Outputs (30)
English language as an integration tool: the case of Syrian refugees to the UK (2017)
Book Chapter
Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges (2017)
Journal Article
While existing research has shown the importance of the three interrelated domains of the wider policy, the school and home/community environments in the development of quality education for learners, this literature does not fully capture the experi... Read More about Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges.
“Your name does not tick the box”: the intertwining of names, bodies, religion and nationality in the construction of identity within the UK asylum system (2017)
Journal Article
This article draws on research with Pakistani Christians seeking asylum in the UK, focusing on those with English/biblical names, exploring, firstly the relationship between names and religious persecution in the country of origin, and secondly the c... Read More about “Your name does not tick the box”: the intertwining of names, bodies, religion and nationality in the construction of identity within the UK asylum system.
Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilit... Read More about Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.
Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws (2016)
Journal Article
Within transnational studies literature, there is a tendency to assume that migrant parents have ready access to paid work once they arrive in countries of destination, which subsequently enables them to maintain transnational ties with children and... Read More about Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws.
‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: symbolic objects in the policing of migration (2016)
Journal Article
The ‘Go Home Van’ was the centrepiece of the UK government’s 2013 immigration enforcement campaign. Vehicles were driven around ethnically diverse London neighbourhoods clad with giant posters offering irregular migrants a choice between ‘voluntary d... Read More about ‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: symbolic objects in the policing of migration.
A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants (2015)
Journal Article
Recent reflections on the study of forced migration stress the importance of constructing ethically sound research relationships that both respect research participants as autonomous agents and protect them from all forms of harm in the research proc... Read More about A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants.
Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.