Current Projects
October 2010 - September 2012
The key issue of this project is to allow migrants to use a tool and method which values their skills and competences and enhances their social and professional integration within national labour markets. The Migrapass is a Leonardo da Vinci project, involving teams from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Spain and the UK. Professor John Eade is leading the UK team based at Roehampton University.
March 2010 - September 2011
Islam in Greece: Religious Identity and Practice Among Indigenous Muslims and Muslim Migrants
Dr. Venetia Evergeti is leading this AHRC funded project on the negotiations of religious identity and practice and the politics of recognition of religious rights. The study focuses on Pakistani immigrants and indigenous Muslims in Greece. It will explore the role of religion as a ‘marker’, possibly among others, of collective identification for these groups and the extent to which they relate to each other and the wider society. The research seeks to examine:
- how religious identity and practice are negotiated and organised formally and informally by the two groups under study; and
- how Muslims in Greece manage and express their religious identity in a country where the Church is not legally separated from the state.
For more information, please contact Dr. Venetia Evergeti (v.evergeti@surrey.ac.uk).
May 2009 - 2012
Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP)
CRONEM has been awarded €1,499,839 by the European Commission under FP7. The funding is for a research project entitled “Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP)”, which started on May 1st 2009 and will run from 2009 to 2012. The project is being coordinated by Professor Martyn Barrett (Academic Director of CRONEM), and will draw on the disciplines of Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, Social Policy and Education.
The research will examine the processes which influence democratic ownership and participation among ethnic minorities, migrants, women and young people in nine countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey). It will explore the macro-level contextual factors (including historical, political, electoral, economic and policy factors), the proximal social factors (including familial, educational and media factors) and the psychological factors (including motivational, cognitive, attitudinal and identity factors) which facilitate and/or inhibit civic and political engagement and participation. In addition to researchers at the University of Surrey from the Departments of Psychology (Martyn Barrett, Nick Emler), Politics (Rachel Brooks, Tereza Capelos, Roberta Guerrina and Nick Walters) and Sociology (Ian Brunton-Smith), the project will involve partners at the following institutions:
- University of Liège, Belgium
- Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- University of Jena, Germany
- University of Bologna, Italy
- University of Porto, Portugal
- Örebro University, Sweden
- Ankara University, Turkey
- Queen's University Belfast, UK
For more information, please visit the project's website