A recent ODID research roundtable focused on citizenship. While we may think of citizenship as a legal status, as the rights and duties and relationships that people have to the state, it’s conceived of much more broadly, for example encompassing lobbying, allocation of rights and resources, resistance, and transformation. 

Carlos Vargas-Silva looks at the use of music by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny to highlight issues surrounding gentrification, corruption, and the forced emigration of local populations.

Curated by ODID alumna Julie Taylor, Entangled is a thought-provoking art exhibition at Oxford’s Rhodes House, examining memorialisation, decolonisation and legacies of violence in Southern Africa.

Can research into the impact of migration on identity help inform our understanding of the effect of space travel on astronauts’ sense of self? 

Carlos Vargas-Silva gets more than he expected – including a very late night – out of a glitzy new streaming series about the predecessor to the International Rescue Committee.

Use of new technologies across European immigration and asylum systems can expedite some decision-making processes, but also increase vulnerabilities for migrants, meaning new governance frameworks are needed.