• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Wednesdays at 1.00 pm
• Web Address: http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Wednesday 11 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of the urban religious landscape in Morocco
  Johara Berriane (Freie Universitat Berlin)

Friday 13 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Progress, remaining challenges, and opportunities in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
  Russell Feingold

Wednesday 18 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes: Evidence from Lusaka
  Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The effect of government party orientation on immigration policies
  Hein de Haas (University of Oxford), Katharina Natter (Universiteit Leiden)

Wednesday 4 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mobile female traders from Mali in Dakar (Senegal): Place-making abroad and on the move
  Gunvor Jonsson (SOAS, University of London)

Wednesday 11 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Transitness in migration as a fallout of (deficient) socio-political interactions: The Case of Poland
  Michal Tudorowski (University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 29 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The seasonal worker programs of Australia and New Zealand: A study in contrasts
  Richard Curtain (Development Policy Centre, Australian National University)

Wednesday 6 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Remaining 'attached strangers': Encounters, relationships, and the future of African migrants in China
  Linessa Dan Lin (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 13 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Applying a gender lens to migration and development: Insights from research in Southern Africa
  Belinda Dodson (University of Western Ontario)

Wednesday 20 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Time lines in autobiographical migration research: Lessons from an Afghan case study
  Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Re-constructing the boundaries of the nation-state: The Israeli political discourse on African non-Jewish migrants
  Sharon Weinblum (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millennia? An anthropological / distant perspective on migrations
  Nicolas Zorzin (Université Panthéon - Sorbonne)

Wednesday 10 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Does a North-South gradient exist for ‘healthy immigrant effect’ in Europe?
  TBA

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - International mobility, local economics and European cooperation policies in the Central Sahara
  TBA

Wednesday 14 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Pakistani Migrant Transnational Social Service Organizations in London, Toronto and New York City
  Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Legislating for transnational ageing: a challenge for the Dutch and French welfare states
  Alistair Hunter (Institut national d’études démographiques), Anita Böcker (Radboud University)

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The changing face of social protection in Africa’s cities
  Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Reverse Welfare Magnet
  Edo Mahendra (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - When the Children of Migrants go to School: Educational Pathways and their determinants in Switzerland
  Laura Bernardi (University of Lausanne), Andrés Gomensoro (University of Lausanne)

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Hope and uncertainty in African migration: Life after deportation to Ghana
  Nauja Kleist (Danish Institute for International Studies)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Access to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to adequate coverage
  Jessica Hagen-Zanker (Overseas Development Institute)

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Hyper-mobile migrant workers and the lack of social protection within the European Union: a case study from the Netherlands
  Lisa Berntsen (Tilburg University)

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Transnational health insurances and the involvement of Congolese immigrants in their relatives’ health from abroad
  Jean-Michel Lafleur (University of Liège), Olivier Lizin (University of Liège)

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Migration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series and preliminary TRANSMIC findings
  Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford), Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Migration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series and preliminary TRANS MIC findings
  Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford), Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The transnational activism of the stateless Kurdish diaspora and its implications on homeland politics
  Veysi Dag (Free University of Berlin)
• 13:00 - The transnational activism of the stateless Kurdish diaspora and its implications on homeland politics
  Veysi Dag (Free University of Berlin)

Wednesday 3 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Who is acting for what change? A relational approach to transnational engagements of Afghans in Britain and Germany
  Carolin Fischer (University of Neuchâtel)
• 13:00 - Who is acting for what change? A relational approach to transnational engagements of Afghans in Britain and Germany
  Carolin Fischer (Université de Neuchâtel)

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A multilevel citizenship puzzle: Residence and citizenship in national and local elections
  Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute)
• 13:00 - A multilevel citizenship puzzle: Residence and citizenship in national and local elections
  Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute)

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - When the diaspora takes charge: state making and diaspora return in Rwanda
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)
• 13:00 - When the diaspora takes charge: state making and diaspora return in Rwanda
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cross-border migration as the transnational social question
  Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University)
• 13:00 - Cross-border migration as the transnational social question
  Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University)

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Ethnicity, socialization, policy preferences or social structure? Disentangling and comparing the sources of migrants’ political preferences across Europe
  Laura Morales (University of Leicester)
• 13:00 - Ethnicity, socialization, policy preferences or social structure? Disentangling and comparing the sources of migrants' political preferences across Europe
  Laura Morales (University of Leicester)

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The micro-politics of mobility and immobility
  Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
• 13:00 - The micro-politics of mobility and immobility
  Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo)

Wednesday 27 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Birthplace, bloodline and beyond: How ‘Liberian citizenship’ is currently constructed in Liberia and abroad
  Robtel Neajai Pailey (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Birthplace, bloodline and beyond: How "Liberian citizenship" is currently constructed in Liberia and abroad
  Robtel Neajai (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emigration and the distribution of income per natural: evidence from Egypt
  Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine)
• 13:00 - Emigration and the distribution of income per natural: evidence from egypt
  Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Assembling circulation: Governing the mobility of health professionals from the Philippines to Germany
  Cleovi Mosuela (Bielefeld University)
• 13:00 - Assembling circulation: Governing the mobility of health profesionals from the Philipines to Germany
  Cleovi Mosuela (Bielefeld University)

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From coffee to industry: Changes in migrants’ characteristics in metropolitan areas in Brazil
  Guilherme Margarido Ortega (University of Campinas)
• 13:00 - From coffee to industry: Changes in migrants' characteristics in metropolitan areas in Brazil
  Guiherme M. Ortega (University of Campinas)

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The cultural transmission of the fertility transition: Evidence from internal migrations in 19th century France
  Hillel Rapoport (University of Paris 1 and Paris School of Economics)
• 13:00 - The cultural transmission of the fertility transition: evidence from internal migrations in 19th century France
  Hillel Rapoport (University of Paris 1 and Parish School of Economics)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Institutions and their representations of compatriotism: The case of diaspora politics of Slovakia and Slovak diaspora in Romania
  Natalia Blahova (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
• 13:00 - Institutions and their representations of compatriotism: The case of diaspora politics of Slovakia and the Slovak diaspora in Romania
  Natalia Blahova (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The administrative barriers to mobility and international knowledge flows
  Sultan Orazbayev (UCL)
• 13:00 - The administrative barriers to mobility and international knowledge flows
  Mouhoub el Mouhoud (university of Paris-Dauphine)
• 16:00 - The relationship between social capital and health: What mechanisms and empirical evidence
  Professor Richard Scheffler (The relationship between social capital and health: What mechanisms and empirical evidence )

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - ‘To have and have not’: International migration, poverty and inequality in Algeria
  Mouhoub el Mouhoud (University of Paris-Dauphine)

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Segue to revolution: Border activisms in the meantimes
  Nick Gill (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Track, sort and archive: The temporality of visibility and border surveillance between EUROSUR and JORA
  Martina Tazzioli (Swansea University and City University of London)

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Humanitarian non-state actors and the delocalised EU border of the Central Mediterranean
  Paolo Cuttitta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Governing migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism
  Vicki Squire (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Between knowledge and power: Understanding how international organisations see migration
  Antoine Pécoud (University of Paris 13)

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cyclone–migration–adaptation nexus in the social context of Bangladesh
  Bishawjit Mallick (Vanderbilt University Nashville)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - North–South migration and postcolonial encounters: Portuguese labour migrants in Angola
  Lisa Åkesson (University of Gothenburg)

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Gender, violence and vulnerability: Examining the politics of protection in the current refugee 'crisis'
  Jane Freedman (CNRS and University of Paris 8)

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Skilled Ghanaian return migrants navigating the gendered politics of ‘adjustment’
  Madeleine Wong (St. Lawrence University)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Migratory flows, colonial encounters and the histories of transatlantic slavery
  Olivette Otele (Bath Spa University)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - African migration to and from Europe: Rethinking circular migration
  Antony Otieno Ong’ayo (University of Utrecht and Tilburg University)

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The politics of Congolese Combattants’ violent transnational mobilisation
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Transnational religious practices and negotiation of difference among Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain
  Dominic Pasura (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Migration, family and the changing significance of absence in Senegal
  Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University College London)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - 'All the money I raised, I raised from Ghana': Understanding reverse remittance practice among Ghanaian migrants in the UK and their relatives in Ghana
  Geraldine Adiku (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The subjective wellbeing of African transnational parents in Europe
  Bilisuma B. Dito (Maastricht University)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The politics of diaspora-making: A critical approach to Turkey's diaspora engagement policy
  Bahar Başer (Coventry University)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Integration of Brits in Turkey and Turks in Britain
  İbrahim Sirkeci (Regents University, London)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A dynamic, but skewed industry: Supply chain relations and working conditions in UK garment manufacturing
  Martin Buttle (Ethical Trading Initiative)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - How do Syrian refugee workers challenge supply chain management in the Turkish garment industry?
  Emre Eren Korkmaz (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Migration governance and security in the Euro-Mediterranean space: A communicational and discoursive analysis
  Ivan Ureta (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emerging topologies of transnational employment: ‘Posting’ Thai workers in Sweden’s wild berry industry beyond regulatory reach
  Linn Axelsson (Stockholm University)

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What drives migration outflows of foreign populations from Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession
  María Gutiérrez Portilla (University of Cantabria)

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Trade unions, agency (migrant) workers and the insiders/outsiders debate: Germany and Belgium compared
  Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)