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...
MIGRANCY RESEARCH
The Migrancy Research Group is a research group of staff and postgraduates working in the area of immigration, borders, citizenship, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers, statelessness and the theoretical, political and social movements which cluster around these themes. You can learn more about the members and work of the group at Migrancy Research Collective | Lancaster University (lancs.ac.uk).
MIGRANCY 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...