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Richard Sambrook, Director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff School of Journalism and RISJ senior research fellow, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series . Introduction by James Painter.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 28/01/2016

Duration: 00:26:11

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Migration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series and preliminary TRANSMIC findings

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International Migration Institute

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Ali Chaudhary and Marieke van Houte introduce the seminar series on migration, politics and political change and their TRANSMIC project, examining the links between migration, citizenship, and migration and development

This presentation is part of the 2016 IMI Hilary Term seminar series, which seeks to interrogate the relationship between migration, politics and political change. The series offers a wide range of (inter)disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of the processes and outcomes that link migration, emigrants and immigrants with politics and political change. The series seeks to discuss both how political actors govern migrants’ actions and movements ‘from above’, through policies and resources, and how migrants may shape politics ‘from below’, and can be grassroots ‘agents of change’.
Key themes highlighted in this collection of seminars include research on diasporas, transnational engagement, im/migrant politics in origin and receiving countries and political change, and the implications of migration as manifestation of social transformation. The seminar series is organised and coordinated by IMI postdoctoral fellows Dr. Marieke Van Houte and Dr. Ali R. Chaudhary who are currently working on TRANSMIC, a Marie Curie-funded project, which explores the topic of migration, politics and political change.

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International Migration Institute

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:46:26

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The time of our lives: Migration and slow pain

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths College, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:32:14

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Love and Legality: questions of wellbeing for irregular migrants and their citizen partners

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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Melanie Griffiths, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.

For academics, politicians and NGOs alike, the issues seen to relate to irregular migrants, especially if they are male, tend to revolve around questions of legality, criminality and mobility. Little concern is generally afforded to their emotional lives and wellbeing. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with UK-based precarious male migrants with British or EU citizen partners and children, this talk considers the effect of having family ties in the UK on the men’s experience of the immigration system, as well as the impact of immigration concerns on family life itself. A variety of repercussions are identified in relation to the formation and sustainability of partnerships and families, including in terms of suspicion over motives, the threat of enforced separation and other relationship strains. Particular attention is given to immigration detention and the prohibition of employment as examples of ways in which the immigration system reaches into the heart of family life and produce gendered implications for the men’s ability to be the parents and partners they wish to be. The talk also considers the wellbeing of the British and European women in mixed-citizenship couples, exploring the impacts of the immigration struggles of their loved ones on the women’s sense of security, privilege and belonging as citizens. Considering wellbeing in the context of relationships illuminates the significant and wide-ranging impact of the immigration system on family lives and gender roles. Laying bare the fallacy of migrant/citizen binaries, such impacts not only affect irregular migrants, but also the citizens close to them, who are not themselves subject to immigration control but whose lives are nonetheless shaped by immigration objectives.

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:52:08

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Migrants, conditionality and welfare in the UK

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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Peter Dwyer, University of York, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.

Conditionality matters for migrants. First, in a broad sense i.e. the ways in which UK immigration and welfare policies intersect to establish and structure the diverse rights and responsibilities of different migrant groups living in the UK. Second, in respect of more focused understandings of welfare conditionality and the linking of an individual’s rights to social welfare benefits and services to specified behavioural requirements. This seminar explores how these two aspects of conditionality play out in migrants’ interactions with welfare agencies. Discussions will draw on early analysis of new qualitative data generated in first wave interviews with 54 migrants who are one cohort within a larger, repeat qualitative longitudinal panel study being conducted as part of the ESRC funded ‘Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change’ project (see www.welfarecondtionality.ac.uk)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:51:33

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Beyond the 'asylum-seeking market': spaces of responsibility and moments of care within the privatisation of asylum accommodation

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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Jonathan Darling, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.

In this seminar I draw on my current research looking at how dispersal has worked across four UK cities historically, and how changes with the privatisation of provision has affected relations between asylum seekers and cities, between private providers and local authorities, and between local authorities and the Home Office. I will link to some of my past work around sanctuary, responsibility and generosity in terms of discussing spaces within cities that challenge the tensions of current governance structures and that enable different relations between asylum seekers and cities. Part of the story here is of the significance of local relations and contexts that are too readily ignored in top down dispersal processes and plans, so being able to speak across four different cities should enable some of these more hopeful stories to come to light.

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:47:06

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Migration and the health trajectories of immigrants and host country nationals

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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Osea Giuntella, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.

Despite a lower average socioeconomic status, recent immigrants in many advanced economies have better health outcomes than the incumbent residents in the hosting countries. Paradoxically, this initial health advantage erodes with time spent in the destination country, despite immigrants’ socio-economic assimilation. In the talk I will discuss the role of selection, acculturation, socio-economic and occupational characteristics in explaining immigrants’ health trajectories presenting evidence from some of my recent work on migration and health in the US, UK, and Germany. Furthermore, I will examine different mechanisms through which immigration can have effects on the health of incumbent residents. First, immigration has important effects on the allocation of tasks and job-related risks in the labour market. Second, immigration can have effects on healthy behaviours by affecting both the demand and the supply of healthy products and by increasing product variety and access to healthy options in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:57:44

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Clever Classrooms: Evidence for the impacts of classroom design on learning

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Department of Education Public Seminars

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Professor Peter Barrett, University of Salford, gies a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 25th January 2016.

Convener: Professor Harry Daniels Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT)
Based on an empirical study of 3766 primary school pupils and the 153 classrooms they occupied the EPSRC-funded HEAD (Holistic Evidence and Design) Project has successfully isolated the impact of design features on the learning progress of those pupils over a year. This was based on multi-disciplinary collaboration over several years that resulted in a radical new conceptual model of the holistic physical learning environment, taken from a child’s sensory perspective. This increased scope of consideration was then twinned with multilevel modelling of the data to identify the classroom level impacts. These model out at explaining 16% of the overall variation in the learning progress of the pupils in the spaces studied. The findings support detailed practical suggestions for teachers, designers and policy-makers. There are surprises in relation to some aspects that do not appear. Sub-analyses of the data are being carried out and raise interesting issues around subject-specific design and design for particular groupings of pupils.

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Department: Department of Education

Date Added: 27/01/2016

Duration: 00:53:17

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The Geopolitics of Change in Burma

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Asian Studies Centre

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Bertil Lintner (Independent Journalist and Author) speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 20th January 2016.

The United States and the West did not change their policy of isolating Burma because of their concerns were primarily with the lack of democracy and human rights. It was "the China factor". Burma was becoming a vassal of China, which was seen as a threat to the status quo and regional stability. At the same time, Burma's military was also concerned about China's growing influence and realised that it has to reach out to the West to avoid being absorbed by Chinese political, economic and strategic interests. But in order to "woo the West" they also realised that they had to liberalise the country's rigid political system - but not in a way that would jeopardise their hold on power.

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