Dr Laurence Brown
Areas of expertise
- Migration 160303
- Historical Studies 2103
Research interests
- the spatial analysis of migrant mobility
- the social and economic dynamics of ethnic inequalities
- the impact of big data on policy-making
- the intellectual history of migration studies
Biography
Laurence has taught migration history at the University of the West Indies, the American University of Paris and the University of Manchester. He has held research fellowships at ANU’s Centre for European Studies and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, and in the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. In Manchester, he was previously co-Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre.
In 2013-14, he was editor of the JRF / CoDE Dynamics of Diversity policy briefing series on the UK's changing ethnic demography published at http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/
He has organized workshops on migration and social inequalities in Australia and the UK that brought together policy-makers, researchers and community groups. He has been interviewed on migration issues by the ABC, BBC and SkyNews and is highly active in school engagement programmes.
Researcher's projects
- co-investigator, "Understanding the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequality in the UK", ESRC Research Centre, £2,160,000 (2013-2017)
Publications
- Rhodes, J & Brown, L 2019, 'The rise and fall of the 'inner city': race, space and urban policy in postwar England', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 45, no. 17, pp. 3243-3259.
- Brown, L 2016, 'Vertical and horizontal approaches to the making of racial statistics in Britain', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1812-1830.
- Brown, L 2016, 'Visions of violence in the Haitian Revolution', Atlantic Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 144-164.
- Ashe, S, Virdee, S & Brown, L 2016, 'Striking back against racist violence in the East End of London, 1968-1970', Race and Class, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 34-54.
- Brown, L & Cunningham, N 2016, 'The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951-2011', Social Science History, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 93-120.
- Brown, L & Zacek, N 2014, 'Unsettled Houses: The Material Culture of the Missionary Project in Jamaica in the Era of Emancipation', Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 493-507.
- Brown, L 2013, 'Atlantic Slavery and the Construction of Classical Culture', in Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (ed.), Slavery and the British Country House, English Heritage, Swindon, UK.
- Brown, L 2005, 'Experiments in Indenture: Barbados and the Segmentation of migrant Labor in the Caribbean 1863-1865', New West Indian Guide, vol. 79, no. 1&2, pp. 21-54.
- Brown, L & Inniss, T 2005, 'The Slave Family in the Transition to Freedom: Barbados, 1834-1841', Slavery and Abolition, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 257-269.