Aesthetics, Ethics and Strategics of the New Migratory Cartographies and Transcultural Identities in Twenty-First-Century Literature(s) in English
Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2019-109582GB-I00)
Period: 2020-2023
Institute for Research into Superdiversity (University of Birmingham)
Director: Professor Nando Sigona (n.sigona@bham.ac.uk)
Administrator: Ann Bolstridge (a.bolstridge@bham.ac.uk) (TEL: +44(0)121 4144967).
What do they do? Draw together academics from the UK/around the world to consolidate expertise and generate thinking in the field of cultural diversity.
Research: citizenship, language, belonging, the economic impacts of diversity, access to welfare, social cohesion and integration.
Master’s degree in ‘‘Migration Studies’’ (Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona)
Master coordinator: Ricard Zapata Barrero (ricard.zapata@upf.edu).
Centre for Postcolonial Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Research group and forum dedicated to ‘‘those engaged in pushing Postcolonialism into new domains’’.
Aims: to expand postcolonial studies beyond its original home in literary studies and to engage with current political, cultural and artistic questions. This center organizes seminars, colloquia, film screenings, public events and academic conferences. Three of the co-editors of the journal Postcolonial Studies direct the centre.
E-mail: postcolonial@gold.ac.uk.
Director: Professor Sanjay Seth.
Centre of African Studies (University of Cambridge)
The Centre’s primary role in the University is to undertake, promote, and support research and teaching about Africa as well as to build academic engagement with African scholars and institutions.
E-mail: centre@african.cam.ac.uk
CMS: Center for Migration Studies of New York
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is an educational institute and nonpartisan think tank based in New York City that studies domestic immigration and international migration issues. The organization is devoted to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants worldwide.
E-mail: jvelazquez@cmsny.org
Center for Migration Studies (University of Essex)
The Centre for Migration Studies launched in 2018 and was established to provide a home for cross-disciplinary dialogue on migration studies.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MigEssex
Center for Migration Studies (The University of British Columbia)
This center studies migration from numerous interdisciplinary perspectives with particular strengths in seven areas of research excellence: borders, community-university partnerships, migration and Indigeneity, mobilities, narratives, political behaviour, and research creation.
Director: Antje Ellermann
E-mail: antje.ellermann@ubc.ca
Institute for Migration Research (Universidad de Granada)
The Institute for Migration Research was founded in 2009 with the primary goal of conducting world-class research in the field of migration studies, both nationally and internationally. Over 80 professors and researchers are involved in their research groups, and they come from a broad range of academic disciplines, such as education science, law, philosophy, the humanities, psychology, politics, sociology, translation and interpretation, and social work.
Director: F. Javier García Castaño
E-mail: fjgarcia@ugr.es
Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (University of Copenhagen)
AMIS is an interdisciplinary centre for migration research based at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. The centre was established 2013 in order to make migration a strategic research priority. Combining a diversity of social sciences and humanities approaches to the theory and practice of migration, the center’s research focus on moving populations and mobility practices as well as irregularized and forced migration.
Director: Marie Sandberg
E-mail: sandberg@hum.ku.dk
Center for Migration Studies (University of Ghana)
It was established in November 2006 and officially launched at the University of Ghana in November 2007. It is located within the premises of the International House at the University of Ghana. Its mandate is to undertake research, teaching, training, capacity building, policy assessment, development, and dissemination in migration research. It is the only centre in the West African sub-region offering MA/MPhil and Ph.D. programmes in migration studies. It has admitted students from other African countries over the years- Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
Director: Prof. Mary B. Setrana
E-mail: cms@ug.edug.gh
International Migration Studies (CUNY Graduate Center)
This M.A. Program in International Migration Studies at the Graduate Center prepares students for growing and exciting opportunities to work with and advocate on behalf of international migrants and refugees, who are facing a rising tide of racism and xenophobia.
E-mail: rocejo@jjay.cuny.edu
Center for Migration and Develpment (Princeton University)
The Center for Migration and Development (CMD) promotes scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange among faculty and students with an interest in international migration and national development. Of particular interest to CMD research is the relationship between immigrant communities in the developed world and the growth and development prospects of the sending nations.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/princetoncmd
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (The American University in Cairo)
CMRS is a multidisciplinary regional center of graduate education, research, and outreach on international Migration at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP). It works on establishing linkages between education and research by building the capacity of students and young researchers to create a pool of qualified researchers and practitioners in refugee and migration from the region.
Director: Ibrahim Awad
E-mail: iawad@aucegypt.edu
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (UC San Diego)
A multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to comparative, cross-national and cross-regional research on international migration and immigration policy. CCIS was established in 2002 as an interdisciplinary home for migration research at the University of California, San Diego. Since its founding, it has become a recognized institutional home for exemplary academic scholarship and policy-oriented research on all aspects related to international migration.
Director: Claire Adida
E-mail: ccis@ucsd.edu
Center for the Study of International Migration (UCLA)
The UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration seeks to foster research and instruction on international migration. In their view, the study of migration is like the process of migration itself: an activity that cuts across boundaries, in this case intellectual, and therefore one best pursued by drawing insights and methods from a variety of disciplines.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UCLAmigration
Global Migration Centre (Geneva Graduate Institute)
The Global Migration Centre (GMC) conducts advanced research and provides policy-oriented expertise and publications on the multifaceted causes, patterns and consequences of global migration.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GVAGrad_GMC
Migration Studies Initiative (Brown University)
The Migration Studies Initiative (MSI) is based out of the Population Studies and Training Center and partnered with the U-FLi (Undocumented and First Generation Low-Income) Center and the Institute for Transformative Practice (ITP). As a global phenomenon with far-reaching social, political, and economic consequences, migration is a critical area for interdisciplinary study and public-facing research. MSI serves as a central hub at Brown for students, faculty, and staff interested in migration, mobility, and displacement in both theoretical and applied contexts.
E-mail: Andrea_Flores@brown.edu
The African Centre for Migration & Society
Africa’s leading scholarly institution for research and teaching on human mobility dedicated to shaping global discourse on human mobility and social transformation.
Director: Jo Vearey
E-mail: info@migration.org.za
Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (UC Berkeley)
BIMI investigates human mobility, immigrants’ integration and the ways migration transforms societies around the world.
Coordinator: Salomé Ragot
E-mail: bimi@berkeley.edu
Global Migration Center (UC Davis)
A multi-disciplinary team of political scientists, economists, humanists, anthropologists, legal scholars, ethnic and cultural studies scholars, sociologists and historians working to produce fact-based knowledge through research that drives effective policies and interventions related to international migration with a focus on vulnerable migrants.
Director: Giovanni Peri
E-mail: globalmigrationcenter@ucdavis.edu
Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction, INTRUTHS: FFI2017-84619-P. AEI/FEDER, UE, Dr. M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera, University of Vigo, http://netec.webs.uvigo.es/en/intruths.
Samuel Beckett y las traducciones de su obra al español: una investigación sobre la recepción de un escritor bilingüe, FFI2016-76477-P, Dr. José Francisco Fernández Sánchez, University of Almería.
Eco-fictions: Emergent Discourses on Woman and Nature in Galicia and Ireland, FEM2015-66937-P (MINECO & FEDER), Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Ex-sistere: Women’s Mobility in Contemporary Galician and Irish Literature, FFI2012-35872, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Nosotros-as y ellos-as: Discursos de las escritoras irlandesas y gallegas sobre la extranjería (1980-2007) FFI2009-08475/FILO, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Poesía y género: Poetas irlandesas y gallegas contemporáneas (1980-2004), HUM2005-0489/FILO, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
The Animal Trope: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Contemporary Culture in Galicia and Ireland, PGC2018-093545-B-I00, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
The Lost Female Tradition: Predecessors, Contemporaries and Successors of James Joyce in Irish Writing, FEM2010-16897, Dr. Margarita Estévez-Saá.
International Seminar on “Creation, Editing and Criticism: Irish and Galician Poets” FFI2008-0241-E, Dr. Manuela Palacios González.
“Cultural Vision Foundation“. Project organised by UNESCO about promoting interculturalism in Bolivia (2022). It is about ‘‘promoting cultural and creative industries in the city of La Paz, Bolivia’’. Link to the webpage with all the details of this project: https://en.unesco.org/creativity/ifcd/projects/promoting-cultural-creative-industries-city-la-paz-bolivia.
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