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Dr RODA MADZIVA's Outputs (38)

Fostering Local Enterprise Development in Resource-Constrained Developing Countries: Matarenda and Microcredit Compared (2021)
Book Chapter
Siwale, J., Thondhlana, J., & Madziva, R. (2021). Fostering Local Enterprise Development in Resource-Constrained Developing Countries: Matarenda and Microcredit Compared. In S. D. Chingarande, J. Thondhlana, R. Madziva, & A. H. Anderson. (Eds.), Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement (76-97). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004446670_006

Bordering Through Religion: A Case Study of Christians from the Muslim Majority World Seeking Asylum in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Madziva, R. (2020). Bordering Through Religion: A Case Study of Christians from the Muslim Majority World Seeking Asylum in the UK. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i3.1591

The current global 'crisis' of the refugee movement has drawn to the forefront longstanding public worries about welcoming and accommodating refugees, especially in liberal democratic States. While religion is central to refuge, very little is known... Read More about Bordering Through Religion: A Case Study of Christians from the Muslim Majority World Seeking Asylum in the UK.

Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Walton, E., McIntyre, J., Awidi, S. J., De Wet-Billings, N., Dixon, K., Madziva, R., Monk, D., Nyoni, C., Thondhlana, J., & Wedekind, V. (2020). Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Education, 5, Article 47. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00047

International conventions acknowledge the right of refugees and of disabled people to access quality inclusive education. Both groups struggle to assert this right, particularly in the Global South, where educational access may be hindered by system... Read More about Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Making science public: challenges and opportunities (2019)
Report
Raman, S., Nerlich, B., Cartelet, C., de Saille, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., Hartley, S., Hobson-West, P., Holmwood, J., Lowndes, V., Madziva, R., Martin, P., McLeod, C., Millar, K., Mohr, A., Morris, C., Pearce, W., Seymour, S., Smith, A., Spencer, A., & Tsouvalis, J. (2019). Making science public: challenges and opportunities. Leverhulme Trust

This Programme investigated the relationship between science, politics and publics in the aftermath of an influential 2000 UK House of Lords Science and Society report. We conceptualised top-down initiatives promising greater transparency around the... Read More about Making science public: challenges and opportunities.

Exploring the Pentecostal faith—sustainability—entrepreneurship nexus in Zimbabwe (2018)
Book Chapter
Anderson, A. H., Clifford, M., Madziva, R., Thondhlana, J., & Goronga, P. (2018). Exploring the Pentecostal faith—sustainability—entrepreneurship nexus in Zimbabwe. In W. L. Filo, & A. C. McCrea (Eds.), Sustainability and the humanities (225-237). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95336-6_13

The aim of this paper is to explore the intersection between sustainability and the humanities, specifically the Pentecostal faith—entrepreneurship—sustainability nexus in Zimbabwe. It focuses on The Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) and asso... Read More about Exploring the Pentecostal faith—sustainability—entrepreneurship nexus in Zimbabwe.

Skilled migrant African women of faith and diaspora investment (2018)
Book Chapter
Thondhlana, J., & Madziva, R. (2018). Skilled migrant African women of faith and diaspora investment. In D. Hack-Polay, & J. Siwale (Eds.), African diaspora direct investment: establishing the economic and socio-cultural rationale. Palgrave Macmillan

Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges (2017)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., & Thondhlana, J. (2017). Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 47(6), 942-961. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1375848

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
Madziva, R. (in press). “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. Ethnic and Racial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1318215

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
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.