Publications
R&D Specialist – Department of Geography and Spatial Planning – Horizon Europe project INNOVATE
The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the...
Logistical Power and the constraint of Mobility

In this episode, Yixin Zhang interviews Biao Xiang, about how analyzing processes of control over mobility and immobility can help explain the different consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan and Shanghai, in China.
IMISCOE Anti-Racism Working Group webinar series: SC Reflexivities in Migration Studies
IMISCOE Anti-Racism Working Group webinar series: SC Reflexivities in Migration Studies Racism at the border with Kamila Fiałkowska (Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw) and Katarzyna Czarnota (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań),...
Call for a PhD Candidate: Migrant Muslim Foodways
Application Deadline: 26 February 2024
Employment: 0.8 - 1.0 FTE Gross monthly salary: € 2,770 - € 3,539 Required background: Research University Degree Organizational unit: Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Are you eager to study the intersections of food, migration, and...
UCLan-MIDEX Seminar: "From South Asian Diasporic Mothers to Their Children: Intergenerational Trauma and Its Impact on the Identity Formation of Second-Generation Immigrants"
Wednesday 13 December, 16:00-17:00 (BWT)
by Dr Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay (University of Debrecen) Cultural displacement plays a significant role in the lives of diasporic people. As the diasporic people migrate, they redefine their identities in the host land. I argue that displacement of South...
Vacancies for 21 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers in the Collaborative Research Center, Production of Migration (SFB 1604)
The DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) ›Production of Migration‹ (SFB 1604) examines the conditions and functions of the social production and negotiation of migration across disciplines. The aim of SFB 1604 is to establish reflexive...
New podcast series that features interviews and conversations with Lancashire-based migrants "Voices of Lancashire"
The first episode of Voices of Lancashire is now on air. In this episode, the host Lara Momesso , interviews Alessandro, an Italian nurse who arrived in the UK 8 years ago. Listen to Alessandro’s story and explore his journey from Italy to Australia and...
Call for a Postdoc Position
Application Deadline: 28.12.2023
As part of the Research Training Group 2951 "Cross-border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the following position is available at the Faculty of Sociology...
Border Crossings II. MIDEX: Representations Strand. UCLan
14-15 December 2023
INNOVATION ROOM EIC317 (Room 317, Engineering & Innovation Centre (EIC), Fylde Rd, Preston PR1 2XS) Border Crossings II will focus on poets, poetic practices (including translation), and creative approaches to the theme of Border Crossings, broadly...
On researching how and why people migrate, for over 50 years

Russell King has been teaching and researching the topic of migration for more than 50 years. In this episode, he is interviewed by Sara Hannafin about thinking beyond the dominate frameworks of how and why people migrate.