Monthly Archives: January 2012
New article: ‘I’ve too much baggage’: the impacts of legal status on the social worlds of irregular migrants
Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with irregular migrants in the UK, this article shows how the condition of ‘illegality’ permeates migrants’ everyday lives, gradually invading their social worlds and social and community networks. The article will focus on three aspects … Continue reading
Filed under migration and mobility
The Arab Spring and Human Mobility: International Symposyum, University of Oxford, 20 March 2012
Migration in its various forms has been a key part of the popular uprisings that spread across North Africa and the Levant in 2011. The columns of vehicles escaping from cities and villages under siege in Libya, the boats crammed … Continue reading
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Migration Studies, new refereed journal to start publication in spring 2013
Migration Studies is a new multi-disciplinary refereed journal from Oxford University Press (see journal’s webpage). It will publish work that significantly advances our understanding of the determinants, processes and outcomes of human migration in all its manifestations. Migration has always … Continue reading
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Health status and legal status
Extract from the forthcoming report No way out, no way in: Irregular migrant children and families in the UK by Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes Meeting the health needs of a growing and super-diverse foreign-born population in the UK is a … Continue reading
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