Oana Romocea
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Oana Romocea is the Communications Manager at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. She is also studying towards a PhD in migration studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Immigration - The Game Changer of British Politics?

(706) Comments | Posted 14 May 2013 | (00:00)

2013-05-11-WordCloud4b.jpgIt is baffling how immigration has changed the game in British politics these days. There are more fundamentally important issues facing British society, most notably a stalled economy that has the country on the edge of a triple-dip recession. Yet, the immigration threat,...

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The Semantics of Migration

(192) Comments | Posted 25 February 2013 | (23:00)

Today I started my day with an intense debate with a close friend about how negative attitudes towards migrants and minority groups are reflected in the every-day language we use in our conversations. I was arguing that stereotyping should not find its place in the public vocabulary. She insisted that...

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A Snapshot of Migrant Reality: What the Romanian Migrants Really Think

(117) Comments | Posted 6 February 2013 | (23:00)

For the past couple of weeks we have been spectators to an intense cross-border ping-pong exchange between Bucharest and London. This is based on the premise that a potential second tsunami of Eastern European migrants will flood the UK next year when transitional restrictions applied to Romania and Bulgaria are...

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