Migration and Refugees Research Network

Description

Today more people than ever before are on the move: within countries, over borders, across continents. In 2019 the UN estimated, globally, there were over 270 million migrants and those figures rise, year on year.

Dealing with the challenges and transformations caused by this shift pose major problems and some opportunities for governments at every level, from the broadly international to the intensely local.

The Migration and Refugees Research Network engages directly with these issues. It embraces an enriching interdisciplinarity, with researchers and practitioners from social anthropology, refugee studies, sociology, political science, computer science, media studies, psychology, legal scholars, business studies, among other disciplines.

From whatever disciplines members come, whatever research partnerships are formed, the network's work centres on the predicament and opportunities of migrants and refugees today, globally. The network's research includes, for example, studies into refugee entrepreneurship and their integration into the labour market, migrants as political agents, housing for forced migrants, migrant children in education, and computing models for managing migrants’ data.

The network works together with both colleagues in other universities and research centres, both in Europe and beyond. Above all, the network will seek to collaborate with institutions, government agents, and practitioners in charitable and public policy sectors, on projects of mutual interest.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Oxford Brookes University
Oxford

Partner Infrastructures

Centre for Business, Society and Global Challenges (BSGC)

The Centre for Business, Society and Global Challenges (BSGC) brings together researchers who are actively engaged with some of the core challenges facing contemporary societies, from refugee entrepre… read more about Centre for Business, Society and Global Challenges (BSGC)

Oxford

Communication, Media and Culture

Communication, Media and Culture takes a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to explore the changing resources that are used to construct and reconstruct the social world. Much of the group's work is … read more about Communication, Media and Culture

Oxford

Modern Political and International History

The relationship between ideas and ideals, on the one hand, and material interests, on the other, is one of the core components of modern political systems and political conflict. It is a basic consid… read more about Modern Political and International History

Oxford

Fundamental Rights and Equality

The Fundamental Rights and Equality Group (FREG) comprises academics, doctoral researchers and honorary fellows working within the fields of human rights, equality, migration and law, and religion. Th… read more about Fundamental Rights and Equality

Oxford

Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society

An inter-disciplinary research centre with a remit to encourage reflection on social transformations of global scope. The Centre provides a forum for scholars to collaborate and explore such phenomena… read more about Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society

Oxford

Centre for Development and Emergency Practice

Founded in 1985, the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) is a multidisciplinary centre that brings together academics, development practitioners and policy makers. CENDEP's work con… read more about Centre for Development and Emergency Practice

Oxford

Place, Culture and Identity

Space and architecture are shaped by the culture and the identities of communities as much as those communities are shaped by their perception and use of space and architecture. Members of the group i… read more about Place, Culture and Identity

Oxford