In this section you can find information about some of the main areas of my research, a summary of what I’ve done and how I’ve approached each of the issues.
There are common themes that connect all of them of course: the problems of categories used by academics and policy makers to make sense of migration, to label and contain it; the injustices faced by those who move, not just in terms of their experiences of violence and human rights abuse but also in terms of what happens to them in asylum and migration processes; the failure to engage with the structural inequalities that underpin much of what we see happening in the contemporary world and to focus on – and blame – individuals and communities rather than systems; and the huge disconnect between the compex realities of contemporary migration and the simplistic policy, media and public discourses that exist, not just in the Global North but increasingly in the Global South too.
I’ve listed the issues on which I’ve worked chronologically but of course they completely overlap, with each one feeding into my thinking on the other.
South-South migration and inequality
Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’
Heaven Crawley 