Ala Sirriyeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ala Sirriyeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ala |
| FAMILY NAME | Sirriyeh |
| SIGNATURE | SIRRIYEH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1866-8901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain's child migrants
Restrictive immigration and citizenship policies have targeted people on the move and those newly arrived in Britain for decades but have also been mobilised in a bordering of Britain in ways that revive the longstanding precarity and contingent inclusion of racially minoritised British citizens with family histories of migration. Theories of migratisation have helped to make these processes and connections visible, including the relationship bet…
‘Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?’ Parenthood, identity and culture during genocide
Relational and cultural continuity for children in foster care; A critical exploration of national policies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and Scotland
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism
Emotions play a role in drawing people into activism and are a key dimension of activist experiences. However, although researchers have examined the political significance and ethical imperative of centring the voices and leadership of migrants in migrant rights struggles, there is limited consideration of how emotions are engaged in ways that inform, facilitate and challenge migrants in sustaining their activism. Through the case of undocumente…
Dreamers’, (un)deserving immigrants and generational interdependence
Undocumented young people known as the ‘Dreamers’ have become the embodiment of the ‘deserving immigrant’ in US public debates on immigration. Through exploring the narratives of undocumented young organisers in California, this article examines how they came to be framed in this way and the limitations of this as a pathway to social justice. It explores their accounts of organising in the undocumented youth movement to examine how their relation…
The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy
Whether addressing questions of loss, (be)longing, fears of an immigration ‘invasion’ or perceived injustices in immigration policies, immigration debates are infused with strong emotions. Emotion is often presented as a factor that complicates and hinders rational discussion. This book explores how emotion is, in fact, central to understanding how and why we have the immigration policies we do, and what kinds of policies may be beneficial for va…
The politics of compassion: Immigration and asylum policy
Foster care, recognition and transitions to adulthood for unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in England and Ireland
The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the “refugee/migrant crisis”
The UK media's reporting of events in 2015 contained constantly evolving categorisations of people attempting to reach Europe and the UK, each with different implications for their treatment. A discourse analysis of UK media outputs charts the development of the terminology used to present the crisis and those people involved. First, “Mediterranean migrant crisis” was used to present those involved as “migrants” to be prevented from reaching Euro…
Children without a state. A global human rights challenge
In recent years, there has been increased attention to the condition of statelessness in research and practice. Approaching the debate from a human rights perspective Children without a state makes
The negotiation of culture in foster care placements for separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in Ireland and England
Little is known about separated asylum seeking young people in foster care. This article addresses this gap by drawing together findings from qualitative research conducted with separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in two studies - one in England and one in Ireland. Focusing on the role of culture, the authors examine similar findings from the two studies on the significance of culture in young people's experiences of foster care. Cu…
Social Policies and Social Control: New perspectives on the ‘not-so-big society’
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions applied to individuals and households and explores broader themes, including how 'new behaviourism' was consolidated during the New Labour and Cameron p…
Challenging Racist Violence and Racist Hostility in 'Post-Racial' Times: Research and Action in Leeds, UK, 2006–2012
Despite increasing understanding of, information about and official commitment to challenge these patterns, racist hostility and violence continue to have an enduring presence in urban and rural life in the UK. This indicates the paradoxical nature of this racial crisis and challenges for antiracism as a political project. This paper charts how these issues play out at the local level through an examination of a five year process from problem ide…
Hosting strangers: Hospitality and family practices in fostering unaccompanied refugee young people
Refugee young people entering foster care face transitions as they settle into life in a new country and household. Drawing on findings from a study on foster care for refugee young people in E ngland, this paper examines encounters and negotiations with the public worlds of the asylum system and foster care delivery within the intimate setting of the household and everyday domestic practices in foster care. The paper considers D errida's neologi…
Home journeys: Im/mobilities in young refugee and asylum-seeking women's negotiations of home
Research with refugees and asylum seekers tends to be divided into research with adults or research with children under the age of 18. This is despite relational approaches to studying age that contest such dichotomous and fixed understandings of 'life-stages'. This article seeks to provide an insight into the experiences of young women who in legal, policy and migration research terms are placed along the borders of this category divide. The art…
The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the “refugee/migrant crisis”
The UK media's reporting of events in 2015 contained constantly evolving categorisations of people attempting to reach Europe and the UK, each with different implications for their treatment. A discourse analysis of UK media outputs charts the development of the terminology used to present the crisis and those people involved. First, “Mediterranean migrant crisis” was used to present those involved as “migrants” to be prevented from reaching Euro…
The negotiation of culture in foster care placements for separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in Ireland and England
Little is known about separated asylum seeking young people in foster care. This article addresses this gap by drawing together findings from qualitative research conducted with separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in two studies - one in England and one in Ireland. Focusing on the role of culture, the authors examine similar findings from the two studies on the significance of culture in young people's experiences of foster care. Cu…
Hosting strangers: Hospitality and family practices in fostering unaccompanied refugee young people
Refugee young people entering foster care face transitions as they settle into life in a new country and household. Drawing on findings from a study on foster care for refugee young people in E ngland, this paper examines encounters and negotiations with the public worlds of the asylum system and foster care delivery within the intimate setting of the household and everyday domestic practices in foster care. The paper considers D errida's neologi…
Foster care, recognition and transitions to adulthood for unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in England and Ireland
Dreamers’, (un)deserving immigrants and generational interdependence
Undocumented young people known as the ‘Dreamers’ have become the embodiment of the ‘deserving immigrant’ in US public debates on immigration. Through exploring the narratives of undocumented young organisers in California, this article examines how they came to be framed in this way and the limitations of this as a pathway to social justice. It explores their accounts of organising in the undocumented youth movement to examine how their relation…
Home journeys: Im/mobilities in young refugee and asylum-seeking women's negotiations of home
Research with refugees and asylum seekers tends to be divided into research with adults or research with children under the age of 18. This is despite relational approaches to studying age that contest such dichotomous and fixed understandings of 'life-stages'. This article seeks to provide an insight into the experiences of young women who in legal, policy and migration research terms are placed along the borders of this category divide. The art…
Relational and cultural continuity for children in foster care; A critical exploration of national policies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and Scotland
Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain's child migrants
Restrictive immigration and citizenship policies have targeted people on the move and those newly arrived in Britain for decades but have also been mobilised in a bordering of Britain in ways that revive the longstanding precarity and contingent inclusion of racially minoritised British citizens with family histories of migration. Theories of migratisation have helped to make these processes and connections visible, including the relationship bet…
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism
Emotions play a role in drawing people into activism and are a key dimension of activist experiences. However, although researchers have examined the political significance and ethical imperative of centring the voices and leadership of migrants in migrant rights struggles, there is limited consideration of how emotions are engaged in ways that inform, facilitate and challenge migrants in sustaining their activism. Through the case of undocumente…
Home journeys: Im/mobilities in young refugee and asylum-seeking women's negotiations of home
Research with refugees and asylum seekers tends to be divided into research with adults or research with children under the age of 18. This is despite relational approaches to studying age that contest such dichotomous and fixed understandings of 'life-stages'. This article seeks to provide an insight into the experiences of young women who in legal, policy and migration research terms are placed along the borders of this category divide. The art…
Challenging Racist Violence and Racist Hostility in 'Post-Racial' Times: Research and Action in Leeds, UK, 2006–2012
Despite increasing understanding of, information about and official commitment to challenge these patterns, racist hostility and violence continue to have an enduring presence in urban and rural life in the UK. This indicates the paradoxical nature of this racial crisis and challenges for antiracism as a political project. This paper charts how these issues play out at the local level through an examination of a five year process from problem ide…
Hosting strangers: Hospitality and family practices in fostering unaccompanied refugee young people
Refugee young people entering foster care face transitions as they settle into life in a new country and household. Drawing on findings from a study on foster care for refugee young people in E ngland, this paper examines encounters and negotiations with the public worlds of the asylum system and foster care delivery within the intimate setting of the household and everyday domestic practices in foster care. The paper considers D errida's neologi…
Social Policies and Social Control: New perspectives on the ‘not-so-big society’
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions applied to individuals and households and explores broader themes, including how 'new behaviourism' was consolidated during the New Labour and Cameron p…
Children without a state. A global human rights challenge
In recent years, there has been increased attention to the condition of statelessness in research and practice. Approaching the debate from a human rights perspective Children without a state makes
The negotiation of culture in foster care placements for separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in Ireland and England
Little is known about separated asylum seeking young people in foster care. This article addresses this gap by drawing together findings from qualitative research conducted with separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in two studies - one in England and one in Ireland. Focusing on the role of culture, the authors examine similar findings from the two studies on the significance of culture in young people's experiences of foster care. Cu…
The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the “refugee/migrant crisis”
The UK media's reporting of events in 2015 contained constantly evolving categorisations of people attempting to reach Europe and the UK, each with different implications for their treatment. A discourse analysis of UK media outputs charts the development of the terminology used to present the crisis and those people involved. First, “Mediterranean migrant crisis” was used to present those involved as “migrants” to be prevented from reaching Euro…
The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy
Whether addressing questions of loss, (be)longing, fears of an immigration ‘invasion’ or perceived injustices in immigration policies, immigration debates are infused with strong emotions. Emotion is often presented as a factor that complicates and hinders rational discussion. This book explores how emotion is, in fact, central to understanding how and why we have the immigration policies we do, and what kinds of policies may be beneficial for va…
The politics of compassion: Immigration and asylum policy
Foster care, recognition and transitions to adulthood for unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in England and Ireland
Dreamers’, (un)deserving immigrants and generational interdependence
Undocumented young people known as the ‘Dreamers’ have become the embodiment of the ‘deserving immigrant’ in US public debates on immigration. Through exploring the narratives of undocumented young organisers in California, this article examines how they came to be framed in this way and the limitations of this as a pathway to social justice. It explores their accounts of organising in the undocumented youth movement to examine how their relation…
‘Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?’ Parenthood, identity and culture during genocide
Relational and cultural continuity for children in foster care; A critical exploration of national policies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and Scotland
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism
Emotions play a role in drawing people into activism and are a key dimension of activist experiences. However, although researchers have examined the political significance and ethical imperative of centring the voices and leadership of migrants in migrant rights struggles, there is limited consideration of how emotions are engaged in ways that inform, facilitate and challenge migrants in sustaining their activism. Through the case of undocumente…
Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain's child migrants
Restrictive immigration and citizenship policies have targeted people on the move and those newly arrived in Britain for decades but have also been mobilised in a bordering of Britain in ways that revive the longstanding precarity and contingent inclusion of racially minoritised British citizens with family histories of migration. Theories of migratisation have helped to make these processes and connections visible, including the relationship bet…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)