Cluster Overview

The Migration Cluster focuses on any issue relating to the movement of people, including:

• causes and consequences of displacement arising from conflict, natural disaster, climate change, poverty, trafficking and smuggling;
• theories and ethics of migration;
• refugees; asylum seekers; stateless people and the internally displaced;
• labour migration;
• asylum, nationality, immigration and emigration laws and policies and their impact on the individual;
• “crimmigation” and the role of police, policing and prosecutions;
• comparative law;
• the role of stakeholders in ‘managing migration’;
• data and displacement;
• the ethics of research on migration.

The aim of the cluster is to provide a useful forum in which to discuss ideas, work in progress, and grant proposals, and to present work and hear from invited guest speakers.