Dr RODA MADZIVA's Outputs (26)

Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & McGrath, S. (in press). Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Sociological Review, 64(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12373

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
Madziva, R. (2016). Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(2), 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14479281723965

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
Lowndes, V., & Madziva, R. (2016). ‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: symbolic objects in the policing of migration. Critical Social Policy, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018316643949

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.

A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants (2015)
Journal Article
Madziva, R. (2015). A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants. Families, Relationships and Societies, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.1332/204674313X13872827681557

Recent reflections on the study of forced migration stress the importance of constructing ethically sound research relationships that both respect research participants as autonomous agents and protect them from all forms of harm in the research proc... Read More about A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants.

Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England (2015)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., Madziva, R., & Thondhlana, J. (in press). Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 41(2), 238-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2015.1062853

The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, i... Read More about Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., McGrath, S., & Thondhlana, J. (2014). Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0403-z

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.