About the centre
Building on Westminster’s long-term commitment to teaching and researching languages, cultures, and transnational mobilities, HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces) was launched in 2014 as an innovative and vibrant research group with a distinctive focus on the intersection between migration, languages and spaces in the UK and in the global context. Based in the School of Humanities, it has grown into a university-wide research hub that is aimed at promoting theoretically informed, interdisciplinary-oriented and empirically based research to generate critical understanding of new mobilities in increasingly dynamic and intersected diasporic worlds.
Themes
HOMELandS is a university-wide research centre that engages with cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into migration and diaspora in diverse geographic, social and cultural contexts and across a wide range of topics. Our main themes include:
- Migration and advocacy
- Migration and the city
- Migration and the digital
- Migration, diversity and in/exclusion
- Migration, education and language
- Migration, film and visual culture
- Migration and governance
- Migration, cultural heritage and memory
- Migration and labour
- Migration and media
- Migration and peripheral populations
Projects
Have a look at our diverse research areas at the HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces)
Knowledge Exchange and Impact Case Studies
Enhancing knowledge exchange with wider communities and conducting innovative impactful research are at the centre of our research objectives and activities. Here are some of the KE activities we have conducted, and the impact case studies Centre members have carried out for REF 2014 and REF2021.
Publications
HOMELandS' recent publications include:
- Cetin, U and Jenkins, C. 2024. Alevi Kurd: Community formation, visibility and integration in the UK. In Arkilic, A and Senay, B. (ed) Routledge Handbook of Turkey’s Diasporas. London, Routledge
- Cetin, U. and Jenkins, C. 2024. Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of A New Ethno-religious Identity. in: Wang, C. and Lamb, T. (ed.) Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters, pp. 78-100
- Cetin, U. & Jenkins, C. 2023. The Sunnification and Turkification of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: the use of education as a colonising practice. In Anand, D. & Kaul, N. (Eds) Contemporary Kashmiris and Kurds: Conflict and Coloniality. London. University of Westminster Press
People
Find out more about our academic staff and up to date details of our research outputs.
Doctoral Research
We support a vibrant and active postgraduate research community with doctoral researchers engaging with research into migration and diaspora in the UK and beyond from diverse disciplinary perspectives.
Funding application success
Members of HOMELandS have received awards from major funding bodies in the UK, Europe and other countries as well as internal funding from the University of Westminster Research Communities. Here are some of the ongoing and recently completed funded projects. We are interested in developing further collaboration and partnership with other universities, NGOs and community groups to engage with funding applications and impactful research into migration and diaspora in the UK and globally.
