Our Research
We are a team of scholars interested in mobility and, specifically, contemporary European migration in the UK. We have a background in linguistics and sociology, but we are happy to engage in collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Our mission is to produce and disseminate innovative research that contributes to a deeper understanding of the experiences of European migrants in the United Kingdom and related phenomena (e.g. onward migration, return migration, skilled migration). By engaging with a broad network of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, we aim to enhance public awareness and support the integration and well-being of European migrants in the UK.
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA24). To Tie or not to tie: skilled professionals, transnational mobility, family and friends
It was a pleasure to cross the disciplinary borders into the anthropology of mobility and present our research to this excellent panel convened by Mari Korpela (Tampere University) and Klavs Sedlenieks (Riga Stradins University) at the 18th Biennial Conference of...
UKR/ESRCI Festival of Social Science and Liverpool European Festival (2024)
Researchers Jessica Hampton and Caterina Guardamagna teamed up with actors Ivan Fantasia and Pasqualina Romano in a short theatre piece entitled “Where are you from? From provocation to curiosity: a journey into the experience of a multicultural society” written...
“European Migrants in the UK in the Brexit Era: Discursive Approaches” Symposium, University of Liverpool (2024)
We were delighted to present a paper at the European Migrants in the UK in the Brexit Era: Discursive Approaches Symposium, that we convened online and free of charge on 13th-14th June 2024...
University of Liverpool – Panel on Law and Social Justice (2023)
We are proud to have been invited to discuss our research at the panel “Law and Social Justice in the Arts and Humanities: Intersections and Interdisciplinarities” organised by the University of Liverpool - School of Law and Social Justice in November 2023. The...
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) (2023)
We were glad to present The University of Central Lancashire - Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX). We presented a paper entitled “The small things that end up really affecting you”: eu academics in the uk facing hostility in the Brexit age....
XV Symposium on Politeness, University of Madeira (2023)
We gave a talk on microaggressions experienced by European academics in the UK at the Symposium on Politeness hosted by the University of Madeira in Funchal in July 2023. The talk explored how the concept of microaggression elaborated in Psychology and Philosophy...
British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) conference, University of York (2023)
We gave a paper at the British Association for Applied Linguistics at the University of York in August 2023. The topic of the conference “Opening up Applied Linguistics” gave us the opportunity to explore the intersections between Linguistics, Philosophy and...
19th IMISCOE Conference, Oslo Metropolitan University (2022)
We presented our research at the 19th IMISCOE annual conference, organised at the Oslo Metropolitan University in June 2022. The presentation, ‘Brexit, EU27 Academics in the UK and experiences of hostility and relative privilege’, was part of the panel ‘Privileged...
