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Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Tugba Basaran (University of Cambridge), have written a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.In this commentary they examine the content of Objective 1 (Paragraph 17): to collect and utilize accur…

Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Tugba Basaran (University of Cambridge), have written a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.The commentaries seek to provide scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike with accessible substa…

Black History Month is held each year in October, with a programme that promotes the history and contributions that African, Caribbean, Asian and other BAME communities have made to Cambridge and the UK.Events around the country include history and heritage, arts and culture, news and ideas from a range of communities. It is an opportunity to share…

The EU Migrant Worker Project has been exploring the experiences of people who come to work in the UK from other EU Member States.Their aim has been to gather robust empirical evidence about EU migrants' experiences of finding work and being in employment in the UK, as well as exploring EU migrant workers’ use of social security, particularly in si…

Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar (MESG) is a five-year research project (2018–23) funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant.It will examine the importance of music for the construction of a collective cultural memory between North Africa and Southern Europe, both in the colonial past and the postcolonial…

Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ‘the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology.Edited by Irit Katz, Diana Martin, and Claudio Minca, this book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make th…

Post-Research Ethics Analysis (PREA) is a research project by Anglia Ruskin University investigating ethical issues in health research in humanitarian crises.PREA aims to identify good ethical practice from lessons learned in the field and develop a tool that assists reflection on ethical issues in humanitarian research.http://www.preaportal.org/

Healthy Housing for the DisplacedThe Shelter Design Project's vision is to transform the lives of displaced people encamped in extreme conditions through an engineered solution to housing that promotes a new science of shelter design.This innovative project uses the current shelter occupants as part of the research team, rather than just a cohort t…

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx.The so-called refugee crisis has created deep divisions and policy incoherence in the EU among member states. The crisis foregrounded the vulnerability of European borders, the tenuous jurisdiction of the Schengen …

Airline tickets that have been obtained illicitly represent a truly global crimeThis research by Dr. Alice Hutchings is qualitative in nature, informed by interviews with law enforcement and industry stakeholders, as well as the analysis of a marketplace where fraudulently obtained tickets are traded. Read More

A systematic account of the premium costs that migrants pay to live and work abroadDr. Tugba Basaran, the Centre's Senior Research Fellow and Elspeth Guild have recently released a new book "Global Labour and the Migrant Premium" - providing the first systematic account of the premium costs that migrants pay to live and work abroad.This book is int…

How the stories we tell, shape the communities we live inThis workshop was led by Dr Jenny Mander, Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Newnham. In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, the day considered the representation of minority groups, language diversity and social cohesion.The p…

Every day, hundreds of people fly on airline tickets that have been obtained fraudulently. This crime script analysis by Dr. Alice Hutchings provides an overview of the trade in these tickets, drawing on interviews with industry and law enforcement, and an analysis of an online blackmarket.Read More

Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement - Seminar Series.The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement - Seminar Series 2018/2019.Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Ave. Cambridge CB3 9DA. Directions hereSeminars are open to all, refreshments will be served Wed 31 October - 4pmRESPOND Project: Multilevel Governance of Migration i…

Conference held at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge March 25-26, 2019This conference seeks to address the question how strictly observant religious groups or "fundamentalists" (Harding 2001) challenge two basic principles within contemporary societies: gender equality and the modern state.The conference will bring together political scientists, socio…