Research groups
- African Perspectives on Human Mobility
- European welfare systems in times of mobility
- Family strategies of migrants in West Africa
- Migrants in countries in crisis: Supporting an evidence-based approach for effective and cooperative state action
- Mobility in the African Great Lakes
- Oxford Diasporas Programme
- Research and Evidence Facility
- THEMIS data
- Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems
Oliver Bakewell
Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
- University of Manchester, former IMI director
Oliver Bakewell is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and a former Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford. His work focuses on the intersections between migration and mobility and processes of development and change, with an empirical focus on migration within Africa. He is the Research Co-ordinator on Migration and Development for the Research and Evidence Facility of the EU Trust Fund for Africa (Horn of Africa) https://www.soas.ac.uk/ref-hornresearch/. He holds a PhD and MSc in Development Studies from the University of Bath and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
Recent publications
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International Migration: Trends, determinants and policy effects
Working paper
Hein de Haas et al, (2018), IMI Working Paper Series, 142
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Migrants in Countries in Crisis Emerging Findings: A Comparative Study of Six Crisis Situations
Report
Maegan Hendow et al, (2016), ICMPD Report, 1 - 79
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Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes: Evidence from Lusaka and Kampala
Journal article
Oliver Bakewell and Naluwembe Binaisa, (2016), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(2), 280 - 300
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Beyond Networks: Feedback in International Migration
Book
Oliver Bakewell et al, (2015), Beyond Networks: Feedback in International Migration
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Migration within Developing Areas: Some African perspectives on mobility
Book chapter
Oliver Bakewell and in A. Triandafyllidou (ed.), (2015), Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies