Audrey Lumley-Sapanski
Biographic Data
| ID | 368690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey Lumley-Sapanski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Lumley-Sapanski |
| SIGNATURE | LUMLEY-SAPANSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gran Sasso Science Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4217-1719 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Coping in Precarity: Strategies of Survival and Resistance of Forced Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Italy
Legal precarity has been used to describe the relations between ‘space, law and persons’ that produce illegality and shape the sociolegal exclusion of forced migrants. Precarious legal status is demarcated by hierarchies of legal and social membership and degrees of exclusion. Within the context of legal precarity, we explore the coping strategies used by forced migrants preceding and during the COVID‐19 period in Italy. Our analysis focuses on i…
Hosting as a border making process: Understanding the role of proximity in explaining the motivations of British hosts in the Homes for Ukraine scheme
Language Abuse: The Politicization and Categorization of People on the Move Through Language and Narrative
Over the last three decades, the once-distinct terms ‘asylum’ and ‘immigration’ have become conceptually intertwined. This process is almost complete in Europe, where politicians, media, the public, and even academia often speak of these concepts interchangeably. Blurring these concepts has implications for migratory people: it removes legal rights borne by the state and diminishes the claims of humanitarian protection seekers within these moveme…
Engendering cumulative disadvantage: Explaining the experiences and outcomes of skilled migrant women
The Effect of Covid-19 'Furlough' Scheme on Italian Skilled Migrants in Britain: Inclusive and Nonhostile Policies Improve Market Integration and Skills Match
The role of the ethnic economy in immigrant arrival and adaptation has been studied extensively with regard to unskilled or low-skilled migrants. However, their role and function for skilled migrants is less well understood. This research explores the use of ethnic economies for 20 Italian skilled migrants in Britain during the cost-of-living crisis (2021-2022). Our research offers two key insights. First, we find that skilled migrants utilize th…
Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation
This paper explores the heterogeneity of migrant visibility across space and time, analysing where and how Eritrean forced migrants travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route are made visible or disappeared at various scales and how their (in)visibility is mobilised by other actors for profit. We point to three heterogeneous forms of (in)visibility—hypervisibility, invisibilisation and selective visibility—that frame, justify and help perpe…
Criminalising survivors of modern slavery: The United Kingdom's National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process
The United Kingdom's National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is a framework for identifying potential victims of modern slavery (slavery, servitude, forced labour or human trafficking) and ensuring that they receive adequate care. This research explores differences in referrals and outcomes of potential modern slavery victims within the NRM on the basis of individual attributes, geography and first responder. Findings are based on exploratory analysis …
Covid-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity
This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbating existing socio-legal vulnerabilities. The duality of the carer role-complete household and societal reliance in addition to simultaneous socio-legal marginalization-shapes their precarity. Utilizing…
Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: An Analysis of the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan
COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on the dynamics of human trafficking. This paper presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human trafficking in Sudan-a critical source, destination, and transit country. The analysis combines a systematic evidence review, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group with survivors, conducted betwe…
"It will kill your dreams, your goals, your everything"-Humanitarian migrants, governance through containment and the Italian accommodation system
Paradoxical migrant allyship: The adoption of a disciplinary model of 'compulsory integration' for asylum seekers in Italy
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on their well-being. In our analysis of a migrant accommodation centre called the L’Accademia d’Integrazione (Bergamo, Italy) we contribute to this literature through a multi-scalar analysis of the plac…
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy
Explaining contemporary patterns of residential mobility: Insights from resettled refugees in Chicago
Mutual Benefit: How Vocational Training Programs Utilize Employer Engagement and Refugee Strengths to Facilitate Integration
Successful integration of newly arriving refugees requires the engagement of the receiving community and active facilitation of integration through provision of employment, access to housing, and protection of basic rights. Understanding how local entities effectively facilitate integration is important for policymakers and scholars interested in identifying best practices and replicating outcomes. This study examines the integration outcomes of …
The Survival Job Trap: Explaining Refugee Employment Outcomes in Chicago and the Contributing Factors
Refugees resettled through the United States Refugee Admissions Program are expected to become economically self-sufficient by 90 days post arrival. To meet this expectation, refugee resettlement agencies attempt to place refugees in employment as rapidly as possible. Consequently, refugees are placed into pre-identified jobs—termed survival jobs—at partner employers in the secondary labour market largely irrespective of career background. This s…
Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods: The Case of South Seattle
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the rise of diverse neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Nevertheless, the theoretical frameworks we have for describing residential settlement patterns generally treat diversity as an unstable and transitory period that is the product of a unidirectional pressure towards segregation. In our analysis of six diverse neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle, we find evidence of processes at multiple scales that not …
The Survival Job Trap: Explaining Refugee Employment Outcomes in Chicago and the Contributing Factors
Refugees resettled through the United States Refugee Admissions Program are expected to become economically self-sufficient by 90 days post arrival. To meet this expectation, refugee resettlement agencies attempt to place refugees in employment as rapidly as possible. Consequently, refugees are placed into pre-identified jobs—termed survival jobs—at partner employers in the secondary labour market largely irrespective of career background. This s…
Paradoxical migrant allyship: The adoption of a disciplinary model of 'compulsory integration' for asylum seekers in Italy
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on their well-being. In our analysis of a migrant accommodation centre called the L’Accademia d’Integrazione (Bergamo, Italy) we contribute to this literature through a multi-scalar analysis of the plac…
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy
Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods: The Case of South Seattle
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the rise of diverse neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Nevertheless, the theoretical frameworks we have for describing residential settlement patterns generally treat diversity as an unstable and transitory period that is the product of a unidirectional pressure towards segregation. In our analysis of six diverse neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle, we find evidence of processes at multiple scales that not …
Explaining contemporary patterns of residential mobility: Insights from resettled refugees in Chicago
Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation
This paper explores the heterogeneity of migrant visibility across space and time, analysing where and how Eritrean forced migrants travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route are made visible or disappeared at various scales and how their (in)visibility is mobilised by other actors for profit. We point to three heterogeneous forms of (in)visibility—hypervisibility, invisibilisation and selective visibility—that frame, justify and help perpe…
"It will kill your dreams, your goals, your everything"-Humanitarian migrants, governance through containment and the Italian accommodation system
Engendering cumulative disadvantage: Explaining the experiences and outcomes of skilled migrant women
Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: An Analysis of the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan
COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on the dynamics of human trafficking. This paper presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human trafficking in Sudan-a critical source, destination, and transit country. The analysis combines a systematic evidence review, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group with survivors, conducted betwe…
Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods: The Case of South Seattle
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the rise of diverse neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Nevertheless, the theoretical frameworks we have for describing residential settlement patterns generally treat diversity as an unstable and transitory period that is the product of a unidirectional pressure towards segregation. In our analysis of six diverse neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle, we find evidence of processes at multiple scales that not …
Mutual Benefit: How Vocational Training Programs Utilize Employer Engagement and Refugee Strengths to Facilitate Integration
Successful integration of newly arriving refugees requires the engagement of the receiving community and active facilitation of integration through provision of employment, access to housing, and protection of basic rights. Understanding how local entities effectively facilitate integration is important for policymakers and scholars interested in identifying best practices and replicating outcomes. This study examines the integration outcomes of …
The Survival Job Trap: Explaining Refugee Employment Outcomes in Chicago and the Contributing Factors
Refugees resettled through the United States Refugee Admissions Program are expected to become economically self-sufficient by 90 days post arrival. To meet this expectation, refugee resettlement agencies attempt to place refugees in employment as rapidly as possible. Consequently, refugees are placed into pre-identified jobs—termed survival jobs—at partner employers in the secondary labour market largely irrespective of career background. This s…
Explaining contemporary patterns of residential mobility: Insights from resettled refugees in Chicago
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy
"It will kill your dreams, your goals, your everything"-Humanitarian migrants, governance through containment and the Italian accommodation system
Paradoxical migrant allyship: The adoption of a disciplinary model of 'compulsory integration' for asylum seekers in Italy
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on their well-being. In our analysis of a migrant accommodation centre called the L’Accademia d’Integrazione (Bergamo, Italy) we contribute to this literature through a multi-scalar analysis of the plac…
Covid-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity
This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbating existing socio-legal vulnerabilities. The duality of the carer role-complete household and societal reliance in addition to simultaneous socio-legal marginalization-shapes their precarity. Utilizing…
Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: An Analysis of the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan
COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on the dynamics of human trafficking. This paper presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human trafficking in Sudan-a critical source, destination, and transit country. The analysis combines a systematic evidence review, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group with survivors, conducted betwe…
Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation
This paper explores the heterogeneity of migrant visibility across space and time, analysing where and how Eritrean forced migrants travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route are made visible or disappeared at various scales and how their (in)visibility is mobilised by other actors for profit. We point to three heterogeneous forms of (in)visibility—hypervisibility, invisibilisation and selective visibility—that frame, justify and help perpe…
Criminalising survivors of modern slavery: The United Kingdom's National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process
The United Kingdom's National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is a framework for identifying potential victims of modern slavery (slavery, servitude, forced labour or human trafficking) and ensuring that they receive adequate care. This research explores differences in referrals and outcomes of potential modern slavery victims within the NRM on the basis of individual attributes, geography and first responder. Findings are based on exploratory analysis …
Language Abuse: The Politicization and Categorization of People on the Move Through Language and Narrative
Over the last three decades, the once-distinct terms ‘asylum’ and ‘immigration’ have become conceptually intertwined. This process is almost complete in Europe, where politicians, media, the public, and even academia often speak of these concepts interchangeably. Blurring these concepts has implications for migratory people: it removes legal rights borne by the state and diminishes the claims of humanitarian protection seekers within these moveme…
Engendering cumulative disadvantage: Explaining the experiences and outcomes of skilled migrant women
The Effect of Covid-19 'Furlough' Scheme on Italian Skilled Migrants in Britain: Inclusive and Nonhostile Policies Improve Market Integration and Skills Match
The role of the ethnic economy in immigrant arrival and adaptation has been studied extensively with regard to unskilled or low-skilled migrants. However, their role and function for skilled migrants is less well understood. This research explores the use of ethnic economies for 20 Italian skilled migrants in Britain during the cost-of-living crisis (2021-2022). Our research offers two key insights. First, we find that skilled migrants utilize th…
Coping in Precarity: Strategies of Survival and Resistance of Forced Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Italy
Legal precarity has been used to describe the relations between ‘space, law and persons’ that produce illegality and shape the sociolegal exclusion of forced migrants. Precarious legal status is demarcated by hierarchies of legal and social membership and degrees of exclusion. Within the context of legal precarity, we explore the coping strategies used by forced migrants preceding and during the COVID‐19 period in Italy. Our analysis focuses on i…
Hosting as a border making process: Understanding the role of proximity in explaining the motivations of British hosts in the Homes for Ukraine scheme
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Refugee (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)