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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
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Does the political bore? The denial and camouflage of the “political” in a Palestinian refugee camp.

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


Hila Amit
Hila Amit

“The New Hebrew Diaspora” - ’check-out’ migration: Queer Israelis and the Undoing of Zionism

Giulia Baldinelli
Giulia Baldinelli

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


Špela Drnovšek Zorko
Spela Drnovsek Zorko

Tracing the gendered ‘home’ through diasporic family stories of Yugoslavia.

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?


Herby Lai
Lai Herby

Chinese student migrants in Japan: cosmopolitanism, quality and individualism (working title).

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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Robtel Pailey
Robtel Pailey

The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia's Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Processes


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


Nydia Swaby
Nydia Swaby

The ‘black’ British women’s movement and the politics of ‘belonging’, ‘identity’, and ‘home’


Michael Edward Walsh
Michael Edward Walsh

Theorizing Securitization Audiences within Democracies: The Social Construction of Security Threats in Africa and Asia (Tentative)