Sarah Spencer

Sarah Spencer is Co-Director of C-MISE and a Senior Fellow at COMPAS. She was Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity from its inception in 2014 until March 2019. Sarah is Chair of the Board of Directors of IMISCOE, the European network of migration research institutes and scholars, and a member of Kellogg College, Oxford’s largest and most international graduate college. Her research interests focus on irregular migrants, on which she has led projects on national and city responses to irregular migrants in Europe, initiated under an Open Society Fellowship, and on families with No Recourse to Public Funds in the UK; on integration, human rights and equality issues. Sarah was awarded her doctorate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has an MPhil from University College London and took her first degree at the University of Nottingham.

Sarah has published widely on issues relating to the work of C-MISE including: Spencer, S. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2020). (Eds) Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges, Springer (Open access), including Chapter 9,  Spencer, S. (2020). ‘Cities breaking the mould? Municipal inclusion of irregular migrants in Europe.’; Spencer, S. & Delvino, D. (2019). ‘Municipal activism on irregular migrants: the framing of inclusive approaches at the local level’. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 17 (1): 27 – 43; Spencer, S. (2018). ‘Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: migrants with irregular status in Europe’, Journal of Ethnic and Minority Studies 44(12): 3034-2052; Spencer, S. (2016). ‘Postcode Lottery for Europe’s Undocumented Children: unravelling an uneven geography of entitlements in the European Union’, American Behavioral Scientist 60(13): 1613- 1628; and Spencer, S. & Hughes, V. (2015). ‘Fundamental rights for irregular migrants: legal entitlements to healthcare and school education across the EU28’, European Human Rights Law Review (6): 604-616