A Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 30196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9757-8930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 651 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Open ears: The podcasts that fire up our team’s sociological imaginations
Uncommon Sense: Fanon, with Julian Go
Frantz Fanon, the radical psychiatrist and anti-colonial philosopher, was not a sociologist but has shaped so much sociological thought. Julian Go reflects on his life, work and significance - including books ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ - and how he speaks to ideas of what it means to be ‘postcolonial’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ today
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Uncommon Sense: Gifts, with Sophie Woodward
Gifts. What do we do with those we don’t want, or can’t yet use, but don’t just get rid of either? Sophie Woodward on “dormant” gifts, their role in our relationships with each other, ourselves and with time. A conversation about objects, obligation, meaning, and the serious significance of “stuff” in social science and beyond
Uncommon Sense: China, with Jieyu Liu
What does family life really look like in China? What’s changed and remained since 1949? And why must we challenge Eurocentric assumptions about modernisation and relationships? Sociologist Jieyu Liu joins us to discuss love, family, generations - based on her research with people across three generations in rural and urban China. Plus: a primer on Fei Xiaotong
Uncommon Sense: Endings, with Patricia Kingori
Who gets to decide when something is over? How is declaring so an act of power? Professor of Global Health Ethics, Patricia Kingori, joins to discuss these questions and many more raised by the interdisciplinary ‘After the End’ project on which she’s the lead researcher
Uncommon Sense: Being Seen, with Shahram Khosravi
What does it mean to “be seen”? Who decides who’s visible, and who gets invisibilised? Anthropologist and ex-taxi driver Shahram Khosravi joins us to reflect on visibility, power, value, and whose knowledge counts
Goldsmithing Networks and Donatello's Sculpture in Metal: Florence, Siena, Padua
This essay explores, through an analysis of representative declarations from the Florence tax census of 1427 (known as the Catasto) as well as extant account books, the organisation of the art of goldsmithing in fifteenth‐century Italy. These written sources indicate that goldsmiths, in Florence and elsewhere in Italy, frequently hired each other to carry out specialised tasks and, moreover, purchased from each other tools and supplies as well as…
Uncommon Sense: Fat, with Fady Shanouda
Uncommon Sense: Love & Reproduction, with Alva Gotby
Uncommon Sense: Maternal, with Babalwa Magoqwana
How have maternal – and grandmaternal – ways of knowing been underacknowledged? What role has sociology’s fixation on its “founding fathers” played? What’s the cost in countries such as South Africa? And why must we de-gender motherhood and recognise that all of us should care? Babalwa Magoqwana joins Uncommon Sense from Gqeberha
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism: Gerlin Bean and Black British Feminist Socialism
Good vibrations: Why sociologists make ideal podcasters
Childhood, with Brenda Herbert
Uncommon Sense: Scars, with Ellen T. Meiser
From TV's "The Bear" to the simmering restaurant thriller "Boiling Point" we seem drawn to angry-but-vulnerable chefs in pop culture.But how do such stereotypes shape who works in kitchens and how they treat their colleagues?Is "kitchen culture", with its macho rough and tumble norms, always so different from the work culture so many of us face -including in academia?Sociologist Ellen T. Meiser joins us from Hawaii to discuss this and more, refle…
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Joy, with Akwugo Emejulu
Joy -with Akwugo EmejuluWhat comes to mind when you think about joy?And can there be joy in protest and refusal?Someone who's been asking and trying to answer questions about this is Akwugo Emejulu.She's been investigating the relationship between Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures, asking how Black feminists are remixing political media, meanings and messages to co-create manifestos for change.Akwugo has also been mapping the grassroots…
Uncommon Sense: Desire, with Angelique Nixon
Uncommon Sense: Revolution, with Volodymyr Ishchenko
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism: Len Garrison, Archives and Self-Esteem
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Tech and Anti-Racism
Uncommon Sense: Free Speech, with Aaron Winter
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Uncommon Sense: Inheritance, with Delwar Hussain
“What is the effect of receiving something from someone who is not your biological kin?” Anthropologist Delwar Hussain introduces his new project on Queer Inheritance. A conversation about family, the “good death”, kin, relationships and meaning-making. Plus: celebration of Kath Weston’s “Families We Choose”
At the extremes of exclusion: Deportation, detention and dispersal
Deportation, detention and dispersal have formed an occasional part of Britain's migration regime throughout the twentieth century, though they tended to be used in response to particular events or "crises". By the end of the twentieth century, however, deportation, detention and, most recently, dispersal have become "normalized", "essential" instruments in the ongoing attempt to control or manage immigration to Britain. This article outlines the…
Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England: A Qualitative Perspective
Based on data from in-depth qualitative interviews with young undocumented migrants from Brazil, China, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Kurds from Turkey, this article explores the entry strategies used by young people in relation to the UK immigration system and their undocumented status. Against a brief account of Britain's regime, the paper first examines why and how these migrants come to the UK and the ways in which they entered the country. Second, t…
Refugees in the UK Labour Market: The Conflict between Economic Integration and Policy-led Labour Market Restriction
This article draws on data from a survey of 400 refugees and shows low levels of labour market activity. The minority of refugees who are working are in secondary sector jobs with little opportunity for progression. Moreover, refugees with high levels of skills who are working are not in jobs commensurate with their skills and qualifications. The article examines the human capacity and personal characteristics that have an impact on refugee emplo…
The labour market experiences and strategies of young undocumented migrants
The article draws on data from in-depth interviews and testimonies with 75 young undocumented migrants from Brazil, China, Kurds from Turkey, Ukraine and Zimbabwe living in England. The article provides a detailed qualitative understanding of the working lives and decision making of undocumented migrants, a group about which little is known. Sectors of employment and working conditions are explored alongside job-seeking strategies and the role of…
Irregular migration in a globalizing world
Methodological Challenges for National and Multi-sited Comparative Survey Research
This paper will examine the ways in which ‘textbook’ survey research methods need to be adapted and refined for research with forced migrants, and the ways in which cross-national contexts, as well as research within one national context with forced migrants from different communities, affect the utilization of survey methods. Linked to this, the ways in which survey design issues need to be sensitive to the diversity between and within countries…
Talking about the Past, Locating It in the Present: The Second Generation from Refugee Backgrounds Making Sense of Their Parents’ Narratives, Narrative Gaps and Silences
This article focuses on intergenerational narratives of exile and persecution as well as the narrative gaps and the silences between generations from the perspectives of the second generation from refugee backgrounds. The article draws on data from interviews with United Kingdom-born adults with parents who had been refugees from Vietnam and Sri Lanka (Tamils) and Kurds from Turkey. While some parents shared pre-migration, flight and post-migrati…
A New Era or More of the Same? Asylum Policy in the UK
This paper examines the development of asylum policy in the UK. It explores the policies of successive Conservative governments (1979–1997) and Labour's responses to Conservative policies while in opposition. On winning an election in 1997, the new Labour government has done little to reverse the policies of the previous Conservative administrations. In fact, Labour has continued with the dual approach of restricting immigration and curtailing th…
Refugee settlement in Britain: The impact of policy on participation
The settlement of refugees and asylum-seekers in countries of asylum depends on a range of factors that include the policies of the country of asylum as well as the experiences to and attitudes of individuals to exile. This article examines the direction of social policy towards refugees and asylum-seekers in Britain and the impact of policy on participation. Drawing on a sample of 180 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Somali, Tamil and Congol…
Zimbabweans in Britain: Transnational Activities and Capabilities
This paper explores the economic, political, social and cultural transnational exchanges of 500 Zimbabweans living in the UK. The paper examines the ways in which motivations for migration and immigration status impact on the type of transnational exchanges that take place between the UK and Zimbabwe, and also among diasporic networks elsewhere. After social contact with close family members, economic remittances form the most regular exchanges. …
Carrying Out a Survey of Refugees: Some Methodological Considerations and Guidelines
This paper explores the methodological issues that arise when carrying out survey research with refugee people. The paper examines the identification of the study population, the use of gatekeepers, translating questionnaires, sampling and the issues that arise when designing and carrying out cross-cultural research within one country. Although the work reported on was carried out in Britain, the wider methodological concerns are applicable more …
Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective
This article draws on data from qualitative interviews with ethnic enclave and ethnic economy business entrepreneurs from Chinese, Bangladeshi and Turkish-speaking communities in London. Routes into business and worker recruitment practices are explored, demonstrating the centrality of social capital in the form of family and other social networks within these processes. The article investigates what employers consider the desirable characteristi…
The Right to Rights: Undocumented Migrants from Zimbabwe Living in South Africa
This article examines the disjuncture between the theory of international refugee protection, human rights and citizenship rights and their practice. Drawing on data from a sub-sample of 500 Zimbabwean migrants taken from a larger survey of 1000 Zimbabweans in South Africa and the UK, it explores the labour market and transnational lives of undocumented migrants and compares them with migrants with other immigration statuses. The article demonstr…
Refugee Women in Europe: Some Aspects of the Legal and Policy Dimensions
This article presents an overview of the legal and policy issues affecting refugee and asylum‐seeking women in European host societies. First, it explores the unique types of persecution experienced by women and shows that the asylum determination process, along with the status of women relative to men, mitigates against the effective protection of women. The legal basis for asylum, the evidential requirements and the procedural norms all reduce …
Living in Fear: Rejected Asylum Seekers Living as Irregular Migrants in England
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with refused asylum seekers from Zimbabwe and Kurds from Turkey, who have stayed in Britain as irregular migrants, this paper examines everyday lives, strategies and fears. The paper focuses on four main areas: individual experiences of the asylum system leading to irregularity; living as an irregular migrant with the constraints on economic participation and limited housing options; social lives, relation…
Reflections and directions for research in refugee studies
This paper reflects on how refugee studies have developed and it identifies areas for future research. First, the paper sets the scene through an overview of refugee protection regime and on patterns of displacement. Second, the development of theories that try to explain refugee movements is explored. Third, the policy focus of refugee studies and the inherent tensions between stakeholders are examined. This is followed by an exploration of thre…
"Second generation" refugees and multilingualism: Identity, Race and Language Transmission
This paper explores the language practices, attitudes to languages and the inter-generational transmission of heritage languages amongst the UK-born adult children of refugee parents. The paper draws on empirical data from a research project based on 45 qualitative interviews with three groups of "second generation" refugees, whose parents came as Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, Kurdish refugees from Turkey and as refugees from Vietnam. The paper …
Second generation from refugee backgrounds in Europe
This introduction to the special issue provides a critical state-of-the-art of the literature on second-generation migrants which has hitherto subsumed the case of the children of refugees. It highlights the theoretical and methodological orientations taken by the literature and examines the main findings on the second generation’s social, educational, economic, cultural and inter-generational lives, before turning to the few findings available o…
Inter-generational transnationalism: The impact of refugee backgrounds on second generation
This paper explores transnational activities among the UK born second generation from three refugee backgrounds: Tamils from Sri Lanka, Kurds from Turkey and Vietnamese. Drawing on qualitative interview data from 45 interviews, the paper explores the views and experiences of the second generation but also their reflections and interpretations of their parent's histories and transnational activities. The paper takes a comparative and inter-generat…
Emigration from Zimbabwe: Migrant Perspectives
This article explores migration from Zimbabwe to the UK and South Africa and the experiences of the receiving countries from the perspective of the migrants. It provides a critical examination of the impact of structural barriers in both the UK and South Africa on the economic experiences of migrants. The effects of immigration status, due to the exclusion of asylum‐seekers in the UK and the presence of undocumented migrants in the UK and South A…
Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City
Living on the Margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or ‘irregular’) migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses
Employer sanctions: The impact of workplace raids and fines on undocumented migrants and ethnic enclave employers
The context of this article is the use of employer sanctions, in the form of raids and fines on businesses found to be employing people who do not have permission to work in the UK, as a method of in-border immigration control. Drawing on qualitative interviews with undocumented migrants and ethnic enclave employers in London, this article examines the impact of sanctions from the perspectives of those who have been or are most likely to be affec…
Labour Market Participation and Conditions of Employment: A Comparison of Minority Ethnic Groups and Refugees in Britain
This paper draws on data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and from a survey of 400 refugees in Britain in order to present an up to data comparison of the labour market experiences of minority ethnic groups and refugees. It will show that refugees experience lower rates of employment than their ethnic minority counterparts and that those refugees in employment are more likely to be in temporary and part-time work with poorer terms and condition…
How memory survives: Descendants of Auschwitz survivors and the progenic tattoo
The impact of the Holocaust on the descendants of survivors and the ways in which they embrace, embody and memorialise their family histories is the subject of this paper. The paper explores intergenerational storytelling and silences about the Holocaust through the lens of the number that was tattooed on the bodies of inmates in the Auschwitz complex and has been replicated on the bodies of some survivor descendants. The number has become a symb…
Transnationalism and the state: Recurring Themes and New Directions
Transnationalism is central to our understanding of the impact and experiences of global migration. The paper by Levitt and de la Dehesa (2003) explores the policies and strategies of the sending state in relation to their emigrants and investigates the reasons for policy convergences and divergences. While the issues examined in the paper continue to be relevant there are other areas and methodological approaches that need to be developed and/or…
A guide to the literature on aggressive behavior
Articles relating t o the general problem area of aggression are scattered throughout the whole range of specialized journals in fields from "A for anatomy" t o "Z for Zoology." It is virtually impossible for a single individual to find all the articles which may bear on his particular interest. Information overload is, of course, a problem. However, an even greater problem is matching the interesting article with the interested reader. Aggressiv…
One or two tiers of local government: Some empirical evidence
(1991). One or two tiers of local government: Some empirical evidence. Policy Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 42-46
Carrying Out a Survey of Refugees: Some Methodological Considerations and Guidelines
This paper explores the methodological issues that arise when carrying out survey research with refugee people. The paper examines the identification of the study population, the use of gatekeepers, translating questionnaires, sampling and the issues that arise when designing and carrying out cross-cultural research within one country. Although the work reported on was carried out in Britain, the wider methodological concerns are applicable more …
A New Era or More of the Same? Asylum Policy in the UK
This paper examines the development of asylum policy in the UK. It explores the policies of successive Conservative governments (1979–1997) and Labour's responses to Conservative policies while in opposition. On winning an election in 1997, the new Labour government has done little to reverse the policies of the previous Conservative administrations. In fact, Labour has continued with the dual approach of restricting immigration and curtailing th…
Refugee Women in Europe: Some Aspects of the Legal and Policy Dimensions
This article presents an overview of the legal and policy issues affecting refugee and asylum‐seeking women in European host societies. First, it explores the unique types of persecution experienced by women and shows that the asylum determination process, along with the status of women relative to men, mitigates against the effective protection of women. The legal basis for asylum, the evidential requirements and the procedural norms all reduce …
Refugee settlement in Britain: The impact of policy on participation
The settlement of refugees and asylum-seekers in countries of asylum depends on a range of factors that include the policies of the country of asylum as well as the experiences to and attitudes of individuals to exile. This article examines the direction of social policy towards refugees and asylum-seekers in Britain and the impact of policy on participation. Drawing on a sample of 180 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Somali, Tamil and Congol…
The Importance of Convention Status: A Case Study of the UK
Convention status accords refugees social and economic rights and security of residence in European countries of asylum. However, the trend in Europe has been to prevent asylum seekers reaching its borders, to reduce the rights of asylum seekers in countries of asylum and to use temporary protection as a means of circumventing the responsibility of long-term resettlement. This paper will provide a case study of the United Kingdom. It will examine…
The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain
The increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Europe has placed the issue of migration high on the policy agendas of national governments and the European Union. This book analyzes the impa
Asylum and welfare: Contemporary debates
This article provides the context for the Special Issue. It outlines the differential eligibility for welfare rights experienced by people with varying citizenship statuses and notes the increasing exclusion and marginalization of asylum seekers in European countries of asylum. In this article, we also examine the robustness of the arguments that have been used to justify the curtailment of welfare in some European countries; namely, that welfare…
Refugee Studies and Politics: Human Dimensions and Research Perspectives
Refugee Studies and Politics: Human Dimensions and Research Perspectives Edited by Susanne Binder and Jelena Tošić . Vienna: Institut für Ethnologie, Kultur und Sozialanthropologie/Facultas Verlag , 2002 . 267 €21.80 . ISBN 3 85114 723 5
Survey research with refugees: A methodological perspective
This article draws on a study of five refugee groups living in five regions in England carried out for the Department for Work and Pensions. It considers the central methodological issues that emerge when carrying out survey research with refugees. The article examines the key components of research design and Investigation in refugee research. It considers problems emanating from the lack of official base-line field data and the difficulties of …
Labour Market Participation and Conditions of Employment: A Comparison of Minority Ethnic Groups and Refugees in Britain
This paper draws on data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and from a survey of 400 refugees in Britain in order to present an up to data comparison of the labour market experiences of minority ethnic groups and refugees. It will show that refugees experience lower rates of employment than their ethnic minority counterparts and that those refugees in employment are more likely to be in temporary and part-time work with poorer terms and condition…
The Development Potential of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora: A Survey of Zimbabweans Living in the UK and South Africa
This report draws on findings from a survey of 1,000 Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom and South Africa and aims to obtain a profile in terms of their skills base, transnational links and interest in contributing to development. It examines the education and employment skills base of respondents on arrival in either the UK or South Africa and their educational qualifications and employment at the time of the survey. Transnational activitie…
Asylum policy under New Labour
This article examines New Labour policies on asylum with a focus on changes in welfare provision. The changes that have taken place have resulted in the exclusion of asylum seekers from ‘mainstream’ provision and have led to an increase in poverty and destitution among some asylum seekers
At the extremes of exclusion: Deportation, detention and dispersal
Deportation, detention and dispersal have formed an occasional part of Britain's migration regime throughout the twentieth century, though they tended to be used in response to particular events or "crises". By the end of the twentieth century, however, deportation, detention and, most recently, dispersal have become "normalized", "essential" instruments in the ongoing attempt to control or manage immigration to Britain. This article outlines the…
Emigration from Zimbabwe: Migrant Perspectives
This article explores migration from Zimbabwe to the UK and South Africa and the experiences of the receiving countries from the perspective of the migrants. It provides a critical examination of the impact of structural barriers in both the UK and South Africa on the economic experiences of migrants. The effects of immigration status, due to the exclusion of asylum‐seekers in the UK and the presence of undocumented migrants in the UK and South A…
Methodological Challenges for National and Multi-sited Comparative Survey Research
This paper will examine the ways in which ‘textbook’ survey research methods need to be adapted and refined for research with forced migrants, and the ways in which cross-national contexts, as well as research within one national context with forced migrants from different communities, affect the utilization of survey methods. Linked to this, the ways in which survey design issues need to be sensitive to the diversity between and within countries…
Zimbabweans in Britain: Transnational Activities and Capabilities
This paper explores the economic, political, social and cultural transnational exchanges of 500 Zimbabweans living in the UK. The paper examines the ways in which motivations for migration and immigration status impact on the type of transnational exchanges that take place between the UK and Zimbabwe, and also among diasporic networks elsewhere. After social contact with close family members, economic remittances form the most regular exchanges. …
Refugees in the UK Labour Market: The Conflict between Economic Integration and Policy-led Labour Market Restriction
This article draws on data from a survey of 400 refugees and shows low levels of labour market activity. The minority of refugees who are working are in secondary sector jobs with little opportunity for progression. Moreover, refugees with high levels of skills who are working are not in jobs commensurate with their skills and qualifications. The article examines the human capacity and personal characteristics that have an impact on refugee emplo…
The Right to Rights: Undocumented Migrants from Zimbabwe Living in South Africa
This article examines the disjuncture between the theory of international refugee protection, human rights and citizenship rights and their practice. Drawing on data from a sub-sample of 500 Zimbabwean migrants taken from a larger survey of 1000 Zimbabweans in South Africa and the UK, it explores the labour market and transnational lives of undocumented migrants and compares them with migrants with other immigration statuses. The article demonstr…
Irregular migration in a globalizing world
Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England: A Qualitative Perspective
Based on data from in-depth qualitative interviews with young undocumented migrants from Brazil, China, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Kurds from Turkey, this article explores the entry strategies used by young people in relation to the UK immigration system and their undocumented status. Against a brief account of Britain's regime, the paper first examines why and how these migrants come to the UK and the ways in which they entered the country. Second, t…
Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945-1985
Journal Article Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945–1985 Get access Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945–1985. Ed. by Kathleen A. Laughlin and Jacqueline L. Castledine. (New York: Routledge, 2011. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $125.00, ISBN978-0-415-87397-0. Paper, $36.95, ISBN978-0-415-87400-7.) Avital Bloch Avital Bloch University of Colima Colima, Mexico [email protected] Search for other works…
The labour market experiences and strategies of young undocumented migrants
The article draws on data from in-depth interviews and testimonies with 75 young undocumented migrants from Brazil, China, Kurds from Turkey, Ukraine and Zimbabwe living in England. The article provides a detailed qualitative understanding of the working lives and decision making of undocumented migrants, a group about which little is known. Sectors of employment and working conditions are explored alongside job-seeking strategies and the role of…
Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants
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