MAR research is carried out under a four broad themes.
This theme of our work considers the complex and rapidly evolving relationship between immigration status, citizenship, and rights, responsibilities and entitlements for migrants and refugees. Our research in this area is concerned with the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and of visibility and invisibility of certain groups in aspects of social and political life in the UK and public sector service provision. A further strands of our work here concerns studies of refugee and migrant organisation in community organisations and migrant-dense working environments.
Our work under this theme addresses the nature of media reporting on asylum and migration issues in the UK and the relationship between media reporting, public opinion, and policy development.
Our research in this area addresses international, European and national frameworks of protection for asylum seekers, both as abstract notions and in terms of actions and procedures. We aim to better understand the operation of the status determination process in the UK from multiple stakeholder perspectives. Our work has addressed issues such as asylum decision making at first decision and appeal, and the provision of publicly funded legal advice for asylum seekers in the UK, as well as matters of borders and enforcement and asylum seekers' experiences of surveillance regimes.
Our research in this area addresses international, European and national frameworks of protection for asylum seekers, both as abstract notions and in terms of actions and procedures. We aim to better understand the operation of the status determination process in the UK from multiple stakeholder perspectives. Our work has addressed issues such as asylum decision making at first decision and appeal, and the provision of publicly funded legal advice for asylum seekers in the UK, as well as matters of borders and enforcement and asylum seekers' experiences of surveillance regimes.