Migration Centre and Partners Win £3.2 Million Research Grant
9 August 2011
The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies and five partner institutions have been awarded a research grant to provide research and training in migration studies.
Entitled ‘Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging’ (CoHaB), the project is a multidisciplinary collaboration among SOAS and the universities of Münster, Mumbai, Stockholm, Oxford and Northampton.
The project is being funded through a £3.2 million grant from the Marie Curie Initial Training Network.
"The Marie Curie awards are highly competitive," said Dr Pavathi Raman, a senior lecturer in social anthropology and the chair of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora. "Out of hundreds of applications, only seven were ultimately successful this year."
The project will train doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and run a series of workshops and conference. It will also produce edited volumes and web resources.
The researchers will receive their training in both a host institution and the other universities involved, enabling those working on a series of projects under the theme of ‘home and belonging’ to benefit from an association of international expertise on migration and diaspora.
"The ethos of the project lies in promoting dialogue across disciplines, encouraging collaborative research and pushing the boundaries of migration scholarship at a time when the movement of people across the globe provides new challenges for academics and migration practitioners alike," Dr Raman said.
She added that the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies was a "natural fit" for the project, since the centre had promoted multidisciplinary dialogue on migration since its inception and is home to migration scholars across a number of disciplines at SOAS.
For further information, contact:
Parvathi Raman
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Chair, SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
+44 (0)20 7898 4434
pr1@soas.ac.uk
