M Franceschelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 41444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Franceschelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Franceschelli |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCESCHELLI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6007-4907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Culture of Migration and Symbolic Violence: The Mobilities of Black and Racialised Italians in the UK
The migration trajectories and intra-European mobilities of Black and racialised Europeans have received limited scholarly attention, despite Europe’s large and diverse population of Europeans born to migrant parents and raised in Europe. Based on biographical research, this article focuses on Black and racialised Italians of African descent who migrated to the UK, examining their pre-migration experiences of racialisation and their motivation to…
Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post-Brexit Britain
This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied commonsense about the world order, with Britain leading a hierarchy of European societies. The article ex…
Transnational boundaries of distinction: The social locations and subjectivities of Italian migrants in London
By using notions from race, class, migration and decolonial literature, this article explores the discursive strategies adopted by post-recession Italian migrants in London when trying to overcome the socioeconomic and cultural divides that separate them from the dominant British society, namely transnational boundaries of distinction. In doing so, it reflects on the nature of these boundaries, shedding light on how migrants’ subjectivities becom…
Imagined mobilities and the materiality of migration: The search for ‘anchored lives’ in post-recession Europe
The dichotomy between mobility and migration became a disputed conceptual distinction during the expansion of European Free Movement between the 1990s and early 2000s. Then, mobility literature sought to open a new chapter in the study of contemporary human lives by theorising them as ‘liquid' and suggesting movement as their universalising feature. Intra-European migrants have been increasingly characterised by their ‘mobility spirit' and theref…
The use of film documentary in social science research: Audio-visual accounts of the ‘migration crisis’ from the Italian island of Lampedusa
The importance of visual evidence – and particularly films and videos – has become more prominent with the fast pace of technological development that has made filming more easily accessible. Since the early 20th century, films have been used as a data collection method in social science research, but less attention has been given to their potential for research dissemination. It is well documented that visual representations are powerful means t…
Global Migration, Local Communities and the Absent State: Resentment and Resignation on the Italian Island of Lampedusa
This article draws on the case of the Italian island of Lampedusa to explore how global migration nurtures populist discourses at the local community level. Lampedusa, a key transitory site for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, revealed strong concerns about the neglect of local public services and the mismanagement of migration. These concerns fed a deep sense of resentment that the islanders addressed toward the Italian s…
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People’s Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views …
Your Past Makes You Who You Are: Retrospective Parenting and Relational Resilience Among Black Caribbean British Young People
In this article, we explore how Black Caribbean parents prepare their children for the challenges ahead-including anticipated discrimination-in order to boost their opportunities in education and work and eventually their social mobility. Drawing upon family case studies with Black Caribbean families in London, this article focuses on what we have defined as retrospective parenting to mean the use of narratives about the past as resources for par…
A fish out of water?' The therapeutic narratives of class change
Young people from working class backgrounds remained mostly excluded from the widening educational participation which characterised postwar Britain. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews which were part of a wider study about 'Social Participation and Identity' (2008-2009), this article explores the unusual learning trajectories of a group of working class adults born in 1958, who participated in higher education (HE) in a context where most pe…
Being modern and modest: South Asian young British Muslims negotiating multiple influences on their identity
With the rise of multiculturalism in Britain the visibility of religion, in particularly Islam, has increased. A growing religious diversity has created new contexts and affected young people’s identity and transitions to adulthood. This article applies and extends Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and social fields to a new area: the study of how South Asian young Muslims living in England negotiate between the Muslim and British aspects of their ide…
Islamic Capital' and Family Life: The Role of Islam in Parenting
Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect of this process. Instead, this article explores habitus and the family field within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK as the site of intergenerational transmission and seeks to understand how these parents pass on values to their children. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with …
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People’s Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views …
Islamic Capital' and Family Life: The Role of Islam in Parenting
Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect of this process. Instead, this article explores habitus and the family field within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK as the site of intergenerational transmission and seeks to understand how these parents pass on values to their children. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with …
Imagined mobilities and the materiality of migration: The search for ‘anchored lives’ in post-recession Europe
The dichotomy between mobility and migration became a disputed conceptual distinction during the expansion of European Free Movement between the 1990s and early 2000s. Then, mobility literature sought to open a new chapter in the study of contemporary human lives by theorising them as ‘liquid' and suggesting movement as their universalising feature. Intra-European migrants have been increasingly characterised by their ‘mobility spirit' and theref…
Being modern and modest: South Asian young British Muslims negotiating multiple influences on their identity
With the rise of multiculturalism in Britain the visibility of religion, in particularly Islam, has increased. A growing religious diversity has created new contexts and affected young people’s identity and transitions to adulthood. This article applies and extends Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and social fields to a new area: the study of how South Asian young Muslims living in England negotiate between the Muslim and British aspects of their ide…
A fish out of water?' The therapeutic narratives of class change
Young people from working class backgrounds remained mostly excluded from the widening educational participation which characterised postwar Britain. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews which were part of a wider study about 'Social Participation and Identity' (2008-2009), this article explores the unusual learning trajectories of a group of working class adults born in 1958, who participated in higher education (HE) in a context where most pe…
Global Migration, Local Communities and the Absent State: Resentment and Resignation on the Italian Island of Lampedusa
This article draws on the case of the Italian island of Lampedusa to explore how global migration nurtures populist discourses at the local community level. Lampedusa, a key transitory site for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, revealed strong concerns about the neglect of local public services and the mismanagement of migration. These concerns fed a deep sense of resentment that the islanders addressed toward the Italian s…
Your Past Makes You Who You Are: Retrospective Parenting and Relational Resilience Among Black Caribbean British Young People
In this article, we explore how Black Caribbean parents prepare their children for the challenges ahead-including anticipated discrimination-in order to boost their opportunities in education and work and eventually their social mobility. Drawing upon family case studies with Black Caribbean families in London, this article focuses on what we have defined as retrospective parenting to mean the use of narratives about the past as resources for par…
Islamic Capital' and Family Life: The Role of Islam in Parenting
Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect of this process. Instead, this article explores habitus and the family field within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK as the site of intergenerational transmission and seeks to understand how these parents pass on values to their children. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with …
Being modern and modest: South Asian young British Muslims negotiating multiple influences on their identity
With the rise of multiculturalism in Britain the visibility of religion, in particularly Islam, has increased. A growing religious diversity has created new contexts and affected young people’s identity and transitions to adulthood. This article applies and extends Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and social fields to a new area: the study of how South Asian young Muslims living in England negotiate between the Muslim and British aspects of their ide…
A fish out of water?' The therapeutic narratives of class change
Young people from working class backgrounds remained mostly excluded from the widening educational participation which characterised postwar Britain. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews which were part of a wider study about 'Social Participation and Identity' (2008-2009), this article explores the unusual learning trajectories of a group of working class adults born in 1958, who participated in higher education (HE) in a context where most pe…
Your Past Makes You Who You Are: Retrospective Parenting and Relational Resilience Among Black Caribbean British Young People
In this article, we explore how Black Caribbean parents prepare their children for the challenges ahead-including anticipated discrimination-in order to boost their opportunities in education and work and eventually their social mobility. Drawing upon family case studies with Black Caribbean families in London, this article focuses on what we have defined as retrospective parenting to mean the use of narratives about the past as resources for par…
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People’s Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views …
Global Migration, Local Communities and the Absent State: Resentment and Resignation on the Italian Island of Lampedusa
This article draws on the case of the Italian island of Lampedusa to explore how global migration nurtures populist discourses at the local community level. Lampedusa, a key transitory site for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, revealed strong concerns about the neglect of local public services and the mismanagement of migration. These concerns fed a deep sense of resentment that the islanders addressed toward the Italian s…
The use of film documentary in social science research: Audio-visual accounts of the ‘migration crisis’ from the Italian island of Lampedusa
The importance of visual evidence – and particularly films and videos – has become more prominent with the fast pace of technological development that has made filming more easily accessible. Since the early 20th century, films have been used as a data collection method in social science research, but less attention has been given to their potential for research dissemination. It is well documented that visual representations are powerful means t…
Imagined mobilities and the materiality of migration: The search for ‘anchored lives’ in post-recession Europe
The dichotomy between mobility and migration became a disputed conceptual distinction during the expansion of European Free Movement between the 1990s and early 2000s. Then, mobility literature sought to open a new chapter in the study of contemporary human lives by theorising them as ‘liquid' and suggesting movement as their universalising feature. Intra-European migrants have been increasingly characterised by their ‘mobility spirit' and theref…
Transnational boundaries of distinction: The social locations and subjectivities of Italian migrants in London
By using notions from race, class, migration and decolonial literature, this article explores the discursive strategies adopted by post-recession Italian migrants in London when trying to overcome the socioeconomic and cultural divides that separate them from the dominant British society, namely transnational boundaries of distinction. In doing so, it reflects on the nature of these boundaries, shedding light on how migrants’ subjectivities becom…
Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post-Brexit Britain
This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied commonsense about the world order, with Britain leading a hierarchy of European societies. The article ex…
Culture of Migration and Symbolic Violence: The Mobilities of Black and Racialised Italians in the UK
The migration trajectories and intra-European mobilities of Black and racialised Europeans have received limited scholarly attention, despite Europe’s large and diverse population of Europeans born to migrant parents and raised in Europe. Based on biographical research, this article focuses on Black and racialised Italians of African descent who migrated to the UK, examining their pre-migration experiences of racialisation and their motivation to…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Habitus (3 works)