Dr Melanie Griffiths BA (Oxon), MA, DPhil

Dr Melanie Griffiths

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Birmingham Fellow

Contact details

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School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Griffiths is a social scientist, working on mobility and immigration enforcement in the UK. She has been a Birmingham Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences since February 2018, after completing an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant at the University of Bristol.

Qualifications

PhD (DPhil)

Postgraduate supervision

Migration, asylum, immigration detention, deportation, families, Article 8 rights, gender, men and masculinity, time, bureaucracies, legal courts, hostile environment

Research

Dr Griffiths has been a Birmingham Fellow since February 2018. Based at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, she is leading research on deportation, the 'hostile environment' and new developments in immigration enforcement under Brexit. Between 2014-17, she was PI of an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant at the University of Bristol, working on the family lives and Article 8 rights of 'mixed-immigration status' families and men at risk of deportation.

In 2013, Dr Griffiths was an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, working with Dr Nick Gill on an ESRC-funded project looking at asylum appeals. Her DPhil research was conducted at the University of Oxford, on the British asylum system, with a particular focus on refused asylum seekers and immigration detainees. It considered the role and negotiation of identification requirements in the asylum system. Dr Griffiths also writes on time, uncertainty, masculinity and bureaucratic relations in the migration fields.

Migration broadly (including irregular, undocumented, family, asylum, EEA nationals), immigration enforcement and incarceration, ‘foreign criminals’ discourse, the hostile environment, time, men and masculinity, family life and Article 8 rights, belonging and citizenship, bureaucracies, law and the judiciary, identity and identifications.Ìý

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Other activities:

  • Chair of trustees: Open Door (NGO, Oxford), 2011-
  • Member of the Detention Forum (NGO, London), 2011-
  • Member of the management committee (a trustee): Asylum Welcome (NGO, Oxford), 2011-18

Other activities

  • Chair of trustees: Open Door (NGO in Oxford), 2011-
  • Member of the management committee (a trustee): Asylum Welcome (NGO in Oxford), 2011-
  • Member of the Detention Forum (London-based NGO), 2011-

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Griffiths, M 2024, '', Journal of International Migration and Integration.

Griffiths, M 2023, '', Identities.

Gill, N, Hoellerer, N, Allsopp, J, Burridge, A, Fisher, D, Griffiths, M, Hambly, J, Paszkiewicz, N, Rotter, R & Vianelli, L 2022, '', Political Geography, vol. 98, 102686.

Gill, N, Allsopp, J, Burridge, A, Fisher, D, Griffiths, M, Paszkiewicz, N & Rotter, R 2021, '', Geoforum, vol. 119, pp. 61-71. ,

Griffiths, M & Yeo, C 2021, '', Critical Social Policy, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 026101832098065.

Gill, N, Allsopp, J, Burridge, A, Fisher, D, Griffiths, M, Hambly, J, Hoellerer, N, Paszkiewicz, N & Rotter, R 2020, '', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 937-951.

Griffiths, M 2019, '', Identities.

Griffiths, M 2017, '', Citizenship Studies, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 527-546.

Griffiths, M 2017, '', Families, Relationships and Societies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 153-156.

Chapter

Griffiths, M & Morgan-Glendinning, C 2024, . in M Peterie (ed.), Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 65-82.

Griffiths, M 2021, . in E Carmel, K Lenner & R Paul (eds), Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. Elgar Handbooks in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 316–328.

Gill, N, Allsopp, J, Burridge, A, Griffiths, M, Paszkiewicz, N & Rotter, R 2019, . in K Mitchell, R Jones & JL Fluri (eds), Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration. 1 edn, Research Handbooks in Geography, Edward Elgar, pp. 358-371.

Other contribution

Griffiths, M 2021, . Verfassungsblog. <>

Griffiths, M & Morgan-Glendinning, C 2021, . University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.

Griffiths, M & Silverman, S 2019, . COMPAS. <>

Expertise

Migration; immigration; refugee; asylum; deportation; immigration detention; citizenship; visa; small boats; Rwanda plan; family migration; spousal visa