MRG Members

Legal Approaches to Migration and Displacement in the Context of Environmental Factors

Bolaji’s research focuses on Blackness and Racialisation in Central and Eastern Europe.

- Theories of race & racism
- Theories of identity
- Muslim minorities
- Multiculturalism & citizenship
- Critical whiteness & ‘mixed race’ studies
- Inter-generational relations
- Qualitative methods

- Sex work
- Modern slavery & trafficking
- Scholar-activism & social justice
- Migration
- Alternatives to/the abolition of the police
- Feminist methodologies, including participatory research.

- Everyday policing and punishment
- Being and belonging in the city
- The politics of crisis
- Concepts of urban justice

Urban development and politics in the global South.

Daniel's research addresses concerns within political and development geography, primarily in relation to sub-Saharan Africa.

- Transnational families
- Transnational political economy of care
- Migration and transformations

- Migration policies
- ‘Race’ & multicultural strategies
- Immigration; community
- Family
- Transnational relationships
- Work & leisure among migrants
- Forced labour

- Migration

- Inequalities in health
- Roma health

Sammia's research explores the interplay of the body and the mind in development interventions.

Urban marginality, urban governance, housing and labour market inequalities, group stigmatisation, Gypsy-Travellers and Roma, sociology of Norbert Elias

- Social and political determinants of health
- Racial health and wellbeing inequalities in the UK
- Gender and reproductive health in South Asia
- Participatory and anti-racist research methodologies

- Family
- Everyday sociology
- Migration, race & ethnicity
- Community
- Childhood

Urban governance, mega-urban developments, neighbourhood relations, migration and social integration