Silke Zschomler
Biographic Data
| ID | 237805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silke Zschomler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silke |
| FAMILY NAME | Zschomler |
| SIGNATURE | ZSCHOMLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-1381-5874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Researcher wellbeing: Co-developing a toolkit to mitigate against vicarious trauma across the UK research sector
This article introduces our newly developed toolkit to promote the support of researcher wellbeing (RES-WELL). The RES-WELL toolkit sets out practical strategies for UK research institutions, funders and researchers, particularly in the context of emotionally or ethically challenging research, to mitigate against risks of vicarious or secondary trauma when conducting research. This toolkit is the outcome of a one-year project comprising an extens…
Privatised asylum: The UK’s response to protection seekers fleeing Ukraine
Superdiversity, the "new bespokism", and hierarchies of belonging: The Homes for Ukraine scheme in the UK
Homes for Ukraine: Arrival Infrastructures and the UK’s “New Bespokism”
This article examines arrival infrastructures and arrival brokering practices emerging from the UK government’s response to people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. We focus on Homes for Ukraine, a private hosting scheme. The scheme is an example of the “new bespokism” that characterises the government’s approach to asylum. It has given rise to new geographies of settlement against a background of a “brutal migration milieu” (Hall, 2017) and provi…
Small Tragedies of Individuals’ Lives”: London’s Migrant Division of Labour and Migrant Language Educational Settings
This article highlights the lived experience of migrants who have come to London to set up a new life and are learning English to facilitate this process. Drawing on my ethnographic research with a heterogenous group of adult migrants within and beyond the institutional boundaries of a migrant language educational setting in London, I tease out the often painful experiences and effects of deskilling my participants are confronted with as they are…
Language Is Your Dignity: Migration, Linguistic Capital, and the Experience of Re/De-Valuation
Using critical hermeneutic phenomenology, this study considers the lived realities of seven adult migrants with diverse migratory trajectories who came to London in order to set up a new life. Drawing on Bourdieu, it explicates their symbolic struggles for value fought out at the linguistic level and the way they live through experiences of re-valuation of their linguistic capital. Because of the fact that linguistic repertoires are not equal in …
Privatised asylum: The UK’s response to protection seekers fleeing Ukraine
Superdiversity, the "new bespokism", and hierarchies of belonging: The Homes for Ukraine scheme in the UK
Language Is Your Dignity: Migration, Linguistic Capital, and the Experience of Re/De-Valuation
Using critical hermeneutic phenomenology, this study considers the lived realities of seven adult migrants with diverse migratory trajectories who came to London in order to set up a new life. Drawing on Bourdieu, it explicates their symbolic struggles for value fought out at the linguistic level and the way they live through experiences of re-valuation of their linguistic capital. Because of the fact that linguistic repertoires are not equal in …
Small Tragedies of Individuals’ Lives”: London’s Migrant Division of Labour and Migrant Language Educational Settings
This article highlights the lived experience of migrants who have come to London to set up a new life and are learning English to facilitate this process. Drawing on my ethnographic research with a heterogenous group of adult migrants within and beyond the institutional boundaries of a migrant language educational setting in London, I tease out the often painful experiences and effects of deskilling my participants are confronted with as they are…
Language Is Your Dignity: Migration, Linguistic Capital, and the Experience of Re/De-Valuation
Using critical hermeneutic phenomenology, this study considers the lived realities of seven adult migrants with diverse migratory trajectories who came to London in order to set up a new life. Drawing on Bourdieu, it explicates their symbolic struggles for value fought out at the linguistic level and the way they live through experiences of re-valuation of their linguistic capital. Because of the fact that linguistic repertoires are not equal in …
Small Tragedies of Individuals’ Lives”: London’s Migrant Division of Labour and Migrant Language Educational Settings
This article highlights the lived experience of migrants who have come to London to set up a new life and are learning English to facilitate this process. Drawing on my ethnographic research with a heterogenous group of adult migrants within and beyond the institutional boundaries of a migrant language educational setting in London, I tease out the often painful experiences and effects of deskilling my participants are confronted with as they are…
Homes for Ukraine: Arrival Infrastructures and the UK’s “New Bespokism”
This article examines arrival infrastructures and arrival brokering practices emerging from the UK government’s response to people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. We focus on Homes for Ukraine, a private hosting scheme. The scheme is an example of the “new bespokism” that characterises the government’s approach to asylum. It has given rise to new geographies of settlement against a background of a “brutal migration milieu” (Hall, 2017) and provi…
Researcher wellbeing: Co-developing a toolkit to mitigate against vicarious trauma across the UK research sector
This article introduces our newly developed toolkit to promote the support of researcher wellbeing (RES-WELL). The RES-WELL toolkit sets out practical strategies for UK research institutions, funders and researchers, particularly in the context of emotionally or ethically challenging research, to mitigate against risks of vicarious or secondary trauma when conducting research. This toolkit is the outcome of a one-year project comprising an extens…
Privatised asylum: The UK’s response to protection seekers fleeing Ukraine
Superdiversity, the "new bespokism", and hierarchies of belonging: The Homes for Ukraine scheme in the UK
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (2 works)