The IGA Global Migration Initiative aims to find workable policy solutions, both emergency measures and long term thinking, for the truly global and urgent challenge of international migration.
This is the first IGA initiative to be launched, setting the template for our approach of producing evidence based recommendations and trailing policy ideas in local contexts.
One part of the initiative is the collaboration of researchers from across European universities working on migration issues to credibly inform the public, raise awareness, and influence policy makers.
The following academics have already agreed to be part of this network:
Dr Ruben Andersson
Department of International Development, LSE
Topics: borderlands, irregular migration
Regions: Europe and Sub-Saharan Sahel
Professor Luc Bovens
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
Topics: equal burden-sharing in EU asylum policies, UNHCR data
Regions: EU
Dr Rebecca Bryant
European Institute, LSE
Topics: displacement, borders, ethnic conflict, post-conflict transformation, transitional justice
Regions: Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Eastern Mediterranean
Dr Leonidas Cheliotis
Department of Social Policy, LSE
Topics: policies and practices of border control, policing, immigration detention, imprisonment
Regions: Greece, Mediterranean, Europe
Professor Christine Chinkin
Centre for Women, Peace and Security, LSE
Topics: human security, women's human rights, international human rights law
Regions: Kosovo, Australia, Palestine, China
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Media and Communications Department, LSE
Topics: mediation of human vulnerability, digital technologies and witnessing war, refugee representation in humanitarian discourse
Professor Samuel Fankhauser
Co-Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Topics: migration and climate change
Dr Joan Costa Font
Department of Social Policy, LSE
Topics: assimilation of migrants
Regions: Europe
Dr Filippo Dionigi
Middle East Centre, LSE
Topics: Impact of Syrian refugee crisis on Arab statehood
Regions: Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq)
Dr Joseph Downing
European Institute, LSE
Topics: French Politics, Islam, integration of Muslims in France
Regions: France
Dr Myria Georgiou
Media and Communications Department, LSE
Topics: migration, diaspora, media's role in identity construction in diasporas
Regions: EU, UK, Arab audiences
Dr Stuart Gordon
International Development, LSE
Topics: post-conflict, peacebuilding, stabilisation, securitisation, aid and conflict
Regions: UK, Afghanistan
Dr Dominik Hangartner
Department of Methodology, LSE
Topics: Statistical methods, political behaviour, with a focus on immigration and attitudes towards immigrants.
Professor Simon Hix
Department of Government, LSE
Topics: EU
Region: Europe
Professor Athar Hussain
Asia Research Centre, LSE
Topics: economic transformation, liberalisation, social security, regional integration
Regions: Asia, China, HK, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Vietnam
Professor Gareth Jones
Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
Topics: child migration, child rights, UK asylum
Regions: Latin America, South Africa, UK
Professor Chandran Kukathas
Department of Government, LSE
Topics: political theory, minority rights, multiculturalism, open borders, refugee policy
Philippe Legrain
European Institute, LSE
Topics: International migration, globalisation Europe
Professor Alan Manning
Department of Economics, LSE
Topics: identity and culture of migrants, immigration and social housing/wages, North/South divide
Regions: Europe
Dr Claire Mercer
Geography and Environment, LSE
Topics: African diaspora, civil societyAfrican diaspora, civil society
Regions: Africa, Tanzania, Cameroon
Dr Covadonga Meseguer
International Relations, LSE
Topics: Political economy of international labour migration, impact of 'out-migration' on sending countries, anti-immigrant sentiments
Regions: Latin America, Europe
Dr Philipa Mladovsky
International Development
Topics: Africa, migrant health
Regions: Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Europe, India
Dr Pierluigi Musaro
Department of Sociology, University of Bologna
Topics: migration crisis and the media, pro-migrants movements and NGOs, management of migration, border controls, political challenges of humanitarian discourse in portraying and policing migration in the European Union
Regions: EU
Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi
Institute of Global Affairs, LSE
Topics: macroeconomic dimensions of migration and stakeholder coordination
Regions: EU, Emerging Europe, Central Asia
Elina Ribakova
Institute of Global Affairs, LSE
Topics: macroeconomic dimensions of migration and stakeholder coordination, interactive online course on migraton
Dr Romola Sanyal
Department of Geography and Environment
Topics: refugees, urbanization, camps, squatting, WASH, housing
Regions: India, Lebanon, South Asia, US
Dr Elizabeth Shlala
Department of International History, LSE; Center on Migration, Policy & Society, Oxford; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
Topics: Europe/Middle East migration, unskilled labour and migration, tracing migratory movements of people
Regions: Middle East, Sri Lanka, Europe
Professor Lars Trägårdh
Department of History, Ersta Sköndal University College (Stockholm)
Topics: minority rights, nationalism, state/civil society relations
Regions: Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe-US relations
Professor Nasir Uddin
Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong
Topics: statelessness and refugee-hood, rural-urban migration, politics of marginality, state-making and indigeneity
Regions: South Asia, Bangladesh