Key areas of expertise include:

 The scale and composition of internal and international migration flows and the dynamics of these population movements;

• The social, economic, and political causes of international migration, particularly forced migration;
• The migration of separated children;
• Gender issues in the migration process;
• UK, regional and UN policy responses to international migration;
• The political, economic, social and urban consequences of migration;
• Integration, social cohesion, and migrant identity;
• Public and political attitudes towards asylum and migration issues; 
• The linkages between migration and broader development processes.

The Centre’s Research Associates have considerable regional expertise which includes Wales and the UK, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.