All Outputs (6)

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.

(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.

‘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.