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Lecturer in Sociology

Qualifications

MA Gender and Ethnic Studies, Greenwich University
PhD Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent University

Professional affiliations

British Sociological Association

Course development and teaching

I chair the postgraduate module on Ethnography (D844) and am a module team member on Sociology and Society (DD201), I have contributed to DD206. Currently I am postgraduate coordinator in the Sociology Department.

Research interests

My research interests are in migration, ethnicity, gender and class, culture and representation empirically and theoretically. I have explored issues of intersectionality, the social construction of skill and notions of belonging in recent research projects (e.g. on Refugee Women in London’s voluntary sector and on migration and cohesion in the context of the East of England). I am interested in how these issues play out in practices of citizenship, differentiated along gender and ethnic lines. My monograph on ‘Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship (Ashgate 2009) addresses this through the lens of the life-stories of migrant women from Turkey in Britain and Germany. I am currently exploring migrant women’s mothering practices as citizenship practices in their own right and with respect to shaping their children’s ethnic, cultural, political identities and modes of citizenship, based on two pieces of empirical research on European mothers in London (2011) and Polish, Turkish and Kurdish mothers and children in London (2008).

PhD supervision

I am currently co-supervising (with Prof Jef Huysmans) Khaled Alkhatib’s PhD on Islamization and Integration - Muslim Communities in Berlin and London.

I welcome applications of potential PhD students in the areas of my research interests and more generally in the areas of gender and migration, citizenship, identities.

Completed PhDs

Hilal Alkan Zeybek on Enacting Citizenship: Practices of Intimacy and Gift-Giving in Turkey.

Recent publications

A selection of my research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Monograph

2009: Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Journal articles

forthcoming: Kurdish migrant mothers in London enacting citizenship, in Citizenship Studies, Special issue on Reproducing Citizenship.

2012: Co-editor with Fiona Williams and Deborah Brennan of a Special Issue of Social Politics on ‘Transnational Care: Changing Formations of Citizenship, Family and Generation’, vol 19 (1), March 2012.

2012: Co-editor with Helma Lutz of a Special Issue of European Journal of Women’s Studies on ‘Gender and Transnationalism’, November 2012 19 (4).

2012: ‘Gendering Transnational Cultural Capital’, Special Issue on Gender and Transnationalism of European Journal of Women’s Studies, November 2012.

2012: ‘Making Migrant Women Visible’ Special issue of Cahiers du Genre on Mobilizing Migrant Women in Europe 2012, 51 (135-154).

2011: Complex belongings: Racialization and migration in a small English city, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Nov 2011)  vol 34 (12) pp. 2048-2068.

2011: ‘Migrant Mothers as Citizens’, Citizenship Studies, (Nov 2011)vol 15 (6-7) pp. 695-709.

2010: ‘Migrating Cultural Capital: Bourdieu in Migration Studies’ Sociology 2010 vol. 44:4 (642-660).

2007: Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women, Sociological Research Online, Volume 12, Issue 4 (reprinted in: Reprinted in: Life Story Research, edited by Barbara Harrison, Sage: 2008.

Book chapters

2012: ’Migrant Mothers Transmitting and Transforming Ethnic Identities’ in Bertram, H. (ed.) "Familie, Bindung und Care", Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

2010: ‘Migrant Women Challenging Stereotypical Views on Femininities and Family’ in Gill, R. and Scharff, C.M. (eds.) New Femininities:Postfeminism, neoliberalism and subjectivity (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan).

2010: with Jin Haritaworn, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Christian Klesse: On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk. Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical Sexuality Studies. In: Taylor, Yvette; Hines, Sally, Casey, Mark E. (eds.) Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan.

2008: Hickman, Crowley and Mai with Erel, U. and Institute for Conflict Resolution: Rhythms and Realities of Everyday life. Improving our Understanding of Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK.

2007: Transnationale Migration, Intime Beziehungen und BürgerInnenrechte. In: Hartmann, Jutta / Klesse, Christian / Wagenknecht, Peter / Fritzsche, Bettina / Hackmann, Kristina (eds.) Eine Einführung Heteronormativität. Empirische Studien zu Heterosexualität als gesellschaftlichem Machtverhältnis. Vs Verlag.

Last updated: 8 November 2012