CeMoRe and the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University are thrilled to announce our John Urry Fellow for 2018-19, Thiago Allis, and to welcome him to Lancaster from 22nd January- 15th February 2019. Thiago will be the second awardee of the John Urry...
Migration Posts
Between the Village and the Global City: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore
by Simon Peth, Harald Sterly and Patrick Sakapoldrak Abstract This paper explores the mobilities and structural moorings of Thai labour migrants in Singapore from a translocal perspective. We argue that combining the mobilities paradigm with the concept of...
Mobilities and Wayfinding – Finding Our Way from A to B
Written by Dr Paul Symonds Mobilities is a subject area that encapsulates a range of topics that are grouped by movement. In a post-modern world, for example, this movement includes people, information, culture (Urry, 2007), and heritage (Lo Iacono, 2018).Whole...
International Mobility Norway- MOVE Research
MOVE Research International Mobility Norway (IMN) is a newly established research group working on patterns of youth mobility from a perspective within the Norwegian/ Scandinavian context. It focuses on various forms of international mobility among young people, such...
Migrancy Reading Group
TIME: Tuesday, 13 June 2017 1-2.30pm PLACE: B35 County South READING: We will be reading from the book "Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies" which is collaborative volume by Hannah Jones et al. published by Manchester University Press 2017. Please...
Transitions and forms of engagement in single migrants’ lives
Maude Gauthier, a post-doctoral fellow at Lancaster University, writes about her current research on the migration of singles while reflecting on how mobilities studies can help her in the process. I arrived in Lancaster in September 2015 with the aim of...