Lucy Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1364-3234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ugandan women and sex trafficking in Istanbul
This paper demonstrates how the social construction of gender shapes women's migration choices and post‐migration experience using the example of Ugandan women migrants in Istanbul, Türkiye. Building on an ethnographic case study, we reveal how Ugandan women negotiate and find agency within oppressive structures that force them into debt, into “illegality”, and limit their opportunities for safe and dignified work. Our discussion critiques intern…
Narratives of displacement and poverty: The intersections of policy and the shared experience of the everyday
An extensive, and growing, global literature on the experience of people subject to migration control shows how state actions to “manage” migration and human mobility results in poverty and destitution. There is also a large body of evidence indicating how neo-liberal policy, alongside deeply embedded structures of privilege and inequality lead to the economic deprivation of fully entitled, “citizen” populations. Despite the commonality of disadv…
Precarity and survival of migrants in Türkiye: An overview of the divide between migration policy and practice
Beyond Criticism of Ethics Review Boards: Strategies for Engaging Research Communities and Enhancing Ethical Review Processes
Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice
This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to, within and from Turkey using intersectional feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences; those of refugees and victims of human trafficking, as well as voluntary and labor migrants.
Bringing the Prisoner into View: English and Welsh Census Data and the Victorian Prison Population
The 1881 England and Wales census is now available as a fully-searchable electronic file. What can this source of big data tell us about the shape of the late-Victorian prison population? This article explores how the 1881 census compares to other sources of prison population data, and examines how the census can be analysed to reveal the demographic structure of the prison population in England and Wales. We argue that the census enables us to b…
Initial views from the Digital Panopticon: Reconstructing Penal Outcomes in the 1790s
The criminal justice system of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England has been likened to a corridor of connected rooms or stage sets. At each stage in the judicial process—from detection and apprehension through to trial, sentencing, and punishment—decisions were made that might remove the accused from the system entirely, or propel that person further along the process into a number of possible outcomes. That decision making (including the …
Intergenerational offending in Liverpool and the north-west of England, 1850–1914
Using contemporary sources from the north-west of England in the Victorian period, the authors examine the putative connections made by contemporaries which linked together ‘bad’ parenting and the transmission of criminal traits. Poor parenting practices were a prevalent explanation for juvenile (leading onto sustained) delinquency, especially in the mid to late nineteenth century. Popular narratives by Charles Dickens and media opinion-formers w…
Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England: The Economy of Makeshifts
Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England is the latest in a series of books published by Bloomsbury on the ‘History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment’. Ager's contribution examines how those in po
Leaving Care: Unaccompanied Asylum- Seeking Young Afghans Facing Return
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the United Kingdom approach adulthood knowing that they will be encouraged or even forced to return to their countries of birth. Drawing on a project that promoted voluntary return to Afghanistan, we use interviews with twelve young people, professionals working in the Home Office and in education, local authorities, and voluntary-sector agencies to describe a complex area of immigration policy. We show ho…
Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
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Immigration Detention in the Community: Research on the Experiences of Migrants Released from Detention Centres in the UK
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anomalies within the liberal, democratic state – not only within detention centres but also post‐release. Given that most released detainees remain destitute and without entitlement or resolution of their immigration cases, many report feelings of being continuously ‘detained’ even after release. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on the ongoi…
Global Marriage: Cross-Border Marriage Migration in Global Context
The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a unique
The Justiciability of Water Rights: Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg
This paper uses the case of Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg, now set down on appeal in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as the basis of a discussion of judicial enforcement of social and economic rights, with special emphasis on the right of access to sufficient water. The paper compares the conditions of the black township residents who brought the lawsuit and residents of wealthier, white areas of Johannesburg and calls attention to t…
International poverty law: An emerging discourse
This book seeks to advance the emerging field of international poverty law. While law and development discourse has dealt with international poverty, advocates of poverty reduction customarily operate within a nation-state context. The contributors to this volume, while largely, although not exclusively, relying on human rights discourse and United Nations, International Labour Organization and World Trade Organization initiatives as their primar…
Social Networks of Refugees in the United Kingdom: Tradition, Tactics and New Community Spaces
This study is based on three years of participative, ethnographic fieldwork with asylum-seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom. Through participant observation and analysis of ego-centred networks, I attempted to build trusting research relationships with individual refugees coming to terms with life in exile. Refugees themselves have played an integral part in the innovative research design which has evolved in response to their contribution…
Issues and Challenges in Addressing Poverty and Legal Rights: A Comparative United States/South African Analysis
This article gives a comparative examination of poverty reduction strategies in the United States and South Africa. Three questions frame the discussion: 1) Are individual legally enforceable entitlements to the benefits of social and economic rights, particularly social assistance benefits, an important or even necessary tool in fighting poverty and realising social and economic rights? 2) Should anti-poverty policy privilege wage work and famil…
Refugees and asylum seekers as a group at risk of adult abuse
This paper aims to raise awareness of the vulnerability of some refugees to various forms of abuse. It will relate the forms of abuse described in No Secrets to the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in general and will then focus on three groups of refugees who may be especially vulnerable. Recommendations to reduce the vulnerability of refugees are included
Rethinking Low-Wage Markets and Dependency
The Mythogenesis of Gender: Judicial Images of Women in Paid and Unpaid Work
Author(s): Brown, Judith Olans; Williams, Lucy A.; Baumann, Phyllis Tropper | Abstract: [No abstract
Social Networks of Refugees in the United Kingdom: Tradition, Tactics and New Community Spaces
This study is based on three years of participative, ethnographic fieldwork with asylum-seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom. Through participant observation and analysis of ego-centred networks, I attempted to build trusting research relationships with individual refugees coming to terms with life in exile. Refugees themselves have played an integral part in the innovative research design which has evolved in response to their contribution…
Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Immigration Detention in the Community: Research on the Experiences of Migrants Released from Detention Centres in the UK
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anomalies within the liberal, democratic state – not only within detention centres but also post‐release. Given that most released detainees remain destitute and without entitlement or resolution of their immigration cases, many report feelings of being continuously ‘detained’ even after release. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on the ongoi…
Beyond Criticism of Ethics Review Boards: Strategies for Engaging Research Communities and Enhancing Ethical Review Processes
Rethinking Low-Wage Markets and Dependency
Bringing the Prisoner into View: English and Welsh Census Data and the Victorian Prison Population
The 1881 England and Wales census is now available as a fully-searchable electronic file. What can this source of big data tell us about the shape of the late-Victorian prison population? This article explores how the 1881 census compares to other sources of prison population data, and examines how the census can be analysed to reveal the demographic structure of the prison population in England and Wales. We argue that the census enables us to b…
Intergenerational offending in Liverpool and the north-west of England, 1850–1914
Using contemporary sources from the north-west of England in the Victorian period, the authors examine the putative connections made by contemporaries which linked together ‘bad’ parenting and the transmission of criminal traits. Poor parenting practices were a prevalent explanation for juvenile (leading onto sustained) delinquency, especially in the mid to late nineteenth century. Popular narratives by Charles Dickens and media opinion-formers w…
Leaving Care: Unaccompanied Asylum- Seeking Young Afghans Facing Return
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the United Kingdom approach adulthood knowing that they will be encouraged or even forced to return to their countries of birth. Drawing on a project that promoted voluntary return to Afghanistan, we use interviews with twelve young people, professionals working in the Home Office and in education, local authorities, and voluntary-sector agencies to describe a complex area of immigration policy. We show ho…
Initial views from the Digital Panopticon: Reconstructing Penal Outcomes in the 1790s
The criminal justice system of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England has been likened to a corridor of connected rooms or stage sets. At each stage in the judicial process—from detection and apprehension through to trial, sentencing, and punishment—decisions were made that might remove the accused from the system entirely, or propel that person further along the process into a number of possible outcomes. That decision making (including the …
The Justiciability of Water Rights: Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg
This paper uses the case of Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg, now set down on appeal in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as the basis of a discussion of judicial enforcement of social and economic rights, with special emphasis on the right of access to sufficient water. The paper compares the conditions of the black township residents who brought the lawsuit and residents of wealthier, white areas of Johannesburg and calls attention to t…
Issues and Challenges in Addressing Poverty and Legal Rights: A Comparative United States/South African Analysis
This article gives a comparative examination of poverty reduction strategies in the United States and South Africa. Three questions frame the discussion: 1) Are individual legally enforceable entitlements to the benefits of social and economic rights, particularly social assistance benefits, an important or even necessary tool in fighting poverty and realising social and economic rights? 2) Should anti-poverty policy privilege wage work and famil…
Refugees and asylum seekers as a group at risk of adult abuse
This paper aims to raise awareness of the vulnerability of some refugees to various forms of abuse. It will relate the forms of abuse described in No Secrets to the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in general and will then focus on three groups of refugees who may be especially vulnerable. Recommendations to reduce the vulnerability of refugees are included
The Mythogenesis of Gender: Judicial Images of Women in Paid and Unpaid Work
Author(s): Brown, Judith Olans; Williams, Lucy A.; Baumann, Phyllis Tropper | Abstract: [No abstract
Rethinking Low-Wage Markets and Dependency
Refugees and asylum seekers as a group at risk of adult abuse
This paper aims to raise awareness of the vulnerability of some refugees to various forms of abuse. It will relate the forms of abuse described in No Secrets to the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in general and will then focus on three groups of refugees who may be especially vulnerable. Recommendations to reduce the vulnerability of refugees are included
Issues and Challenges in Addressing Poverty and Legal Rights: A Comparative United States/South African Analysis
This article gives a comparative examination of poverty reduction strategies in the United States and South Africa. Three questions frame the discussion: 1) Are individual legally enforceable entitlements to the benefits of social and economic rights, particularly social assistance benefits, an important or even necessary tool in fighting poverty and realising social and economic rights? 2) Should anti-poverty policy privilege wage work and famil…
International poverty law: An emerging discourse
This book seeks to advance the emerging field of international poverty law. While law and development discourse has dealt with international poverty, advocates of poverty reduction customarily operate within a nation-state context. The contributors to this volume, while largely, although not exclusively, relying on human rights discourse and United Nations, International Labour Organization and World Trade Organization initiatives as their primar…
Social Networks of Refugees in the United Kingdom: Tradition, Tactics and New Community Spaces
This study is based on three years of participative, ethnographic fieldwork with asylum-seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom. Through participant observation and analysis of ego-centred networks, I attempted to build trusting research relationships with individual refugees coming to terms with life in exile. Refugees themselves have played an integral part in the innovative research design which has evolved in response to their contribution…
The Justiciability of Water Rights: Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg
This paper uses the case of Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg, now set down on appeal in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as the basis of a discussion of judicial enforcement of social and economic rights, with special emphasis on the right of access to sufficient water. The paper compares the conditions of the black township residents who brought the lawsuit and residents of wealthier, white areas of Johannesburg and calls attention to t…
Global Marriage: Cross-Border Marriage Migration in Global Context
The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a unique
Immigration Detention in the Community: Research on the Experiences of Migrants Released from Detention Centres in the UK
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anomalies within the liberal, democratic state – not only within detention centres but also post‐release. Given that most released detainees remain destitute and without entitlement or resolution of their immigration cases, many report feelings of being continuously ‘detained’ even after release. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on the ongoi…
Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Intergenerational offending in Liverpool and the north-west of England, 1850–1914
Using contemporary sources from the north-west of England in the Victorian period, the authors examine the putative connections made by contemporaries which linked together ‘bad’ parenting and the transmission of criminal traits. Poor parenting practices were a prevalent explanation for juvenile (leading onto sustained) delinquency, especially in the mid to late nineteenth century. Popular narratives by Charles Dickens and media opinion-formers w…
Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England: The Economy of Makeshifts
Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England is the latest in a series of books published by Bloomsbury on the ‘History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment’. Ager's contribution examines how those in po
Leaving Care: Unaccompanied Asylum- Seeking Young Afghans Facing Return
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the United Kingdom approach adulthood knowing that they will be encouraged or even forced to return to their countries of birth. Drawing on a project that promoted voluntary return to Afghanistan, we use interviews with twelve young people, professionals working in the Home Office and in education, local authorities, and voluntary-sector agencies to describe a complex area of immigration policy. We show ho…
Bringing the Prisoner into View: English and Welsh Census Data and the Victorian Prison Population
The 1881 England and Wales census is now available as a fully-searchable electronic file. What can this source of big data tell us about the shape of the late-Victorian prison population? This article explores how the 1881 census compares to other sources of prison population data, and examines how the census can be analysed to reveal the demographic structure of the prison population in England and Wales. We argue that the census enables us to b…
Initial views from the Digital Panopticon: Reconstructing Penal Outcomes in the 1790s
The criminal justice system of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England has been likened to a corridor of connected rooms or stage sets. At each stage in the judicial process—from detection and apprehension through to trial, sentencing, and punishment—decisions were made that might remove the accused from the system entirely, or propel that person further along the process into a number of possible outcomes. That decision making (including the …
Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice
This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to, within and from Turkey using intersectional feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences; those of refugees and victims of human trafficking, as well as voluntary and labor migrants.
Beyond Criticism of Ethics Review Boards: Strategies for Engaging Research Communities and Enhancing Ethical Review Processes
Narratives of displacement and poverty: The intersections of policy and the shared experience of the everyday
An extensive, and growing, global literature on the experience of people subject to migration control shows how state actions to “manage” migration and human mobility results in poverty and destitution. There is also a large body of evidence indicating how neo-liberal policy, alongside deeply embedded structures of privilege and inequality lead to the economic deprivation of fully entitled, “citizen” populations. Despite the commonality of disadv…
Precarity and survival of migrants in Türkiye: An overview of the divide between migration policy and practice
Ugandan women and sex trafficking in Istanbul
This paper demonstrates how the social construction of gender shapes women's migration choices and post‐migration experience using the example of Ugandan women migrants in Istanbul, Türkiye. Building on an ethnographic case study, we reveal how Ugandan women negotiate and find agency within oppressive structures that force them into debt, into “illegality”, and limit their opportunities for safe and dignified work. Our discussion critiques intern…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Refugee (5 works)