Research Staff at CRER

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[Associate Fellows ]

Danièle Joly, LesL Paris, Mesl Sorbonne,
PhD Aston.

email: d.s.joly@warwick.ac.uk

Professor Joly is Director of CRER. She obtained a Licence es Lettres from the University of Nanterre in France and a master's degree in industrial relations from the University of La Sorbonne. She gained a PhD from the University of Aston. She has published on Muslim populations in Britain, on ethnic relations and on refugees in Europe. She is author of Blacks and Britannity (2001), Haven or Hell: Asylum Policy and Refugees in Europe (1996), Britannia's Crescent: Making a Place for Muslims in British Society (1995), Refugees: Asylum in Europe (1992) and The French Communist Party and the Algerian War (1991). She is editor of Global Convergence in Asylum Regimes (2001), Scapegoats and Social Actors (1998), and co-editor of Immigrant Associations in Europe (1987) and of Reluctant Hosts: Europe and its Refugees (1989). She is an active member of various European networks of researchers on refugees and asylum.

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Muhammad Anwar, BA, MA Punjab, MA, Manchester, PhD Bradford.

email: m.anwar@warwick.ac.uk

Research Professor and Director of CRER's PhD Programme. Formerly Director of CRER (1989-94) and Head of Research at the Commission for Racial Equality (1981-89). He has written extensively on ethnic and race relations and his publications include: Between Two Cultures (1976), The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain (1979), Votes and Policies (1980), Ethnic Minorities and Broadcasting (1983), Race and Politics: Ethnic Minorities and the British Political System (1986), Race and Elections (1994), British Pakistanis (1996) and Between Cultures 1998. He is joint editor of Black and Ethnic Leaderships: The Cultural Dimensions of Political Action (1991) and From Legislation to Integration (1999). His research interests include: Muslims in Britain and Europe, the political participation of ethnic minorities and race relations legislation.

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David Owen, BA PhD Liverpool.

Senior Research Fellow, responsible for running the National Ethnic Minority Data Archive. A specialist in the analysis of large socio-economic data sets, he has published widely in the areas of local labour market analysis, population change and migration. Recent projects include identifying areas of labour market disadvantage for the Department for Education and Employment, estimating local population change by ethnic group, sponsored by ESRC, and a collaborative ESRC-funded study of the Caribbean family. He has published a number of articles and reports on the living conditions of ethnic minorities using the 1991 Census of Population, including five chapters in the four volumes published by ONS entitled Ethnicity in the 1991 Census.

email: d.w.owen@warwick.ac.uk

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John Rex, BA, PhD Leeds.

email: j.rex@warwick.ac.uk

Professor Emeritus. He has taught and carried out research in sociological theory and ethnic relations since his arrival from South Africa in 1949. He founded the departments of Sociology at Durham in 1964 and Warwick in 1970. His best known books are Key Problems of Sociological Theory (1964), Race Relations in Sociological Theory (1970), Race and Ethnicity (1986). His most recent book is Ethnic Minorities in the Modern Nation State: Working Paper in the Theory of Multi- Culturalism and Political Integration (1996). He was a member of the UNESCO Committee of experts on the nature of race and race prejudice in 1967 and was president of the International Sociological Associations' Research Committee on racial and ethnic minorities.

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Emanuele Toscano

Emanuele Toscano is currently working on the Easy Project.

The EASY Project (European Agency for eaSY access to virtual campuses) about the e-learning themes aims to contribute to the EU goal of developing new organizational models for European higher education, increasing the exchanges and the collaboration, also as virtual mobility.
This contribution is strenghtened by the developing of EASY web portal (www.easy-elearning.net), that constitute a virtual space of information and sharing of wide-ranging e-learning experiences in european campus. The project was carried out by many european universities (our university is one of the project partner), it lies in the larger setting of UE E-learning programme and it promote the realization of researches and tools in the field of instruction and formation to respond to the current challenges of education, to improve the learning quality and to ease the access to the ICTs. Please download (pdf), a brief synthesis of main results of EASY Project. We are still working on it, we will develop it next and we will inform you steadily.

 email: E.Toscano@warwick.ac.uk / emanuele.toscano@libero.it

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Khursheed Wadia, BSc, PhD Aston University

email: khursheed.wadia@warwick.ac.uk

Khursheed Wadia joined CRER as Senior Research Fellow in September 2003. Prior to that she was Reader in European Politics at the University of Wolverhampton. She has previously taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on European and French politics. She was co-convenor (with Dr Bob Carter, Sociology) of the MA in Race and Ethnic Studies. She teaches on the MA modules: Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations; Ethnicity and the Global Order; Refugees in Europe. She also supervises PhD students. From September 2007, she will be contributing to both core and option modules on the new MA in Islam in Contemporary Societies.

Research interests

Publications

email: Khursheed.Wadia@warwick.ac.uk

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Marie Curie Chair

John Oucho, PhD University of Nairobi, Kenya

John is the Director of the Africa Population and Environment Institute, professional expertise in integrated population and development policy and programming; internal and international migration, internal displacement of population (IDP), refugees and Diaspora in the context of development in Africa; Population, conflict and security in Africa; Rural-urban links in Africa; Institutional Development Specialist. John will be joining CRER in March 2007.

Research Programme

PhD Programme

email: J.O.Oucho@warwick.ac.uk

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Marie Curie Research Fellows

Nicholas De Genova, PhD Chicago, USA

Nicholas de Genova, Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology Columbia University, will be joining CRER as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow in June 2007. His topic of his fellowship will be on The Politics of Citizenship, Race, and Migrant "Illegality" in the Aftermath of "Homeland Security": The "War on Terrorism" at Home in the United States. Nicholas' research and teaching include: labour and class formation, racialization, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship, and transnational social processes, especially migration. His ethnographic research explores the social productions of racialized and spatialized difference in the experiences of transnational Mexican migrant workers within the space of the U.S. nation-state. His current research concerns the politics of race and immigration in relation to the Homeland Security State and the so-called "War on Terrorism".

 email: N.de-Genova@warwick.ac.uk

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Selmin Kaska, PhD Marmara University, Istanbul

Selmin is from the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations at Marmara University. She gained her PhD in Politics and Social Sciences at the same university, in 2000. Since then, she has been working in the field of gender and migration and she is - with Prof. S.Erder- the co-author of an IOM research report, "Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Women: The Case of Turkey", published in 2003. As a Marie Curie Research Fellow, she is currently working on a project "Gender and Migration, Globalization of Domestic Work: the Moldovian Case in Turkey". Her main aim is to analyse the gender dimension of new migration, with an emphasis on the peculiarities and commonalities of the Turkish case in the wider context of globalization of domestic work.

email: S.Kaska@warwick.ac.uk

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Thomas Lacroix, PhD University of Poitiers/IEP of Paris, France

Thomas obtained a PhD in political sciences and geography in 2003 at Migrinter (University of Poitiers) and the CERI (IEP of Paris). Formerly Marie Curie fellow at the CEDEM (University of Liège) and postdoctorant in Rabat (Morocco) at the Centre Jacques Berque. His research is focused on the transnational activities of migrants in Europe and the migration networks from Morocco. His current project is to analyse the relationship between transnationalism and development through the involvement of migrants in favour of their region of origin. He has published "les réseaux marocains du développement : geography du transnational, politiques du territorial" Paris, les Presses de Science Po, 2005.

email: T.Lacroix@warwick.ac.uk

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