I have worked and researched on forced migration since 2007 and have written on various issues relating to asylum, irregular migration, citizenship and immigration enforcement in the UK context. I have particular interests in time, uncertainty, masculinity, the family, emotions, court practice and bureaucratic relations. Since 2018, I have been a Birmingham Fellow and Assistant Professor at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, where I lead research on new developments in immigration enforcement. This includes the diffusion of immigration logic & policies into other sectors, and the rights of children with parents facing deportation.
In 2014-17, I led the 'Deportation and the Family', ESRC-funded Future Research Leaders project at the University of Bristol. This qualitative research project examined the family lives, gender roles and Article 8 rights of 'mixed-citizenship' families and men at risk of deportation. For project report, policy briefings and blog posts see: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/research/projects/deportation-and-the-family/index.aspx
In 2013, I was an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, working with Prof. Nick Gill on an ESRC-funded project investigating asylum appeals across UK Asylum & Immigration Tribunal hearing centre. I have a DPhil from the University of Oxford examining identity disputes within the British asylum system, with a focus on refused asylum seekers and immigration detainees. Previously, I worked as an MP's immigration caseworker, an international development consultant and policy analyst at DfID's Global AIDS Policy Team and Commission for Africa.
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
- Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
- Attitudes, migration and migrants
- Media representations of migration
- Ethnic, religious and national minorities
- Diasporas and transnational communities
- Descendants of migrants
- Marriage and migration
- Family relations and migration
- Upbringing of children and migration
- Intergroup relations and contact
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
Roles
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University of Birmingham
University, United Kingdom
Assistant Professor & Birmingham Fellow
Research
The UK’s hostile environment: Deputising immigration control
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths, Colin Yeo |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Critical Social Policy |
| Citations (WoS) | 98 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The tribunal atmosphere: On qualitative barriers to access to justice
| Authors | Nick Gill, Jennifer Allsopp, Andrew Burridge, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Geoforum | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Interrogating time and temporality in migration governance
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe
| Authors | Nick Gill, Jennifer Allsopp, Andrew Burridge, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘My passport is just my way out of here’. Mixed-immigration status families, immigration enforcement and the citizenship implications
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Identities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Foreign, criminal: a doubly damned modern British folk-devil
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Seeking asylum and the politics of family
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Families, Relationships and Societies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Linguistic incomprehension in British asylum appeal hearings
| Authors | Nick Gill, Rebecca Rotter, Andrew Burridge, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Anthropology Today | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Review: Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | cultural geographies |
The Convergence of the Criminal and the Foreigner in the Production of Citizenship
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths |
| Book Title | Citizenship and its Others | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Epilogue: ‘Claiming Time’ Special Issue
| Authors | Melanie Griffiths, Melanie Griffiths |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Migration and Integration |
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals
| Authors | Nick Gill, Nicole Hoellerer, Jennifer Allsopp, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Political Geography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |