Current Projects

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SECUREU - The Securitisation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities and the Rise of Xenophobia in the EU

SECUREU focuses on the role of the securitisation of ethnicity as pursued by both the EU and its individual member states.

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From Russia with War

This interdisciplinary research project combines the research team members’ joint experience of conducting high-risk ethnographic fieldwork amongst former and active members of armed groups in order to provide an in-depth explanation as to why individuals mobilise to become foreign fighters in the context of the former Soviet Union.

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Centre-Periphery Relations in Flux: National Politics in the Soviet Borderlands

This project examines the radical shifts in centre-periphery relations in the post war USSR under Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin (1944-1953) and Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964)

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Gaelic and Sámi: Promoting Mutual Learning in the Protection of Indigenous Languages

This project, conducted in partnership with Várdduo Centre for Sámi Research, Umeå University, Sweden, compares current institutional arrangements for the maintenance and revitalisation of Gaelic and Sámi cultures, with a focus on languages