Elaine Chase
Biographic Data
| ID | 319221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Chase |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Chase |
| SIGNATURE | CHASE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4840-2810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Re-bordering during Covid-19: Women and children as tools for immigration control at the USA-Mexico border
Through qualitative ethnographic work at the US-Mexican border, this article analyzes three main impacts of ‘crisis’ migration governance on migrant women with children during the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates how a combination of migration and public health-related policies employed during this time, and presented as measures for the public good and the wellbeing of migrant communities, generated chaos and resulted in additional forms of mis…
Collaborative co‐design in action: Reimagining teacher professional development for crisis‐affected contexts
This paper focuses on the opportunities and challenges of conducting implementation research when co‐design is central to the project being implemented. A participatory co‐design methodology is proposed to evaluate the co‐design and implementation aspects of a teacher professional development course. The project aim was to co‐create evidence about the effectiveness of Co‐designed, Massive, Open, Online Collaborations (CoMOOCs)—an educational inno…
"Butterflies in a jar": How girls and young women conceptualise wellbeing in conflict-affected Myanmar
Since the 2021 coup in Myanmar, the country has been driven into further social, political and economic turmoil. The United Nations estimates that 18.6 million people need humanitarian support. Among those most affected are adolescent girls aged 10-19 years who, as adolescents and young women, face unique risks to their health and wellbeing and require tailored interventions to promote their health and wellbeing both now and in the future. Suppor…
Conflict, caregiver violence and gendered parenting: A cross-sectional study among adolescent girls and young women participating in a girls’ empowerment programme in Myanmar
Across Myanmar, armed conflict and political instability have exacerbated poverty, food insecurity, and disrupted essential social protection services, severely affected people’s health and wellbeing. This is especially pertinent for girls and young women, for whom gender inequalities are exacerbated during conflict, increasing their risk of various forms of violence. We aimed to measure the prevalence of parent/caregiver-perpetrated violence aga…
Conflict exposure and mental health: A survey of adolescent girls and young women in Myanmar post the 2021 coup d’état
Our results highlight the urgent need for tailored interventions for adolescents, particularly girls and young women, who are exposed to armed conflict. In contexts of protracted instability and uncertainty, such as in Myanmar, interventions should explore ways to foster a sense of social safety, especially among adolescent girls who are displaced or living away from their families. Strengthening social safety systems may help to reduce the adver…
Crisis for Whom?
Children feature centrally in the ubiquitous narratives of ‘migration crises’. They are often depicted as essentially vulnerable and in need of special protections, or suspiciously adult-like and a threat to national borders. At the same time, many voices, experiences, and stories are rarely heard, especially about children on the move within the global South. This bilingual book, written in English and Spanish, challenges simplistic narratives t…
Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions
This book draws on a unique study of unaccompanied child migrants who subsequently turned 18. It re-situates the migration of children into Europe ...
What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16-25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a ro…
More than Knowledge Transfer? Alumni Perspectives on the Value of Postgraduate Study for International Development
This article considers findings from the ‘More Than Knowledge Transfer’ research project, which was concerned with understanding the personal and professional trajectories of alumni from postgraduate programmes in education and international development. The article reflects on qualitative data to explore four key questions: what alumni value about their postgraduate study; the perceived usefulness of different types of learnings; how these are s…
Young People's Participation: Revisiting Youth and Inequalities in Europe
Young people’s participation is an urgent policy and practice concern, across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in different parts of Europe. Focusing on the interplay between the concepts of youth, inequality and participation, this book explores how structural changes including economic austerity, neoliberal pol…
Young People’s Participation: Revisiting Youth and Inequalities in Europe
Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing: Stories of Life in Transition
Joining the dots: Day to day challenges for practitioners in delivering integrated dementia care
Despite the increasing policy focus on integrated dementia care in the UK, little is known about the opportunities and challenges encountered by practitioners charged with implementing these policies on the ground. We undertook an extensive, mixed-methods analysis of how a contemporary multidisciplinary dementia pathway in the UK was experienced and negotiated by service providers. Our pragmatic mixed methods design incorporated three types of re…
Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: How Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming 'adult' in the UK and beyond
While much has been written about the rights and best interests of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK and Europe, there has been very little focus on what happens when ‘children’ make the transition to institutional ‘adulthood’ at 18. This critical time for young people can variously mark being granted legal status, facing indefinite periods of waiting and insecurity, becoming ‘illegal’, or being detained and subsequently deported, commonl…
Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: The Hidden Sides of Research With Migrant Young People Classified as Unaccompanied Minors
This paper offers some behind-the-scenes insights drawn from the collective fieldwork experiences of the contributors to this Special Issue. These include reflections on: how decisions about modes of accessing research participants fundamentally shape the research process and outcomes; the pitfalls of only focusing on young people's migratory experiences while ignoring the multiple other dimensions to their lives; how we can best capture and repr…
Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: Policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe
This paper sheds light on the ambiguous position of children who migrate without a parent or guardian as they become adults in the European Union (EU). Through a critical analysis of three prevailing frames (‘best interests’, ‘durable solutions’ and ‘belonging’), which largely inform policy and practice related to this group, it explores the tension between policy assumptions and what we know of the lived experiences and aspirations of these youn…
Social Rights of EU Migrant Citizens: Britain and Germany Compared
European migrant citizens and their social rights are strongly contested in British political debate. This article seeks to challenge some common concerns and perceptions regarding the exceptionality of the British welfare state and the alleged ‘costs’ to it from intra-EU migration. The article first provides a brief overview of the foundations for EU citizenship and associated social rights, highlighting the semi-sovereign nature of welfare stat…
Poverty and Shame
The final chapter draws together the theoretical and conceptual threads emerging from the distinct chapters of the volume. It re-emphasizes how this work, through its focus on the social and psychological impacts of poverty, represents a fundamental shift away from orthodox scientific work on poverty which has largely sought to understand it as a purely material phenomenon. It then goes on to summarize the key findings from a comparative perspect…
Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences
This book draws on evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provides new insights into how poverty is perpetuated. It reveals how, irrespective of whether people live above or below a designated poverty line, in cultures as diverse as rural India, Uganda and Pakistan, urban/suburban UK, China, Norway, and South Korea, the ability to participate in society as a full and recognized…
The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People's Experiences of Building Futures While Subject to Immigration Control in Britain
Journal Article The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People's Experiences of Building Futures While Subject to Immigration Control in Britain Get access Jennifer Allsopp, Jennifer Allsopp Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elaine Chase, Elaine Chase Department of Social Policy and Interven…
The Shame of It: Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty Policies
The shame experienced by people living in poverty has long been recognised. Nobel laureate and economist, Amartya Sen, has described shame as the irreducible core of poverty. However, little attention has been paid to the implications of this connection in the making and implementation of anti-poverty policies. This important volume rectifies this critical omission and demonstrates the need to take account of the psychological consequences of pov…
The Co-construction of Shame in the Context of Poverty: Beyond a Threat to the Social Bond
Scheff (2000, 2003) has argued that shame, while recognised as a social emotion, is frequently explored outside of the social matrix and with limited reference to its role in human behaviour. Drawing on empirical qualitative research with adults living in poverty in the UK, this article illuminates a) how the co-construction of shame (feeling shame and being shamed) is fundamental in framing how people living in poverty respond to the social dema…
Security and subjective wellbeing: The experiences of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK
This article considers the relevance of the notion of ontological security - a sense of order, stability, routine and predictability to life - to contemporary conceptualisations of wellbeing. Drawing on in-depth interviews with unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK, it demonstrates how a positive sense of self and being able to visualise a place and role in the world into the future were integral to their notion of wellbeing, offeri…
Poverty in Global Perspective: Is Shame a Common Denominator
Focussing on the psychosocial dimensions of poverty, the contention that shame lies at the 'irreducible absolutist core' of the idea of poverty is examined through qualitative research with adults and children experiencing poverty in diverse settings in seven countries: rural Uganda and India; urban China; Pakistan; South Korea and United Kingdom; and small town and urban Norway. Accounts of the lived experience of poverty were found to be very s…
Agency and Silence: Young People Seeking Asylum Alone in the UK
This paper presents findings from a Department of Health-funded study into the emotional well-being of young people seeking asylum on their own in the UK. It discusses how young people accounted for only partly disclosing information about the circumstances surrounding their quest for asylum and subsequent aspects of their lives since arriving in the UK. Foucault’s panoptic mechanism and its focus on the effects of power as dispersed through scru…
The Co-construction of Shame in the Context of Poverty: Beyond a Threat to the Social Bond
Scheff (2000, 2003) has argued that shame, while recognised as a social emotion, is frequently explored outside of the social matrix and with limited reference to its role in human behaviour. Drawing on empirical qualitative research with adults living in poverty in the UK, this article illuminates a) how the co-construction of shame (feeling shame and being shamed) is fundamental in framing how people living in poverty respond to the social dema…
The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People's Experiences of Building Futures While Subject to Immigration Control in Britain
Journal Article The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People's Experiences of Building Futures While Subject to Immigration Control in Britain Get access Jennifer Allsopp, Jennifer Allsopp Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elaine Chase, Elaine Chase Department of Social Policy and Interven…
Poverty in Global Perspective: Is Shame a Common Denominator
Focussing on the psychosocial dimensions of poverty, the contention that shame lies at the 'irreducible absolutist core' of the idea of poverty is examined through qualitative research with adults and children experiencing poverty in diverse settings in seven countries: rural Uganda and India; urban China; Pakistan; South Korea and United Kingdom; and small town and urban Norway. Accounts of the lived experience of poverty were found to be very s…
Security and subjective wellbeing: The experiences of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK
This article considers the relevance of the notion of ontological security - a sense of order, stability, routine and predictability to life - to contemporary conceptualisations of wellbeing. Drawing on in-depth interviews with unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK, it demonstrates how a positive sense of self and being able to visualise a place and role in the world into the future were integral to their notion of wellbeing, offeri…
Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: The Hidden Sides of Research With Migrant Young People Classified as Unaccompanied Minors
This paper offers some behind-the-scenes insights drawn from the collective fieldwork experiences of the contributors to this Special Issue. These include reflections on: how decisions about modes of accessing research participants fundamentally shape the research process and outcomes; the pitfalls of only focusing on young people's migratory experiences while ignoring the multiple other dimensions to their lives; how we can best capture and repr…
Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: Policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe
This paper sheds light on the ambiguous position of children who migrate without a parent or guardian as they become adults in the European Union (EU). Through a critical analysis of three prevailing frames (‘best interests’, ‘durable solutions’ and ‘belonging’), which largely inform policy and practice related to this group, it explores the tension between policy assumptions and what we know of the lived experiences and aspirations of these youn…
Agency and Silence: Young People Seeking Asylum Alone in the UK
This paper presents findings from a Department of Health-funded study into the emotional well-being of young people seeking asylum on their own in the UK. It discusses how young people accounted for only partly disclosing information about the circumstances surrounding their quest for asylum and subsequent aspects of their lives since arriving in the UK. Foucault’s panoptic mechanism and its focus on the effects of power as dispersed through scru…
Telling the truth is the best thing: Teenage orphans' experiences of parental Aids-related illness and bereavement in Zimbabwe
Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: How Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming 'adult' in the UK and beyond
While much has been written about the rights and best interests of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK and Europe, there has been very little focus on what happens when ‘children’ make the transition to institutional ‘adulthood’ at 18. This critical time for young people can variously mark being granted legal status, facing indefinite periods of waiting and insecurity, becoming ‘illegal’, or being detained and subsequently deported, commonl…
Teenage Pregnancy among Young People in and Leaving Care: Messages and Implications for Foster Care
Previous research has shown that looked after children and young people are vulnerable to poor life outcomes, including early pregnancy. Abigail Knight, Elaine Chase and Peter Aggleton discuss findings from a Department of Health-funded study on teenage pregnancy among young people in and leaving care. Using in-depth interviews, data were collected from 63 recently looked after young people aged 15 to 24 and from 78 associated professionals from …
Social Rights of EU Migrant Citizens: Britain and Germany Compared
European migrant citizens and their social rights are strongly contested in British political debate. This article seeks to challenge some common concerns and perceptions regarding the exceptionality of the British welfare state and the alleged ‘costs’ to it from intra-EU migration. The article first provides a brief overview of the foundations for EU citizenship and associated social rights, highlighting the semi-sovereign nature of welfare stat…
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: The Response of Social Work Services
What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16-25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a ro…
More than Knowledge Transfer? Alumni Perspectives on the Value of Postgraduate Study for International Development
This article considers findings from the ‘More Than Knowledge Transfer’ research project, which was concerned with understanding the personal and professional trajectories of alumni from postgraduate programmes in education and international development. The article reflects on qualitative data to explore four key questions: what alumni value about their postgraduate study; the perceived usefulness of different types of learnings; how these are s…
The dangers of managerial perversion: Quality assurance in primary health care
The promotion of primary health care (PHC) at the Alma Ata conference has been followed by a variety of managerial initiatives in support of the development of PHC. One of the more promising vehicles has been the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms. This paper reviews recent examples of this genre and argues that the thrust of both primary health care and quality assurance are in danger of being distorted by a rather antiquated approac…
Stigma, HIV/Aids and prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Zambia
Someone of Your Own to Love’: Experiences of Being Looked After as Influences on Teenage Pregnancy
Previous research has shown that children and young people who are looked after are vulnerable to poor life outcomes, including early pregnancy. This paper examines how experiences of being looked after may contribute to teenage pregnancy. Using in‐depth interviews, data were collected from 63 young people recently looked after who are aged 15–24 and 78 professionals, across four research sites. The young people reported feelings of loneliness, r…
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: The Response of Social Work Services
Teenage Pregnancy among Young People in and Leaving Care: Messages and Implications for Foster Care
Previous research has shown that looked after children and young people are vulnerable to poor life outcomes, including early pregnancy. Abigail Knight, Elaine Chase and Peter Aggleton discuss findings from a Department of Health-funded study on teenage pregnancy among young people in and leaving care. Using in-depth interviews, data were collected from 63 recently looked after young people aged 15 to 24 and from 78 associated professionals from …
Telling the truth is the best thing: Teenage orphans' experiences of parental Aids-related illness and bereavement in Zimbabwe
Peer pressure – beyond rhetoric to reality
Internationally, as well as here in the UK, the concept of ‘peer pressure’ is widely used in analysing the factors influencing young people's experiences of sex and pregnancy – illustrated, for instance, by the following strapline from a recent English government‐funded teenage pregnancy national media campaign: ‘Should I let my friends control my sex life?’ Through a focused interrogation of relevant literature alongside findings from two studie…
Agency and Silence: Young People Seeking Asylum Alone in the UK
This paper presents findings from a Department of Health-funded study into the emotional well-being of young people seeking asylum on their own in the UK. It discusses how young people accounted for only partly disclosing information about the circumstances surrounding their quest for asylum and subsequent aspects of their lives since arriving in the UK. Foucault’s panoptic mechanism and its focus on the effects of power as dispersed through scru…
The Shame of It: Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty Policies
The shame experienced by people living in poverty has long been recognised. Nobel laureate and economist, Amartya Sen, has described shame as the irreducible core of poverty. However, little attention has been paid to the implications of this connection in the making and implementation of anti-poverty policies. This important volume rectifies this critical omission and demonstrates the need to take account of the psychological consequences of pov…
The Co-construction of Shame in the Context of Poverty: Beyond a Threat to the Social Bond
Scheff (2000, 2003) has argued that shame, while recognised as a social emotion, is frequently explored outside of the social matrix and with limited reference to its role in human behaviour. Drawing on empirical qualitative research with adults living in poverty in the UK, this article illuminates a) how the co-construction of shame (feeling shame and being shamed) is fundamental in framing how people living in poverty respond to the social dema…
Security and subjective wellbeing: The experiences of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK
This article considers the relevance of the notion of ontological security - a sense of order, stability, routine and predictability to life - to contemporary conceptualisations of wellbeing. Drawing on in-depth interviews with unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK, it demonstrates how a positive sense of self and being able to visualise a place and role in the world into the future were integral to their notion of wellbeing, offeri…
Poverty in Global Perspective: Is Shame a Common Denominator
Focussing on the psychosocial dimensions of poverty, the contention that shame lies at the 'irreducible absolutist core' of the idea of poverty is examined through qualitative research with adults and children experiencing poverty in diverse settings in seven countries: rural Uganda and India; urban China; Pakistan; South Korea and United Kingdom; and small town and urban Norway. Accounts of the lived experience of poverty were found to be very s…
Poverty and Shame
The final chapter draws together the theoretical and conceptual threads emerging from the distinct chapters of the volume. It re-emphasizes how this work, through its focus on the social and psychological impacts of poverty, represents a fundamental shift away from orthodox scientific work on poverty which has largely sought to understand it as a purely material phenomenon. It then goes on to summarize the key findings from a comparative perspect…
Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences
This book draws on evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provides new insights into how poverty is perpetuated. It reveals how, irrespective of whether people live above or below a designated poverty line, in cultures as diverse as rural India, Uganda and Pakistan, urban/suburban UK, China, Norway, and South Korea, the ability to participate in society as a full and recognized…
The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People's Experiences of Building Futures While Subject to Immigration Control in Britain
Journal Article The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People's Experiences of Building Futures While Subject to Immigration Control in Britain Get access Jennifer Allsopp, Jennifer Allsopp Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elaine Chase, Elaine Chase Department of Social Policy and Interven…
Social Rights of EU Migrant Citizens: Britain and Germany Compared
European migrant citizens and their social rights are strongly contested in British political debate. This article seeks to challenge some common concerns and perceptions regarding the exceptionality of the British welfare state and the alleged ‘costs’ to it from intra-EU migration. The article first provides a brief overview of the foundations for EU citizenship and associated social rights, highlighting the semi-sovereign nature of welfare stat…
Best interests, durable solutions and belonging: Policy discourses shaping the futures of unaccompanied migrant and refugee minors coming of age in Europe
This paper sheds light on the ambiguous position of children who migrate without a parent or guardian as they become adults in the European Union (EU). Through a critical analysis of three prevailing frames (‘best interests’, ‘durable solutions’ and ‘belonging’), which largely inform policy and practice related to this group, it explores the tension between policy assumptions and what we know of the lived experiences and aspirations of these youn…
Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing: Stories of Life in Transition
Joining the dots: Day to day challenges for practitioners in delivering integrated dementia care
Despite the increasing policy focus on integrated dementia care in the UK, little is known about the opportunities and challenges encountered by practitioners charged with implementing these policies on the ground. We undertook an extensive, mixed-methods analysis of how a contemporary multidisciplinary dementia pathway in the UK was experienced and negotiated by service providers. Our pragmatic mixed methods design incorporated three types of re…
Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: How Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming 'adult' in the UK and beyond
While much has been written about the rights and best interests of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK and Europe, there has been very little focus on what happens when ‘children’ make the transition to institutional ‘adulthood’ at 18. This critical time for young people can variously mark being granted legal status, facing indefinite periods of waiting and insecurity, becoming ‘illegal’, or being detained and subsequently deported, commonl…
Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: The Hidden Sides of Research With Migrant Young People Classified as Unaccompanied Minors
This paper offers some behind-the-scenes insights drawn from the collective fieldwork experiences of the contributors to this Special Issue. These include reflections on: how decisions about modes of accessing research participants fundamentally shape the research process and outcomes; the pitfalls of only focusing on young people's migratory experiences while ignoring the multiple other dimensions to their lives; how we can best capture and repr…
Young People's Participation: Revisiting Youth and Inequalities in Europe
Young people’s participation is an urgent policy and practice concern, across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in different parts of Europe. Focusing on the interplay between the concepts of youth, inequality and participation, this book explores how structural changes including economic austerity, neoliberal pol…
Young People’s Participation: Revisiting Youth and Inequalities in Europe
More than Knowledge Transfer? Alumni Perspectives on the Value of Postgraduate Study for International Development
This article considers findings from the ‘More Than Knowledge Transfer’ research project, which was concerned with understanding the personal and professional trajectories of alumni from postgraduate programmes in education and international development. The article reflects on qualitative data to explore four key questions: what alumni value about their postgraduate study; the perceived usefulness of different types of learnings; how these are s…
Crisis for Whom?
Children feature centrally in the ubiquitous narratives of ‘migration crises’. They are often depicted as essentially vulnerable and in need of special protections, or suspiciously adult-like and a threat to national borders. At the same time, many voices, experiences, and stories are rarely heard, especially about children on the move within the global South. This bilingual book, written in English and Spanish, challenges simplistic narratives t…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Law (12 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)