All Outputs (6)

The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile (2024)
Journal Article
González-Agüero, M., & Burcu, O. (2024). The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2305270

In a context marked by restrictive migration policies, precarious living conditions and a neoliberal market, this article explores how Venezuelan migrants incorporated themselves into the job market through informal entrepreneurship, the challenges t... Read More about The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile.

The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing? (2023)
Journal Article
Burcu, O., & Wang, W. (2023). The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing?. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026231178560

Why and how has China covered the Black Lives Matter (BLM), a movement with emerging themes closely related to its domestic issues? To what extent does the Chinese media build a unified discourse on sensitive themes that underpin the BLM? These are i... Read More about The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing?.

China’s Public Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Towards Central and South Asia (2022)
Book Chapter
Burcu, O., & Boni, F. (2022). China’s Public Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Towards Central and South Asia. In X. Zhang, & C. Schultz (Eds.), China's International Communication and Relationship Building (79-96). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003254157-7

This chapter analyses how China has promoted its interests under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) using a set of strategic tools, which we define as enmeshment and appeasement. More specifically, the analysis considers the dynamics characterizing C... Read More about China’s Public Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Towards Central and South Asia.

The Chinese government's management of anti-Japan nationalism during Hu-Wen era (2022)
Journal Article
Burcu, O. (2022). The Chinese government's management of anti-Japan nationalism during Hu-Wen era. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 22(2), 237-266. https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcab002

China and Japan continue to partly live in the shadow of World War II (WWII) with recurrent expressions of anti-Japanese nationalism in China periodically ebbing bilateral relations. How does the Chinese government manage anti-Japan public manifestat... Read More about The Chinese government's management of anti-Japan nationalism during Hu-Wen era.

Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands (2022)
Journal Article
Burcu, O. (2022). Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Asian Studies Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2022.2040429

In the last two decades, against the backdrop of multiple anti-Japanese protests in China, the rise of Chinese nationalism has been much debated. By taking the 2010 and 2012 Sino–Japanese crises over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands as a case study, the ar... Read More about Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands.

Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments (2019)
Journal Article
Burcu, O. (2019). Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments. European Political Science, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-019-00212-6

Group work is an essential aspect of our personal, educational and professional development, yet it is not a common method of assessment in Politics and International Relations departments at British Universities. This study explores how instructors... Read More about Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments.