PhD Research in Migration & Diaspora Studies
A number of PhD students across the school are working on research projects which engage with issues at the heart of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies. These include issues concerning transnationality, migration and diaspora.
Luigi Achilli
Does the political bore? The denial and camouflage of the “political” in a Palestinian refugee camp.
- Email: 208947@soas.ac.uk
Hila Amit
“The New Hebrew Diaspora” - ’check-out’ migration: Queer Israelis and the Undoing of Zionism
- Email: 568553@soas.ac.uk
Giulia Baldinelli
Indigenous peoples' migration and agrobiodiversity conservation: exploring connections in the Bolivian Andes (provisional title)
- Email: G_Baldinelli@soas.ac.uk
Špela Drnovšek Zorko
Tracing the gendered ‘home’ through diasporic family stories of Yugoslavia.
- Email: 583004@soas.ac.uk
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
A Critical Geopolitics of Iran in an Emerging New World Order (preliminary)
- Email: afn@soas.ac.uk
Myung Ja Kim
Diaspora and Divided Homeland: How Does Geopolitics Affect the Identity of the Zainichi?
- Email: 153301@soas.ac.uk
Herby Lai
Chinese student migrants in Japan: cosmopolitanism, quality and individualism (working title).
- Email: herbylai@soas.ac.uk
Jennifer Langer
Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Iranian Jewish Exiled Women Writers
Lara Momesso
Analysing marriage migrants' social movements: three case studies of Chinese spouses in Taipei
Robtel Pailey
The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia's Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Processes
- Email: r_pailey@soas.ac.uk
Lucas Robinson
New cities, new phones, new politics: accounting for political legitimacy among transnational Afghans and Somalis
Shirley N. A. Sackey
Collective Agency: Transnational Social Organization Amongst Ghanaians in London and New York
- Email: ss144@soas.ac.uk
Nydia Swaby
The ‘black’ British women’s movement and the politics of ‘belonging’, ‘identity’, and ‘home’
- Email: 565408@soas.ac.uk
Michael Edward Walsh
Theorizing Securitization Audiences within Democracies: The Social Construction of Security Threats in Africa and Asia (Tentative)
- Email: 550406@soas.ac.uk
