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Ramneek Grewal
- Name Ramneek Grewal
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 3.12, Crystal Macmillan Building George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- R.Grewal@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Social movements,minority rights,Roma,ethnic conflict
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/ramneek_grewal
Qualifications
- BA (International Relations and Development Studies), University of Windsor
- MA (Political Science), University of Western Ontario
Working Title
When are social movements successful? Roma claims-making in Macedonia and Serbia
Research Interests
My research focuses on social movements, comparative politics, minority rights, citizenship, exclusion and ethnic conflict. My PhD focuses on using ethnic conflict and social movement theory to explain anti-Roma sentiment and to ascertain the degrees of success achieved by Roma groups in advancing their claims to contest state/societal oppression in Macedonia and Serbia.
Supervisors
Dr. Pontus Odmalm (Politics and IR) and Dr. Angus Bancroft (Sociology)
Awards
Ontario Doctoral Grant
Conference Papers and/or Publications
International Initiatives and Institutional Inertia: The Case of Roma in Macedonia and Serbia. Roma Mobilities in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 14-15 January 2010, University of Oxford, UK
Teaching Experience
Social and Political Enquiry, Introduction to Politics and International Relations, Designing and Doing Social Research
Research Group Membership
Migration and Citizenship Research Group
This page was published on 18 March 2010