The School has a strong cluster of scholars working on migration, ethnicity/race, racisms, racial inequality, religious habitus and difference, diaspora and belonging – especially in urban contexts.
Current members of the Migration, Ethnicity, Religion and Belonging cluster are supervising doctoral research in the following areas:
- Tian Ma: Individual Urbanisation Process: Immigration, Urban Experience and Crime in Contemporary China.
- Mengwei Tu: Only child migrants from China to Britain.
- Derek Anderson: Polish professionals in Britain – new migration trajectories.
- Kasia Choluj: Diaspora, parenting and home-making among Poles in Britain.
- Nadja Dumann: Unaccompanied minors and transnational mobility between Morocco and Europe.
- Yuanbo Qi: ISIS propaganda (focusing on Al Hayat media).
- Hind Elhinnawy: Contested Voices: A Sociological Account of Secular Muslim Women’s Activism in the Age of ISIS.
- David Dobraszczyk: Extending educational participation: young people’s experiences of school, post 16 transitions and marginalisation.
- Jellina Davies: Governance of welfare and homelessness – The implementation of 2012 Welfare Reform (benefit cap) policy in London.
- Hayal Hanoglu: Alevi diaspora and transnational religious territory.
- Kristina Vardanyan: Armenian diaspora, homeland and collective memory.