Philip Marfleet has worked in the fields of Development Studies, International Politics, Migration and Refugee Studies and Middle East Studies. He was Director of the Refugee Research Centre at the University of East London and is currently Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at UEL. His main research interests are: globalisation and migration, patterns and dynamics of mass displacement, migration and the state, racism and exclusion in Europe, religious activism, and social and political movements of the Middle East.

Higher Education

BA (Sociology/ Geography, University of Hull 1969), MA (Social Anthropology, University of Hull 1974), PhD (Refugee Studies, University of East London 2009)

Recent publications

Books

• (forthcoming 2012) Migration, Theory and Society (London: Sage)
•  (forthcoming 2012) (with Chatty, D.) Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration (Edward Elgar)
•  (2009) with El-Mahdi, R (eds) Egypt: the moment of change (London: Zed)
•  [republished 2009 (The American University in Cairo Press: Cairo; republished in Arabic 2010 (Dar al-Shorouk: Cairo)]
•  (2008) with Goodnow, K & Lohman J, Museums, the Media and Refugees: Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion (Oxford: Berghahn)
•  (2006) Refugees in a Global Era (Basingstoke: Palgrave)

Articles in refereed journals

• (forthcoming 2011) “Displacements past and present”, in International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Vol 5, No 1, Special Issue - “Iraq’s Displacements”
•  (forthcoming 2011) “Displacement and denial: IDPs in today’s Iraq”, in International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Vol 5, No 1, Special Issue - “Iraq’s Displacements”
•  (forthcoming 2011) “Understanding ‘sanctuary’: faith and traditions of asylum”, in Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 24, No 2, Special Issue - “Faith-Based Humanitarianism”
•  (2011) with Blustein, D., “ ‘Irregular’ migrants and the world of work”, in Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Vol 76, No 2
•  (2007) “Refugees and history: why we must address the past”, in Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol 26, No 3, pages 136-148
•  (2007) “Iraq’s refugees: war and the strategy of exit”, in International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Vol 1, No 3, pages 397-419
•  (2007) “ ‘Hidden’/’forgotten’: predicaments of the urban refugee”, in Refuge Vol 23, No 2, pages 36-45

 Book chapters

• (forthcoming 2012) “ ‘Collective amnesia’ – refugees and the problem of History”, in Chatty, D. & Marfleet, P. (eds) Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration (Edward Elgar)
•  (forthcoming 2011) “IDPs and the state: the case of Iraq”, in Koser, K & Martin, S (eds) The Migration-Displacement Nexus (Oxford: Berghahn)
•  (2010) “Cleansing of Minds”, in Baker, R & Ismael, T (eds) Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (London: Pluto), pages 212-238
•  (2009) with El-Mahdi, R., “Introduction”, in El-Mahdi, R & Marfleet, P (eds) Egypt: the moment of change (London: Zed), pages 1-13
•  (2009) “State and Society” in El-Mahdi, R & Marfleet, P (eds) Egypt: the moment of change (London: Zed), pages 14-33

PhD supervisions

• Ali, A. “Choice and constraint: narratives of Iraqi refugees in Jordan”

• Cetti, F. “Terror and the figure of the refugee”

• Mhlanga, L. “Presumption of guilt: criminalisation and marginalisation of migrant communities in the global war on terror”

• Nassari, J. “Refugees, displacement and memory”

• Sefre, D. “Refugee experiences in education: A comparative study of Iranian and Afghani pupils in London’s secondary schools”

• Sutton, M. “From solidarity to sanctuary: refugees’ experiences with church communities”

• Taylor, H. “The meaning of home for Cypriot refugees in London”

• Thorpe, S. “Sudanese youth fraternities in Cairo”

• Zaman, T. “The Noble Sanctuary: Islamic traditions and Iraqi refugees in Syria”

Recent conferences/symposia

Conference papers

• May 2011: “Migrants, exclusion and the European Union”, at Immigration Policies and Human Rights, King’s College London
• May 2011: “Egypt’s revolution and ‘exit’ from the state”, at North Africa in transition: Mobility, forced migration and humanitarian crises, International Migration Institute/ Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University
• February 2011: “Sanctuary past and present”, Birkbeck College/ University of East London Symposium, Migration and Refugee Studies, Raphael Samuel History Centre
• October 2010: “Neo-liberalism, migration and the state”, at: Globalization and Culture: ComparativeStudies in Migration, Citizenship and Transnational Identities, Acadia University, Canada
• September 2010: “Understanding ‘sanctuary’: faith and traditions of asylum”, at Faith-Based Humanitarianism, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
• July 2010: “Citizenship and the Politics of Displacement in Iraq”, at: World Congress for Middle East Studies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalunya
• June 2010: “Politics of labour migration from Egypt to the Gulf”, at: Migrations to the Gulf Countries: From Exception to Normality? International Symposium, International Migration Institute, Oxford University
• April 2010: “Security, conflict and displacement”, at Iraq’s refugees, Centre for Regional Human Security, Amman
• March 2010: “ ‘Needed not wanted’ – irregular migrants and the world of work”, at: Migration-Career, International Symposium (ESRC research network), Loughborough University
• March 2010: “Unequal access – migrants and the challenge of the media”, at: Migrants and the Media, CMRB/ MRN, London
• January 2010: “ ‘Remaking’ Iraq: the state and mass displacement”, at: Future of Iraq: Social, Economic and Political Issues in Question, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/ Japan Centre for Middle East Studies, Beirut
• July 2009: “From Food Riots to Forced Migration”, at International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Nicosia, Cyprus
• July 2009, “Cultural Cleansing: Iraq’s intellectuals and the refugee crisis”, at International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Nicosia, Cyprus
• September 2009: “Neo-liberalism, migration and the state”, at New Times: Economic crisis, geo-political transformation and the emergent migration order, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford
• July 2008: “ ‘Unmixing’ Iraq: migrants and the state”, at International Association for Contemporary Iraqi Studies, SOAS, London
• February 2008, “Refugees and work – predicaments and possibilities”, at Migration-Career, International Symposium (ESRC research network), Loughborough University
• January 2008: “Dynamics of mass displacement: the case of Iraq”, at International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Cairo, Egypt