Victoria Redclift's research interests are in the sociology of migration with particular focus on citizenship and political exclusion. Her work is orientated around four main areas:

- Citizenship and statelessness - particularly as they relate to conditions of colonialism and coloniality

- The intersections of 'race', class and gender in the reproduction of political exclusion

- Diaspora and transnationalism

- Intra-minority identity and hidden minorities

Following her PhD, and funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (SG121376 - April 2013 - April 2015), Victoria spent two years conducting research into the historical legacy of conflict in the formation of identities and relations among South Asian Muslims in the UK and the US. Tracing the stories of North Indian 'Bihari' Muslims who fled East Bengal as a result of the Liberation War in 1971, establishing themselves in various cities across the UK and North America, the research considered how 'intra-minority' relations interrogate Muslim identities in different diasporic contexts. Victoria was subsequently awarded a Phillip Leverhulme Prize, for a project entitled 'From Brick Lane to Little Bangladesh: Transnational Political Space in London and Los Angeles' (PLP-2014-221 - October 2015-October 2020) and an ESRC Future Research Leaders Grant for a project on 'Transnational Practices in Local Settings: Experiences of Citizenship among Bangladesh-origin Muslims in London and Birmingham (ES/N000986/1 - April 2016 - December 2019). The research takes the form of a trifocal study into experiences of citizenship among Bangladesh-origin Muslims in London, Birmingham and Los Angeles, developing the concept of 'transnational political space' in order to better understand the impact of receiving society conditions on transnational identities and relations.