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22 June 2009: Migration research – grant success

Dr Ayse Güveli from the Department of Sociology and Dr Lucinda Platt from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) are to collaborate on two major studies looking into the impacts of migration in Europe after being involved in successful bids for substantial research funding.

Grants totalling 5.5 million Euros have just been awarded for the two projects by NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe), a partnership between fourteen research councils to increase co-operation in research and research policy in Europe.

Dr Güveli and Dr Platt will work with colleagues from Turkey, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany on the first project, Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe, which will explore migration processes, the multi-generational transmission of social, cultural, religious and economic resources, values and behaviour.The research will be based around 500 Turkish families, their immigrant descendants in Europe and those who remained in Turkey, and will involve face to face interviews with some 6000 family members across four generations.

Dr Güveli and Dr Platt are also part of the research team for a second project looking at the causes and consequences of early socio-cultural integration processes among new immigrants in Europe focusing on Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland and Great Britain.