The Migration Oxford Podcast
For several decades, researchers based at the University of Oxford have been addressing one of the most compelling human stories; why and how people move. Combining the expertise of the Centre on Migration Policy and Society, the Refugee Studies Centre, Border Criminologies in the Department of Law, the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment, the Refugee-Led Research Hub, and researchers working on migration and mobility across divisions and departments, the University of Oxford has one the largest concentrations of migration researchers in the world.
We all come together at Migration Oxford.
The aim of the Migration Oxford podcast is to bring together researchers and other observers to address the major migration issues of our time, both in UK and internationally. We hope to inform and influence public debate and policy considerations, and to engage with people who want to engage more deeply with issues of human movement.
We also encourage you to check out the Migration Podcast by IMISCOE.
IMISCOE Migration Podcast
The Aftermath of Forced Return
With the help of our panel, we discuss forced return migration and the different power dynamics at play. What are the difficulties of forced returnees to home countries and what are the differences between the wealth and influence of certain states?
In this episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, we are discussing forced return migration with a specific focus on returns from the US to Mexico or to Latin America. With the help of our panel, we will discuss the different power dynamics at play and the difference between the wealth and influence of certain states. Along with the difficulties of forced return to home countries and inaccessibility of identity documents. We are joined by Guadalupe Chavez, DPhil candidate in the department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford; Professor Matthew Gibney, professor of Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre; and Maggie Loredo, a returnee from the US to Mexico and the Executive Director of Otros Dreams en Acción, a non-profit organisation based in Mexico City, which provides services to returnees.
Guests: Guadalupe Chavez, Prof Matthew Gibney, Maggie Loredo
Hosts: Rob McNeil and Jacqui Broadhead
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Precarious Migrants
We often think of migration in binary terms of regular or irregular migration; legal or illegal, but often people move in between these states and are left in an insecure status. How does this precarity effect a migrant’s access to services in cities?
In this episode we discuss precarious migrants and are joined by Dr Marie Mallet-Garcia, Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner and head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna and Wanjiku Ngotho-Mbugua, Acting Chief Executive at Bawso. With the help of our panel, we will look at three different cities Cardiff, Frankfurt and Vienna.
Hosted by: Jacqui Broadhead and Rob McNeil
Speakers: Dr Marie Mallet-Garcia (COMPAS, University of Oxford); Shams Asadi (Head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna); and Wanjiku Ngotho-Mbugua (Acting Chief Executive at Bawso)
Keywords: Gender, Migration
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Politics of Emigration
In this episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, we are discussing the politics of emigration. All countries are countries of immigration and of emigration, yet the politics of emigration are often less obsessed over as attitudes toward immigration.
We ask, what are the political effects of emigration on sending countries? How does understanding perceptions of emigration help us to elucidate the changing demographic dynamics including population decline, ‘brain drain’, aging populations? We discuss these topics with the help of Dr. Anna Kyriazi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Milan, Dr. Julia Rone, a postdoctoral researcher at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, and Madeleine Reeves, Professor in the Anthropology of Migration here at the University of Oxford.
Guests: Dr. Anna Kyriazi, Dr. Julia Rone, Prof Madeleine Reeves
Hosts: Rob McNeil and Jacqui Broadhead
Producer: Sophie Smith
Communications and Coordination: Delphine Boagey
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Who counts? Data and migration
We discuss the role of data science in migration studies, joined by Dr. Emre Korkmaz, lecturer in migration and co-author of Data Science for Migration and Mobility and Christina Pao, PhD student and co-organiser of the Measuring Migration Conference 2022.
In this episode of The Migration Oxford Podcast, we are discussing the role of data science in migration studies. What is the importance of mixed methods, both quantitative data and qualitative analysis? The way that we collect data is changing. How do we manage the ethical, legal and privacy related challenges with the potential of large new data sets? We are joined by Dr. Emre Korkmaz, a lecturer in migration and development at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development (ODID) and co-author of Data Science for Migration and Mobility (ISBN: 9780197267103) and Christina Pao, a PhD student at Princeton University studying Sociology and Social Policy, and co-organiser of the Measuring Migration Conference 2022 (ISBN: 9781801351805).
Speakers: Dr. Emre Korkmaz, Christina Pao
Hosts: Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
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Gendered Migration
How does gender affect experiences of migration and communities left behind? In the age of a controversial Nationality and Borders Bill, we ask how current policies interact with gender and find out what happens when a gender lens on migration is ignored.
How does gender affect experiences of migration and communities left behind? In the age of a controversial Nationality and Borders Bill, we ask how current policies interact with gender and find out what happens when a gender lens on migration is ignored.
To explore these questions, co-hosts Jacqui Broadhead and Rob McNeil discuss one of the most popular pieces of research from the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory on gender and family migration to the UK. Expert guests Professor Dr. Melissa Siegel (United Nations University - MERIT, Maastricht University) and Alphonsine Kabagabo (Director, Women for Refugee Women) share their research into these issues and experience supporting migrants affected by gender-based violence, leading us to reflect on how gender impacts movement in an ever more connected world.
Speakers: Dr. Melissa Siegel (United Nations University - MERIT, Maastricht University) Alphonsine Kabagabo (Director, Women for Refugee Women)
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
Hosts: Jacqui Broadhead, Rob McNeil
Oxford Unit: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Keywords: Gender, Migration
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Bonus Episode - Immigration to Innovation
We have a new bonus episode of the Migration Oxford podcast, which accompanies the full episode on migrant and refugee entrepreneurship (Immigration to Innovation). Listen: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/bonus-immigration-innovation (also on Apple and Spotify)
In this bonus episode, Aditi Anand (Artistic Director, Migration Museum) takes us on an extended tour of the immersive Taking Care of Business exhibition and introduces us to the stories behind migrant businesses we often don't get to hear.
Speaker: Aditi Anand (Artistic Director, Migration Museum)
Hosts: Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
Oxford Unit: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Keywords: Business, Entrepreneurialism, Innovation, Immigration
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Immigration to Innovation
We take a tour round the Taking Care of Business exhibition at the Migration Museum and hear about new research into refugee entrepreneurialism.
There is a rich history of migrant entrepreneurs shaping British high streets, from small, family-owned businesses to large chains turned household names. In this episode of the Migration Oxford podcast, Aditi Anand (Artistic Director, Migration Museum) takes us on a tour of the immersive Taking Care of Business exhibition and introduces us to the stories behind migrant businesses we often don't get to hear. We then speak to Gilda Borriello (COMPAS DPhil candidate and Consultant for the World Bank) about her research into the challenges and opportunities behind refugee entrepreneurialism, which you can follow @Refugee_entr.
Speakers: Aditi Anand; Gilda Borriello
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
Hosts: Jacqui Broadhead, Rob McNeil
Oxford Unit: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Keywords: Business, Refuee, History, Entrepreneurs
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Movement of Money
As we enter a period of global instability, we ask what role remittances will play and how we can improve data collection on remittances to better understand their vital importance on a local and global scale. In this episode of the Migration Oxford Podcast, we talk about remittances—the movement of money between migrants and their friends and families—with Dilip Ratha (Head of the Global Knowledge Partnership for Migration and Development and Lead Economist for Migration, Remittances and Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice, World Bank) and Professor Carlos Vargas-Silva (Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford). We ask what remittances reveal about the nature of migration and how informal remittances give us a sense of migration routes that are not so common or visible.
Speakers: Carlos Vargas-Silva, Dilip Ratha
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
Hosts: Jacqui Broadhead, Rob McNeil
Oxford Unit: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Keywords: Migration, Money, Migrants, Bank, Jobs
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Rwanda and refoulement: Can the 1951 Refugee Convention survive?
In this episode of the Migration Oxford Podcast, we ask if the 1951 Refugee Convention is under attack.
As states look for ways to avoid taking responsibility for refugees and asylum seekers, such as the UK's "Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda". Is the Convention still the right tool, and how can the protection it offers refugees be improved in an era where global governance of any issue is vexed at best? We speak to Dr Catherine Briddick, Departmental Lecturer in Gender and International Human Rights and Refugee Law at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, and Sabir Zazai Chief Executive of the Scottish Refugee Council to understand both the human and legal implications of the convention and moves by states to circumvent it.
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
People: Catherine Briddick, Sabir Zazai, Rob McNeil, Jacqueline Broadhead
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Citizenship Deprivation
As the controversial Nationality and Borders Bill works its way through parliament in the UK, we investigate Clause 9 which focuses on citizenship deprivation and the rights of the Home Secretary to take somebody's citizenship away.
Joined by Zoe Gardner,and Abhishek Saha, we ask who is a citizen, and how can citizenship be taken away? We also look beyond the UK to the story of Assam, in India and how the National Register of Citizens has played out there.
Zoe Gardner is Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. She previously worked in communications and policy roles at Asylum Aid, the Race Equality Foundation and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in Brussels.
Abhishek Saha is a journalist covering Northeast India for the Indian Express. He is currently undertaking the MSc in Migrations Studies at the University of Oxford, graduating in Summer 2022. His book, No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis (2021) is published by HarperCollins India.
Speakers: Abhishek Saha, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead, Zoe Gardner
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
People: Abhishek Saha Rob McNeil Jacqui Broadhead Zoe Gardner
Oxford Unit: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Keywords: Nationality and borders bill, immigration, immigrant, clause 9, citizenship, deprivation, welfare, india, parliament
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Leaving Ukraine
We discuss the war on Ukraine and the almost unprecedented speed and size of the movement of people fleeing the country. We discuss the displacement taking place, how refugees are being received in Europe, and the impact this will have on post-EU Britain.
In our first ever episode, Rob McNeil and Jacqueline Broadhead of COMPAS (University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) discuss the war on Ukraine with three expert researchers:
Dr Roxana Barbulescu, who leads the ‘Feeding the Nation: Seasonal Migrant Workers and Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic’ with Professor Carlos vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford). The project explores the role seasonal migrant workers and farmers in pandemic times, their recruitment and working practices in situations of severe international travel restrictions and a re-imagined post-Brexit immigration.
Emma Rimpiläinen is a Post-Doctoral Affiliate at the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on mass displacement caused by the pre-exisitng war in Donbas, Eastern Ukraine, and examines how the people displaced by the violence there navigate the landscapes of legal ambiguity in Russia and Ukraine.
Volodymyr Artiukh a Postdoctoral Researcher at COMPAS with the ERC-funded project EMPTINESS: Living Capitalism and Democracy after (Post)Socialism. Before the invasion, Volodymyr was studying the movement of Ukrainian migrants between Donbass, central Ukraine, and Belarus.
Producer: Frey Lindsay
Series: The Migration Oxford Podcast
People: Roxana Barbulescu, Emma Rimpiläinen, Volodymyr Artiukh, Rob McNeil, Jacqueline Broadhead
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