Laurence Brown
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My research focuses on the relationships between different forms of mobility, and particularly the dynamics of Caribbean migration to Britain, France and the Americas. I am Lecturer in Migration History at the University of Manchester. My research in migration developed as part of my PhD in comparative history at the University of York and during a lectureship at the University of the West Indies (Barbados) in 2000. I have also taught history at universities in the France and Australia, before moving to Manchester in January 2006.
I am in the process of completing a study of Caribbean migration to Manchester using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map the social networks and cultural exchanges that shaped immigrant identity in the post-industrial city. I was also a consultant on the Project81 community history project exploring the impact of the 1981 riots on Moss Side.
Within CRESC I have two main research interests:
1) Exploring how the social life of methods used within the social sciences to study ethnicity and migration have changed over time.
2) Using GIS to explore the socio-cultural dynamics of ethnic segregation in Britain, and how these have varied across time and space. This research is particularly concerned with the impact of socio-economic inequalities on migrant experiences, the relationship between segregation and the life course, and the connections between spatial and social mobilities.
