Current research in the Centre includes the following externally funded projects:
- Albanian migration to Italy and Greece
- Transrede Project: transnational migration, return and development in West Africa
- British-Australian post-war migration project
- Transnational communities: Bosnian and Eritrean exiles
- The changing contexts of migration: the role of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean
- Gender, nation and identity in narratives of exile and return brain drain and development