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Kerilyn Schewel Awarded MSc in Migration Studies Dissertation Prize

Congratulations to Kerilyn Schewel, who has been awarded the 2013-14 MSc in Migration Studies Dissertation Prize.

Keri’s dissertation was on ‘Understanding the aspiration to stay: a case study of young adults in Senegal’.

The dissertation tackled the subject of immobility, an often neglected dimension of mobility, and proposed the concept of ‘acquiescent immobility’ as helpful for understanding why people do not migrate. The examiners felt this was an excellent, well-written and well-researched scholarly piece of work, which engaged well with a wide range of existing literature. Keri drew on quantitative and qualitative data from the EUMAGINE project, a three-year collaborative European research project in which the International Migration Institute at ODID is a partner.

Keri will take up a place to read for the DPhil in International Development at ODID in October 2014.

All students on the MSc in Migration Studies who receive a distinction in their dissertations are encouraged to revise their work for simultaneous publication in the COMPAS and IMI Working Paper Series. This year, three candidates have been invited to publish.