Khalid Koser
Biographic Data
| ID | 638490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khalid Koser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khalid |
| FAMILY NAME | Koser |
| SIGNATURE | KOSER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 395 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The End of the Refugee Cycle?
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped, would become the "decade of repatriation." However, although over nine million refugees were repatriated worldwide between 1991 and 1995, there are reasons …
Continuity and Change in the Tunisian Sahel
Introduction and overture. Geographical Contexts: Physical environment History of Tunisia Independent Tunisia Economic development Population and migration in Tunisia Women in Tunisia Tunisia's relations with the European Union: history in five phases How 'African' is Tunisia?. Continuity and Change in the Sahel: Thysdrus and Ancient Rome Agriculture and fishing Islam in the Sahel The challenges of the Sahelian medinas Security in Monastir and th…
Media and migration
Ranking (187 countries) HDI group
A Long Way to Go
A Long Way to Go: Irregular Migration Patterns, Processes, Drivers and Decision-making presents the findings of a unique migration research program harnessing work of some of the leading international and Australian migration researchers on the challenging and complex topic of irregular maritime migration
Refugees and asylum-seekers
Asylum-seekers are those who have applied for international protection. Asylum status is still governed by the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. ‘Refugees and asylum-seekers’ explains the changing geography of refugees and the causes and consequences of refugee movements. Refugees tend not to travel very far, putting strain on the poorest countries, and mostly settle in camps, which suffer from aid misappropriatio…
Irregular migration
‘Irregular migration’ explores migration outside of established legal means. There are many ways for a migrant to be classed as irregular, but their motivations for leaving are the same as other migrants. Irregular migration is often seen as a threat to host nation sovereignty and, as a result, migrants are often subjected to stereotyping and xenophobia. Migrants—particularly women and children—face great hazards in simply entering the country. A…
Migration and development
‘Migration and development’ assesses the effect of migration on development in origin countries. The main benefit to origin nations is remittance of money back to migrants’ families. This is hard to quantify, but the World Bank estimates that in 2015 some US$586 billion was sent home by migrants worldwide. Remittance directly benefits the recipient family, but it can also have a detrimental effect on society at large, and encourage a culture of m…
The future of international migration
The evidence on the positive economic impact of migration has become stronger; yet anti-immigration politics and sentiments have increased. ‘The future of international migration’ explores the coming challenges for migrants, citizens, and policymakers in light of the current trends in migration patterns and processes as well as policies. It considers the changes in Asian migration; the growing issue of increased internal migration; the impact of …
Migration and globalization
‘Migration and globalization’ shows how international migration is an important dimension of globalization. Growing developmental, demographic, and democratic disparities provide powerful incentives to move and the segmentation of labour markets in richer countries is creating increasing demand for migrant workers there. Migration has been facilitated by revolutions in communications and transport; the development of migration networks; and the e…
Who is a migrant?
‘Who is a migrant?’ looks at defining and measuring migration. Migrants can be categorized, based on whether they migrated voluntarily or involuntarily, whether they are economic or political migrants, or their legal status. These categories, while somewhat useful, tend to blur in reality, and the situation migrants find themselves in can change quickly. It is difficult to measure migration for a number of reasons, and any statistics produced are…
Why migration matters
One in every 35 people in the world today is an international migrant, but migration affects far more people than just those who migrate. It has important social, economic, and political impacts at home and abroad. ‘Why migration matters’ shows why the topic of migration is important in the modern world. Migration began when Homo erectus and Homo sapiens moved out from the Rift Valley and colonized Eurasia, a process that has continued for centur…
Migrants in society
‘Migrants in society’ examines how migrants affect destination societies by considering the economic, political, social, and cultural impacts of immigration. Migrants are seen by some to aid economic growth with their ambition or willingness to take on low-paid jobs; others say they increase native unemployment and undercut unions. Future generations of migrants should be better off than their parents, but ethnic minorities can still struggle. Mi…
International Migration
In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its rising numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The political and media attention on migration and greater public interest and concern feed into an international debate that is all too often poorly informed and one-sided. International Migration: A Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration—both legal and illegal—and offer…
Global health security
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented in both its scale and impact. Out of this human calamity has come renewed attention to global health security--its definition, meaning, and the practical implications for programmes and policy. For example, how does a government begin to strengthen its core public health capacities, as demanded by the International Health Regulations? What counts as a global health security concern…
Terrifying Muslims
The Impact of Financial Crises on International Migration
The current global economic crisis is impacting migration patterns and processes around the world. A reduction in migration flows globally has been reported. Migrant workers are laid off, and while some return home, others stay. How to respond to these migration impacts poses challenges for policymakers in both countries of origin and destination. Against this background, this Report considers the lessons for migration policy to be learned from t…
The Migration-Displacement Nexus
The “migration-displacement nexus” is a new concept intended to capture the complex and dynamic interactions between voluntary and forced migration, both internally and internationally. Besides elaborating a new concept, this volume has three main purposes: the first is to focus empirical attention on previously understudied topics, such as internal trafficking and the displacement of foreign nationals, using case studies including Afghanistan an…
New African Diasporas
Mobilizing New African Diasporas
Introduction
This article serves as the introduction for this special issue of Global Governance on international migration. It presents some of the key facts, figures, concepts, and debates on international migration that appear in the articles that follow, and outlines their main arguments. Five arguments in support of greater international cooperation and more formal processes of global governance on international migration are presented here. First, conte…
Why Migration Matters
The world total of international migrants has more than doubled in just 25 years; about 25 million were added in just the first 5 years of the twenty-first century
Dimensions and dynamics of irregular migration
This contribution critically reviews existing data and other recent sources to provide an overview of the dimensions and dynamics of contemporary irregular migration. First it considers the utility and uses of irregular migrant statistics, considering their inherent inaccuracy, their inability to distinguish different types of irregular migrant, the way that data is collected, and the purposes to which it is put. The second section reviews the co…
Introduction
Displacement and peace are inextricably linked. On one hand, displacement is a consequence, and at times an intended outcome, of most armed conflicts; and often is reinforced or renewed when peace talks break down. On the other hand, the return of refugees and durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) are hard to achieve where there is a lack of security, the rule of law is not re-established, property is not restored, and conditi…
Why Migrant Smuggling Pays
Drawing on empirical research in Afghanistan and Pakistan, this article ‘follows the money’ for 50 migrants smuggled to the UK, to cast light on the financing of smuggling. The means used to raise the money to pay smugglers ranged from drawing on savings to selling property, land and jewellery. Payments were made to a third‐party, who did not release the payment to the smuggler until migrants had arrived in their destination ‐ effectively a ‘mone…
The migration-displacement nexus
Introduction Khalid Koser and Susan Martin Chapter 2. Conceptualising displacement and migration: Processes, conditions, and categories Oliver Bakewell Chapter 3. A unified approach to conceptualising resettlement Robert Muggah Chapter 4. When does mobility matter for migrants to Colombo? Michael Collyer Chapter 5. Profiling urban IDPs: How IDPs differ from their non-IDP neighbours in three cities Karen Jacobsen Chapter 6. Displacement and the st…
The limits to 'transnationalism
This article explores limitations on the concept of transnationalism, through examination of two empirical case studies of communities characterized by emerging transnational practices. Mirroring recent shifts of attention in studies of transnational migration away from US-based examples of established migrant workers, the article focuses on Bosnian refugees in the UK and The Netherlands, and Eritrean refugees in the UK and Germany. It stresses t…
Refugees and transnationalism
The study of transnationalism has largely bypassed refugees, or in rare cases has focused specifically on their political activities. Proceeding from recent perspectives in international migration studies which suggest that there may be at best only a blurred conceptual distinction between refugees and other migrants, this article subjects two refugee groups - Eritreans and Bosnians in various European countries - to the type of transnational ana…
Dimensions and dynamics of irregular migration
This contribution critically reviews existing data and other recent sources to provide an overview of the dimensions and dynamics of contemporary irregular migration. First it considers the utility and uses of irregular migrant statistics, considering their inherent inaccuracy, their inability to distinguish different types of irregular migrant, the way that data is collected, and the purposes to which it is put. The second section reviews the co…
Why Migrant Smuggling Pays
Drawing on empirical research in Afghanistan and Pakistan, this article ‘follows the money’ for 50 migrants smuggled to the UK, to cast light on the financing of smuggling. The means used to raise the money to pay smugglers ranged from drawing on savings to selling property, land and jewellery. Payments were made to a third‐party, who did not release the payment to the smuggler until migrants had arrived in their destination ‐ effectively a ‘mone…
Asylum Policies, Trafficking and Vulnerability
This article is located at the intersection of three recent debates on asylum in Europe: the efficacy of asylum policies; the trafficking of asylum seekers, and their growing vulnerability. Most commentators agree that there are relationships between these three debates, but the nature of those relationships remain unclear. Yet the need properly to understand the nature of these links has become especially pressing in the context of a raft of new…
Refugees, Transnationalism and the State
One of the most significant unresolved debates around the concept of transnationalism concerns the extent to which state power is being challenged or even undermined by transnational processes. Drawing on recent research that has established interactions between refugees and transnational processes, this paper considers the implications of these interactions for the relationship between refugees and the state. Are they empowering refugees to move…
Limits to Harmonization
This article examines the limits to harmonization at the level of the European Union through a case study of policy towards people who fled the war inBosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s. Specific attention is paid to the development of the policy of granting“temporary protection” instead of full refugee status to Bosnian asylum‐seekers, which stretched across all fifteen member states. It is argued that “temporary protection” emerged as a s…
Information and Repatriation
Koser (1993) proposed a research model for examining the interaction between information and repatriation, which focused upon the receipt and evaluation of information about their homes by refugees in exile. That model is presented and tested using interview responses from Mozambican refugees in Malawi sampled in 1992. The goal was to disaggregate refugees' decision-making process in an attempt to understand the repatriation process. Findings are…
Social Networks and the Asylum Cycle
New Approaches to Asylum
Since its inception 50 years ago, the international asylum regime has shifted through a series of discernibly different approaches. The most recent approach has been characterized by restrictions on asylum‐seekers, manifested initially through a reluctance to grant asylum, and today through a reluctance even to admit asylum‐seekers. There is now a growing consensus that this approach is unsustainable. States are recognizing that restrictions have…
Social Networks and the Asylum Cycle
This paper examines the traditional distinction between the migration of refugees and labor migrants in the context of Iranian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The empirical strategy adopted is to apply a framework designed specifically to explain labor migration to the case of asylum migration, and the social networks approach is identified as the most appropriate. This paper examines the role of social networks through the asylum cycle, focus…
Introduction
This article serves as the introduction for this special issue of Global Governance on international migration. It presents some of the key facts, figures, concepts, and debates on international migration that appear in the articles that follow, and outlines their main arguments. Five arguments in support of greater international cooperation and more formal processes of global governance on international migration are presented here. First, conte…
Coming to the UK
Received wisdom suggests that asylum-seekers come to the UK because of the generosity of the welfare state and the ease of finding work in the growing informal labour market, because the UK has no identity cards, and because of a fairly poor record on sending home unsuccessful asylum applicants. Based on interviews with 87 asylum-seekers from Afghanistan, Colombia, Kosovo and Somalia, this paper suggests that the realities of asylum-seeking are q…
Une diaspora divisée
Cet article montre que les réfugiés peuvent fournir de l'aide autant qu'ils en reçoivent, et comment ce processus peut engendrer des transformations politiques et sociales. Ces dernières quarante années, les réfugiés de la diaspora érythréenne ont largement contribué à soutenir leur pays, d'abord lors de la lutte pour l'indépendance, puis de la construction du nouvel État et, plus récemment, du conflit avec l'Éthiopie. Dernièrement, les divisions…
Terrifying Muslims
Changing Agendas in the Study of Forced Migration
Journal Article Changing Agendas in the Study of Forced Migration: A Report on the Fifth International Research and Advisory Panel Meeting, April 1996 Get access KHALID KOSER KHALID KOSER European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), University of UtrechtThe Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 1996, Pages 353–366, https…
Information and Refugee Migration
Despite increasing prominence in international population movements, refugee migration is a poorly understood social and spatial process. Common assumptions about refugee migration have rarely been empirically tested. This article focuses attention on the migration decision‐making process of refugees. Its conceptual basis is that the decision making of refugees can be critically compared with that of other migrants. An analytical framework is sug…
Changing Agendas in the Study of Forced Migration
Journal Article Changing Agendas in the Study of Forced Migration: A Report on the Fifth International Research and Advisory Panel Meeting, April 1996 Get access KHALID KOSER KHALID KOSER European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), University of UtrechtThe Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 1996, Pages 353–366, https…
Information and Refugee Migration
Despite increasing prominence in international population movements, refugee migration is a poorly understood social and spatial process. Common assumptions about refugee migration have rarely been empirically tested. This article focuses attention on the migration decision‐making process of refugees. Its conceptual basis is that the decision making of refugees can be critically compared with that of other migrants. An analytical framework is sug…
European migration report
The geography of highly skilled international migration
The present paper provides a research review of recent literature on international migration by the highly skilled. Its principal aim is to identify the themes which are being discussed, and suggest where research into the subject might best proceed.... [The authors outline] the two most important perspectives in extant research, economic and socio-cultural, [and review] what is known about the geography of migration by the highly skilled.... The…
Information and Repatriation
Koser (1993) proposed a research model for examining the interaction between information and repatriation, which focused upon the receipt and evaluation of information about their homes by refugees in exile. That model is presented and tested using interview responses from Mozambican refugees in Malawi sampled in 1992. The goal was to disaggregate refugees' decision-making process in an attempt to understand the repatriation process. Findings are…
Social Networks and the Asylum Cycle
Social Networks and the Asylum Cycle
This paper examines the traditional distinction between the migration of refugees and labor migrants in the context of Iranian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The empirical strategy adopted is to apply a framework designed specifically to explain labor migration to the case of asylum migration, and the social networks approach is identified as the most appropriate. This paper examines the role of social networks through the asylum cycle, focus…
The New Migration in Europe
Temporary Protection and the Assisted Return of Refugees from the European Union
While there is a growing literature on ‘temporary protection’ in Europe, the question of return has remained relatively less studied. This is however an important focus given that most host governments originally granted temporary protection on the premise of eventual return. Focusing on the case of Bosnians in the European Union, this paper analyses the relationship between temporary protection and return, both in terms of the extent to which re…
The End of the Refugee Cycle?
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped, would become the "decade of repatriation." However, although over nine million refugees were repatriated worldwide between 1991 and 1995, there are reasons …
End of the Refugee Cycle
Limits to Harmonization
This article examines the limits to harmonization at the level of the European Union through a case study of policy towards people who fled the war inBosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s. Specific attention is paid to the development of the policy of granting“temporary protection” instead of full refugee status to Bosnian asylum‐seekers, which stretched across all fifteen member states. It is argued that “temporary protection” emerged as a s…
The New Migration in Europe
The Implications of Forced Migration for National Identity Formation in Post-Soviet Russia H.Pilkington - PART 2: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE NEW MIGRATION - Representing New Identities: Whiteness as Contexted Identity in Young People's Accounts A.Phoenix - Catholic and State Constructions of Domestic Workers: The Case of Cape Verdean Women in Rome in the 1970s J.Andall - Talking About Migration: The State Monitoring System in Italy P.Barbesino -…
Asylum Policies, Trafficking and Vulnerability
This article is located at the intersection of three recent debates on asylum in Europe: the efficacy of asylum policies; the trafficking of asylum seekers, and their growing vulnerability. Most commentators agree that there are relationships between these three debates, but the nature of those relationships remain unclear. Yet the need properly to understand the nature of these links has become especially pressing in the context of a raft of new…
The Return and Reintegration of Rejected Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants
This report compares the experiences of several existing assisted return programmes for rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Europe and draws lessons for future programmes. Specifically, the report focuses on three aspects: programme implementation, targeting of assistance, and evaluation. It analyzes the experiences of existing programmes in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland and makes recommendations for best practice in the …
Europe in Change
1Department of Geography, University College, London Europe in Change: The New Germany and Migration in Europe Barbara Marshall Manchester Manchester University Press 2000 xii + 186 £14.99 0 7190 4336 0
Mechanisms of Immigration Control
1Migration Research Unit, University College London Mechanisms of Immigration Control: A Comparative Analysis of European Regulation Policies Grete Brochmann Tomas Hammar Oxford Berg 1999 x + 342 Paperback£14.99 1 85973 272 0
New Approaches to Asylum
Since its inception 50 years ago, the international asylum regime has shifted through a series of discernibly different approaches. The most recent approach has been characterized by restrictions on asylum‐seekers, manifested initially through a reluctance to grant asylum, and today through a reluctance even to admit asylum‐seekers. There is now a growing consensus that this approach is unsustainable. States are recognizing that restrictions have…
Refugees and transnationalism
The study of transnationalism has largely bypassed refugees, or in rare cases has focused specifically on their political activities. Proceeding from recent perspectives in international migration studies which suggest that there may be at best only a blurred conceptual distinction between refugees and other migrants, this article subjects two refugee groups - Eritreans and Bosnians in various European countries - to the type of transnational ana…
The limits to 'transnationalism
This article explores limitations on the concept of transnationalism, through examination of two empirical case studies of communities characterized by emerging transnational practices. Mirroring recent shifts of attention in studies of transnational migration away from US-based examples of established migrant workers, the article focuses on Bosnian refugees in the UK and The Netherlands, and Eritrean refugees in the UK and Germany. It stresses t…
Une diaspora divisée
Cet article montre que les réfugiés peuvent fournir de l'aide autant qu'ils en reçoivent, et comment ce processus peut engendrer des transformations politiques et sociales. Ces dernières quarante années, les réfugiés de la diaspora érythréenne ont largement contribué à soutenir leur pays, d'abord lors de la lutte pour l'indépendance, puis de la construction du nouvel État et, plus récemment, du conflit avec l'Éthiopie. Dernièrement, les divisions…
New African Diasporas
New Approaches to Migration
Cultural Research and Refugee Studies
Khalid Koser: I will focus particularly on the notion of future research directions ... from a refugee studies perspective. I think what today’s workshop has confirmed to me, yet again, is the strength of anthropology in this whole area of refugee studies. There is no doubt that anthropology is one of the leading disciplines in the study of refugees ... Anthropology and law have got refugee studies wrapped up, while other disciplines have not rea…
Coming to the UK
Received wisdom suggests that asylum-seekers come to the UK because of the generosity of the welfare state and the ease of finding work in the growing informal labour market, because the UK has no identity cards, and because of a fairly poor record on sending home unsuccessful asylum applicants. Based on interviews with 87 asylum-seekers from Afghanistan, Colombia, Kosovo and Somalia, this paper suggests that the realities of asylum-seeking are q…
Political science (46 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (31 works) · Geography (25 works) · Law (24 works) · Economics (22 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (21 works) · Refugee (21 works) · Development economics (17 works) · Politics (15 works)