Migration Research Projects
Below is a list of some of the migration related projects currently taking place:
Project Support and Opposition to Migration. A cross national comparison of the politicization of migration
Dr Laura Morales, Department of Politics & International Relations
Support and Opposition to Migration (SOM) is a collaborative project funded by the European Commission as part of the Seventh Framework Programme. The project looks at the politicization of migration in seven European countries. The aim of this comparative project is to determine why and when potential conflicts over migration become politicized, examining both anti-immigration and anti-racist movements. The project will increase knowledge about the political dynamics related to migration, and provide policy-relevant information
Desert Migrations Project
Professor David Mattingly, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
This major project involving the Universities of Leicester, Cambridge, Reading and KCL under the overall direction of Professor David Mattingly was initiated in 2007 as successor to the highly successful Fazzan Project.
The oases of Fazzan, Libya’s SW province, sit at one of the greatest cross-roads of the desert routeways that have been critical to the human story from ‘Out of Africa’, to the time of the Garamantian kingdom, or to the 19th-century overland slave trade, or the competing forces of World War II. The Desert Migrations Project (DMP) is focused on the theme of migration in the broadest sense, encompassing the movement of people, ideas/knowledge and material culture into and out of Fazzan, along with evidence of shifting climatic and ecological boundaries over time.
Project website
Mapping Faith and Place
This contemporary archaeology project sets out to explore the ways in which the traditions and values surrounding places of worship are perceived and engaged in the 21st century. Based around the city of Leicester, which offers a unique diversity of places of worship in modern Britain, it aims to develop understanding about how sacred spaces are perceived and valued within a multicultural society in the 21st century.
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain
For more information on this project, which is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The overall aim of the project is to conduct research into the impact of ancient diasporas on the cultural and population history of Britain and how these events have shaped identities in the British Isles both in the past and in the present.
The Leicester Migration Series: Events
