Events http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk daily 1 2011-12-27T13:44:01Z Public Lecture: Why anti-immigrant populism is so tempting: a long-term perspective? http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/public-lecture-why-anti-immigrant-populism-is-so-tempting-a-long-term-perspective Leo Lucassen (University of Leiden) This event is one of the Trinity Term 2012 IMI Seminars

]]> No publisher Jackie Smith 2012-04-03T14:50:00Z Event Do migrants really foster trade? The trade-migration nexus, a panel approach 1960-2000 http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/do-migrants-really-foster-trade-the-trade-migration-nexus-a-panel-approach-1960-2000 Christopher Parsons (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford) This event is one of the Trinity Term 2012 IMI Seminars

]]> No publisher Jackie Smith 2012-04-03T14:55:00Z Event Migration theory: quo vadis? http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/migration-theory-quo-vadis Hein de Haas (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford) This event is one of the Trinity Term 2012 IMI Seminars

]]> No publisher Jackie Smith 2012-04-03T14:55:00Z Event The (r)evolution of migration systems: evidence from comparative research http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/the-r-evolution-of-migration-systems-evidence-from-comparative-research Oliver Bakewell (International Migration Institute, University of Oxford) This event is one of the Trinity Term 2012 IMI Seminars

]]> No publisher Jackie Smith 2012-04-03T14:55:00Z Event Migration, Unfree Labour and Precarious Work: From Industrialization to the Global Economic Crisis http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/migration-unfree-labour-and-precarious-work A special lecture by Stephen Castles CastlesLecture2012The development of the capitalist world market has always been linked to differentiation of workers and the use of migration to create various forms of ‘unfree labour’: slavery, indentured workers, guestworkers, forced labourers, undocumented workers and so on. The differential denial of equal rights has been based on gender, race, ethnicity, legal status, national origins and on the ideology of human capital. This lecture will briefly address historical antecedents, and then focus on changing modes of differentiation, contrasting the labour recruitment systems of the 1945–1970s period with the epoch of globalization and the creation of a global labour market. Various forms of labour differentiation and denial of rights will be examined. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of the acceleration of trends to the feminization of labour and the growth of precarious temporary and casual employment arising through the global economic crisis.

Professor Stephen Castles is an Honorary Associate of the International Migration Institute and holds a Research Chair in Sociology at the University of Sydney. He is a sociologist and political economist, and currently works on international migration dynamics, global governance, migration and development, and regional migration in Africa, Asia and Europe. Stephen Castles is the author (with Mark Miller) of The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edition, 2009).

Please register for this event: email ann.cowie@qeh.ox.ac.uk

]]> No publisher Jackie Smith 2012-04-12T08:55:00Z Event Environmental Change and Global Migration Futures http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/environmental-change-resource-scarcity-and-global-migration-futures GMF Expert Workshop (invited participants only) Download the final workshop programme.

Please note that attendance at the workshop is by invitation only. The Global Migration Futures team plans to hold another event at the beginning of Michaelmas Term 2012 to launch the report based on insights from the workshop, and this event will be open to the wider Oxford community (in particular the Oxford Martin School community).

There is increasing awareness that environmental factors are among many other variables working in concert to shape, prompt or constrain migration flows. It is also becoming clear that environmental factors tend to affect migration more indirectly, and that these impacts depend on their interaction with structural drivers of migration, such as economic and political conditions.

The key challenge addressed by this workshop is how to achieve a better conceptual and methodological integration of the largely separate fields of environmental and migration studies.

The workshop is supported by the Oxford Martin School. The outcomes of this workshop will support the development of the Global Migration Futures project’s scenarios on future international migration for various regions across the globe (Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Pacific).

Aims

  • To bring together early/mid-career and senior researchers and policy makers to assess the state of the art of knowledge from research and policy communities on the links between environmental change and migration, and their implications for future migration processes.
  • To start bridging the conceptual and methodological gaps between the fields of environmental change and migration.
  • To develop useful common concepts, methods, and methodologies to study the reciprocal relationship between environmental change and migration.
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