Publications

Our research covers a wide range of topics in the field of migration and diaspora explored from diverse disciplinary perspectives, many of which are accessible via WestminsterResearch. The themes and the scope of our collective research are reflected in two collections, The ‘Material Turn’ in Migration Studies and Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces, as well as selected works of Centre members listed below. For the full list of Centre members and links to their publications visit our People page.

• Cetin, U and Jenkins, C. 2024. Alevi Kurd: Community formation, visibility and integration in the UK. In Arkilic, A and Senay, B. (ed) Routledge Handbook of Turkey’s Diasporas. London, Routledge.
• Cetin, U. and Jenkins, C. 2024. Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of A New Ethno-religious Identity.  in: Wang, C. and Lamb, T. (ed.) Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters, pp. 78-100.
• Cetin, U. & Jenkins, C. 2023. The Sunnification and Turkification of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: the use of education as a colonising practice. In Anand, D. & Kaul, N. (Eds) Contemporary Kashmiris and Kurds: Conflict and Coloniality. London. University of Westminster Press.
• Cetin, U. 2020.  Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-Generaion Alevi Kudish Gangs in London. Kurdish Studies. 8 (1): 185-208.
• Cetin, U., Jenkins, C. and Aydin, S. 2020. Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity. Kurdish Studies, 8 (1): 1-6.
• Channoufi, M. 2023. National Roots and Transnational Routes: A Case Study of the Tunisian Diaspora in Britain, in Cammarata, V., Mazzara, F. & Mechri, S. (eds) ‘Migrations: Socio-cultural Contexts and Constitution'. Milan: Mimesis International, pp. 117-133.
• Cross, H. 2023. Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa. Review of African Political Economy. 49 (174): 601-610.
• Cross, H. 2021, Migration Beyond Capitalism. Polity Press.
• Cross, H. 2020. The Burkina Faso: Côte d’Ivoire Migration Corridor. in: Bastia, T. and Skeldon, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Migration and Development Oxon Routledge.
• Cross, H. 2015. Finance, Development, and Remittances: Extending the Scale of Accumulation in Migrant Labour Regimes. Globalizations. 12 (3): 305-321.
• Cross, H. 2013. Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism: West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders. Routledge.
• Huc-Hepher, S. and Lyczba, F. 2024. “Sorry, I’m French”: Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in London. In C. Wang and T. Lamb (Eds.) Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces: Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in London’s Migrant Communities. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 52-77.
• Huc-Hepher, S. 2021. French London: A blended ethnography of a migrant City Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Huc-Hepher, S. 2021. Queering the Web Archive: A xenofeminist approach to gender, function, language and culture in the London French Special Collection. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8: 298.
• Huc-Hepher, S. 2021. Navigating the London-French Transnational Space: The Losses and Gains of Language as Embodied and Embedded Symbolic Capital. Languages 6(1): 57.
• Huc-Hepher, S. 2019. ‘Sometimes there’s racism towards the French’: Xenophobic microaggressions in pre-2016 London as articulations of symbolic violence. National Identities. 23(1): 15-39.
• Jenkins, C. 2020. “Aspirational Capital” and Transformations in First-generation Alevi-Kurdish Parents’ Involvement with Their Children’s Education in the UK. Kurdish Studies. 8 (1): 113-134.
• Karatsareas, P. 2024. Sociolinguistics for Language Education. In Li Wei, Zhu Hua & J. Simpson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, 400–412. Abingdon/New York: Routledge.
• Cushing, I., A. Georgiou & P. Karatsareas. 2021. Where Two Worlds Meet: Language Policing in Mainstream and Complementary Schools in England. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
• Karatsareas, P. 2021. The UK’s Shifting Diasporic Landscape: Negotiating Ethnolinguistic Heterogeneity in Greek Complementary Schools Post 2010. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 269, 99–121.
• Karatsareas, P. 2020. From Village Talk to Slang: The Re-enregisterment of A Non-Standardised Variety in An Urban Diaspora. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 42(9): 827–839.
• Karatsareas, P. & A. Charalambidou. 2020. Exploring Linguistic Hybridity and Lexical Creativity in the UK’s Greek Cypriot Diaspora: The Grenglish Project. Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes 50, 431–456.
• Kasstan, J. R. and Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I. (Fc 2024). New Speakers and their Heritage Languages. In: Paul Kerswill, Alex D’Arcy and Asahi Yoshiyuki (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Sheehan, S., Havinga A., Kasstan, J. R., Stollhans, S., Corr, A. & Gilman, P. (2024). Teacher Perspectives on the Introduction of Linguistics in the Languages Classroom: Evidence from A Co-creation Project on French, German and Spanish. British Educational Research Journal. Early View (https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4009).
• Kasstan, J. R. 2022. A Variationist Analysis of the Subjunctive in a Sociolinguistic Corpus of Spoken Francoprovençal. Revue des linguistes de l'Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense 84(1): 1-23.
• Chong, A. and Kasstan, J. R. 2022. Acoustic Characteristics of Fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. FirstView.
• Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I., Kasstan, J. R. and O'Rourke, B. 2022. Responding to Sociolinguistic Change: New Speakers and Variationist Sociolinguistics. International Journal of Bilingualism 26(5): 529-541.
• Kelly, D. 2024. Varieties of Taste: Intertwined Histories and Geographies of Theatres and Restaurants in Late19th Century London. In Chaouche, S. and Edouard, C. (eds), Stage and Plate – Eating and Starving in European Drama and Theatres (16th-19th centuries), European Drama and Performance Studies, Paris: Editions Garnier.
• Kelly, D. 2023. Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as a transnational site. In: Forsdick, C. and Launchbury, C. (eds.) Transnational French Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 169-186.
• Kelly, D. 2022. Fishes with Funny French Names: The French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
• Kelly, D. 202. Language and Hospitality in Worldmaking: How Languages Act in the World (with Ana de Medeiros). In Boyle, C. and Kelly, D., (eds) Language Acts and Worldmaking. London: Hodder and Stoughton/John Murray Learning, pp. 102-127.
• Kelly, D. 2016. A Migrant Culture on Display: The French Migrant and French Gastronomy in London (19th – 21st centuries). Modern Languages Open.
• Wang, C. and Lamb, T. (ed.)  2024. Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Bristol, England Multilingual Matters.
• Lamb, T.E. (tr. Murilo, J. da). 2021. Reconceituando Educação Intercultural: Um Modelo de Educação Linguística, in e-scrita Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU, 12/2: 340-353.
• Lamb, T. 2020. Supplementary Schools as Spaces of Hope for A More Inclusive World: Challenging Exclusion and Social Injustice in Multilingual London. Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching. 11 (2): 99-127.
• Lamb, T.E., Hatoss, A. and O’Neill, S. 2019. Challenging social injustice in superdiverse contexts through ‘activist’ languages education. In Papa, R. (ed.) Handbook on promoting social justice in education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
• Lamb, T.E. and Vodicka, G. 2018. Collective autonomy and multilingual spaces in super-diverse urban contexts: Interdisciplinary perspectives’. In Murray, G. and Lamb, T.E. (eds) Space, place and autonomy in language learning. London: Routledge, pp. 9-28.
• Linn, A. and Ahn, E.S. 2022. Introduction. World Englishes. 41 (1): 2-8.
• Linn, A. and Bezborodova, A. 2022. British Council (Uzbekistan) English Medium Instruction Project Impact Evaluation. Tashkent British Council.
• Linn, A. 2018. The Significance of a Historical Perspective on Language Planning and Language Policy Making – Listening to Past Voices to Inform Future Policy: The Voice of Johan Storm. In: Jahr, E.H. (ed.) Perspectives on Two Centuries of Norwegian Language Planning and Policy Uppsala Academia Regia Gustavi Adolphi. pp. 103-114.
• Linn, A. 2015. From Voss to New York: Norwegian Transmigration to America and the Use of Virtual Worlds in Historical Research. Historisk tidsskrift. 94 (2): 229-25.
• Linn, A. 2015. Nordic Migration to the New World. Marlborough.
• Ma, X. (2024).Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London’s Chinatown.  In: Wang, C. and Lamb, T.(eds.) Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces, Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 235-262
• Huc-Hepher, S. and Ma, X. (Forthcoming 2024) The Trouble with Community: Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Transnational “Community” Micro-archives. In: Aasman, S., Ben-David, A. and Brügger, N. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies, Taylor & Francis.
• Mazzara, F. V. Cammarata, and S. Mechri 2023. Migrations: Socio-cultural Contexts and Constitution (Mimesis International).
• Mazzara F. 2021. Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint. A collaborative project of collective writing, edited by N. De Genova and M. Tazzioli. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40 (2021): 781-875.
• Mazzara, F. 2020. The Role of Art in Subverting the “Ungrieviability” of Migrant Lives, in PARSE, 10.
• Mazzara, F. 2019. Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion (Oxford: Peter Lang).
• Mazzara, F. 2018. Objects, Debris and Memory of the Mediterranean Passage: Porto M in Lampedusa. In Gabriele Proglio and Laura Odasso, eds, Border Lampedusa: Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 153-174.
• Freeman, T., Miles, L. and Ying, K. 2024. Self-surveillance Practices of Factory Women Migrant Workers Receiving SRH Interventions in Malaysia: The Effects of Salience, Gendered Subjectivity and Universalism. Economic and Industrial Democracy. First published online.
• Miles, L., Freeman, T., Capucci Polzin, A., Reitz, R. and Croucher, R. 2023. Migrant Workers Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK: Resilience, Reworking and Resistance. Economic and Industrial Democracy. Advanced online publication.
• Miles, L., Freeman, T., Lai WT., Mat Yasin, S. and Ying, K. 2022. Empowerment as A Pre-requisite to Managing and Influencing Health in the Workplace: The Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Factory Women Migrant Workers in Malaysia. Economic and Industrial Democracy. 43 (4): 1676-1698.
• Freeman, T., Miles, L., Ying, K., Mat Yasin, S. and Lai, Wan-Teng.  2021. At the Limits of ‘Capability’: The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women Migrant Workers in Malaysia. Sociology of Health and Illness. 45 (5): 947-970.
• Miles, L., Lewis, S., Teng, L. and Mat Yasin, S. 2019. Advocacy for Women Migrant Workers in Malaysia through An Intersectionality Lens. Journal of Industrial Relations. 61 (5): 682-703.
• Pepe, G. 2024. Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-crisis Italian Migrants in London, in Wang, C. and Lamb, T. (eds.). Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 29-51.
• Pepe, G. 2022. New Migrations, New Multilingual Practices, New Identities: The Case of Post-2008 Italian Migrants in London. London: Palgrave.
• Pepe, G. 2021. A Disavowed Community: The Case of New Italian Migrants in London.  International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 269, 151-177.
• Cacciatore, F. and Pepe, G. (2019). Performing New Identities: The Community Language of Post-crisis Italian Migrants in London. National Identities, 21 (5): 507-526.
• Pepe, G. 2018. In-between Identities: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Community of Young Italians Living in London. In Coutinho, M.A., Guilherme, A., Teixeira, J., and Carvalh, B. (Eds.).  Grammar and Text: Selected Papers from the 10th and 11th Fora for Linguistic Sharing. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 122-140.
• Posada Álvarez, V. 2020. Researching Gender Identity: Collective Representations, Communication and Language. Anagramas Rumbos Y Sentidos De La Comunicación, 19(37): 87-109.  
• Posada Álvarez, V. 2017. Fotografía y cambios urbanos: el caso de la comunidad latinoamericana en Londres. Artefacto visual Revista de Estudios Visuales Latinoamericanos.
• Tsagarousianou, R. 2023. The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities. Media Culture and Society. Advanced online publication.
• Tsagarousianou, R. 2023. Time and Mobility/Immobility: The Chronopolitics of Mobility and the Temporalities of Suffering and Hope in Situations of Encampment. Mobilities. 18 (2): 267-281.
• Retis, J. and Tsagarousianou, R. (ed.) 2019. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Sofos, S.A. and Tsagarousianou, R. 2013. Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks. Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan.
• Tsagarousianou, R. 2007. Diasporic Cultures and Globalisation. Diasporic Cultures and Globalisation. Maastricht Shaker Publishing.
• Tsagarousianou, R. 2020. Diaspora as Frame: How the Notion Has Reshaped Migration Studies. in: Smets, K., Leurs, K., Georgiou, M., Witteborn, S. and Gajjala, R. (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration Sage.
• Wang, C. and Lamb, T. 2024. Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In Wang, C. and Lamb, T. (ed.), Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
• Wang, C. 2021. Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas: Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge.
• Wang, C., Zheng, V. and Gao, H. eds. (2020). Special Issue: Diasporic Heritage, Maritime Corridors and Connected Societies in Asia, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 29 (2): 133-316.
• Wang, C. ed., 2016. Introduction: The “Material Turn” in Migration Studies. Modern Languages Open.
• Wang, C. 2006. Life is Elsewhere: Stories of the Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong (Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, in Chinese)

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