The network is Chaired by Professor Simon Parker (Politics) and Dr Sara de Jong (Politics).
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Haleemah Alaydi PhD student (refugees, refugee fiction, asylum seekers, migration, immigration politics, exile, Palestine, diaspora from the Middle East) hnsa501@york.ac.uk |
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Rachel Alsop Lecturer (gender based violence and refugee and migrant women; Albanian young asylum seekers) rachel.alsop@york.ac.uk |
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Yener Bayramoğlu Lecturer (digital media, refugees and LGBTIQ+ people, social media, migration) yener.bayramoglu@york.ac.uk |
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Rebecca Bevington PhD Student (refugee literature, women's testimonies, fiction, bare life, care work, states of exception) |
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Claire Chambers Senior Lecturer (Literature; postcolonial studies; migration; South Asia; Arab world) claire.chambers@york.ac.uk +44 (0)1904 324216 |
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Kelly Devenney Lecturer (unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people; refugee and migrant youth; marketisation of refugee camps) kelly.devenney@york.ac.uk |
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Constantino Dumangane, Jr. Lecturer (Critical Race Theory, Bourdieusian concepts relevant to research on Race, Racism, Discrimination, Class, In-Equity, In-Equality, Widening Participation, Decolonisation and Social Justice in Education) |
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Fitria PhD Student (refugee law in Indonesia and South East Asian countries, legal pluralism, refugee protection and philanthropy organisations, TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law)) ff618@york.ac.uk. |
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Maria Franco Gavonel Lecturer (migration, sustainable development, climate migrants, human capital) maria.francogavonel@york.ac.uk |
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Paul Kerswill Professor (Multicultural London English; language and development in West Africa (Ghana); health communication in West Africa) |
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Daniel Kyereko Lecturer (Intra African migration, migration and education in postcolonial societies, educational systems in Ghana and Africa) |
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Martin Jones Senior Lecturer (refugee law and policy; legal aid and access to justice; human rights; MENA and Asia) martin.jones@york.ac.uk +44 (0)1904 325834 |
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Sara de Jong Senior Lecturer (refugee and migrant advocacy and support organisations; postcolonial politics of migration; gender, race, racism and migration; migration and brokerage) sara.dejong@york.ac.uk |
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Alex Hall Senior Lecturer (international securitisation of mobility and contemporary border politics in the west; everyday production and experience of security within immigration detention; ‘smart’ e-border targeting systems) alexandra.hall@york.ac.uk |
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Zulfiya Hamzaki PhD Student (refugee resettlement and integration in the UK, documentary filmmaking, interactive storytelling, immigrant experiences, human rights) zufiya.hamzaki@york.ac.uk |
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Sam Hellmuth Senior Lecturer (language; spoken communication; Arabic; Middle East; South Asia) sam.hellmuth@york.ac.uk +44 (0)1904 322657 |
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Joyce Jiang Lecturer (mobilisation of migrant workers; participatory art in labour organising; migrant workers' rights) joyce.jiang@york.ac.uk |
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Agata Lambrechts PhD student (migration and education; refugee background students in higher education; academic mobility; international students) aal513@york.ac.uk |
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Jack M Liuta, PhD Student (responding to conflict-related sexual violence against women in Africa; socio-cultural challenges and opportunities; the case of the Eastern Congo. Peer Researcher on Refugees and migrants’ integration research projects with Migration Yorkshire and the Institute for Public Policy Research) |
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Daria Lynch PhD student (migration and cultural heritage in York; spatial politics; decolonisation and social |
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Jesse Machin PhD student (politics of membership and belonging, borders, territoriality, citizenship, nationalism, national identity, statelessness, self-determination, diaspora) plm507@york.ac.uk |
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Alice Nah Senior Lecturer (global civil society; human rights; risk and personal security; migration; asylum; Asia) alice.nah@york.ac.uk +44 (0)1904 325824 |
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Simon Parker Professor (politics of asylum and immigration; urban studies and urban theory; comparative European politics with particular reference to Italy) simon.parker@york.ac.uk |
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Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira Postdoctoral Research Associate (heritage and uses of the past in the present, diaspora belonging and identity, colonial to post-colonial transitions, climate change) mariana.p.l.pereira@york.ac.uk |
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M M Golam Rabbani PhD Student (Environmental Migration, Place, Capability Approach, Risk Perception, Wellbeing) mr1260@york.ac.uk |
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Alice Richardson PhD student (legal-linguistic issues for asylum seekers; interpreting services in immigration courts; language as evidence in asylum claims) alice.richardson@york.ac.uk |
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Indrajit Roy Senior Lecturer (development politics; citizenship; migration and mobility; Rising Powers; global urbanism; democracy; decolonising the curriculum) indrajit.roy@york.ac.uk |
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Mohammed Hossain Sarker PhD student (labour migration, migrant domestic worker, migrant workers' rights, GCC-Asia Corridor, Remittances) |
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Louise Shepperd PhD student (Adult language and literacy development in migration contexts, language learning with unfamiliar writing systems or low-literacy, migration and language education policy and practice) |
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Evangeline Tsao Research Fellow (intersectionality, gender and sexuality, participatory visual methodologies and feminist pedagogy) evangeline.tsao@york.ac.uk |
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Joe Turner Lecturer (border regimes and the control of mobility after colonialism; family, intimacy and borders; eco-bordering) joe.turner@york.ac.uk |
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Pragya Vohra Lecturer (Viking age; migration; diaspora; Anglo-Scandinavian) pragya.vohra@york.ac.uk |
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Ching-Yu Chang PhD student (highly skilled migration: patterns, decision-making, experiences of working and living) cc502@york.ac.uk |
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Jonathan Zaragoza Cristiani Research Associate (EU migration policies in the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East; Spanish-Moroccan migration control cooperation) jonathan.zaragoza@york.ac.uk |
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Dr Alice Nah Associate Professor (global civil society; human rights; risk and personal security; migration; asylum; Asia) |
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Professor Maggie O'Neill Senior Visiting Fellow (forced migration and the asylum-migration nexus; race, crime and justice; innovative participatory, biographical, performative and visual methodologies) |
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Leonie Schulte, Postdoctoral affiliate, University of Oxford (linguistic anthropology, language and 'integration' policy, migration and displacement, time |