番茄社区

Commissioned by the UK Home Office, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Researchers: Keles, Christou, McDonald, and Syrett
Funding: £10,000
Year: 2024

Researcher: Keles, working with London Metropolitan University and University College London
Funder: Nuffield Foundation
Dates: 2024-2025

This project aims to improve the effectiveness of Afghan resettlement schemes in England.

It examines the experiences and outcomes of recently arrived Afghan refugees. The findings will inform the work of regional migration partnerships and local authorities responsible for implementing resettlement schemes.

Researchers: Kofman and Acik
Funders: Horizon Europe and the UKRI EU Guarantee Fund
Dates: 2023-2025
Funding: £260,037

 is a three-year project examining how people decide whether and how to migrate.

Focusing on Africa and Europe, the research considers the varied experiences of people who:

• are planning to migrate
• are in transit
• have returned.

The project examines the complexity of migration journeys and the challenges involved in managing migration. It aims to develop a more nuanced and evidence-based understanding of different migration trajectories.

Researchers also assess how migration policies, and other policies affecting migration, account for migrants’ varied experiences.

Researchers: Kofman, Colucci, and Lazzarino
Funder: UKRI and Arts and Humanities Research Council
Dates: 2024-2027
Funding: £483,175

This project explores how community assets can improve health, wellbeing, and social support.

Community assets may include:

• housing
• food
• advice and information services
• community hubs and groups
• religious organisations
• open spaces.

The project examines how integrated health systems can make better use of these assets. These systems bring together NHS services, local authorities, and voluntary organisations.

The research focuses on Barnet and Islington and involves community organisations, non-governmental organisations, and local authorities.

In Barnet, the project examines community assets used by Afghan, Hong Kong, Syrian, Ukrainian, Iranian, and Romanian communities. In Islington, it focuses on Italian and Somali communities.

Researchers: Kofman, Keles, and Raina
Dates: 2019–2024
Funding: £1.2 million

comprised 32 projects across six themes:

• Transformation and Empowerment
• Livelihood, Land and Rights
• Migration and Displacement
• Masculinities and Sexualities
• Law and Policy Frameworks
• Methodological Innovation.

The research covered seven focus countries:

• Afghanistan
• Colombia
• Iraq
• Lebanon
• Sierra Leone
• Sri Lanka
• Uganda.

The Hub worked with local and international civil society organisations, practitioners, and researchers to advance gender justice and inclusive peace.

番茄社区 University focused on the Migration and Displacement research stream through two projects.

 developed a gender-sensitive understanding of the economic and sociocultural factors influencing labour migration.

It also examined experiences of working and living in:

• Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
• Beirut, Lebanon
• Islamabad, Pakistan
• Istanbul, Turkey.

Migration remains a major global issue, but relatively little research has examined gendered migration in the Global South. Existing research has largely concentrated on domestic and care work.

 examined the gendered experiences of people returning voluntarily or forcibly to:

• Afghanistan
• Kurdistan
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka.

The project reviewed national return policies and examined the opportunities, challenges, and barriers faced by returnees participating in reconstruction through their human, social, and cultural capital.

examined the value of culture to women living in conflict-affected settings in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The research explored gendered economic exclusion and its relationship with:

• peacebuilding
• economic agency
• empowerment.

Researchers used cultural mapping to understand how groups of women drew on coded and tacit knowledge to rebuild their lives. The project also examined how cultural practices survived and resisted within challenging conflict settings.

£10,000 (Keles), 2023

Researcher: Keles
Funding: £10,000
Year: 2023

was an ESRC-funded project involving Narkowicz and researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield. The wider project ran from 2020 to 2023.

• CPD Training for Migrant, Refugee and Community Organisations: a scoping exercise. Higher Education Innovation Fund. Researchers: Kofman, Keles, Pizzolato, and Saini, 2022
• The smuggling industry in the Mediterranean: a comparison across countries and periods. Researchers: Montagna, Papadouka, and Serrantino, 2022.

• Acik, N., Kutlay-Sarikaya, B., Ghaderi, F. and Kilicaslan, G. 2023. Contextualizing Kurdish gender studies: decolonial feminist knowledge production and the genesis of the Kurdish Gender Studies Network. Kurdish Studies Journal. 1 (1-2), pp. 255-284.
• Fox, C., Jo, D., Spencer, J. and Acik, N. 2022. Encountering authority and avoiding trouble: young migrant men’s narratives of negotiation in Europe. European Journal of Criminology. 19 (4), pp. 791-810.
• Pilkington, H. and Acik, N. 2020. Not entitled to talk: (mis)recognition, inequality and social activism of young Muslims. Sociology. 54 (1), pp. 181-198.
  
• Erel, U. and Acik, N. 2020. Enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship: Kurdish women’s politics. Gender, Place and Culture. 27 (4), pp. 479-501. 
  

• Bönisch-Brednich, B. A. Christou, S. Meyer; M. Karner; A. Escher (eds.) (2024) Narratives of Migration: Modalities of Agency, Collectivity and Performativity, Routledge, London, Routledge.
• Christou, A. 2022. Theorising Affective Habitus in Historical Geographies of Mobilities: Unfolding Spatio-Temporal Modalities, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 2 (6) pp. 215-236. 
• Christou, A. and Kofman, E. 2022. Gender and Migration: IMISCOE short reader. Cham, Switzerland Springer.
• Barrios-Aquino, M., N. Chanamuto and A. Christou, A. (2022) Emotions and Mobilities: Gendered, Temporal and Spatial Representations, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 2 (6) pp. 201-214.
• Christou, A. and D. Michail, 2021. ‘A window to knowledge is a window to the world’: Socio-aesthetics, Ethics and Pedagogic Migrant Youth Journeys in Crisis Shaped Educational Settings in Greece, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42(2): 308-322.

• Keles, Irwani, Acik and  Aghapouri (forthcoming) From the West to the Kurdistan Region: Exploring the Complexities of Gendered Kurdish Return Mobilities. Études Kurdes. 
• Syrett, S and Keles, J.Y (forthcoming) Homeland and Development, in Routledge Handbook on Home, Edited by Strafford, E and Walsh, K. Routledge, London.
• Soliman, S., Keles, J. and Fottouh, N. 2023. Refugee entrepreneurship and institutional voids: the case of Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Egypt. Academy of Management Discoveries. 9 (3), pp. 363-382.
• Bezwan, N. and Keles, J. 2022. Displacement, diaspora, and statelessness: framing the Kurdish case. in: Mayer, T. and Tran, T. (ed.) Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power London, UK Taylor & Francis (Routledge). pp. 212-224.
• Vassilopoulou, J., Ozbilgin, M., Groutsis, D. and Keles, J. 2022. Populism as new wine in old bottles in the context of Germany: 'symbolic violence' as collective habitus that devalues the human capital of Turks. Societies. 12 (2).
• Keles, J., Markova, E. and Fatah, R. 2022. Migrants with insecure legal status and access to work: the role of ethnic solidarity networks. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal. 41 (7), pp. 1047-1062.
• Keles, J. 2022. Return mobilities of highly skilled young people to a post-conflict region: the case of Kurdish-British to Kurdistan – Iraq. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 0, pp. 1-21.
• Bezwan, N. and Keles, J. 2021. Playing politics with the plight of refugees. How the EU went into Erdogan’s political receivership. The Commentaries. 1 (1), pp. 9-15.
   

• Bastia, T. and E.  Kofman  forthcoming. Unequal knowledge production and circulation in migration studies: gender and migration: feminist and decolonial perspectives. In  J. Dahinden and A.  Potts (eds) Reflexivities in migration studies: Pitfalls and alternatives, IMISCOE Springer, pp. 85-96
• Kofman, E. and E. Vacchelli  2024. Temporalities, dependency and the politics of marriage migration’ In K. Le Louvier and Hough (ed) UK Borderscapes, Sites of Enforcement and Resistance ch.4, Routledge.
• Bechtold, H., Chaya, C., Maydaa, C., Kofman, E., Tuncer, E. and Lazzarino, R. 2022. Gendered dynamics of international labour migration: migrant women in Greater Beirut, Lebanon. London, UK The Gender, Justice and Security Hub.
• Kofman, E. 2023. Integration discourses, the purification of gender and interventions in family migrations. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46 (14), pp. 3037-3057.
• Kofman, E. 2021. Gender, migration and policymaking in light of the 60th anniversary of international migration. International Migration. 59 (5), pp. 273 276. 
  
• Montagna, N., della Puppa, F. and Kofman, E. 2021. Onward migration: an introduction. International Migration. 59 (6), pp. 8-15.
• Della Puppa, F., Montagna, N. and Kofman, E. 2021. Onward migration and intra鈥怑uropean mobilities: a critical and theoretical overview. International Migration. 59 (6), pp. 16 28.
• Wray, H., Kofman, E. and Simic, A. 2021. Subversive citizens: using free movement law to bypass the UK’s rules on marriage migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 47 (2), pp. 447-463.
• Kofman, E. 2020. Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community: gender and migration. Comparative Migration Studies. 8 (1).
• D’Angelo, A., Kofman, E. and Keles, J. 2020. Migrants at work: perspectives, perceptions and new connections [Editorial]. Work, Employment and Society. 34 (5), pp. 745-748.

• Lazzarino, R., Kofman, E. and Kapadia, S. 2024. Gendered dynamics of international labour migration: migrant women working in Pakistan. London: The Gender, Justice and Security Hub.
• Lazzarino, R. and Papadopoulos, R. 2023. Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times. Social Theory & Health. 21 (3), pp. 247-266.  
• Rousou, E., Apostolara, P., Papadopoulos, R., Kalokairinou, A., Sakellaraki, O., Velonaki, V., Dudau, V., Kuckert, A., Lazzarino, R., Licciardello, O., Mauceri, M., Pezzella, A. and Kouta, C. 2023. Lived experiences of migrant and refugee parents: challenges encountered during their journey and settlement in Europe.
  
• Papadopoulos, R., Lazzarino, R., Sakellaraki, O., Dadãu, V., Apostolara, P., Kuckert-Wöstheinrich, A., Mauceri, M. and Kouta, C. 2022. Empowering refugee families in transit: the development of a culturally competent and compassionate training and support package. Journal of Research in Nursing. 27 (3), pp. 200-214.
  

• Morrison, C., Sacchetto, D. and Croucher, R. 2020. Migration, ethnicity and solidarity: 'multinational workers' in the former Soviet Union. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 58 (4), pp. 761-784. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12518

• Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Piekut A, Trevena P and Wright S (2024) ‘They made bets that I’d die’: Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(2): 442-460.
• Gawlewicz, A., Narkowicz, K. and Wright, S. 2023. Heroes or villains? Migrant essential workers and combined hostilities of Covid-19 and Brexit. Discover Society: New Series. 3 (2).
• Narkowicz, K. 2023. White enough, not white enough: racism and racialisation among Poles in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 46 (6), pp. 1534-1551.
  
• Kumar, M. and Narkowicz, K. 2023. The un-human beings: the denial of Muslim migrants' bodies in India and Poland. Interventions. 25 (4), pp. 413-430. 
  
• Narkowicz K and Piekut A (2022) Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus Covid. Open Democracy. November, 16.
• Ali, N., Phillips, R., Chambers, C., Narkowicz, K., Hopkins, P. and Pande, R. 2020. Halal dating: changing relationship attitudes and experiences among young British Muslims. Sexualities. 23 (5-6), pp. 775-792.

• Raina, N. and Blitz, B. 2021. Afghan Solidarity Coalition - submission to Defence Committee: Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Parliamentary Committee on Defence. 
  Raina, N. 2021. Failing and forgetting Afghanistan. The Gender, Justice and Security Hub. 
• Raina, N. and Blitz, B. 2021. We tried to get eligible Afghans out of Kabul. British officials did little to help [News article]. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 

• Saini, R. 2024. Politics, belonging and identity across the British South Asian middle classes: between privilege and prejudice. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Saini, R., Begum, N. and Bankole, M. 2023. Minority ethnic politicians are pushing harsh immigration policies – why representation doesn’t always mean racial justice. The Conversation Trust (UK).
• Saini, R., Bankole, M. and Begum, N. 2023. The 2022 Conservative leadership campaign and post-racial gatekeeping. Race & Class. 65 (2), pp. 55-74. 
  
• Saini, R. 2023. The racialised ‘second existence’ of class: class identification and (de- / re-) construction across the British South Asian middle classes. Cultural Sociology. 17 (2), pp. 277-296.
• Saini, R. 2022. The racialisation of class and the racialisation of the nation: ethnic minority identity formation across the British South Asian middle classes. South Asian Diaspora. 14 (2), pp. 109-125.
• Saini, R. and Begum, N. 2020. Demarcation and definition: explicating the meaning and scope of ‘decolonisation’ in the social and political sciences. The Political Quarterly. 91 (1), pp. 217-221.
• Begum, N. and Saini, R. 2019. Decolonising the curriculum. Political Studies Review. 17 (2), pp. 196-201.

• Khan, M. and Sepulveda Ramirez, L. 2022. Conflict, displacement, and economic revival: the case of the internally displaced minority entrepreneurs in Pakistan. Strategic Change. 31 (4), pp. 461-477.

• Onyima, J., Syrett, S. and Sepulveda Ramirez, L. 2023. Immigrant business in transnational contexts: a multifocal understanding of the breakout process. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. 30 (1), pp. 155-179.
• Syrett, S. and Keles, J. 2022. A contextual understanding of diaspora entrepreneurship: identity, opportunity and resources in the Sri Lankan Tamil and Kurdish diaspora. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. 28 (9), pp. 376-404.