All Outputs (6)

Researching the researcher: producing emotionally-sensed knowledge in migration research (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children (2017)
Journal Article

© 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

© 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

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.