Professor Jay Marlowe - Research

Read about some of the current research projects being undertaken by Professor Jay Marlowe.

Dislocation in an age of connection: Mapping refugee settlement trajectories

Rutherford Discovery Fellowship - Dislocation in an age of connection: Mapping refugee settlement trajectories within an increasingly mobile world. This five-year research project will examine the various forms of connection that refugees sustain that help generate positive settlement outcomes and ongoing practices of transnational family through a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. It is composed of four distinct but linked projects that incorporate ethnography, participatory action research, analysing large data sets and social network analysis.

Resettled but not Reunited: Refugees, Belonging and Digital Media

Marsden Fast Start, Royal Society of New Zealand, Resettled but not Reunited: Refugees, Belonging and Digital Media. This three-year study examines how refugees practise transnational family and friendship through social media. It examines how this relates to settlement outcomes as people are able to connect the ‘here’ of New Zealand to the transnational ‘there’. Methods include a longitudinal digital ethnography and a national survey in New Zealand.

Building a Responsive Research Infrastructure for Climate and Conflict Induced Displacement in the Asia Pacific

Vice-Chancellor's Strategic Development Fund, Building a Responsive Research Infrastructure for Climate and Conflict Induced Displacement in the Asia Pacific. This project seeks to seed projects in the Pacific and integrate untapped large data sets (in NZ) to inform best practice and policy solutions related to forced migration. Included in this project are masters scholarships for Pacific students to conduct research on climate change displacement.

Developing a Guiding Framework for Engaging Pacific Populations in Disaster Risk

Public Policy Institute Research Impact Grant: Developing a Guiding Framework for Engaging Pacific Populations in Disaster Risk. This project focuses on disaster communications with various refugee background communities through capacity building with refugee background research assistants.