J Phillimore
Biographic Data
| ID | 51731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Phillimore |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillimore |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIMORE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1213-2302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 761 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Understanding the role of hospitality and reciprocity in homestay policy. Support for Ukrainian displaced migrants in the narratives of hosts in Poland and the United Kingdom
This paper explores how homestay policies for displaced Ukrainians can be structured around hospitality and shaped by dynamics of reciprocity. Drawing on 29 interviews in Poland and 26 in the UK with individuals hosting Ukrainian war refugees, we apply Komter and van Leer’s (2012) hospitality framework to examine the selectivity, reciprocity, and potential for power imbalances within host–guest relationships. The article highlights how hospitalit…
“They just left me”: People seeking asylum, mental and physical health, and structural violence in the UK’s institutional accommodation
This paper presents the findings of a novel post-hoc analysis of data collected by Doctors of the World UK (DOTW UK) between 2020 and 2022 from people seeking asylum housed in repurposed hotels and barracks in England. We analyzed qualitative and quantitative data on individuals’ mental and physical health using a structural violence analytical framework. Institutional housing and associated poor living conditions were reported to contribute dete…
Exploring hospitality, hostility and (un)home in hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
The number of asylum seekers housed in hotels in the United Kingdom on behalf of the Home Office is unprecedented and requires specific attention. Utilizing hotels on such a large scale as longer-term accommodation for asylum seekers has brought a new range of actors into this space who have responsibility for the day-to-day care of refugees and asylum seekers, many of whom have experienced high levels of trauma. The involvement of hoteliers and …
Founding and sustaining grassroots actions in superdiverse neighbourhoods facing socioeconomic challenges: Narratives of emergent processes, actions and resources
The study contributes new knowledge about civil society and non-profit action in superdiverse neighbourhoods that face socioeconomic challenges in England and Sweden. Locally based grassroot organisations are of special interest and demonstrate substantial voluntary altruism. Since little is known about the nature of civil society in these conditions, this paper addresses a gap in knowledge using material from interviews with founders and actors …
Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: Global Movements for Resettling Refugees Driven by Local Actors
The ongoing global displacement emergency characterised by increasing numbers of forced migrants needing refuge has prompted the exploration of alternative solutions to traditional refugee resettlement programmes. Complementary Pathways and Community Sponsorship have emerged as innovative approaches to refugee resettlement which often involves partnership between the state and civil society and potentially the private sector. These initiatives bu…
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK
Globally, resettlement is considered one of the most durable solutions for refugees. The UK has introduced a Community Sponsorship Scheme that enables communities to resettle refugee families providing them with enhanced integration support aided by volunteers. This paper investigates the nature of integration support that sponsored refugees receive utilising the analytical framework of UK’s Indicators of Integration (IoI). Data was collected fro…
From Mere Life to a Good Life: Shifting Refugee Integration Policy from Outcomes to Capabilities
Despite extensive criticism, integration policy has seen increasing resonance in many Western countries. Refugees are particularly susceptible to the effects of integration policy as, unlike other migrants, they do not have the option to return. Further, the nature of integration experiences has been shown to impact health and well-being, with positive experiences capable of moderating prior trauma. The primary focus of integration policy has bee…
Superdiversity Migration and Social Complexity, Steven Vertovec (2023)
Review of: Superdiversity Migration and Social Complexity , Steven Vertovec (2023) Abingdon: Routledge, 250 pp., ISBN 978-0-41583-463-6, p/bk, £27.99 ISBN 978-0-41583-462-9, h/bk, £96.00
Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-based Violence and Integration: Effects, Risks and Protective Factors
This paper is the first to use empirical evidence to directly examine the relationship between sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and multi-dimensional processes of integration of forced migrant SGBV survivors. While it is acknowledged that forced migrants are subjected to a continuum of violence, including SGBV, during the refugee journey, little is known about the long-term impact of SGBV and how it might be mitigated. Our paper, drawing o…
Gender-based violence, religion and forced displacement: Protective and risk factors
Introduction This paper examines the relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and religion in a range of forced displacement contexts. While it has been acknowledged that religion frequently shapes experiences of GBV survivors, little is known about the influences of religion on GBV experiences in forced displacement and its potential role in strengthening interventions. Methods Utilizing empirical evidence from 58 interviews from the SER…
Family reunion policy for resettled refugees: Governance, challenges and impacts
The past decade has seen renewed efforts to establish resettlement as a durable solution for refugees, both as a protection tool and a mechanism to equitably distribute them among countries. Although the right to a family life is widely recognised as a fundamental human right, whether refugees can arrive with their family or be reunited with family once resettled varies across receiving countries. Little is known about family reunion policies in …
Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden
This paper explores the relationship between neighbourhood level density of civil society organisations (CSOs), diversity, and deprivation. We compare the UK and Sweden, two countries with different civil society traditions and welfare state regimes. We use data on formal civil society organisations to examine whether diverse neighbourhoods have lower levels of civil society infrastructure. In the UK, contrary to what could be expected from Putna…
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a clear harm for individual and family health, as well as for society at large. A feminist public health should ensure that services meet women's self-identified needs, with an inclusive definition of woman-kind and an understanding of the intersectional nature of the disadvantage that forced migrant women face. Semi-structured interviews with 166 forced migrants who have suffered SGBV and 107 providers …
Assessing the contribution of migration related policies to equity in access to healthcare in European countries. A multilevel analysis
Social Policy and Superdiversity: An Agenda for Addressing Racisms and Inequalities
This chapter makes the case that many of the research challenges set out by Vertovec in his original invocation of superdiversity are social policy challenges, and that many of the criticisms of superdiversity, particularly those concerning the neglect of racism and inequality, can also be made of social policy scholarship. Although some progress has been made in examining the nature of inequality in superdiverse populations, particularly around …
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
This article investigates the shame that forced migrants bear because of experiences of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Using data from the UK, Turkey, Sweden, and Australia, we focus on shame experienced by women and LGBTQIA+ forced migrants throughout their journey, across borders and cultures. We propose three key ways to understand the complexities of shame from an experiential, temporal, and spatial perspective. First, we discuss ho…
The intercultural competence of second-generation individuals: Knowledge gaps and steps forward
Second generation individuals (SGIs) represent an increasingly important share of the growing European population. Most literature focuses on the difficulties experienced by SGIs, risking reinforcing popular constructions of SGIs as a problematic group. Examining the potentials of SGIs may help to create a more balanced representation of their social reality and highlight opportunities inherent in multi-ethnic societies. In this paper we suggest …
Structural and Symbolic Violence Exacerbates the Risks and Consequences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence for Forced Migrant Women
While much attention is focused on rape as a weapon of war, evidence shows that forced migrant women and girls face increased risks of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) both during and following forced displacement. In this paper, we argue that gendered forms of structural and symbolic violence enable and compound the harms caused by interpersonal SGBV against forced migrant women and girls. These forms of violence are encountered in multip…
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK
There is an urgent need to expand the scale and scope of refugee resettlement schemes, and yet country approaches to resettlement vary markedly and there is little cross-country learning from approaches and refugee experiences. In Japan, resettlement focuses on economic self-sufficiency through employment; whereas the UK, through Community Sponsorship volunteers, on providing social connections to facilitate integration. This paper explores the s…
Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan
Japan and the UK are long-established countries of immigration which although having different histories both share experience as colonial powers which have shaped their somewhat hostile attitudes towards migration alongside a need for migrant labour and negative public attitudes towards migrants. This paper sets the context to the Special Issue of the same name. It examines the migration and diversification histories and scholarships of Japan an…
We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019
Adopting a structural violence approach, this article explores, with survivors and practitioners, how early coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic conditions affected forced migrant sexual and gender-based violence survivors' lives. Introducing a new analytical framework combining violent abandonment, slow violence, and violent uncertainty, we show how interacting forms of structural violence exacerbated by pandemic conditions intensified existing ine…
I have Felt so Much Joy”: The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees
Resettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer groups to take responsibility resettling refugees. The UK Community Sponsorship scheme (CS) allows volunteer groups to support refugee families in their community. This paper explores the role of emotions in CS using Jaspers three-stage social action life cycle (1998) drawing up…
The violence of uncertainty: Empirical evidence on how asylum waiting time undermines refugee health
Superdiversity, migration and use of internet-based health information – results of a cross-sectional survey conducted in 4 European countries
Our findings indicate the need to consider migration background and language competency when promoting the provision of healthcare services via the Internet so that information and services are widely accessible
Refugee-Integration-Opportunity Structures: Shifting the Focus From Refugees to Context
Whilst it is increasingly acknowledged that integration is ‘a dynamic, two-way process of mutual accommodation by all immigrants and residents’, the focus in integration theory, policy and practice has been placed upon refugees or migrants themselves. The role of receiving societies in supporting and providing the context for integration has not been systematically interrogated. This article is original in its focus upon the role of receiving soc…
Refugee-Integration-Opportunity Structures: Shifting the Focus From Refugees to Context
Whilst it is increasingly acknowledged that integration is ‘a dynamic, two-way process of mutual accommodation by all immigrants and residents’, the focus in integration theory, policy and practice has been placed upon refugees or migrants themselves. The role of receiving societies in supporting and providing the context for integration has not been systematically interrogated. This article is original in its focus upon the role of receiving soc…
Implementing integration in the UK: Lessons for Integration Theory, Policy and Practice
Refugees, Social Capital, and Labour Market Integration in the UK
This study examines the relationship between social capital and labour market integration of new refugees in the UK using the Survey of New Refugees (SNR). Our findings suggest that length of residency and language competency broaden one's social networks. Contacts with religious and co-national groups bring help with employment and housing. The mere possession of networks is not enough to enhance access to employment. However, the absence of soc…
New Migrants' Social Integration, Embedding and Emplacement in Superdiverse Contexts
This article focuses on how newcomers form social relations when settling in the UK, and the role of these relations in regards to their sense of belonging as well as access to resources that support integration. By bringing together the concept of social integration with scholarship on embedding and sociabilities of emplacement, the article demonstrates how a combination of serendipitous encounters, 'crucial acquaintances' and more enduring frie…
Making a Place in the Global City: The Relevance of Indicators of Integration
This paper builds upon major ongoing work into the experiences of new migrants seeking, to construct new lives in the UK (Aldridge and Waddington 2002 Goodson and Phillimore 2005; Goodson et al. 2005; Phillimore et al. 2003 2004; Phillimore and Goodson 2002 Robinson et al. 2003; Zetter et al. 2003)and focuses upon the experiences of refugees who have arrived in Birmingham since the early 1990s. The paper outlines the indicators of integration pro…
Gender and Refugee Integration: A Quantitative Analysis of Integration and Social Policy Outcomes
The population of refugees in the UK is expanding and will expand further given the UK Government's response to the European refugee crisis. This paper breaks new ground by undertaking a gender analysis of integration outcomes across a range of areas, namely social networks, language proficiency, health, education, employment and housing, that are highly relevant for social policy. Using the UK's only longitudinal survey on refugees, we conduct s…
Delivering maternity services in an era of superdiversity: The Challenges of Novelty and Newness
The population complexity associated with superdiversity brings a wide range of challenges for social welfare providers. Commentators have outlined concerns about the ability of service providers to meet the welfare needs of ever diversifying populations and point to potential problems in identifying the nature of need in rapidly changing superdiverse neighbourhoods as conventional approaches to consultation based around ethnicity become practica…
Problem or Opportunity? Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Employment and Social Exclusion in Deprived Urban Areas
The UK has become a leading proponent of European restrictionalism and has focused its efforts on developing policy that excludes asylum seekers from mainstream society. Dispersal policy has focused upon sending asylum seekers to excluded urban areas where there is an excess of available housing. This paper discusses the potential impacts of this approach on the economic prosperity and social cohesion of UK dispersal areas and focuses specificall…
The Asylum‐Integration Paradox: Comparing Asylum Support Systems and Refugee Integration in The Netherlands and the UK
This article explores the impact of asylum support systems on refugee integration focusing on the UK and the Netherlands. Both have adopted deterrent approaches to asylum support. The Dutch favour the use of asylum accommodation centres, segregating asylum seekers from the general population. The UK disperses asylum seekers to housing within deprived areas, embedding them within communities. Both countries have been criticized for these practices…
Refugees, Acculturation Strategies, Stress and Integration
The advent of super-diversity and politicisation of migration has been accompanied by heightened interest in migrant settlement. Much has been written in policy and academic fields about the importance of integration, particularly in relation to the settlement of refugees. However, little attention has been paid to the varied settlement experiences of individual refugees, or how personal, cultural and experiential factors combine to influence set…
Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: Moving beyond ethno-national approaches
Whilst attention has previously focused on the importance of monolithic ethnic identities on migrant place-making, less attention has been paid to how place-making proceeds in super-diverse urban neighbourhoods where no single ethnic group predominates. This paper makes an original contribution by identifying the factors that shape migrants’ affinity with, or alienation from, super-diverse neighbourhoods. Through using and critiquing an analytica…
Reciprocity for new migrant integration: Resource Conservation, Investment and Exchange
In this paper we bring a new perspective to the understanding of migrant integration. We focus on how new migrants use reciprocity to make and sustain connections. In turn, we identify integration resources accessed through those connections and associated acts of reciprocal exchange. Using qualitative data collected in retrospective interviews from a maximum variation sample of new migrants arriving in the U.K. up to two years before interview, …
The violence of uncertainty: Empirical evidence on how asylum waiting time undermines refugee health
Housing, Home and Neighbourhood Renewal in the Era of Superdiversity: Some Lessons from the West Midlands
Following two decades of new migration, the EU is now home to the most diverse population ever. Much new migration has occurred into superdiverse escalator areas already experiencing high levels of deprivation. In the UK, housing market renewal areas (HMRA) had a particular challenge to address housing market failure and the high population turnover often associated with new migration while meeting the needs of established residents. Lack of know…
I have Felt so Much Joy”: The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees
Resettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer groups to take responsibility resettling refugees. The UK Community Sponsorship scheme (CS) allows volunteer groups to support refugee families in their community. This paper explores the role of emotions in CS using Jaspers three-stage social action life cycle (1998) drawing up…
Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations
Approaches to health provision in the age of super-diversity: Accessing the NHS in Britain’s most diverse city
Commentators have argued that we have entered a new era of migration described by Vertovec as a ‘transformative diversification of diversity’. Multiple variables of difference in the ethnicity, immigration status, rights and entitlements, age and gender profiles and patterns of distribution, of new migrants mean that the UK, and many other EU countries, are now home to the most diverse population ever experienced. The onset of super-diversity cha…
We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019
Adopting a structural violence approach, this article explores, with survivors and practitioners, how early coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic conditions affected forced migrant sexual and gender-based violence survivors' lives. Introducing a new analytical framework combining violent abandonment, slow violence, and violent uncertainty, we show how interacting forms of structural violence exacerbated by pandemic conditions intensified existing ine…
If there were doctors who could understand our problems, I would already be better: Dissatisfactory Health Care and Marginalisation in Superdiverse Neighbourhoods
How people in community settings describe their experience of disappointing health care, and their responses to such dissatisfaction, sheds light on the role of marginalisation and underlines the need for radically responsive service provision. Making the case for studying unprompted accounts of dissatisfaction with healthcare provision, this is an original analysis of 71 semi-structured interviews with healthcare users in superdiverse neighbourh…
Migrant maternity in an era of superdiversity: New migrants' access to, and experience of, antenatal care in the West Midlands, UK
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK
There is an urgent need to expand the scale and scope of refugee resettlement schemes, and yet country approaches to resettlement vary markedly and there is little cross-country learning from approaches and refugee experiences. In Japan, resettlement focuses on economic self-sufficiency through employment; whereas the UK, through Community Sponsorship volunteers, on providing social connections to facilitate integration. This paper explores the s…
Health providers as bricoleurs: An examination of the adaption of health ecosystems to superdiversity in Europe
This article examines the ways in which healthcare providers from a mixed economy of welfare operating in superdiverse neighbourhoods connect and innovate across the healthcare ecosystem to meet diverse and complex needs. Moving beyond a health systems approach which siloes different types of provision, we use the concept of bricolage to make visible the work undertaken by providers across the ecosystem. While we show that public, private and civ…
Structural and Symbolic Violence Exacerbates the Risks and Consequences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence for Forced Migrant Women
While much attention is focused on rape as a weapon of war, evidence shows that forced migrant women and girls face increased risks of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) both during and following forced displacement. In this paper, we argue that gendered forms of structural and symbolic violence enable and compound the harms caused by interpersonal SGBV against forced migrant women and girls. These forms of violence are encountered in multip…
Failing to Adapt: Institutional Barriers to RCOs Engagement in Transformation of Social Welfare
Britain has entered a new era of super-diversity and many regions of the UK are experiencing the arrival of new communities. Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) have developed following the arrival of new asylum seeking and refugee communities, and have been charged with the role of supporting the integration of these newcomers. However, there is much evidence to suggest that they are functioning only with individuals rather than working with …
Introduction: Superdiversity, policy and governance in Europe
Gender, Employment and Training in Rural Tourist Attractions: The Case of Herefordshire, England
This paper discusses the rėsults of a quantitative survey of a rural country's tourist attractions and the types of employment, levels of training and expertise within them. Reform of the European Common Agricultural Policy has led to the need to restructure the economies of some rural areas. The county of Herefordshire, England, has been awarded European Community Objective 5b funding to aid restructuring. One of the main areas targeted is touri…
Problem or Opportunity? Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Employment and Social Exclusion in Deprived Urban Areas
The UK has become a leading proponent of European restrictionalism and has focused its efforts on developing policy that excludes asylum seekers from mainstream society. Dispersal policy has focused upon sending asylum seekers to excluded urban areas where there is an excess of available housing. This paper discusses the potential impacts of this approach on the economic prosperity and social cohesion of UK dispersal areas and focuses specificall…
Making a Place in the Global City: The Relevance of Indicators of Integration
This paper builds upon major ongoing work into the experiences of new migrants seeking, to construct new lives in the UK (Aldridge and Waddington 2002 Goodson and Phillimore 2005; Goodson et al. 2005; Phillimore et al. 2003 2004; Phillimore and Goodson 2002 Robinson et al. 2003; Zetter et al. 2003)and focuses upon the experiences of refugees who have arrived in Birmingham since the early 1990s. The paper outlines the indicators of integration pro…
Failing to Adapt: Institutional Barriers to RCOs Engagement in Transformation of Social Welfare
Britain has entered a new era of super-diversity and many regions of the UK are experiencing the arrival of new communities. Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) have developed following the arrival of new asylum seeking and refugee communities, and have been charged with the role of supporting the integration of these newcomers. However, there is much evidence to suggest that they are functioning only with individuals rather than working with …
A Community Research Methodology: Working with New Migrants to Develop a Policy Related Evidence Base
This paper reflects on a community research project aimed at building the capacity of Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs). The project intended to identify and collect a robust and reliable evidence base to equip RCO leaders with the relevant information required to engage in policy lobbying to raise awareness of the barriers faced by refugees when trying to access ESOL and support for mental health issues, education and employment. The main m…
Monitoring for equality? Asylum seekers and refugees’ retention and achievement in English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol)
Interest in the integration of refugees has grown with the increase in numbers of asylum seekers dispersed across the UK. The ability to communicate effectively in English is seen as the key priority in facilitating integration, while a lack of English language is seen as one of the major barriers to refugee employment. Some 267 pound million was spent on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes in 2004/05. However, commentators hav…
Approaches to health provision in the age of super-diversity: Accessing the NHS in Britain’s most diverse city
Commentators have argued that we have entered a new era of migration described by Vertovec as a ‘transformative diversification of diversity’. Multiple variables of difference in the ethnicity, immigration status, rights and entitlements, age and gender profiles and patterns of distribution, of new migrants mean that the UK, and many other EU countries, are now home to the most diverse population ever experienced. The onset of super-diversity cha…
Refugees, Acculturation Strategies, Stress and Integration
The advent of super-diversity and politicisation of migration has been accompanied by heightened interest in migrant settlement. Much has been written in policy and academic fields about the importance of integration, particularly in relation to the settlement of refugees. However, little attention has been paid to the varied settlement experiences of individual refugees, or how personal, cultural and experiential factors combine to influence set…
Implementing integration in the UK: Lessons for Integration Theory, Policy and Practice
Housing, Home and Neighbourhood Renewal in the Era of Superdiversity: Some Lessons from the West Midlands
Following two decades of new migration, the EU is now home to the most diverse population ever. Much new migration has occurred into superdiverse escalator areas already experiencing high levels of deprivation. In the UK, housing market renewal areas (HMRA) had a particular challenge to address housing market failure and the high population turnover often associated with new migration while meeting the needs of established residents. Lack of know…
Grassroots civil society at crossroads: Staying on the path to independence or turning onto the UK Government's route to localism
Within the context of acute public spending cuts and the increasing push towards localism, the UK government is increasingly looking outwards to community- and citizen-led action for solutions to long-term social problems and to take on public services. The extent to which these groups have the capacity and willingness to take on politicised roles beyond their purpose and function is, however, not well understood. By reflecting on findings primar…
Refugees, Social Capital, and Labour Market Integration in the UK
This study examines the relationship between social capital and labour market integration of new refugees in the UK using the Survey of New Refugees (SNR). Our findings suggest that length of residency and language competency broaden one's social networks. Contacts with religious and co-national groups bring help with employment and housing. The mere possession of networks is not enough to enhance access to employment. However, the absence of soc…
Understanding healthcare practices in superdiverse neighbourhoods and developing the concept of welfare bricolage: Protocol of a cross-national mixed-methods study
BACKGROUND: Diversity in Europe has both increased and become more complex posing challenges to both national and local welfare state regimes. Evidence indicates specific barriers for migrant, faith and minority ethnic groups when accessing healthcare. However, previous studies of health in diverse cities in European countries have mainly adopted an ethno-national focus. Taking into account the new complexity of diversity within cities, a deeper …
Embedded Integration and Organisational Change in Housing Providers in the UK
The arrival of large numbers of asylum seekers in the UK, many of whom subsequently become refugees, has been an important contributor to the emergence of new migration. Integration policy and initiatives have placed a great deal of focus on securing housing for refugees and enhancing their employability. While academics stress that integration should be a two-way process, and highlight the need for institutions to adapt to meet migrant need, the…
Delivering maternity services in an era of superdiversity: The Challenges of Novelty and Newness
The population complexity associated with superdiversity brings a wide range of challenges for social welfare providers. Commentators have outlined concerns about the ability of service providers to meet the welfare needs of ever diversifying populations and point to potential problems in identifying the nature of need in rapidly changing superdiverse neighbourhoods as conventional approaches to consultation based around ethnicity become practica…
The Asylum‐Integration Paradox: Comparing Asylum Support Systems and Refugee Integration in The Netherlands and the UK
This article explores the impact of asylum support systems on refugee integration focusing on the UK and the Netherlands. Both have adopted deterrent approaches to asylum support. The Dutch favour the use of asylum accommodation centres, segregating asylum seekers from the general population. The UK disperses asylum seekers to housing within deprived areas, embedding them within communities. Both countries have been criticized for these practices…
Migrant maternity in an era of superdiversity: New migrants' access to, and experience of, antenatal care in the West Midlands, UK
Introduction: Superdiversity, policy and governance in Europe
Gender and Refugee Integration: A Quantitative Analysis of Integration and Social Policy Outcomes
The population of refugees in the UK is expanding and will expand further given the UK Government's response to the European refugee crisis. This paper breaks new ground by undertaking a gender analysis of integration outcomes across a range of areas, namely social networks, language proficiency, health, education, employment and housing, that are highly relevant for social policy. Using the UK's only longitudinal survey on refugees, we conduct s…
Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations
Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods
Health providers as bricoleurs: An examination of the adaption of health ecosystems to superdiversity in Europe
This article examines the ways in which healthcare providers from a mixed economy of welfare operating in superdiverse neighbourhoods connect and innovate across the healthcare ecosystem to meet diverse and complex needs. Moving beyond a health systems approach which siloes different types of provision, we use the concept of bricolage to make visible the work undertaken by providers across the ecosystem. While we show that public, private and civ…
Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: Moving beyond ethno-national approaches
Whilst attention has previously focused on the importance of monolithic ethnic identities on migrant place-making, less attention has been paid to how place-making proceeds in super-diverse urban neighbourhoods where no single ethnic group predominates. This paper makes an original contribution by identifying the factors that shape migrants’ affinity with, or alienation from, super-diverse neighbourhoods. Through using and critiquing an analytica…
Reciprocity for new migrant integration: Resource Conservation, Investment and Exchange
In this paper we bring a new perspective to the understanding of migrant integration. We focus on how new migrants use reciprocity to make and sustain connections. In turn, we identify integration resources accessed through those connections and associated acts of reciprocal exchange. Using qualitative data collected in retrospective interviews from a maximum variation sample of new migrants arriving in the U.K. up to two years before interview, …
Healthcare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods: A mixed methods study
The nature and severity of health concern, trust in physicians and agency shaped residents' bricolage tactics. The concept of bricolage enabled us to make visible the actions and resources utilised around public healthcare systems that would otherwise remain outwith healthcare access research. Actions were frequently undertaken via networks offering insights into healthcare-seeking behaviour
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