IMISCOE research series,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 129 - 144
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Abstract
London
hosts
by
far
the
largest
population
of
non-national
EU
citizens
in
Europe.
It
is
also
home
to
roughly
one-third
entire
citizen
living
UK.
London’s
changed
rapidly
following
enlargement
2000s
terms
its
size,
variety
and
number
nationalities
it
hosts,
socio-demographic
profile
(Lessard-Phillips
&
Sigona,
2018).
These
changes
have
intensified
shaped
process
‘diversification
diversity’
captured
late
anthropologist
Steve
Vertovec
his
seminal
work
on
superdiversity
(Vertovec,
2007).
Despite
Britain’s
exit
from
EU,
new
geopolitical
orientation
(towards
a
more
‘Global
Britain’)
immigration
regime
that
has
come
replace
EU’s
freedom
movement,
this
diversification
continued.
For
example,
between
2016
2020,
live
births
among
mothers
stayed
same
-
only
marginally
declined
17.52
17.18
per
cent
total
London,
with
Poland,
Romania,
Germany
Lithuania
top
10
countries
birth
for
non-UK
city
(ONS,
2021;
see
Lessard-Phillips
2019).
Journal of Family Research,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
32(3), P. 393 - 414
Published: Dec. 2, 2020
In
this
article,
we
introduce
the
key
themes
of
our
Special
Issue
on
"Transnational
care:
families
confronting
borders".
Central
to
collection
is
question
how
family
relations
and
solidarities
are
impacted
by
current
scenario
closed
borders
increasingly
restrictive
migration
regimes.
This
examined
more
specifically
through
lens
care
dynamics
within
transnational
their
(re-)configurations
across
diverse
contexts
marked
"immobilizing
regimes
migration".
We
begin
presenting
a
brief
overview
concepts
in
caregiving
literature
that
provides
foundation
for
cases
explored
articles,
including
refugees
asylum
seekers
Germany
Finland,
Polish
facing
Brexit
UK,
Latin
American
migrants
transiting
Mexico,
restrictionist
drifts
policies
Australia,
Belgium
UK.
Drawing
rich
work,
identify
two
policy
tools;
namely
temporality
exclusion,
which
appear
be
particularly
salient
features
immobilizing
significantly
influence
care-related
mobilities.
conclude
with
discussion
putting
crisis,
context
Covid-19
pandemic,
gripping
globe
at
time
writing.
Migration Studies,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
10(2), P. 374 - 390
Published: March 14, 2022
Abstract
What
has
Brexit
meant
for
migration
and
migrants?
How
the
geopolitical
repositioning
of
UK
in
consequence
UK’s
exit
from
European
Union
(EU)
impacted
on
experiences
long-established
migrant
communities
newly
arrived
In
what
ways
are
impacts
differentially
experienced
across
according
to,
inter
alia,
class,
gender,
age,
country
origin,
disability,
race?
scholarship
addressed
its
impact
governance?
And
been
significance
research
within
this
project?
This
critical
review
studies
literature
focussed
migration,
we
draw
out
dominant
themes
gaps
emergent
field
consider
how
these
reconfigure
‘spotlights’
‘blindspots’
methodological
nationalism
to.
way,
identify
potential
new
lines
enquiry
migration.
Comparative Migration Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
Abstract
This
introductory
paper,
reflecting
the
Thematic
Cluster
of
four
papers,
brings
together
two
themes
that
are
important
for
migration
studies:
return
and
embedding.
Beyond
any
simplistic
assumptions
settlement
permanent
integration
back
into
origin
country,
following
return,
or
notions
ongoing
unfettered
mobility
forth
over
time,
this
article
knits
data
from
cluster
focusing
on
Lithuania
Poland,
to
explore
factors
lead
indeed
non-return,
subsequent
experiences
in
‘home’
country
those
who
do
return.
Moreover,
using
mixed
methods,
including
longitudinal
research,
we
advance
a
theoretical
framework
facilitating
an
examination
how
returnees
negotiate
their
lives
society
whether
they
intend
stay,
migrate
again,
through
conceptual
lens
While
emphasising
agency
effort,
embedding
also
recognises
structural
constraints
may
impede
migrants’
expectations
aspirations.
Hence,
involve
parallel
processes
re-embedding
but
dis-embedding
as
hoped
project
encounters
unexpected
obstacles
result
further
migration.
In
mapping
field
migration,
concept
embedding,
focus
impact
Brexit
‘an
unsettling
event’.
International Migration,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
59(6), P. 93 - 108
Published: April 13, 2020
Abstract
In
this
article,
using
in‐depth
interviews
with
EU27
citizens
residing
in
the
UK
and
Britons
Belgium,
I
analyse
role
of
Brexit
process
as
both
a
trigger
an
obstacle
to
onward
return
migration.
implicates
reduction
freedom
movement
settlement
for
groups
has
been
linked
increase
xenophobia
potential
economic
instability
UK.
context,
Belgium
can
consider
or
migrations.
However,
introduces
also
obstacles
such
migrations,
including
loss
EU
complications
transnational
citizenship‐divergent
families.
argue
that
realization
migration
plans
is
mediated
by
individual
resources
imaginations
on
future
EU.
Comparative Migration Studies,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: Nov. 4, 2022
Abstract
In
this
paper,
we
bring
together
two
concepts
that
have
been
developing
separately
over
recent
years,
to
challenge
linear
and
simplistic
notions
of
migrant
integration,
depict
multi-dimensional
processes
settling
changeability
time.
The
concept
embedding
has
proposed
capture
dynamism
beyond
the
more
static
notion
Granovetter’s
embeddedness.
explores
contexts
contingencies
where
how
migrants
establish
different
degrees
attachment
in
places
through
social
relationships.
Also
anchoring
developed
offer
an
antireductionist
processual
understanding
adaptation
settling,
highlighting
issues
security
stability.
using
longitudinal
research,
explore
for
first
time
bringing
our
may
additional
insights
understandings
migrants’
experiences
responses
uncertainties
complexities
contemporary
society,
exacerbated
by
Brexit.
IMISCOE research series,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 17, 2022
This
open
access
book
stresses
the
complexity
of
migration
trajectories
and
proposes
multi-sited
field
studies
to
capture
this
complexity.
Free
e-access!
International Journal of Qualitative Methods,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
23
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
In
the
field
of
migration
research,
frequency
employing
qualitative
walking
interviews
has
risen
in
recent
years
to
delve
into
construction,
evolution,
and
negotiation
mechanisms
migrant
identities
within
everyday
spatial
practices.
This
novel
mobile
method
emphasizes
interaction
between
micro-experience
macro-structure.
It
facilitates
a
shift
away
from
viewing
migrants
as
passive
outsiders,
empowering
them
with
increased
agency,
allow
researchers
gain
deeper
insights
migrants’
emotional
dynamics,
life
experiences,
self-identification
new
social
landscapes
power
configurations.
systematic
review
aims
evaluate,
integrate,
analyse
current
empirical
evidence
research
using
walking/go-along
for
different
types
(defined
an
individual
who
moves
his
or
her
place
usual
residence,
whether
country
across
international
border,
temporarily
permanently,
variety
reasons).
brings
together
first
time
knowledge
that
involves
interviews.
employs
framework
synthesis
24
included
articles,
identifying
five
major
themes:
(1)
synergising
diverse
methods
designs;
(2)
adjustment
dynamics;
(3)
place-based
threefold
agency;
(4)
migrants'
identity
construction;
(5)
sense
belonging
exclusion.
By
integrating
these
themes,
methodological
contribution
this
lies
recognizing
advantages
combining
other
methods,
which
capturing
multidimensional
aspects
mobility,
allowing
flexibly
switch
strategies
scales.
Additionally,
paper
recommends
exploration
migratory
experiences
transcend
prevailing
practical
pay
sensitive
attention
potential
ethical
issues
throughout
research.
Such
investigation
uncover
dynamic
evolution
fluctuating
among
various
their
journey.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
47(17), P. 3805 - 3821
Published: May 27, 2021
The
notion
of
belonging,
prominent
in
social
sciences,
has
been
recently
used
extensively
relation
to
Central
Eastern
European
migrants
the
UK.
Whereas
Brexit
debates
on
migration
have
spotlighted
macro-politics
belonging
and
judgments
who
deserves
stay
under
which
conditions,
question
how
these
discourses
'deservingness'
surrounding
may
influence
everyday
intimate
aspects
among
warrants
further
exploration.
Drawing
interviews
with
77
young
Polish
Lithuanian
UK
conducted
from
2019
2020,
this
article
examines
position
themselves
deservingness
hierarchies
desirability.
focus
is
also
placed
they
negotiate
their
strategies
(un)belonging
British
society.
We
argue
that
prominence
discourse
–
gained
momentum
Britain
-
entraps
constant
process
boundary
making
prevent
them
ever
feeling
part
'community
value'.
