Amreen Qureshi

Research fellow

Amreen is a Research Fellow at IPPR, where her work focuses on migration policy, racial inequality and socioeconomic disadvantage. 

She leads research exploring child poverty among migrant families, migrant homelessness and destitution, and the long-term integration experiences of people navigating the UK immigration system.

Her work spans issues including employment trajectories among refugees, the impacts of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy, progressive responses to irregular Channel crossings, and the effects of Home Office immigration policy on communities. She combines qualitative research methods with policy analysis, and regularly engages with policymakers, civil servants and civil society organisations to inform debate and practice.

Amreen has experience designing and delivering qualitative research, including semi-structured interviews, participatory approaches and peer research models that incorporate lived experience perspectives. She has represented IPPR in parliamentary briefings, stakeholder roundtables and media engagement.
Within IPPR, she founded and co-led the Racial Justice Working Group, helping to embed anti-racist principles into research practice, organisational culture and recruitment processes.

Amreen has an MA in Humanitarianism and conflict response from the University of Manchester and a BA in politics and international relations from Lancaster University.

 

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