Dr Sarah Kunz

I’m a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies. As an interdisciplinary researcher, my work sits at the intersection of human geography, sociology, migration studies and postcolonial theory. My research interests include privileged and investment migration, the politics of migration categories, the relationship between mobility, coloniality and racism, global social inequality, and the study of elites and their intermediaries. Trained in qualitative and quantitative research methods, I have a special interest in multi-sited ethnography, mixed-methods and archival research.

At present, my research looks at investment migration with a focus on the Citizenship Industry, the corporate sector developing, managing and promoting citizenship-by-investment. I’m also working on a book project on the migration category expatriate.

I received my PhD in Human Geography from UCL, my MSc in Sociology from the LSE and previously worked as a mixed-methods social researcher at NatCen Social Research.