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Migration Research at Oxford

The University of Oxford is a world-leader in terms of the study of international migration, whether forced or voluntary. Migration research within Oxford shares common imperatives, including: ensuring independence, pioneering new theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary approaches and delivering research findings and knowledge beyond the academic world.

Oxford boasts five major research centres (Border Criminologies; Centre on Migration, Policy and Society; Refugee-Led Research Hub; Refugee Studies Centre; Transport Studies Unit) and several researchers working on incisive and innovating research projects on migration and mobility across divisions and departments brought together by Migration Oxford.

The five main research centres on migration and mobility in Oxford have complementary, interconnecting research agendas but each has a particular research focus within this complex area of study.

Border Criminologies

Border Criminologies brings together academics, practitioners and those who have experienced border control from around the world. Showcasing original research from a range of perspectives, Border Criminologies contributes to the understanding of the effect of border control, while exploring alternatives and bringing to light the lived experience of law and policy.

COMPAS

COMPAS research covers a spectrum of global migration processes and phenomena, from conditions in places of migrant origins, through to institutions and activities affecting mobility, to social and economic effects in receiving contexts. In particular, COMPAS has developed expertise in relation to migration and the labour market, and migration and urban change.

Refugee-Led Research Hub

The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) provides support to scholars who have been affected by forced displacement to advance an agenda for refugee-authored scholarship and research in the field of Forced Migration Studies.

Refugee Studies Centre

At the Refugee Studies Centre, scholars examine forced displacement of populations, with a strong focus on developmental and humanitarian aspects of forced migration in the Global South. More recently, work has also covered northern regimes and perspectives on asylum, and the ways in which national agendas can better respond to the increasingly complex flows of mixed migration.

Transport Studies Unit

The Transport Studies Unit advances the understanding of the systems, processes and practices that shape the way people and goods move, with the hope to inspire and inform change towards a more sustainable, just and accessible transport system.

IMISCOE

IMISCOE is Europe's largest network of scholars in the area of migration and integration.

Publications

Discover Oxford's journals, book and blog series, and briefings on migration and mobility.

Study

Oxford offers world-class taught and research degrees in migration and mobility.