Job vacancy on ESRC project ‘Becoming adult: Futures & wellbeing of former unaccompanied minors’

The Institute for Research into Superdiversity is seeking to recruit a Research Associate to work on a new ESRC-funded research project on the transitions to adulthood of former unaccompanied migrant minors. This ESRC-funded research is a collaboration between the School of Social Policy’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), and the University of Oxford’s Department... Continue Reading →

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Ya’ Gotta’ love baseball: Resource caravan passageways and immigrant integration – distinguished lecture

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 →

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Intersectionality and superdiversity: What’s the difference?

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 →

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Asylum crisis? What crisis?

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 →

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Messaging in the Midlands

New project supported by IRiS

TLANGblog's avatartlang blog

written by Caroline Tagg and Esther Asprey

Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham

lObThe 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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Rethinking integration: New perspectives on adaptation and settlement in an era of superdiversity

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 →

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