University of Oxford, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS COMPAS analyses what migration means at local, regional, national and global levels.
We investigate the dynamics and impacts of migration and the factors that influence the movement of people and their sense of identity and place.
14/12/2022
Things are hotting up for Morocco tonight in this historic semi-finals!🔥
⚽Morocco’s football team have made history in Qatar this month by becoming the first African, and the first Arab team, ever to reach the World Cup semi-finals. This is a monumental achievement that calls for celebration but also reflection. Read our latest COMPAS blog by to find out why...
“For this I have fought […] Before this World Cup, we had a lot of problems about the guys born…
29/11/2022
Facilitating conversations🔊
We really enjoyed hosting Migration Yorkshire https://www.linkedin.com/company/migration-yorkshire/ at our Centre last week for a two-day study visit and knowledge exchange initiative, part of our Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity project
22/11/2022
As part of the 'Researcher Stories' series from the Policy Engagement team at University of Oxford we hear from Madeleine Sumption, the Director of the Migration Observatory at COMPAS, on understanding migration policy in the UK.
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Thinking about our DPhil in Migration Studies at University of Oxford? Wondering what the course is like? Want your study questions answered?
Hear from COMPAS Director Carlos Vargas-Silva who answers FAQs about the programme jointly offered by Oxford Department of International Development and the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Rob McNeil, co-host of Migration Oxford podcast asks Melissa Siegel for her views in this new episode on Gendered Migration
14/10/2022
📢 Great opportunity to join COMPAS as a Researcher (2 x roles)
📝 Find out more and apply by 26th October 2022
The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford are seeking to appoint up to two post-doctoral research fellows from January 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter to join an exciting new Wellcome-funded re...
10/10/2022
📢 Gendered Migration the *New* episode of the Migration Oxford podcast features research from the Migration Observatory
🗣Hosts: Jacqui Broadhead & Rob McNeil.
Guests: Alphonsine Kabagabo (Women for Refugee Women) & Melissa Siegel (Maastricht University, United Nations University-MERIT)
Tax can be taxing - especially for many new migrants.
Migrants, Taxes & Fiscal Inclusion - Dr Nicolette Makovicky (
Russian and East European Studies - University of Oxford), Dora-Olivia Vicol (Work Rights Centre) write on layers of complexity migrants face with HMRC
Despite the practical and cultural importance of tax, anecdotal evidence suggests that migrants can struggle to become taxpayers and to affirm their taxpayer rights. The Taxing Migrants project brought together the expertise of front-line advisors from the Work Rights Centre with scholars of migrati...
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COMPAS is a Research Centre within the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Over the last two decades COMPAS has established an international reputation for original research and policy relevance. It has undertaken a strategic programme of multi-disciplinary social scientific research, publication and dissemination, events, knowledge exchange and public engagement activities with a broad set of academic and non-academic users across the world.
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 labour markets, and migration and urban change.
Under the Directorship of Associate Professor Carlos Vargas-Silva, COMPAS currently has over 20 research staff from a range of social science backgrounds and is actively involved in many national, European and international networks and projects.
COMPAS’ mission and aims
The mission of COMPAS is to conduct high quality research in order to develop theory and knowledge, inform policy-making and public debate, and engage users of research within the field of migration.
Our aims are:
Academic advancement: contributing significant new empirical data; reflecting and advancing theory, methods and multi-disciplinary understanding in the field of migration studies; and building capacity among researchers and practitioners.
Informing policy-making and public debate: providing evidence and analysis to policy-makers and to the wider public that will inform policy-making and public debate.
Engaging with research users: establishing reciprocal relationships with individuals and organisations with experience of migration, including migrants and their organisations, government, business, international organisations, and third sector and civil society organisations.
Achieving long-term sustainability: establishing a reputation for high quality delivery of service and ensuring a diversified funding base that will allow a long term future for the centre.
For more information on COMPAS’ work since 2003 and future research priorities please read The COMPAS Approach.
