Migration and Diaspora Studies
This is a selection of websites relating to migration, diaspora and refugee studies; and related sites on race and ethnic relations.
Gateways
Border Crossings: Diaspora
Border Crossings: Diaspora a list of websites relating to diaspora studies.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/diaspora.html
The Transnational Communities Programme
The Transnational Communities Programme site provides links to other sites on migration, ethnicity and diaspora studies
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/links.htm
Research centres and institutions
The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) provides a strategic, integrated approach to understanding contemporary and future migration dynamics across sending areas and receiving contexts in the UK and EU
The Runnymede Trust
The Runnymede Trust is a leading independent think tank on ethnicity and cultural diversity in Britain.
http://www.runnymedetrust.org/
Institute of Race Relations
The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER),
The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), based at the University of Warwick, is the major academic body in the UK for the research and teaching of aspects of race, migration and ethnic relations.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/crer
The Sussex Centre for Migration Research
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/
The Refugees Studies Centre
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER)
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) is a European research centre with a strong interest in comparative research in the fields of international migration, ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European context.
The Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies
The Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies is a site developed by the Australian National University’s Research School of Social Sciences.
The Institute of Global Cultural Studies
The Institute of Global Cultural Studies develops new multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of culture and cultural influences across societies in the contemporary world.
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies is an interdisciplinary, multinational research and training program devoted to comparative work on international migration and refugee movements.
History and archives
Moving Here
Moving Here is a site that mainly looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities in England. It records their experiences through online versions of original material related to migration, including photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps and art objects, as well as a collection of sound recordings and video clips.
Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain 1500-1850
Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain 1500-1850 is a project of The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) and the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA), funded by the New Opportunities Fund. The exhibition covers Black and Asian history in Britain from 1500 to 1850.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/index.htm
The CASBAH
The CASBAH is web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.
South Asian Diaspora
The Centre for Applied South Asian Studies
The Centre for Applied South Asian Studies conducts research on social, cultural and religious developments within Britain’s Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities.
SAWNET (South Asian Women’s NETwork)
SAWNET (South Asian Women’s NETwork) is a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues.
SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora …. “Learn to tell your Hindi from your Hindu, and much, much more”
http://www.saja.org/resources/stylebook
African-Caribbean Diaspora
Caribbean Communities in Europe (CACOEU)
Caribbean Communities in Europe (CACOEU) aims to promote knowledge of the Caribbean and its diaspora, particularly in Europe.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cacoeu/
Society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
The aims of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) are to encourage education and research about the Caribbean and to provide some opportunity for mutual contact among those concerned with the region and its diasporas.
http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/
Chinese Diaspora
The Chinese Diaspora
The Chinese Diaspora site is a general site on the Chinese diaspora with links to other sites.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/chinos/diaspora.html
Chinese in California: 1850-1925
Digital collection of over 8000 images and pages of primary source materials which illustrate 19th and early 20th century migration to California.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html
The Centre for the Study of the Southern Chinese Diaspora (CSCSD)
The Centre for the Study of the Southern Chinese Diaspora (CSCSD) is a focus for research and teaching on people of Chinese descent in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific and their interaction with other societies and cultures in the region. It investigates such themes as the role of transnational communities in an increasingly globalised world, the central but contested role of Sino-Southeast Asians and Sino-Australasians in their local economies, multiple identities, cultural heritage and the political management of minority status.
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/
Huayinet: Chinese overseas databank
Huayinet: Chinese overseas databank is an online resource on ethnic Chinese materials available in the collections of the nine institutions represented in the Inter-Agency Committee on Chinese Overseas Databank, Singapore.
