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Group Members

Members of MigRes

Name Title Interests

Dr Mike Slaven (Chair)

Associate Professor of International Politics

  • Immigration policy
  • UK immigration control
  • US-Mexico border
  • Windrush scandal
  • Colonialism and migration

Professor Richard Barnes

Professor of International Law
  • Migration by sea

Professor Christian Karner (on leave 2024-25)

Professor of Sociology
  • Ethnicity
  • Nationalism
  • Urban multiculturalism
  • Austria and Central Europe

Dr Baris Cayli Messina (on leave 2024-25)

Associate Professor of Criminology
  • Criminalization of immigrants

Dr Nicola Chanamuto

Lecturer in Academic Evaluation
  • Migrants' gendered experience of work
  • Work as caring practice
  • Temporalities and career trajectories

Dr Sanna Elfving

Senior Lecturer in Law

  • Rights arising from intra-EU migration
  • Rights of irregular immigrants and asylum seekers

Dr Chloë Gilgan

Senior Lecturer in Law
  • Changing UK attitudes to providing refuge
  • Refugee protection as a responsibility to protect
  • Lincoln as a human rights city

Mr Louis Harman

Senior Lecturer in Law
  • Immigration Law

Dr Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

Lecturer in International Relations
  • Gendered mobilities related to terrorism and extremism
  • Ottoman migration governance

Dr Jeongmee Kim

Associate Professor of Film and Media
  • Diasporic populations
  • Media consumption
  • Representation

Dr Ben Kisby

Senior Lecturer in Politics
  • Citizenship education

Dr Adonis Li

Lecturer in East Asian History
  • Post-WWII migrations from and through Hong Kong

Dr James Pattison

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
  • Race and racism
  • EU migration
  • Urban processes

Dr Agnieszka Rydzik

Associate Professor of Tourism and Work
  • Migration, gender, and work
  • Migration, belonging, and place attachment
  • EU migration

Dr Kristian Shaw

Associate Professor of English Literature
  • Cultural responses to Brexit

Dr Sureyya Sonmez Efe

Senior Lecturer in International Relations
  • Immigration policy
  • Migrants' rights
  • Human rights, migration, and justice
  • Türkiye

Dr Nnenne Uzoigwe

Lecturer in Law
  • Immigration law
  • Refugee integration

Dr Simone Varriale (associate member)

Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Loughborough

  • EU migration
  • Race and racism
  • Social class and employment

Dr Kristy Warren

Senior Lecturer in Black History

  • British subjecthood and citizenship
  • Race and racism
  • The wider "British" Caribbean