Graduate Student, Sociology
PhD Student -year 1
About
I am an ESRC funded 1st year PhD student in the Department of Sociology here at the University of Warwick. My research interests are in the area of political sociology. Specifically; human rights, asylum, immigration, citizenship and discourse.
My doctoral research is looking at discourse and the politics of asylum seekers rights in the UK. I am interested in how, within the context of competing discourses on the subject of asylum, asylum policy appears to privilege certain perspectives over others. In addition to analysing government discourses on asylum, I am starting to look at discourses of resistance. By this I mean social movements, NGOs, think tanks, academics, and politicians or parties who are challenging the prevailing narrative on what rights asylum seekers should or should not have access to. I am particularly interested in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and its potential as a political project as well as a research method.
Contact Information
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/syphbe
Department of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK
