Migrations Network
Introduction:
Any adequate understanding of migration and identity must seek to integrate different kinds of knowledge and experience. In an unprecedented experiment in interdisciplinarity, this project links research on migration in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities so that diverse approaches will be innovatively enriched by interaction and reflection, and the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts.
With far-reaching external partners from the Met Office and ESRC Genomics Network, to NGOs in Palestine, to the Stanford Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, we provide methodological maps of interdisciplinarity on migration that inform research on urgent social issues.
The unifying premises to the Network are, first, that the global is always local for someone, and, second, that the past is, where human memory is concerned, often a function of present needs. Therefore we are creating an interface between:
• those whose research on migration and identity is based in local contexts and those who address global issues;
• those who focus on urgent present topics and those who work on historical issues;
• those who draw on the particularity and depth of understanding in humanities research and those who rely on the statistical breadth of generality identified with the sciences.
Recent Grants to Network Members:
Mick Dumper (Steering Committee):
“Conflict in Cities” ESRC with Queen’s Belfast and Cambridge.
John Dupré (Steering Committee): “Essentializing intergroup differences” with Psychology ESRC; British Council/German Academic Exchance
for series of visits between Egenis and the Max Planck Institute
Will Higbee and Saer Ba (French): BA conference grant for Diasporas in Cinema
Staffan Mueller-Wille:“Cultural History of Heredity” funded by Government of Liechtenstien Egenis: BA Small Research Grant for “Heredity in the Century of the Gene”
Gareth Stansfield (EXCEPS, IAIS): Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for“Ethnopolitics in a Globalized World”
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