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Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach (2023)
Journal Article

This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3-year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities an... Read More about Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach.

Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa (2022)
Journal Article

This paper draws on research with a group of Zimbabwean orphaned young people. It explores their experiences of migrating to South Africa during the COVID-19 period when official borders were closed. It draws attention to the complexities of south–so... Read More about Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa.

The case to scale up edutainment as an effective public health communication intervention to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe (2022)
Journal Article

Efforts to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been negatively affected by myths, misconceptions and misinformation, fuelled by an “infodemic” spread via social media platforms. In response, The Zimbabwean COVID-19 response... Read More about The case to scale up edutainment as an effective public health communication intervention to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe.

Risk Factors for COVID-19 Infection Among Healthcare Workers. A First Report From a Living Systematic Review and meta-Analysis (2022)
Journal Article

Health care workers (HCWs) are more than ten times more likely to be infected with coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) than the general population, thus demonstrating the burden of COVID-19 among HCWs. Factors that expose HCWs to a differe... Read More about Risk Factors for COVID-19 Infection Among Healthcare Workers. A First Report From a Living Systematic Review and meta-Analysis.

“Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation (2021)
Journal Article

Background: The article examines how and why multiple identities are altered, used and discarded by forced migrants. Methods: The research is located in the constructivist paradigm. We used thematic analysis to analyse data gathered through interview... Read More about “Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation.

Internally displaced persons and COVID-19: a wake-up call for and African solutions to African problems – the case of Zimbabwe (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper we engage with the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) residing in two informal settlements in Zimbabwe, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on an ongoing collaborative, interdisciplinary and impact-oriente... Read More about Internally displaced persons and COVID-19: a wake-up call for and African solutions to African problems – the case of Zimbabwe.

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.

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.