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Research Interests
Tamlyn Monson's research focuses on inequalities of mobility, space and power, how they are reproduced, and what they produce. Her work embraces a range of themes including established-newcomer relations; informal institutions and everyday practices; place-based solidarities, political subjectivities, moral economies and repertoires of collective action; competing notions of social justice and logics of inclusion and exclusion; conflict, displacement and insecurity; and policy responses to conflict, cohesion and integration.
Biography
Tamlyn Monson is a research fellow on two cross-European research projects which investigate migrant arrival and integration processes. She has a multidisciplinary academic background, with a PhD in Sociology (LSE), and Masters degrees in Forced Migration Studies (U. Witwatersrand) and Applied Linguistics (Birkbeck). Much of her professional life has been dedicated to research, policy and knowledge mobilisation around issues of community relations, migration and integration. She has worked across the government, NGO and academic spheres both in the UK and South Africa. From 2007-2011, she worked as a researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society, and during this period led a South African Human Rights Commission enquiry into issues of rule of law, justice and impunity arising from collective violence against non-nationals in that country. Tamlyn has since worked for UCL’s Development Planning Unit, the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Sociology, Doctorate, Citizenship, 'xenophobia' amd collective mobilization in a South African settlement: The politics of exclusion at the threshold of the state, London School of Economics and Political Science
Award Date: 30 Oct 2015
Keywords
- HT Communities. Classes. Races
- Inequality
- Mobilisation
- Social relations
- Conflict
- JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
- G Geography (General)
- Human geography
- Political geography
- Economic Geography
- BJ Ethics
- Ethics of representation
- Research ethics
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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ReRoot: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
1/04/21 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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AIMEC: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in European cities
Wessendorf, S., Arnaut, K., Hanhörster, H., Monson, T., Gembus, M., Mareels, E., Meeus, B. & Nessler, M.
1/03/21 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
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The politics of xenophobic exclusion in Africa: mobilisations, local orders and violence
Fourchard, L., Segatti, A., Monson, T., Kihato, C., Landau, L. B., Misago, J., Blaser, C., Olago, M., Mitullah, W., Tshibwabwa-Kuditshini, J., Akinyele, R., Lar, J., Higazi, A. & Pratten, D.
1/01/11 → 31/12/13
Project: Project at former HEI
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It’s a two-way thing: symbolic boundaries and convivial practices in changing neighbourhoods in London and Tshwane
Wessendorf, S. & Monson, T., 25 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Planning. 8, 4, 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Refugee families being moved from London to Leeds – our research shows what is lost when newcomers have to leave a neighbourhood
Gembus, M. & Monson, T., 17 Feb 2023, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Rethinking encounter through parochial meaning-making on the urban margins in South Africa
Monson, T., 25 Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Migration Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collective mobilization and the struggle for squatter citizenship: Rereading “xenophobic” violence in a South African settlement
Monson, T. J., 4 Apr 2016, In: International Journal of Conflict and Violence. 9, 1, p. 39-55 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Citizenship, 'xenophobia' and collective mobilization in a South African settlement: the politics of exclusion at the threshold of the state
Monson, T., Aug 2015, 286 p.Research output: Thesis (awarded by external institution) › Doctoral Thesis