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Professor Adrian Favell Awarded ERC Advanced Grant
University College Cork (UCC) Professor Adrian Favell has been awarded €2.5 million by the European Research Council to lead a major new study on international migration.
The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant is awarded to established research leaders to lead cutting-edge research.
Professor Adrian Favell, Founding Director of UCC’s Radical Humanities Laboratory and a leading figure in international migration studies, has received funding for a five-year project entitled MIGMOBS - The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism.
The MIGMOBS project is a global study of international migration and mobility categories and how these have changed over the fifty-year period of neoliberalism 1970-2020. It will explore how these changes in the governance of international population movements during a period of globalisation have affected the comings and goings of people across borders.
MIGMOBS will explore how selectivity and categorisation in migration and mobilities relates to shifting global inequalities and hierarchies of power, measured by the different access enabled by passports internationally. It will also consider how the COVID-19 pandemic may have affected this.
The project will establish a partnership with four institutions: the European University Institute, in Florence, which will host the Global Mobilities Project database at the heart of the project; the University of Leeds; Waseda University in Tokyo; and the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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