People

The SCMR community is at the heart of our work. By including colleagues and students from across the Â鶹´«Ã½ (and beyond), SCMR explores migration issues from a diverse range of viewpoints.

The Director and Co-Directors of SCMR; from left to right, Tahir Zaman, Paul Statham and Ceri Oeppen

The Director and Co-Directors of SCMR (Photo: Â鶹´«Ã½ of Sussex, 2021)

SCMR is managed by a Director (Professor Paul Statham) and two Co-Directors (Dr Tahir Zaman and Dr Ceri Oeppen). Faculty members come from across the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Sussex. 

Below are short profiles of key permanent members, but the SCMR membership is much wider, including other faculty, doctoral researchers and MA students, and SCMR research associates.

  • Paul Statham

    Title: Professor of Migration, Director of SCMR, Editor-in-Chief JEMS

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    My editorial work on the journal brings me in contact with a full range of issues, topics, regions in the migration and ethnic relations field as well as across the disciplines. This keeps me on my toes and up to date on trends and directions and I confess to having broad interests, as well as liking both qualitative and quantitative approaches. My own intellectual journey started out looking at contested citizenship in a comparative way across Europe. Over the last decade I have researched Islam and Muslims in Europe, using large quantitative data-sets across six countries, as well as conducting qualitative biographical research on the lives of Thai women and Transgender people who hook up with Westerners in search of a better life. So, I guess I’m broadly interested in everything.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Statham, P. (2020). Living the long-term consequences of Thai-Western marriage migration: The radical life-course transformations of women who partner older Westerners. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(8), 1562–1587. .  

    2016. Paul Statham. ‘How ordinary people view Muslim group rights in Britain, the Netherlands, France and Germany: significant ‘gaps’ between majorities and Muslims?’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 42(2), pp. 217-236. .

    1999. Ruud Koopmans & Paul Statham ‘Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims Making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany.’ American Journal of Sociology 105(3): 652-696. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I set up the Sussex Mahidol Migration Partnership with colleagues at the Mahidol Migration Center at the IPSR and RILCA, Mahidol Â鶹´«Ã½, Thailand. This has led to a number of collaborative research projects, and a PhD, so far, and it has been exciting for me to learn and write about a pivotal country in SE Asia and the Global South, alongside Thai colleagues. Prior to this most of my research had been focused on European countries, especially the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as the EU. 

    Email: paul.statham@sussex.ac.uk

  • Ceri Oeppen

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Co-Director of SCMR

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    All! But I’m particularly interested in forced migration, return and reintegration, asylum-related migration management, and the interactions between transnationalism and integration.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Erdal, M. B., & Oeppen, C. (2018). Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntary. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(6), 981–998. .

    Oeppen, C. (2016). ‘Leaving Afghanistan! Are you Sure?’ European Efforts to Deter Potential Migrants through Information Campaigns. Human Geography, 9(2), 57–68. .

    Erdal, M. B., & Oeppen, C. (2013). Migrant Balancing Acts: Understanding the Interactions Between Integration and Transnationalism. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39(6), 867–884. .   

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am particularly interested in Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora.

    Email: c.j.oeppen@sussex.ac.uk


  • Tahir Zaman

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Co-Director of SCMR 

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Forced migration, social and cultural understandings of displacement processes with a particular focus on the role of faith and religion, decolonising migration studies, and refugee led/partnered responses to displacement.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Zaman, T. (2020). Neighbourliness, conviviality, and the sacred in Athens’ refugee squats. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(3), 529–541. . 

    Zaman, T. (2018). The “humanitarian anchor”: A social economy approach to assistance in protracted displacement situations (ODI Working Papers). .

    Zaman, T. (2016). Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria. Palgrave Macmillan USA. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am particularly interested in West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. 

    Email: tahir.zaman@sussex.ac.uk  

  • Ali Ali

    Title: Lecturer in Human Geography

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Many, especially coming from a transnational family! But, in particular, forced migration and displacement, resulting from acute political and economic transformations in the contemporary ‘Middle East’, such as the invasion of Iraq and the Syrian uprising. I’m interested in how decisions to leave are made during times of acute crisis, and how changing contexts shape decisions, and capabilities to leave. I’m also interested in how places and social relations are transformed by war and economic crises, and the coercion associated with such crises. Additionally, I’ve conducted research about how local and national government institutions ‘manage’ displacement affected populations, with a focus on Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Ali, A. (2022). Conceptualizing displacement: The importance of coercion. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 0(0), 1–20. . 

    Ali, A. (2021). Disaggregating Jordan’s Syrian refugee response: The ‘Many Hands’ of the Jordanian state. Mediterranean Politics, 0(0), 1–24. . 

    Ali, A. (2020).: The coercion and systemic discarding of the Mandaeans and Palestinians of Iraq 2003–2010. In K. Sakai & P. Marfleet (Eds.), Iraq since the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict. Routledge. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am particularly interested in displacement in Iraq and Syria, and how they have affected neighbouring countries and places beyond them. But recently I’ve also taken an interest in the impact of Lebanon’s financial collapse on its population in terms of migration and immobility.

    Email: a.a.ali@sussex.ac.uk

  • Ödül Bozkurt

    Title: Professor of Work and Employment

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I am a sociologist of work. A whole array of topics at the intersection of work and migration. This could be in relation to well-established terrain such as migrant labour markets and / or the experiences of migrant workers, or in relation to relatively newer themes such as temporary migration, work-related mobility vs migration etc. That includes making connections between the migration literature and fields where migration has not been sufficiently discussed, such as the literature on employment in multinational corporations, international human resource management etc. Migration is also a key theme in studies of work generally- for example in retail employment, a sector I work on, it is critical.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Chung, C., Brewster, C., & Bozkurt, Ö. (2020). The liability of mimicry: Implementing “global human resource management standards” in United States and Indian subsidiaries of a South Korean multinational enterprise. Human Resource Management, 59(6), 537–553. . 

    Bozkurt, Ö., & Mohr, A. T. (2011). Forms of cross-border mobility and social capital in multinational enterprises. Human Resource Management Journal, 21(2), 138–155. . 

    Bozkurt, Ö. (2006). Wired for work: Highly-skilled employment and global mobility in mobile telecommunications multinationals. In M. P. Smith & A. Favell (Eds.), The human face of global mobility: International highly skilled migration in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific. Transaction Publishers. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    My PhD included fieldwork in Sweden, Finland and Turkey, I have other work related to Japan and South Korea, and was trained in the USA.

    Email: o.bozkurt@sussex.ac.uk

  • Mike Collyer

    Title: Professor of Geography 

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Forced migration, undocumented migration and borders, urban migration/mobility, citizenship, political transnationalism.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Samers, M., & Collyer, M. (2016). Migration (2nd Edition). Routledge. . 

    Tip, L. K., Brown, R., Morrice, L., Collyer, M., & Easterbrook, M. J. (2019). Improving Refugee Well-Being With Better Language Skills and More Intergroup Contact. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(2), 144–151. . 

    Collyer, M. (2010). Stranded Migrants and the Fragmented Journey. Journal of Refugee Studies, 23(3), 273–293. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    The areas I know best as a result of long term residence and fieldwork are Europe (particularly the UK and France), North Africa (particularly Morocco and Egypt) and South Asia (particularly Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) but I have also conducted research across sub-Saharan Africa and North America.

    Email: m.collyer@sussex.ac.uk

  • Priya Deshingkar

    Title: Professor of Migration and Development

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Forced migration, undocumented migration, human smuggling, trafficking, debt migration and gender and migration.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Deshingkar, P. (2022). Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India. Cultural Studies, pp.1-21. .

    Deshingkar, P. (2022). Navigating Hyper-Precarity: Im (mobilities) during the Covid Pandemic in India. Social Change, 52(2), pp.175-186. .

    Deshingkar, P. (2019). The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects – migration brokerage in the Global South. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(14), 2638–2654. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am particularly interested in migration within and from India and Ethiopia.

    Email: p.deshingkar@sussex.ac.uk

  • Moira Dustin

    Title: Lecturer in Law

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Asylum in relation to gender, sexual orientation and gender identity.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Dustin, M. (2022). Pathways to Refugee Protection for Women: Victims of Violence or Genuine Lesbians?, Refugee Survey Quarterly, 41(3), 393–419. .

    Danisi, C., Dustin, M., Ferreira, N., & Held, N. (2021). Queering Asylum in Europe: Legal and Social Experiences of Seeking International Protection on grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Springer. . 

    Dustin, M., & Ferreira, N. (2021). Improving SOGI Asylum Adjudication: Putting Persecution Ahead of Identity. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 40(3), 315–347. .  

    Email: m.dustin@sussex.ac.uk

  • Anne-Meike Fechter

    Title: Professor of Anthropology and International Development

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I’m interested in all kinds of mobility, but especially in what migration makes visible in terms of how social change works, for example regarding mutual aid among displaced people; for international aid workers, and even digital nomads.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Fechter, A.-M. (2007). Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia. Routledge. . 

    Fechter, A.-M., & Walsh, K. (Eds.). (2012). The New Expatriates: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals. Routledge. . 

    Etzold, B. & Fechter, A.-M. (2022). Unsettling Protracted Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility Beyond 'Limbo'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(18), 4295-4312. .

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Broadly speaking, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia and Myanmar) but I’m interested in transnational and mobility practices not tied to particular regions.

    Email: a.fechter@sussex.ac.uk

  • Nuno Ferreira

    Title: Professor of Law

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I’m particularly interested in forced migration, especially involving sexual and gender minorities, as well as issues related to free movement within the European Union.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Danisi, C., Dustin, M., Ferreira, N., & Held, N. (2021). Queering Asylum in Europe: Legal and Social Experiences of Seeking International Protection on grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Springer. . 

    Ferreira, N. (2021). An exercise in detachment: The Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims. In R. Mole C. M. (Ed.), Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe. UCL Press. . 

    Ferreira, N. et al (2022). Governing protracted displacement An analysis across global, regional and domestic contexts (TRAFIG Working Paper). BICC. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    My work tends to focus mostly on the European context, but I have also done work focussing on certain national contexts (such as Portugal) and other regional contexts (such as Africa).

    Email: n.ferreira@sussex.ac.uk

  • Tony Fielding

    Title: Research Professor in Geography (Emeritus)

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Both international and internal migration, but especially the links between migration and social mobility, formerly in the UK and the EU, now in Japan and East Asia.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Fielding, T. (2016). Asian Migrations: Social and Geographical Mobilities in Southeast, East, and Northeast Asia. Routledge. . 

    Fielding, T. (2021). Migration in a Post-global Era. In K. Kourtit, B. Newbold, P. Nijkamp, & M. Partridge (Eds.), The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration. Springer. . 

    Fielding, T., & Ishikawa, Y. (2021). COVID-19 and migration: A research note on the effects of COVID-19 on internal migration rates and patterns in Japan. Population, Space and Place, 27(6), e2499. DOI link to paper.

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am particularly interested in East Asia, especially Japan, South Korea, China PRC and Taiwan (I have published journal articles or book chapters on each of these), but also Southeast Asia.

    Email: a.j.fielding@sussex.ac.uk

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  • Melissa Gatter

    Title: Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I am interested in the spatiotemporal experiences of both the people who live in refugee camps and the people who manage them. Through ethnography, I explore how power is executed, distributed, and negotiated through aid regimes and camp systems. I am also really interested in the carceral elements of camps and humanitarianism.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Gatter, M. (2023). Time and power in Azraq refugee camp: a nine-to-five emergency. New York: American Â鶹´«Ã½ in Cairo Press.

    Gatter, M. (2021). Preserving order: narrating resilience as threat in Azraq refugee camp. Territory, Politics, & Governance. 11(4), 695-711. .

    Gatter, M. (2018). Rethinking the lessons from Za'tari refugee camp. Forced Migration Review 57, 22-24.  

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    My work focuses mainly on the context of refugees in Jordan and in the Arabic-speaking region more generally.

    Email: m.gatter@sussex.ac.uk

  • James Hampshire

    Title: Professor in Politics, Deputy Editor of JEMS

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    The governance of international migration, especially the politics of immigration and immigration policymaking. I'm interested in how migration is governed, what factors shape migration policy, and the effects policies have on migrants.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Hampshire, J. (2014). The Politics of Immigration: Contradictions of the Liberal State. Wiley. . 

    Boswell, C., & Hampshire, J. (2017). Ideas and agency in immigration policy: A discursive institutionalist approach. European Journal of Political Research, 56(1), 133–150. . 

    Consterdine, E., & Hampshire, J. (2020). Convergence, capitalist diversity, or political volatility? Immigration policy in Western Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(10), 1487–1505. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    I've focused mainly on Europe and especially the UK, to date, though my current work will likely take me to other regions.

    Email: j.a.hampshire@sussex.ac.uk

  • Russell King

    Title: Professor of Geography

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I am interested in all aspects of migration but especially labour migration, student and youth migration, international retirement migration, return migration, and migration and development. I am also keen on theorising migration alongside allied fields such as mobility, transnationalism and diasporas.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    King, R., & Della Puppa, F. (2021). Times of Work and Social Life: Bangladeshi Migrants in Northeast Italy and London. International Migration Review, 55(2), 402–430. . 

    King, R. (2021). On Europe, Immigration and Inequality: Brexit as a ‘Wicked Problem.’ Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 19(1), 25–38. . 

    Gëdeshi, I., & King, R. (2021). The Albanian scientific diaspora: Can the brain drain be reversed? Migration and Development, 10(1), 19–41. .  

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Most of my research has been on Europe, with a special interest in Southern Europe and the Balkans.

    Email: r.king@sussex.ac.uk

  • Dom Kniveton

    Title: Professor of Climate Science and Society

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    All! But, particularly interested in (im)mobility in the context of climate change and disasters.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Kniveton, D., Smith, C., & Wood, S. (2011). Agent-based model simulations of future changes in migration flows for Burkina Faso. Global Environmental Change, 21, S34–S40. . 

    Black, R., Kniveton, D., & Schmidt-Verkerk, K. (2011). Migration and Climate Change: Towards an Integrated Assessment of Sensitivity. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 43(2), 431–450. . 

    Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Kniveton, D., & Cannon, T. (2020). Trapped in the prison of the mind: Notions of climate-induced (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing from an urban informal settlement in Bangladesh. Palgrave Communications, 6(1), Article 1. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

    Email: d.r.kniveton@sussex.ac.uk

  • Rachel Larkin

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Social work

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I am interested in social work with people affected by immigration systems, particularly in relation to child and youth migration. My work considers practice and policy in relation to unaccompanied children and young people, transnational families and issues of risk and safeguarding across borders. I'm particularly interested in gender identity and sexuality in relation to youth migration and how social workers (and related professionals) engage with young people's identities. 

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Larkin, R., and Woodcock Ross, J. (2024) ‘Unaccompanied Migrant Girls: Navigating Religious Girlhood in the UK’. Ethnic and Racial Studies 0, no. 0 (2024): 1–21. .

    Larkin, R. (2022) Separated Migrant Young Women in State Care: Living in Contested Spaces. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan. .

    Larkin, R. and Lefevre, M. (2020) ‘Unaccompanied Young Females and Social Workers: Meaning-Making in the Practice Space’. The British Journal of Social Work, 50(5), 1570-1587. .   

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    My work has focussed on the UK and Europe but I am looking to expand this to consider youth migration and social work in other regions.

    Email: r.larkin@sussex.ac.uk


  • Aleksandra Lewicki

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute, Associate Editor of JEMS

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Race and Racism, Political Mobilisation, Institutional Racism and Inequality, the Politics of Citizenship and Immigration, East-West mobilities within Europe, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Peripheries.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Lewicki, A. (2023). ‘East-West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialization of ‘Eastern Europeans’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(6) 1481-1499. .

    Lewicki, A. (2022). The Material Effects of Whiteness: Institutional Racism in German Care Institutions, The Sociological Review, 70(5), 916-934. .

    Lewicki, A. (2021). The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State, Sociology, 55(6), 1128-1244. .

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    The United Kingdom, Germany, and East-Central Europe.

    Email: a.lewicki@sussex.ac.uk

  • JoAnn McGregor

    Title: Professor of Human Geography

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    My interests include forced migration, the politics of borders and detention, mobility, citizenship and urbanization. I am also interested in histories of interconnection between Britain and Africa, in transnational politics and lives, memories and creative responses to displacement.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    McGregor, J. (2008). Abject spaces, transnational calculations: Zimbabweans in Britain navigating work, class and the law. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(4), 466–482. . 

    McGregor, J. (2011). Contestations and consequences of deportability: Hunger strikes and the political agency of non-citizens. Citizenship Studies, 15(5), 597–611. . 

    McGregor, J., & Primorac, R. (2010). Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival. Berghahn. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am interested in Southern Africa, and African diasporas in Britain.  Much of my work has focused on Zimbabwe and its diaspora.

    Email: j.mcgregor@sussex.ac.uk

  • Laura Morosanu

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Associate Editor of JEMS

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Many! I’m broadly interested in migrants’ social lives and work trajectories, the identities they articulate, and the connections they establish across different places and societies. More recently, I’ve also started to explore return migration and remigration.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    MoroÅŸanu, L., King, R., Lulle, A., & Pratsinakis, M. (2021). ‘One improves here every day’: The occupational and learning journeys of ‘lower-skilled’ European migrants in the London region. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(8), 1775–1792. . 

    MoroÅŸanu, L. (2018). Researching migrants’ diverse social relationships: From ethnic to cosmopolitan sociability? The Sociological Review, 66(1), 155–173. . 

    MoroÅŸanu, L. (2013). ‘We all eat the same bread’: The roots and limits of cosmopolitan bridging ties developed by Romanians in London. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(12), 2160–2181. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, I am particularly interested in intra-European migration/mobility.

    Email: l.morosanu@sussex.ac.uk

  • Linda Morrice

    Title: Professor of Education and Migration

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    My research interests sit at the intersection of education with refugee and migration studies. This includes both formal learning and informal learning through everyday social practices. Very broadly my research agenda seeks to understand how and in what spaces people learn to belong and thrive, and where and how they become marginalised and excluded.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Morrice, L. (2021). The promise of refugee lifelong education: A critical review of the field. International Review of Education, 67(6), 851–869. . 

    Morrice, L., Tip, L. K., Brown, R., & Collyer, M. (2020). Resettled refugee youth and education: Aspiration and reality. Journal of Youth Studies, 23(3), 388–405. . 

    Morrice, L. (2014). The learning migration nexus: Towards a conceptual understanding. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 5(2), Article 2. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    No; I am interested in understanding learning and displacement across both global north and south (and dissolving boundaries between the two).

    Email: l.m.morrice@sussex.ac.uk

  • Ben Rogaly

    Title: Professor of Human Geography

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I’m interested in people’s stories of moving and staying put historically and in contemporary times, and the relationship of these to broader structural processes, including colonialisms and their legacies, and neoliberalism. I’m specifically engaged with the entanglements between the state, capitalist employment relations and racialization of people, including migrants and their descendants. How people resist, individually and collectively (and materially and culturally), as well as the possibility of solidarity work outside and inside the academy are just as important to me as (and are inter-related with), my involvements with migration research.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Rogaly, B. (2020). Stories from a migrant city: Living and working together in the shadow of Brexit. Manchester Â鶹´«Ã½ Press. . 

    Rogaly, B., & Qureshi, K. (2017). ‘That’s where my perception of it all was shattered’: Oral histories and moral geographies of food sector workers in an English city region. Geoforum, 78, 189–198. . 

    Rogaly, B. (2015). Disrupting migration stories: Reading life histories through the lens of mobility and fixity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(3), 528–544. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    I’ve worked mainly in India and the UK.

    Email: b.rogaly@sussex.ac.uk

  • Sarah Scuzzarello

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Geography, Associate Editor of JEMS

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    My research has always focussed on the interface between migrants' agency and the opportunity structures they face in the recipient society. Specifically, I am interested in how institutional frameworks, public discourses, and social norms and practices shape migrants’ identification processes and life chances. My current research adopts an intersectional lens to understand how sexuality, class and race shape migrants' experiences of mobility and settlement. I have often worked within a cross-national comparative framework, and conducted empirical research in Europe and South East Asia.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Scuzzarello, S. & MoroÅŸanu, L. (2023) Integration and intersectionality: boundaries and belonging “from above” and “from below”. Introduction to the special issue, Ethnic and Racial Studies. .

    Statham, P., & Scuzzarello, S. (2023). Transgender Kathoey and gay men using tourist-zone scenes as ‘social opportunities’ for nonheteronormative living in Thailand. Gender, Place & Culture, 30(2), 183-210. . 

    Scuzzarello, S. (2020). Practising privilege. How settling in Thailand enables older Western migrants to enact privilege over local people. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(8), 1606–1628. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    My work focusses on migration and integration issues in the UK, Sweden, Italy and Thailand.

    Email: s.scuzzarello@sussex.ac.uk

  • Ron Skeldon

    Title: Emeritus Professor of Geography

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Migration and development; Demographics of migration; Evolution of migration systems; Migration policy.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Skeldon, R. (2021). Advanced Introduction to Migration Studies. Edward Elgar. . 

    Skeldon, R. (1997). Migration and Development: A Global Perspective. Routledge. . 

    Skeldon, R. (1990). Population mobility in developing countries: A reinterpretation. Belhaven Press. .

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    I like to think that my approach is global, although I have specific interests in the Andean region of Peru and across the Asia and Pacific region. More recent work has focused on the Caucasus region.

    Email: r.skeldon@sussex.ac.uk

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  • Charlotte Taylor

    Title: Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    As a linguist, I am particularly interested in migration rhetoric because we know that language and society are in constant dialogue, thus influencing each other. The kinds of questions I might ask are: How do different naming choices construct different categories of people? How are immigration and emigration construed as discursively distinct processes? How are people who move framed through metaphor? To what extent do contemporary migration discourses replicate those of past periods? More broadly, I am interested in both the kinds of movement typically described as emigration and immigration and the discursive constructions from different time periods and languages.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Taylor, C. (2021). Metaphors of migration over time. Discourse & Society, 32(4), 463–481. . 

    Taylor, C. (2020). Representing the Windrush generation: Metaphor in discourses then and now. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(1), 1–21. . 

    Taylor, C. (2015). Immigrants, Undocumented: Criminalization. In D. Bearfield A., E. Berman, & M. Dubnick J. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. Taylor & Francis. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    I have mainly focussed on the UK but am interested in looking at different contexts.

    Email: charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk

  • Katie Walsh

    Title: Reader in Human Geography

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    Home; Intimacy; Ageing; Emotion; Gender; Privilege; UAE; British migration; Highly Skilled; Lifestyle Migration.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Walsh, K. (2018). Transnational Geographies of The Heart: Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalising City. Wiley. . 

    Leonard, P., & Walsh, K. (Eds.). (2019). British Migration: Privilege, Diversity and Vulnerability. Routledge. . 

    Walsh, K., & Näre, L. (Eds.). (2019). Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Routledge. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Yes, my own ethnographic research took place in Dubai and other GCC cities. And I have focused on British migrants in both this work and my work on return migration.

    Email: katie.walsh@sussex.ac.uk

  • Charles Watters

    Title: Professor of Wellbeing and Social Care

    What areas of migration are you most interested in?

    I’m interested in the intersections between migration, mental health and wellbeing, asylum seeking and refugee children, wellbeing and open spaces, spirituality and wellbeing, medical anthropology, migration and place.

    List three of your most significant publications relating to migration (they don’t have to be the most recent) 

    Watters, C. (2007). Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon. Routledge. .  

    Watters, C. (2001). Emerging paradigms in the mental health care of refugees. Social Science & Medicine, 52(11), 1709–1718. . 

    Watters, C. (2019). The Mental Health Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Key Issues in Research and Service Development. In F. Nicholson & P. Twomey (Eds.), Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy (pp. 282–297). Routledge. . 

    Do you have a particular regional or national focus to your work on migration?

    Most of my work has focussed on the UK and Europe.

    Email: c.watters@sussex.ac.uk

Word cloud of faculty research interests. Dominant words include transnational, integration, mobility, relations, diaspora, Europe, Africa, work, centred around the word migrationA 'word cloud' made of answers to the question "what areas of migration are you most interested in", asked of SCMR researchers in 2021. Dominant words include migration, transnational, mobility, work, integration, diaspora, forced, policy, Europe, Africa, and Asia.