Urban Change and Settlement
This cluster of work recognises that often migration is a key element in city change and that new patterns of urban diversity pose social and political challenges on a number of different levels.
More than 50% of the world’s population now live in cities and this is growing by the decade. This thematic cluster challenges assumptions around movement and settlement patterns. Cities in both the global North and the global South are experiencing new patterns of cultural and demographic super-diversity. Our study of migration incorporates an understanding of emergent urbanisms, processes of integration, and everyday social interactions of migrant and established communities, as well as how social relations are negotiated, modified, challenged and reproduced.
Further details on the issues addressed by this cluster can be found in the Cluster Overview
Urban Change and Settlement - Current Research Projects
- European Migrant Integration Academy (EU-MIA)
- Attitudes to Migrants, Communication and Local Leadership (AMICALL)
- Cohesion, integration, migration: urbanism, city change, and the future of multiculturalism
- Concordia Discors
- Global migration and the right to the cities of the future
- Oxford Diasporas Programme Project - Religious faith, space and diasporic communities in East London:1880 - present
Previous Projects
- Network of Cities for Local Integration Policy (CLIP)
- Social Externalities: China, India, Africa: ESRC Rising Powers Network
- Tolerance and Multiculturalism: a study of the relationship between tolerance, diversity and transnationalism
- Changing Identities and the shift to assimilationism in the Netherlands
- Engaging with diversity: multiculturalism, integration and identity
- Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks (Plus sub projects on Turkey and Ghana)
- Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain
- Greater London Authority - An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London
- The impact of the migration NGO sector on the development of migration policy: Ireland as a case study
Other Activities
- Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space Conference
- Hiranthi Jayaweera is a member of the Centre for Social Justice's working group on Community Cohesion
- COMPAS Podcasts: University of Oxford feed; iTunesU
Linked Work
- Current project - The health status of migrants and access to health care in the UK
- Previous project - Police cooperation in internal enforcement of immigration control - Germany, United Kingdom and the United States of America
- Previous project - Network of Cities for Local Integration Policy (CLIP)
- Previous project - Political Engagements of Latin American Immigrants in the UK
- Previous project - The impact of the migration NGO sector on the development of migration policy: Ireland as a case study
- Previous project - Filipinos and care work in the UK
