Centre on Race, Ethnicity and Migration
The Centre on Race, Ethnicity and Migration (CREM) was founded in 2003 in order to give a focus for both empirical and theoretical work in the comparative study of race and ethnic relations, racism, migration and refugee studies.
It has continued to develop its research work during the current academic year and it has also organised a series of lively seminars on themes linked to the Centre’s core research interests.
MA Programmes
PhD Students
The Centre has a number of research students who work on their own research projects, often linked to the core research interests of staff. We welcome new research students on all aspects of our work and beyond, and potential students are welcome to make informal contact with staff about supervision of their research.
In October 2007 we welcomed two new students to the Department of Sociology funded under the 1+3 scheme of the ESRC. They will both undertake the MSc in Social Research Methods and Sociology before embarking on their PhD research in October 2008. They are working on the following topics:
Assunta Maria Nicolini Afghan Women on the Move: The Impact of Transnationalism on Gender Relations
Supervisors: Liza Schuster and Angela Coyle
Bernadetta Siara Gender Relations among Poles Living in London
Supervisors: Liza Schuster and Angela Coyle
Seminars 2007-08
During the Autumn CREM has hosted two seminars.
The first, on 25th October 2007, was given by Michael Hajimichael (University of Nicosia) on Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary Cyprus.
The second seminar, on 8th November 2007, was given by Bridget Anderson (COMPAS, University of Oxford) on Why I Worry About Motherhood and Apple Pie, But I Dont Agree with Slavery: Reflection on Trafficking Debates.
We are planning some more seminars during the spring and summer terms, so keep a lookout on these pages. All seminars are open to staff and students alike, both from within and outside of City University.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Professor John Solomos jointly edits Ethnic and Racial Studies , the top ranked journal in this field, with Professor Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey. It is published by Routledge 8 times a year, and it carries a mixture of research articles, discussion pieces, book reviews and review articles.
Ethnic and Racial Studies Special Issues
Ethnic and Racial Studies has a number of special issues in the pipeline that cover key aspects of contemporary scholarship and research in this field:
Volume 30, Number 6, November 2007
New Directions in the Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Guest Editor: Steven Vertovec
Volume 31, Number 1, January 2008
Whiteness and White Identities
Guest Editors: France Winddance Twine and Charles Gallagher
Volume 31, Number 4, May 2008
Transnational Politics from a Transatlantic Perspective
Guest Editors: Marco Martiniello and Jean-Michel Lafleur
Ethnic and Racial Studies Annual Lecture 2009
7th May 2009
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
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Deborah Posel
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Deborah Posel is founding director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she is also professor of sociology.
Posel completed a D. Phil at Nuffield College, University of Oxford in 1987, where she was also a Gwilyn Gibbon Prize Research Fellow. Following a research position in the African Studies Institute at Wits, she joined the Department of Sociology in 1990 where she remained for ten years, working her way up to Associate Professor. During 1994/5, she was a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at the Harvard University. She took up her position as Director of WISER in July 2000 and in August 2000 was made Ad Hominem Professor of Sociology.
She has written extensively on the history of apartheid, including The Making of Apartheid 1948 to 1961: Conflict and Compromise (Clarendon Press, 1991 & 1997) and Apartheid’s Genesis, co- edited with P. Bonner and P. Delius (WUP & Ohio, 1994). More recent work focuses on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has produced a co-edited book on Commissioning the Truth: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the politics of sexuality and death in the midst of HIV/AIDS.
Her publications include The Making of Apartheid, 1948 –1961 (1991) and an edited collection, Commissioning the Past: Understanding the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002).
Staff Linked to the Centre
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