Author Archives: Ida Persson

By: Ida Persson, Research & Communications Officer, COMPAS and Vanessa Hughes, DPhil candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London Using alternative methods to create social science research impact was a key aim of the project “Exploring Migration: Research and Drama in Schools”. Working with … Continue reading →

By: Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of COMPAS Women are no longer rendered invisible in the migratory process. Their movement―as workers, as refugees, as partners, dependants, and students―is now firmly on the agenda. While this is often … Continue reading →

By: Ben Gidley, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher The final COMPAS Breakfast Briefing of the 2014-15 series was held earlier in July, featuring Madeleine Sumption, Carlos Vargas-Silva and Rob McNeil of Oxford’s Migration Observatory, exploring what the recent UK elections mean for the migration field. The dog that didn’t … Continue reading →

By: Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Senior Researcher (This blog was first posted on 25 June on The Price of Rights website) Reforming the rules for the free movement of workers within the European Union (EU) is one of the … Continue reading →

By: Catherine Briddick, DPhil candidate, Law Faculy, University of Oxford Catherine’s research examines European responses to violence against women that have developed in migration law. Catherine is a barrister (now non-practicing) who has worked on violence against women issues in the … Continue reading →

By: Julia O’Connell Davidson, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham This post is part of the joint blog series on ‘Gender and Migration’ co-hosted by Border Criminologies and COMPAS. Posts in this series will be published on both blogs every Friday until mid-July.  … Continue reading →

By: Hiranthi Jayaweera, Senior Researcher This post is part of the joint blog series on ‘Gender and Migration’ co-hosted by Border Criminologies and COMPAS. Posts in this series will be published on both blogs every Friday until the end of June.  In February … Continue reading →

By: Sara Maher, PhD student at Monash University. Sara researches the impact of mass abduction and enslavement of South Sudanese borderlands women, during the second Sudanese civil war (1983-2005). This post is part of the joint blog series on ‘Gender and Migration’ … Continue reading →

By: Angelo Tramountanis, Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and Phd Candidate at the Panteion University of Athens, Greece. This post is part of the joint blog series on ‘Gender and Migration’ co-hosted by Border Criminologies and COMPAS. Posts in … Continue reading →

By: Helena Wray, Associate Professory of Law, Middlesex University This post is part of the joint blog series on ‘Gender and Migration’ co-hosted by Border Criminologies and COMPAS. Posts in this series will be published on both blogs every Friday until the end … Continue reading →