Gabriella D’avino
Biographic Data
| ID | 214981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriella D’avino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriella |
| FAMILY NAME | D’avino |
| SIGNATURE | D’AVINO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4716-5956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Complementary pathways and community sponsorship in Europe
This article adopts an explanatory approach to policy analysis to explore Complementary Pathways (CP) and Community Sponsorship (CS) as civil society-led refugee solutions. Drawing on over 200 interviews across Europe, it highlights CP and CS benefits – human-centered reception, integration, and community engagement – as well as challenges like housing shortages, high costs and bureaucratic hurdles. CP and CS can reshape public attitudes, support…
Comparing Refugee Integration Experiences in the UK
The global increase in displaced populations underscores the need for diverse refugee solutions, with Western countries expanding resettlement and sponsorship programmes. Sponsorship programmes, involving private and community actors in refugee support, are often credited with offering more comprehensive, personalised assistance than government‐led resettlement, leading to assumptions of better integration experiences. However, empirical evidence…
Community Sponsorship in the Basque Country
The Auzolana II agreement is an innovative multi-level governance initiative in which the Spanish national government and authorities of the Basque Country agreed to set up a pilot community sponsorship programme (CSBC) in 2019. The CSBC is a new sponsorship model which operates through a strong partnership between regional and local authorities, civil society organisations and volunteers within local communities. This paper offers insight into t…
The intersection between social relationships and policies in refugee integration
This study compares the social relationships of refugees resettled through the UK’s Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Community Sponsorship (CS) programme, focusing on relationship quality, the support offered, and effects on integration. Results show that CS refugees tend to have more relationships providing emotional support, while VPRS refugees often lack such support. By introducing the concepts of ‘helpful’ and ‘caring’ relat…
Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways
The ongoing global displacement emergency characterised by increasing numbers of forced migrants needing refuge has prompted the exploration of alternative solutions to traditional refugee resettlement programmes. Complementary Pathways and Community Sponsorship have emerged as innovative approaches to refugee resettlement which often involves partnership between the state and civil society and potentially the private sector. These initiatives bu…
Comparative analysis of resettled refugees' social networks
Shaping public attitudes towards migrants and refugees
Over the last decade, as the global number of forcibly displaced people has risen, Western countries have adopted strict migration policies. Meanwhile, some European countries have introduced community-based sponsorship programmes, such as the Italian Humanitarian Corridors (HC), involving private and public actors in refugee resettlement. Enthusiasm for these programmes is often driven by the belief that they can positively impact society by cha…
You Are Safe Here
Globally, resettlement is considered one of the most durable solutions for refugees. The UK has introduced a Community Sponsorship Scheme that enables communities to resettle refugee families providing them with enhanced integration support aided by volunteers. This paper investigates the nature of integration support that sponsored refugees receive utilising the analytical framework of UK’s Indicators of Integration (IoI). Data was collected fro…
Family reunion policy for resettled refugees
The past decade has seen renewed efforts to establish resettlement as a durable solution for refugees, both as a protection tool and a mechanism to equitably distribute them among countries. Although the right to a family life is widely recognised as a fundamental human right, whether refugees can arrive with their family or be reunited with family once resettled varies across receiving countries. Little is known about family reunion policies in …
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment
The launch of the private sponsorship scheme, Community Sponsorship (CS), allowing individuals to resettle refugees in the UK, seems to be in contrast with the government’s approach towards immigration aimed to implement the hostile environment policy. Using frame analysis, this research looks at the diagnostic, prognostic and motivational framings used by policymakers in parliamentary debates related to CS to understand how the scheme and the ho…
I have Felt so Much Joy”
Resettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer groups to take responsibility resettling refugees. The UK Community Sponsorship scheme (CS) allows volunteer groups to support refugee families in their community. This paper explores the role of emotions in CS using Jaspers three-stage social action life cycle (1998) drawing up…
I have Felt so Much Joy”
Resettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer groups to take responsibility resettling refugees. The UK Community Sponsorship scheme (CS) allows volunteer groups to support refugee families in their community. This paper explores the role of emotions in CS using Jaspers three-stage social action life cycle (1998) drawing up…
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment
The launch of the private sponsorship scheme, Community Sponsorship (CS), allowing individuals to resettle refugees in the UK, seems to be in contrast with the government’s approach towards immigration aimed to implement the hostile environment policy. Using frame analysis, this research looks at the diagnostic, prognostic and motivational framings used by policymakers in parliamentary debates related to CS to understand how the scheme and the ho…
Family reunion policy for resettled refugees
The past decade has seen renewed efforts to establish resettlement as a durable solution for refugees, both as a protection tool and a mechanism to equitably distribute them among countries. Although the right to a family life is widely recognised as a fundamental human right, whether refugees can arrive with their family or be reunited with family once resettled varies across receiving countries. Little is known about family reunion policies in …
Comparative analysis of resettled refugees' social networks
I have Felt so Much Joy”
Resettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer groups to take responsibility resettling refugees. The UK Community Sponsorship scheme (CS) allows volunteer groups to support refugee families in their community. This paper explores the role of emotions in CS using Jaspers three-stage social action life cycle (1998) drawing up…
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment
The launch of the private sponsorship scheme, Community Sponsorship (CS), allowing individuals to resettle refugees in the UK, seems to be in contrast with the government’s approach towards immigration aimed to implement the hostile environment policy. Using frame analysis, this research looks at the diagnostic, prognostic and motivational framings used by policymakers in parliamentary debates related to CS to understand how the scheme and the ho…
Family reunion policy for resettled refugees
The past decade has seen renewed efforts to establish resettlement as a durable solution for refugees, both as a protection tool and a mechanism to equitably distribute them among countries. Although the right to a family life is widely recognised as a fundamental human right, whether refugees can arrive with their family or be reunited with family once resettled varies across receiving countries. Little is known about family reunion policies in …
Shaping public attitudes towards migrants and refugees
Over the last decade, as the global number of forcibly displaced people has risen, Western countries have adopted strict migration policies. Meanwhile, some European countries have introduced community-based sponsorship programmes, such as the Italian Humanitarian Corridors (HC), involving private and public actors in refugee resettlement. Enthusiasm for these programmes is often driven by the belief that they can positively impact society by cha…
You Are Safe Here
Globally, resettlement is considered one of the most durable solutions for refugees. The UK has introduced a Community Sponsorship Scheme that enables communities to resettle refugee families providing them with enhanced integration support aided by volunteers. This paper investigates the nature of integration support that sponsored refugees receive utilising the analytical framework of UK’s Indicators of Integration (IoI). Data was collected fro…
Community Sponsorship in the Basque Country
The Auzolana II agreement is an innovative multi-level governance initiative in which the Spanish national government and authorities of the Basque Country agreed to set up a pilot community sponsorship programme (CSBC) in 2019. The CSBC is a new sponsorship model which operates through a strong partnership between regional and local authorities, civil society organisations and volunteers within local communities. This paper offers insight into t…
The intersection between social relationships and policies in refugee integration
This study compares the social relationships of refugees resettled through the UK’s Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Community Sponsorship (CS) programme, focusing on relationship quality, the support offered, and effects on integration. Results show that CS refugees tend to have more relationships providing emotional support, while VPRS refugees often lack such support. By introducing the concepts of ‘helpful’ and ‘caring’ relat…
Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways
The ongoing global displacement emergency characterised by increasing numbers of forced migrants needing refuge has prompted the exploration of alternative solutions to traditional refugee resettlement programmes. Complementary Pathways and Community Sponsorship have emerged as innovative approaches to refugee resettlement which often involves partnership between the state and civil society and potentially the private sector. These initiatives bu…
Comparative analysis of resettled refugees' social networks
Complementary pathways and community sponsorship in Europe
This article adopts an explanatory approach to policy analysis to explore Complementary Pathways (CP) and Community Sponsorship (CS) as civil society-led refugee solutions. Drawing on over 200 interviews across Europe, it highlights CP and CS benefits – human-centered reception, integration, and community engagement – as well as challenges like housing shortages, high costs and bureaucratic hurdles. CP and CS can reshape public attitudes, support…
Comparing Refugee Integration Experiences in the UK
The global increase in displaced populations underscores the need for diverse refugee solutions, with Western countries expanding resettlement and sponsorship programmes. Sponsorship programmes, involving private and community actors in refugee support, are often credited with offering more comprehensive, personalised assistance than government‐led resettlement, leading to assumptions of better integration experiences. However, empirical evidence…
Refugee (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Immigration (3 works)