Affiliated Faculty Members
Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director at COMPAS, primarily working on projects in the Citizenship and Belonging, Labour Markets and Welfare clusters, as well as working on the Global Exchange on Migration & Diversity. She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She is the author of ‘Us and Them: the Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls’ (OUP, 2013) and ‘Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour’. She co-edited ‘Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy with Martin Ruhs (2010) and ‘The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation’ with Matthew Gibney and Emanuela Paoletti (2013). Bridget is particularly interested in citizenship, nationalism, immigration enforcement (including ‘trafficking’), and low waged labour, migration and the state. She has worked closely with migrants’ organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and international level.
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/staff/bridget-anderson/
Peggy Levitt:
Peggy Levitt is Chair and Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. She is also the co-director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard. Her books include Religion on the Edge (Oxford University Press, 2012), God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (New Press 2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge 2007), The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (Russell Sage 2002), and The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001). Her current research examines global citizenship and global social protection. In a world on the move, how are people protected and provided for outside the traditional framework of the nation-state? Where do the values, skills and political agendas come from that enable us to embrace diversity next door and across the globe?
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore serves as a professor of geography in the doctoral program in earth and environmental sciences and as associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her wide-ranging research interests include revolution and reform, environments and movements, prisons, urban–rural continuities, and the African diaspora. In 2012, the ASA honored Gilmore with its Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship, an award that recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for the “public good.”
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Ruth-Wilson-Gilmore
Nina Glick Schiller
Nina Glick Schiller is the Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Professor. She is an associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Germany, and senior associate of the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University of New Hampshire, USA. In more than 80 articles and book chapters and three books Nina Glick-Schiller developed a comparative and historical perspective on migration, transnational processes and social relations, diasporic connection and long distance nationalism. Her concern has been to explore differences of power within transnational social fields in relationship to the constitution of gender, race, class, status, poverty, the second generation, citizenship, and national identity.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Nina.glickschiller/research
Ramón Grosfoguel
Ramón Grosfoguel is Associate Professor at the Ethnic Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley. His main research interest links migration studies, race/gender theory and political-economy of the world-system. In his extensive publications he works on the intersectionality of categories like class, race, sexuality and gender.
http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=7
Eleonore Kofman
Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship and co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at Middlesex University. Her main research interests are European family migration policies and experiences; gender and highly skilled migrants and the labour market, including deskilling, and gender, migration and social reproduction. She has published extensively on these topics in journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration and Social Politics.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/kofman-eleonore
Laura Oso
Laura Oso is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña where she held the post of Vice-Dean from 2009 to 2013. Since 2011 she is the coordinator of ESOMI (The International Migration Sociology Team). Her extensive publications have centered mainly on the study of gender and migration, and specifically the insertion of immigrant women on the labour market (domestic work, sex work, ethnic entrepreneurship). Her latest research interests include the gender, migration and development nexus and the intergenerational social mobility strategies of migrants. She has co-coordinated The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism: Global and Development Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
http://www.esomi.es/index.php/en/people/coordinator
Beatriz Padilla
Beatriz Padilla is a Senior Research Fellow at CICS-Nova (Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon). Her research interests include gender, migration, Latin America, public policy, inequalities, race relations and social movements. She got her Ph.D. & MS in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing, and a Master in Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, in the US. She was Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho. She is the coordinator of the research project “Multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective: EU-Latin America (GOVDIV)” ( FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-International Research Staff Exchange Scheme-IRSES), and the Portuguese PI of “Understanding approaches to health-seeking in superdiverse neighbourhoods” (UPWEB), Welfare Future – Norface II.
http://www.cies.iscte.pt/investigadores/ficha.jsp?pkid=146
Antía Pérez-Caramés
She currently holds the post of a PhD Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Administration at the University of A Coruña. She has been the coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in International Migration (2014-2015). Her areas of research cover the issues of care and gender, population ageing and international migrations.
http://www.esomi.es/index.php/en/people/researchers/476-antiaperezcarames