Patricia Daley

Patricia Daley

Professor of Human Geography of Africa  

Affiliation: School of Geography and the Environment 
Expert in: Forced migration, Migration and race, Gender and sexuality in migration
Geographic focus: African, Europe, North America, UK

Professor Daley’s principal research interests can be grouped under four themes: (1)The political economy of population migration and settlement (forced migration, identity politics and citizenship); (2) The intersection of space, gender, militarism, sexual violence and peace (feminist geo-politics); (3) Racial hierarchies and violence (geographies of racialization and coloniality using Critical Race Theory and decolonizing methodologies); (4) The relationship between conservation, resource extraction, and rural livelihoods (political ecology). The geographical loci of research are East and Central Africa, and the UK.