Amina Ghezal

Department: Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Discipline: Politics
Research Centre/Unit: The Institute of Cornish Studies

Project Summary

Amina was an interdisciplinary PhD student in Politics and International Studies. She was part of the ESI (Environment and Sustainability Institute) in Exeter Penryn campus. Her PhD research sought to understand migrants' perceptions of place attachments and national identity between homeland and host-land under such pressures. Precisely, Amina researched migration trajectories from Tuvalu (A tiny island nation located in Oceania ) to the neighbouring island nations, precisely New Zealand. Her research interests include transnationalism, migration, belonging and place attachment. She is interested in exploring people-environment interaction, the home-making process, mobility and transnational migration trajectories, migration push and pull factors, such as climate change and socio-economic pressures. 

Supervisory Team

My research is supervised by: 

Professor Clare Saunders

Co-supervised by:

Dr. James Muldoon

 

Wider Research Interests

Research expertise/interests

  • People-place/environment relationship
  • Environmental social sciences
  • Environmental Policy
  • Human Geography
  • Policy and Comparative Analysis
  • Indigenous studies and environmental ethics
  • Identity formation and change
  • Migration and gender intersectionality
  • Language, religion, and migration
  • Climate change-induced migration
  • Displacement and transnationalism
  • Diaspora studies
  • Mixed methods and innovative methodologies