Dr Jennifer Allsopp
Birmingham Fellow
Jennifer's research centres on how people move and mobilise to support what they perceive to be viable futures for themselves, their families and their societies in the context of migration.
Culture, Migration and Superdiversity
The Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
This research theme brings together researchers from the Department of Social Policy, Sociology & Criminology who seek to consider the role and impact of ethnicity and religion across a range of different social, political and cultural settings.
Approaching our subject matter from a range of different disciplinary and methodological start points, our collective endeavours intersect and overlap with a number of other departmental themes including inequality, exclusion, migration and social harm. This is evident in our shared research interests which encompass discrimination, hate crime, celebrity culture, media representation, identity, the far-right, heterogeneity, urban planning and superdiversity.
Theme lead: Angelo Martins Junior
Selected publications
Selected publications
2017
Bennett, M. R.,Einolf. C. (2017). Religion, Altruism, and Helping Strangers: A Multilevel Analysis of 123 Countries.Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(2):323;341.
Gonzales, R. G. and Sigona, N. (eds) (2017) Within and beyond citizenship: Borders, membership and belonging. (BSA Sociological Futures Series) London and New York: Routledge
Grzymala-Kazlowska, A. & Phillimore, J. (2017) Introduction: rethinking integration. New perspectives on adaption and settlement in the era of superdiversity. Journal and Ethnic and Migration studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341706www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341706
Phillimore, J., Humphris, R. & Khan, K. (2017) Reciprocity for new migrant integration: resource conservation, investment and exchange. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studieswww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341709
Picker, G. (2017). Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Picker, G. (2017) ‘Post-Socialist Europe and its “Constitutive Outside”: Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research Agenda’. In J. Krase and Z. Uherek (eds), The Local Context of Diversity. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 39-53.
2016
Cheung, S. & Phillimore, J. (2016) Gender and refugee integration: a quantitative analysis of integration and social policy outcomes. Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279416000775
Picker, G. (2016). ‘“That neighbourhood is an ethnic bomb!” The emergence of an urban governance apparatus in Western Europe’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(2): 136-148.
Lessard-Phillips, L. (2016). Richard Alba & Nancy Foner, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe. European Sociological Review, 32(2), pp. 321-323.
Phillimore, J. & Bradby, H. (2016). In Raphael, D. Ed. Public Policy, Immigrant Experiences and Health Outcomes in the UK. In Immigration, Public Policy, and health: newcomer experiences in developed nations. Newcomer experiences in developed nations. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press pp133-156.
Sigona, N (2016) ‘Everyday statelessness: status, rights and camps’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39 (2): 263-279.
Research projects
Research projects
Current and recent research
Integrated intersectional and socioecological approach: Engaging with religion to strengthen protection from violence against women in forced displacement
This project is led by Dr Sandra Pertek. It explores how intersectional and socioecological approaches could be strengthened to account for socio-cultural and religious factors in preventing and responding to violence against women in forced displacement, humanitarian and migration settings.
Protecting forcibly displaced women and girls in the Muslim world
This policy-oriented research project explores the motivations, opportunities and challenges for protecting displaced women and girls in the Muslim majority countries. It aims to develop an evidence base and conceptual resources for integrating the protection of forcibly displaced women and girls from violence, discrimination and exclusion into humanitarian policy and diplomacy in the Muslim world. The project lead is Dr Sandra Pertek.
Pathways to socio-economic and civic-political inclusion of ethnic minorities in Britain and Canada
This project was funded by the ESRC under the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (Phase 3 – project ES/N011635/1). The aim of the project was to investigate the patterns of ethnic minority inclusion within British and Canadian socio-economic and civic-political institutions over time and assess the role that family capital, here understood as an aggregation of family resources, plays in determining the inclusion trajectories of individuals. The research team included investigators at the University of Manchester, McGill University and the Runnymede Trust.
Research team
Dr Gëzim Alpion
Associate Professor of Sociology
Dr Gëzim Alpion, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Birmingham.
Dr Rachel Ayrton
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Rachel Ayrton is a sociologist with expertise in research methodology and migration. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity here at Birmingham.
Dr Lisa Goodson
Lecturer
Dr Lisa Goodson is a Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham.
Professor Kelly Hall
Professor of Social Policy
Kelly has a particular interest in the role of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in the social care sector, as well as international retirement migration.
Professor Rana Jawad
Professor of Global Social Policy
Rana Jawad is a Professor of Global Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology.
Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips
Senior Research Fellow, IRiS
Staff profile for Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham.
Dr Rodolfo Leyva
Lecturer Quantitative Methods
Dr Rodolfo Leyva is a Lecturer Quantitative Methods in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Angelo Martins Junior
Associate Professor in Sociology & Criminology
Angelo Martins Jr is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Birmingham
Dr Özlem Ögtem-Young
Research Fellow
Dr Özlem Ögtem-Young is a research fellow and research lead (Poverty, Precarity, Saving and Debt) in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Sandra Pertek
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the School of Government and School of Social Policy and Society
Dr Sandra Pertek is a Research Fellow in the School of Government, University of Birmingham
Professor Jenny Phillimore
Professor of Migration and Superdiversity
Jenny Phillimore, Professor of Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham
Dr Miguel Ribeiro Ramos
Senior Lecturer
Dr Miguel Ribeiro Ramos is a Senior Lecturer is the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology in the School of Social Policy and Society at the University of Birmingham
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Professor Nando Sigona
Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Professor Nando Sigona is a sociologist with research and teaching experience in migration, refugee and ethnic studies. He is also the Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS).