Sarah Spencer, CBE, is Deputy Director at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. She is Chair of the Equality and Diversity Forum, the network of equality and human rights organisations, and a former Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality. She has twice been seconded into the Cabinet Office to contribute to migration reports and has published widely on migration and human rights issues.