ICMiC provides an inclusive forum for research carried out in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and across different Schools of the University of Nottingham. It fosters collaboration with other research centres and institutions nationally and internationally.
ICMiC is underpinned by the assumption that processes and questions of identity, citizenship and migration are best studied from an interdisciplinary perspective.
It involves researchers from different backgrounds (including sociology, anthropology, gender studies and feminism, cultural studies) who have been working in an interdisciplinary fashion for some time. They conduct work on a wide range of phenomena including:
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The global sex trade
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Ageing in transnationalism
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Theories and practices of citizenship muslims in the West
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Migration and multiculturalism
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The work-life balance; work and social inequalities
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Urban ethnicities
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Migration, gender and generation
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Racialised discourses of beauty
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New migrants in Nottingham
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Migration to and from the UK
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Diasporas and the '2nd Generation'
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Migrants' mobilisation
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Migration and developing countries
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The interface of gendered, class and ethnic identities
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Roma and travellers
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The negotiation of ethnic and national identities in the context of globalisation
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Changing political cultures and migration
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Families - in a variety of transnational, national and local contexts
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The local media
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Civil society, social movements and collective action
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Religion in contemporary society
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Cultural and collective memory
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Education, identity and citizenship
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Sexual identities and intimate relationships
Crucially, ICMiC is defined by its internal diversity: much of its research focuses on one or two of its core components (i.e. identity or citizenship or migration) in particular empirical contexts or wider conceptual terms. Moreover, several members specialise in analysing the policy dimensions and implications to some of the above-listed topics.
While much of the work carried out at ICMiC is transnational in nature as well as located in a global context, its examinations of the lived experiences and social relations of individuals and groups are grounded in and across a plurality of localities that include Austria, Britain, Denmark, Egypt, France, Italy, India, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and Thailand.