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The feminisation of migration: Are more women migrating?
The idea that there has been a shift in migration gender ratios causing a feminisation of migration flows that has characterised a new period of migration, has been widely proclaimed by scholars over the past two decades. I would argue that what h... Read More »
A game of risk
Garry Kasparov, the world’s greatest ever chess player, is a man who knows a lot about risk. “If you want to win you have to take risks…which means you can fail,” he told an audience of over 450 people at Oxford’s Ex... Read More »
Aspiring to a better life in a globalised world
Last month the International Migration Institute, Oxford, and PRIO, Oslo, convened an international workshop on ‘Aspirations and Capabilities in Migration Processes’. The workshop aimed to explore how we can increase our understanding ... Read More »
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Migration’s uncertain place post-2015
For nearly fifteen years the Millennium Development Goals have helped to shape the global development agenda, setting targets against which global development success has been measured. Migration was not included in the MDGs when they were launche... Read More »
Targeted Killing on Trial
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity aimed at achieving greater transparency and accountability with respect to the U.S. government’s practice of “targeted killing” (primarily through the use of drones). To begin... Read More »
Robot Wars
Imagine you are a sentry patrolling in Afghanistan. There is an explosion and a group of people run towards you. One is a man carrying a gun. The others are frightened women with young children. Are they all running for safety? Is ther... Read More »
Walk the line
Imagine a world where we could correct climate change with a scientific procedure; we could fight cancer using nanoparticles to target malignant cells; we could comfortably feed our growing population with disease and drought resistant crops; we c... Read More »
Electric Dreams
“If you can show people there is a way, there is plenty of will” Elon Musk told the 800 strong audience who flocked to Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre to hear his inspirational lecture on the Future of Energy and Transport. Showing t... Read More »
Leave the Short Term at the Door
It was a daunting gathering: one of the most senior economic ministers of China, former Presidents of the European Central Bank and the UK's Royal Society, India's inspiring techno-entrepreneur behind its Unique Identification project, for... Read More »
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A new era for food
The modern era has been plagued with acute pessimism around our ability to feed our world sustainably. Here is a sprint through some of the future challenges and opportunities we face. Calling the situation complex would be an understatement. ... Read More »
Mass Demonstrations – a new challenge for humanitarian action?
If humanitarian agencies have been preoccupied with intra-state wars in the last twenty-five years, might they now have to refocus and respond to humanitarian needs around mass demonstrations? The rise in mass protests against dictators, mining co... Read More »
Greece: The Syrian migration invasion
Last Monday, Greek authorities announced that Greece should fortify itself against a massive wave of illegal migrants from Syria. "A migration wave is starting to show, it has not yet reached Greece in large numbers, cu... Read More »
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