All Outputs (7)

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.

Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain (2022)
Journal Article
Zontini, E., & Genova, E. (2022). Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain. Sociology, 56(4), 638-654. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211063355

Events such as Brexit have drawn attention to the precarity of contemporary migrants’ settlement rights and reopened the debate on the nature of integration and assimilation processes. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Italian an... Read More about Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain.

Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain (2020)
Journal Article
Genova, E., & Zontini, E. (2020). Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 9(1), 47-64. https://doi.org/10.17467/ceemr.2020.04

The UK's decision to leave the EU illustrates some of the tensions embedded in European integration, enabling us to examine how nationalism and cosmopolitanism operate simultaneously, thus reinforcing each other. Furthermore, the prolonged Brexit neg... Read More about Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain.

EU children in Brexit Britain: re‐negotiating belonging in nationalist times (2019)
Journal Article
Zontini, E., & Però, D. (2020). EU children in Brexit Britain: re‐negotiating belonging in nationalist times. International Migration, 58(1), 90-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12581

© 2019 The Authors. International Migration © 2019 IOM This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integra... Read More about EU children in Brexit Britain: re‐negotiating belonging in nationalist times.

Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children (2017)
Journal Article
Zontini, E., & Reynolds, T. (2018). Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children. Global Networks, 18(3), 418-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12185

© 2017 Global Networks Partnership & John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this article, we develop the concept of ‘transnational family habitus’ as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background a... Read More about Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children.

Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Reynolds, T., & Zontini, E. (2014). Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain. Families, Relationships and Societies, 3(2), 251-268. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674314X14008543149532

© 2014 Policy Press. Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across... Read More about Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain.

Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants (2014)
Journal Article
Zontini, E. (in press). Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2014.885543

This article focuses on ageing in transnationalism. Drawing on the experiences of Italians in the UK as a paradigmatic example of settled European migrants, it explores the lived experiences of this group of older migrants. Using Levitt and Glick Sch... Read More about Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants.