All Outputs (5)

Researching the researcher: producing emotionally-sensed knowledge in migration research (2023)
Journal Article
Genova, E., & Zontini, E. (2023). Researching the researcher: producing emotionally-sensed knowledge in migration research. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2263084

Reflexivity has been central to recent debates in migration studies, focusing on how migration scholarship can become more equitable, inclusive, and attuned to the power dynamics inherent in research processes. In this article, we advance these debat... Read More about Researching the researcher: producing emotionally-sensed knowledge in migration research.

(New) Bulgarian Enlighteners and Ambassadors? The Reinvention of National Identity in Times of Crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Genova, E. (2020). (New) Bulgarian Enlighteners and Ambassadors? The Reinvention of National Identity in Times of Crisis. International Migration, 58(1), 76-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12592

Drawing on empirical data from 37 Bulgarian students and young professionals in the UK, this article explores the intersection of the discourses produced by the European crises and migrants' national identity. In Bulgaria, the crisis narrative is emb... Read More about (New) Bulgarian Enlighteners and Ambassadors? The Reinvention of National Identity in Times of Crisis.

Bye Ganyo? Banal nationalism and banal europeanism in the everyday practices of Bulgarian highly skilled migrants in the UK (2017)
Book Chapter
Genova, E. (2017). Bye Ganyo? Banal nationalism and banal europeanism in the everyday practices of Bulgarian highly skilled migrants in the UK. In Bulgarians Abroad, Foreigners in Bulgaria: Institutions, Organisations, Community Life (143-174). Sofia, Bulgaria: Bulgarian Academic of Sciences - IEFEM-BAS

Настоящата статия има за цел да се включи в активния научен дебат за най-новите миграционни потоци в Европейския съюз, съсредоточавайки се конкретно върху всекидневните практики на младите българските висококвалифицирани мигранти във Великобритания.... Read More about Bye Ganyo? Banal nationalism and banal europeanism in the everyday practices of Bulgarian highly skilled migrants in the UK.

‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis (2016)
Journal Article
Genova, E. (2017). ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis. National Identities, 19(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2015.1136609

The intensification of intra-European migration has more recently coincided with the negative socio-economic consequences of the European economic crisis. The latter has revitalised dormant national stereotypes, employed into the scapegoating of migr... Read More about ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis.

To have both roots and wings: nested identities in the case of Bulgarian students in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Genova, E. (2016). To have both roots and wings: nested identities in the case of Bulgarian students in the UK. Identities, 23(4), 392-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2015.1024125

Bulgarian migrants and university students in particular, have recently fallen into the spotlight of British media (Kirkup 2013), firmly positioned within fervent immigration debates. Drawing on Brewer’s (1999) concept of nested identities, this pape... Read More about To have both roots and wings: nested identities in the case of Bulgarian students in the UK.