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Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

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
Luigi Achilli

When the political bores: the everyday practice of avoiding, concealing, and restaging the political in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan

Siba Aldabbagh
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Word and Image in Visual Art and Poetry from the Arab World


Hila Amit
Hila Amit

Home and Away – Queer Palestinians and Israelis in the Diaspora

Giulia Baldinelli
Giulia Baldinelli

Indigenous peoples' migration and agrobiodiversity conservation: exploring connections in the Bolivian Andes (provisional title)


Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Ali Fathollah-Nejad

A Critical Geopolitics of Iran in an Emerging New World Order (preliminary)


Myung Ja Kim
Mung Ja Kim

Diaspora and Divided Homeland: How Does Geopolitics Affect the Identity of the Zainichi?


Jennifer Langer
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Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Iranian Jewish Exiled Women Writers

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Lara Momesso
Lara Momesso

Analysing marriage migrants' social movements: three case studies of Chinese spouses in Taipei

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Lucas Robinson
Lucas Robinson

New cities, new phones, new politics: accounting for political legitimacy among transnational Afghans and Somalis

Shirley N. A. Sackey
Shirley Sackey

Collective Agency: Transnational Social Organization Amongst Ghanaians in London and New York