Time & Venue: 2nd July, 5.30 pm, Room G15, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham Personal, social and material resource loss and gain is instrumental in immigrant life and host-immigrant conflict. Using the "love of baseball" metaphor, which has long been a standard for immigrant acceptance in the United States, Professor Stevan Hobfoll (The Judd and... Continue Reading →
Much current public and political debate about immigration and diversity assumes that there should be tensions on the grounds of ethnic and religious differences. In the London Borough of Hackney, however, diversity is the norm and, as a result of a long history of diversification, cultural and religious differences are rarely issues of contestation. There seem... Continue Reading →
Report on the first roundtable of the IRiS Key Concepts series by Rachel Humphris, IRiS Associate Researcher The IRiS Key Concepts Roundtable series brings scholars together to discuss and interrogate the theoretical and analytical contours of superdiversity through its relationships to other germane concepts. Building on insights from the 2014 IRiS International Conference and a... Continue Reading →
by Jenny Phillimore @japhillimore With the monthly asylum application figures published today and these demonstrating a 527 reduction in the number of asylum seekers making their claims on British soil from 2751 in January 2015 and from 2370 the equivalent period last year, I find myself wondering why have the numbers decreased? Indeed the general... Continue Reading →
New project supported by IRiS
written by Caroline Tagg and Esther Asprey
Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham
The first week of March saw us spending our afternoons sitting at our stall in the foyer of the new Library of Birmingham. We were ‘Messaging in the Midlands’, a research project funded by the Institute of Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) to explore the diversity of identities performed through online messages and the ways in which people pick up and exploit a variety of locally-available resources to do this. Our aim was to attract people to our stall, get them to fill in a short questionnaire on their background (where they were from and where they had lived), the languages they spoke and the online platforms they used, and then ask them to contribute examples of their online messages.
I, Caroline, am a researcher on both this project and the TLANG…
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IRiS and SAST Conference, Birmingham 2 July 2015 The Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham, together with the project Social Anchoring in Superdiverse Transnational Social Spaces (SAST) is organising a one-day interdisciplinary conference which will focus upon theories on and research into adaptation and integration in an era of superdiversity.... Continue Reading →
By Nando Sigona (originally published in Postcard from...) Channel 4 ‘Who are you?‘ series* by/with Turner-Prize winner Grayson Perry is a fascinating exploration into contemporary portraiture and society, as one alone was not already a big enough challenge! the series follows Perry’s creative journey to the production of portraits that capture individuals (not the usual portrait... Continue Reading →
Two new IRiS Working Papers (no. 6 and 7) exploring issues related migration, social networks and integration policy and practice are out today. Using a wide range of literature, Dr Marta Kindler and colleagues (IRiS WP no. 6) focus upon the ways in which social networks and social capital have been found to promote or... Continue Reading →
Please find below details of 3 Research Fellow vacancies to work on the project ‘Understanding the Practice and Developing the Concept of Welfare-Bricolage (UPWEB)’ which is part of the NORFACE-Research-Network ‘The Future of Welfare States’ and connects researchers in Great Britain, Sweden, Portugal and Germany. The project will reconceptualise welfare theory by mapping how residents... Continue Reading →
Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement
The Age of Superdiversity 