Graduate Student, Sociology
PhD Student -year 2
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Bob Carter
Gurminder Bhambra |
About
I am an ESRC funded 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. My research interests are in the area of political and historical sociology. Specifically: colonialism, postcolonialism, human rights, asylum, immigration, and citizenship.
My doctoral research, provisionally titled ‘Reconnecting histories in British Asylum Policy’, takes a historical institutionalist perspective in analysing current British asylum and refugee policies. Through an institutional orders approach adapted from US political science, the project seeks to investigate the link between Atlantic slavery, British colonialism and decolonisation as driving forces in attitudes towards immigrants, minorities and ‘others’ from outside of Europe, with particular reference to politics and policy making on asylum. My contention is that the historical legacy of the British Empire, though invisible in public political discourse on immigration and asylum, is an important element in understanding such policies in the present.
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