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Transnational Mobility

The Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies promotes research into cross border mobility phenomena including migration of things, financial transfers as well as human migration. The RCTS welcomes critical approaches and methodologies and policy oriented research in transnational migration. 

Transnational mobility research stream is led by Professor Ibrahim Sirkeci incorporates the college wide Transnational Migration Research Group (TMRG) where faculty members with teaching/research interest in human mobility promote research on migration and migrants.

Currently RCTS, in collaboration with COMPAS and LCSS is organising an international conference on Turkish Migration in Europe: Projecting the next 50 years, a unique event aims to bring leading scholars, researchers, students and policy makers across Europe to discuss the future of Turkish migration and immigrants in Europe.

The Centre members' recent publications focused on migration and development, remittances and financial crisis, ethnic segregation and labour markets, cultures of migration, internal mobility, and conflict model of migration. 

The RCTS research interests cover:

  • Transnational mobility

  • Transnational social fields

  • Refugees and asylum seekers

  • Remittances and development

  • Remittance flows to and between advanced economies

  • High skilled migration

  • Migration and development

  • Transnational mobility and labour markets

  • Intra-organisation transfers

  • Ethnic groups and minorities

  • Internal and international movers

  • Mobility and consumption

  • Cultures of migration

  • Transnational communities

  • Movers and non-movers

  • Migration, conflict, environment of insecurity

  • Theory of human mobility

  • Methods in transnational migration research

Publications from the Transnational Mobility research stream.

Stream Researchers

Prof Ibrahim Sirkeci

Prof Jeffrey H. Cohen

Neli Esipova

Dr Mireille Hebing

Dr Bradley Saunders

Dr Ayman Zohry

Page last updated 4/16/2012

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