Migration, mobility and diversity

We engage in research about migration, mobility, urban diversity and multicultures.

Researchers at TCRU working on these issues come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including anthropology, psychology, sociology, socio-legal and psychosocial studies.

Our studies include:

• the impact of hostile immigration policies and insecure immigration statuses on mothering and family and friendship practices
• explorations of identity and the migration experiences of families and young people
• parenting and friendships in super-diverse and mixed class settings
• transitions to adulthood among ethnic minority youth
• the intersections of 'race', gender and migration for young people
• social differentiation among diaspora groups
• everyday understandings of difference and affinities in urban contexts
• socio-legal approaches to migration and refugee issues
• legality, legal consciousness, legal pluralism
• migrants and refugees' everyday experiences of the law
• language brokering in transnational families
• and serial migration.

Migration and Society

Our centre co-hosts the journal Migration and Society, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal advancing debate about emergent trends in all types of migration.

Researchers

• Amena Amer
• Rachel Benchekroun
• Mette Berg
• Igor Cherstich
• Eve Dickson
• Michela Franceschelli
• Ash Hoque
• Humera Iqbal
• Veena Meetoo
• Ann Phoenix
• Victoria Redclift

TCRU researchers working on migration issues collaborate with colleagues across UCL, including The Migration Research Unit (MRU)

Further information

• Transnational practices in local settings
• A warm welcome: separated child migrants in the care-asylum nexus
• Family Lives and the Environments: Cross-national perspectives on habitual practices (2011/2014 ESRC NCRM Novella Node subproject)
• Children's and Adults' Friendships across Social Class and Ethnic Difference
• Language Brokering Identities