Dr
Alice Bloch and Professor Roger Zetter are joint
project directors with overall responsibility
for all aspects of the project and the delivery
of the reports. Alice Bloch is also the principal
investigator and manages day to day running and
the budget. Nando Sigona is the full-time senior
researcher on the project.
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Alice
Bloch (a.bloch@city.ac.uk)
has carried out qualitative and quantitative research
with refugees and migrants and focus groups with
refugee and migrant organisational representatives.
She has trained and managed teams of interviewers
and has included capacity building components
to her research. Recent relevant projects include:
research with Zimbabweans in the UK and South
Africa (IOM 2004-5); refugees’ barriers
to employment (DWP 2001-2002) and research with
Somalis in the UK (Refuge Action 2002). She has
also published papers on methodological issues
in research with refugees, asylum seekers and
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Roger
Zetter (roger.zetter@rsc.ox.ac.uk)
is the director of the Refugee Studies Centre
(University of Oxford). He
has over 25 years experience in research with
refugees, asylum seekers and other migrant populations
in the UK, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and the
Middle East. His experience is reflected in
a highly developed awareness of the sensitivities
raised by research with vulnerable groups, as
well as the ethical safeguards and protocols
which it demands. Field experience has been
based on a variety of data collection and analytical
methods appropriate to this research project
including ethnographies, narrative, testimony
and oral and life histories and key informants
surveys. Recent research projects forming the
context for the current project have been funded
by ESRC (2002-3) on Refugee Community-Based
Organisations, three projects for the Home Office
(2000-3) on The Impact of Asylum Policies in
Europe, Dispersal Policies for Asylum Seekers
in the UK, and Asylum Reception Policy and Process
in Europe, European Commission European Refugee
Fund (2002-3) Survey on Policy and Practice
Related to Refugee Integration, Joseph Rowntree
Foundation (2004-5), Immigration, Social Capital
and Social Cohesion: What are the Links? and
four projects for the Housing Corporation (1997-2003)
on Social Housing Provision for Refugees and
Asylum Seekers
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Nando
Sigona (nando.sigona@rsc.ox.ac.uk)
has done research on minority and migration issues
at the EU level and in EUMS. His work focuses
in particular on three research areas: forced
migration and EU policy and practice; migrant
communities’ claim making and mobilisation;
and Romany politics and social exclusion. He has
worked on a number of research project funded
by, among the others, UK Home Office, EU, OSCE,
Refugee Housing Association. He is also research
programme coordinator of osservAzione,
an independent action research group working on
anti-racism in Italy.
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