Contact information
Carlos Vargas-Silva
- Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Carlos Vargas-Silva is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at COMPAS, University of Oxford. He currently leads the Horizon 2020 REMINDER project about the implications of intra-EU migration and the ECONREF project which explores the integration of refugees in the UK.
Carlos is associate editor of the journal Migration Studies. He was one of the researchers that developed the Migration Observatory in 2010, and acted as director of the Observatory in 2014 and 2017. He also worked as a researcher at IMI during 2009. An economist, his research interests include the economic impact of immigration on receiving countries and the link between migration, including forced migration, and economic development in migrant sending countries.
Recent publications
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Remittances and Relative Prices
Journal article
Hiranya K. Nath and Carlos Vargas-Silva, (2012), Review of Development Economics, 16 (1), 46 - 61
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Migration And Economic Growth
Book
Mathias Czaika and Carlos Vargas-Silva (Eds.), (2012), The International Library of Studies on Migration series, Migration And Economic Growth
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Global Migration Futures: The concept and theory of migration scenarios
Report
Hein de Haas et al, (2010)
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Global Migration Futures: A conceptual and methodological framework for research and analysis
Report
Hein de Haas et al, (2010)
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The Crisis and Migrants’ Remittances: A Look at Hispanics in the US
Working paper
Isabel Ruiz et al, (2009), IMI Working Paper Series, 18