of global migration patterns between 1960 and 2000. Migration systems theory pioneered by Mabogunje (1970), predicts that migration that one form of exchange between countries or places, such as trade, is likely to engender other forms of exchange such as people, in both directions. This echoes earlier arguments by Ravenstein (1885; 1889) and Lee (1966) that migration in one direction is likely to engender a counterflow in the opposite direction. In this Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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migration systems theory | international migration | migration determinants | reciprocity | migration systems theory | international migration | migration determinants | reciprocity | 2013-09-25

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Judy Fudge, Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent examines Modern Slavery as a causal effect of the emphasis on human trafficking, anti-immigration and criminal law rather than employment law for migrant domestic workers. Professor Fudge examines Modern Slavery as a causal effect of the emphasis on human trafficking, anti-immigration and criminal law rather than employment law for migrant domestic workers at the Neoliberalism, Employment and the Law workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford, hosted the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in November 2015. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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policy | migration | immigration | domestic workers | modern slavery | neoliberalism | migrant | abuse | law | regulation | Employment | legal | policy | migration | immigration | domestic workers | modern slavery | neoliberalism | migrant | abuse | law | regulation | Employment | legal | 2015-11-19

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'Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights? The Europeanization of family migration policies in France, Germany, and the Netherlands' presented by Saskia Bonjour (Leiden University). Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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migration | family migration | migration policy | France | Germany | netherlands | migration | family migration | migration policy | France | Germany | netherlands | 2014-02-19

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This course examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. It considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. It also examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. The course includes optional field trip to New York City.

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immigration | migration | lawrence | chinatown | U.S.-Mexico border | Great Migration | The Jazz Singer | Lower East Side | ethnicity | New York City | New Immigration | Filipino | american imperialism | cuban-american | multiculturalism | caribbean migration | asian immigration

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Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2013. Seminar by Pierre Gentile (ICRC) recorded on 23 January 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Protection as understood by the ICRC, taking the Health Care in Danger project as an illustration. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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red cross | icrc | red crescent | health care | protection | migration | forced migration | refugees | red cross | icrc | red crescent | health care | protection | migration | forced migration | refugees

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RSC 30th Anniversary Conference. Closing plenary by Filippo Grandi (UNRWA), Arafat Jamal (IASC) and James Milner (Carleton University) recorded on 7 December 2012 at St Anne's College, Oxford. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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forced migration | refugees | migration | displacement | forced migration | refugees | migration | displacement

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RSC 30th Anniversary Conference. Opening plenary by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (University of Oxford) recorded on 6 December 2012 at St Anne's College, Oxford. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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forced migration | refugees | migration | displacement | forced migration | refugees | migration | displacement

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Special seminar by Professor Roger Zetter (Refugee Studies Centre) recorded on 30 October 2012 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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red cross | ifrc | humanitarian | displacement | migration | forced migration | refugees | relief | red cross | ifrc | humanitarian | displacement | migration | forced migration | refugees | relief

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This podcast was recorded for the launch of Policy Briefing 9 on 'Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: assumptions, challenges and lessons ' on 25 June 2012 at the Canadian High Commission, London. 'Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: assumptions, challenges and lessons ' explores the links between reconciliation, forced migration and transitional justice, bringing into focus the ways in which displaced persons figure in transitional justice processes, and the potential implications of this involvement for reconciliation. The briefing addresses the interlinked conceptual and practical challenges associated with trying to advance reconciliation in post-conflict societies affected by large-scale displacement, and highlights some of the ways in which Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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reconciliation | justice | displacement | migration | forced migration | refugees | reconciliation | justice | displacement | migration | forced migration | refugees | 2012-06-25

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